In Control (HIATUS)

Ch 12: Fights & Killers

Ryker pov:

We've been grounded for about 2 weeks now, this also meant that training was gonna be harder. And it was. It's so much harder now. We wake up hella early and go to bed late on the weekends, struggling to stay alive from it.

School's getting harder too, I'm not dumb academically but I don't try as hard as I could. Soccer on the other hand has been great. We had our first game today, home field advantage.

I was excited cause not only would my family be here but I was gonna ask Lyla to come as well. After the party I admitted to myself that I'm crushing on her. It's hard not to crush on her, she's cute, a little rude, bold, funny, has pretty hair, the a face full of freckles.

I stop her at her locker, giving her a smile that she returns. She puts her books away and slings her bag over her shoulder. Waiting a moment I clear my throat and shift my gaze away from her dark blue eyes.

"What's up pretty boy?" I smile and blush a little at the Nickname.

"Hey freckles, I was wondering if you wanted to come see me play today... after school." I feel nervous. My hands are sweating as I wait for her to answer.

"I'm more of a basketball kind of girl but for you? Sure, why not." I feel ready to explode from happiness.

"Great! It's at 7, see you then." She waves me off as she exits the school, running Into a group of her friends.

"Gay." I jumped at hearing Jay suddenly speak.

"Where the fuck did you come from?" I punched his shoulder and he whined, rubbing the spot that hurt.

"I've been here the whole time. You just ignored me." He punched me back but it was in the nuts. Holding myself I accept that I was wrong. Not really.

"Fuck you."

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I stretched and warmed up as the game was getting ready to start. Plenty of people filled the stands and whistled loudly, waiting for it to start. I see my family arrive and wave at me, taking a seat with wide smiles.

I wave back and smile, my face hurting when I see red locks and a pretty face. Lyla waves and sits next to Arthur, both of them talking right away. I push away my jealousy because my brother is gay and uninterested.

The whistle blew and my team gathered up, our team colors were blue and white. We were playing against one of our rivals for the beginning of the season. We high-five the other team as we begin the game.

The game starts and we're off. I was vice captain of the team, having landed on the variety team because of my skill. It started rocky, my mind preoccupied with Lyla in the stand. Everytime I'd catch a glimpse of her I'd get distracted and falter.

My family, mostly my father, cheered me on as I played. They didn't care if I win or lose, well Athena did but that doesn't matter. I steal the ball and take it down the field, juking out a guy before kicking it to the captain and scoring.

I tag team with the captain and score a few points. The crowd goes crazy when the ball get tossed in the air and I headbutt it to one of my teammates. He bounces it off his chest and slammed it into the goal.

We quickly celebrated and ran it up again, all of us sweating our ass off as we played. Some guy fakes an injury when he gets tripped a little, getting one of my teammates is sent off the field. We try to dispute it but it was a no go.