A New Beginning

Chapter 1: Meeting Her

Jaddu's POV-

We stood in a semicircle as coach gave us catching practise. He pointed out a thing or two to everyone as they caught the ball tweaking small problems in their stance and such.

"Oh I almost forgot to tell you, we have a new physio and due to someone the board had decided to let a girl occupy this new position." Coach spoke as he looked at Elizabeth with accusation. She was the only girl on our team and she had proved to the world how she belonged here with us by her stellar performance in the World Cup that too after coming out of injury. We all knew that coach loved her yet he was not going to show it in front of anyone so we usually ignored his barbs at her.

I felt curious about this new physiotherapist that we had. This post was important as usually we were able to play matches through sore muscles only due to the physio helping us. This time it being a girl made me even more curious and excited to meet her.

Though I really didn't know that I would get to meet her pretty soon. As we moved on to stimulating match situation, I was fielding on the boundary rope as the ball came towards me. I ran to my left to intercept it in it's path and had to dive to stop it. I was able to stop it easily but unfortunately I dived with incorrect posture causing my hamstring to stretch awkwardly. I stood up and tried to straighten my leg as I felt slight pain in my thigh.

"What is wrong with you?! Did you forget how to dive?! Go see the physio." Coach screamed at me and send me off.

I limped off the field and into the physio's office closing the door behind me softly.

I saw a slim girl standing infront of me with her back facing me washing her hands in the sink. Her hair reached her mid back and were open as they cascaded down in perfect natural waves.

I cleared my throat to get her attention and she snapped her head towards me.

I felt my breath catch in my throat. She was beautiful. Her dark black eyes were mesmerising and I felt myself getting lost in them. She was wearing short shorts and a cut sleeves crop top with a black spegetti underneath.

Her initial shock wore off and she arched an eyebrow at me. I think I saw a hint of recognition in her eyes but I shrugged it off. Not to brag, but most of India knew about us because this a cricket fanatic country.

"Need something rockstar?" She asked as she looked me up and down.

"Uhh, I pulled my hamstring." I informed her.

She nooded and took off a rubber band from her wrist and quickly gathered her hair up in a bun. She motioned for me to lie down on the table beside her.

I did as I was asked and slowly stretched my leg infront of me wincing slightly at the pain it caused.

She came towards me and softly kept her hands on my thigh pressing lightly at certain points to examine the problem.

As soon as her soft fingers touched my bare skin, I was wearing shorts that had ridden up, I felt a rush of current in my body. I noticed that she had black nailpolish on her nails. She was leaning over me slightly and her fragrance invaded my nose making me inhale deeply. "Does this hurt?" She asked me while she still gazed at my leg pressing at a point lightly.

"Little bit." I answered.

She started massaging the area and I felt a small pang of pain but when she was done my leg felt considerably better.

I could see that she was good at her work. After a few minutes she stepped back and moved towards her desk talking out some gel from the drawer.

Handing it to me she adviced me how and when to apply it but if I was being frank I probably heard nothing she said as I was busy gaping at her.

When she was done the first thing I did was ask her."Can I know your name?"

"Akansha Mehta."