More Than Just A Crush | Paige Bueckers

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"I bet everyone's excited to see me and my big fat juicy voluptuous booty back on the court" I smile. Karly rolls her eyes at me. We were currently walking to the gym for todays scrimmage tournament. This would be my second week back on the court since my injury and i was so excited. When we walked into the gym most of the team was already there. "Is that Tatum with a camera crew" Karly asks pointing towards the court. "Of all people they mic'd her up" I laugh, shaking my head.

Everyone on the team including coach knew Tatum had the most reckless mouth ever when we were playing. We head into the locker room changing into our practice game jerseys. "Yall coach just said that today's an open scrimmage." Angie says coming into the lockeroom. Everyones jaws dropped. "She said there are scouts here so she opened up the match to the public" she continues. "You can't be serious" Liv groans lacing up her shoes. "Oh and y/n there's someone out here looking for you" Angie winks before closing the door.

All my teammates start 'oooing like elementary school kids. I roll my eyes at them walking out the locker room. I turn the corner and see Paige and my sister. "There goes our favorite athlete" paige says making me smile. "Did you guys see they Mic'd up Tatum" I say making the two of them groan in unison. "That was a god awful idea" Ice sighs. I nod in agreement. "Are you nervous?" Paige asks. "Well I wasnt, but coach just dropped a bombshell on us but I assume yall already knew" I mumble making them nod.

"It's crazy to me how the volleyball team never knows anything, especially stuff that has to do with them" Ice says. She actually was right, we were completely oblivious to everything that went on when it came to stuff on campus. "Its not our fault man" I sigh. "Anyway what did you guys want?" I ask them. I doubt they wanted me to come out here just to talk, its Paige and my sister we're talking about.

Paige and Ice look at eachother mischievously. They both laugh unzipping their jackets to reveal t-shirts with my face on them making my jaw drop. "I know like hell....yall did not put my face on a shirt" I say making them laugh. "Even Geno has one" paige says making me groan. The front of the shirt had my media day photo on it and my instagram handle. "Oh wait and look at the back" Paige smiles turning around. "Brady number one, I'll never be number two" I read aloud laughing. "You guys make me sick" I smile. "Im glad you like it, because this is low key embarrassing." Ice mumbles the last part under her breath. "Atleast you acknowledge im the better Brady" I tease. "Y/n stop talking and come on we gotta put up the net" Liv yells making me sigh. "Well I gotta go" I say running off to go help my team.

"You sure did have Paige cheesing hard" Tatum says laughing. "Uhnt uhn you're mic'd up get away from me" I say pushing her away. She laughs "its not even on right now" she says tapping the mic. "Tatum has a point" Angie says. "She does, Paige's literally wearing a shirt with your face on it" Karly adds. I was going to deny everything but i couldn't help but smile. I can't lie, seeing Paige wearing a shirt with my face on it had me swooning.

We all finish setting up the net and getting the balls out. Two of the three teams had arrived already. All the teams that were here already were warming up. On the roster we were the second match so we had time to sit and watch before it was our time to play. "Angie can you set to me" I ask tossing her a ball. I spike it a few times before she stops. "Y/n your fangirls are out of control" she says making me turn around. Low and behold, the whole basketball team including coach Geno and coach C along with my parents were seated in the bleachers with those goofy ass shirts on. To make matters worse i saw a giant cardboard cut out of my head. That really put the icing on the cake.

"They're so embarrassing" I groan making my team laugh. "Brady" I hear coach call my name. I had a feeling what she was calling me over for. "Tell your sister I want one of those shirts when she gets a chance" coach laughs making me groan. "They're so ugh" I whine making her laugh harder. "You have a really great support system kid, enjoy it" she says patting my back. I shake my head at her before turning around and fully looking toward the bleachers where they were seated.

Everyone was goofing around and smiling. I couldn't help but cheese at the sight. I never realized how many people i really had supporting me.

Soon the matches started. Our team sits in the bleachers behind the scouts along with the team we were supposed to play. My nerves were getting the better of me and it wasn't even our match yet. "Y/n breath" Tatum says patting my back. "Im trying" i mumble placing my head in my hands. "If you need to go in the locker room to calm down you can" she says. "Thats probably a good idea" I say standing up.

I sure knew how to stress myself out. I was second guessing if it was actually time for me to step foot on the court again. My nerves have never been this bad before a match but scouts being here along with the fact this was my first game back in was stressing. Bad.