Her Beauty

5

   I feel a bright light shining onto my warm skin and the smell of blueberry muffins while I flutter my heavy eyes open. I lay in bed, soaking up the warm sun and allowing myself to drift away to my thoughts. It's been one day since the announcement of who made the team, and I am extremely excited. The only downside, though, is that Sienna also made the team with me, but it's okay! I'll figure out some way to deal with her. Yesterday Julian took Scarlet and me to a fancy restaurant to celebrate, and I felt really special the whole night. I was suddenly jolted out of my thoughts when I heard my 9 o'clock alarm going off.

I grab my towel and head into the bathroom to take a shower and let myself fully wake up. Afterward, I walk into my closet and pull out a tie-dye blue and light blue shirt and black athletic shorts. I decided to style my hair into two French braids, which look incredible with my curly hair. 

I grab my phone and head downstairs to see Julian pulling the muffins I smelled earlier out of the oven. I smile and chuckle, "Someone is in a good mood." He laughs, "Of course I'm in a good mood; it's your first day of practice!" I sigh. "I know I'm so nervous." He walks around the corner and hugs me. Listen, Angie, it's going to be fine! You are going to kill this shit." He grabs one of the muffins and shoves it in my mouth. "Now here, eat this muffin and calm down." I let out a soft groan while biting into the warm muffin. "Bro, where the fuck did you learn how to bake this shit?" He laughs, "Nowhere, I just found a recipe on the internet and wanted to try it." I take another bite, "Well, whatever is in this is fucking delicious." Julian chuckles and reaches into the fridge to grab my bottle and hands it to me, saying, "You better start heading out or you will be late." I look over his shoulder at the clock and say, "Oh shit, you're right." I get up from the bar stool and grab my phone and my water bottle. "Well, I love you! See you later!". 

I walk out of the door while Julian says, I love you back. I walk into the garage, step into my car, and connect my Spotify to play music. I pull out of the driveway and start driving towards the rink.

When everyone was finally on the rink, The coach told us to spread out into a horizontal line. She went over what we would be doing today and how we would need to choose a partner for this activity. I'm thankful the girl next to me was the person whose locker was next to mine. I awkwardly tapped her on the shoulder, saying, "Um, do you want to be partners for this activity?" She nodded, "Sure!" I led us to the opposite side of the rink, so we were nowhere near Sienna and her partner, which is some girl with long blonde hair and blue eyes. I set the puck on the ground and passed it to my partner. "Oh, by the way, you never told me your name! My name is Angelica, but mostly everyone calls me Angie!" The girl fixed her ponytail out of the way and directed her olive-colored eyes to mine. "My name is Grace! It's very nice to meet you, Angie!" I smiled. 

  We kept passing the puck back to each other until, out of the corner of my eye, I saw the girl with orange curly hair walk out of the office and onto the rink. The coach whistled and told us to go back to our original line. The orange-haired girl pushed her bangs out of her face and smiled, "Well, hello everyone! My name is Willow, and I'll be your captain for this season!" Willow keeps talking, and I can't stop myself from staring deep into her blue eyes and letting my mind wander. This beautiful girl that I have been seeing all over town recently is named Willow, and she's going to be my captain. How the hell am I going to focus this season if I can't help but blush and fantasize about her in my head? I get pulled out of my thoughts when I realize everyone around me is heading into the locker room. I guess she dismissed us to go while I was spaced out.

I head into the locker room and get changed. Right as I was putting my shoes on, Sienna and her partner come laughing extremely loudly into the locker room. "Oh my gosh, I can't breathe! Emma, you are so hilarious!" The girl with blonde hair and blue eyes, supposedly named Emma, laughs, "No, you are hilarious, Sienna!" I roll my eyes and continue putting my shoes on. As I'm putting my shoes on, Sienna and Emma walk towards me, giggling to themselves, and when they reach me, they both give me a rude glance and keep on walking to their lockers, which are on the completely opposite side of the locker room. 

 I say goodbye to Grace, lock my locker, and pull out my phone while walking out of the locker room, and as soon as I click on my phone, I bump into someone and look up to see their willow. "Oh my gosh, I am so sorry. I was pulling out my phone to text my brother, and I didn't see where I was going. I am just." Willow cuts me off before I could finish my sentence: "It is completely fine! We all make mistakes sometimes! I recognize your face from the rink! Let me guess, you must be Angelica!" My face is completely covered with blush now, and I stutter, "Yeah, my name is Angelica, but most just call me Angie." She puts her arm on my elbow and says, "Well, it was very nice to meet you, Angie! I'll see you at the next practice!" She walks away, leaving me in my frozen spot. I mutter out, "See you later, Willow!"

   I reached my car and called my brother while getting inside "Hey I just got out of practice, do you want to pick up some pizza?" Julian replies "Sure just get pepperoni!" "Okay, I will see you soon" I hang up the phone.

   Once I reached home I put the pizza box on the kitchen counter grabbed 3 slices and put them on my plate. I think to myself Hmm I think I'm just going to relax and watch movies for the rest of the day. I hear Julian coming downstairs so I brush away my thoughts and tell him I'm going to relax for the rest of the day. I head upstairs and watch movies for the rest of the day while eating pizza until it's finally 9 p.m. I change into loose pajamas and climb into bed and quickly fall asleep dreaming about Willow the orange-hair girl.