One week time skip after the last chapter.
Today was my second game of the season, I was playing against the Dragons. I mean they're pretty good so I have to also play good. The past week I haven't allowed myself to get distracted as much. In other words I've kinda distanced myself from everyone even Riki and Cobbo, and I haven't talked to Reece since.. yeah. Anyways me and Cobbo already talked about... us? He's my bestfriend and honestly I don't see him being more then that and he agreed. Anyways like I said I need to focus on myself, I've been training non stop the past werk and tonight is my game.
I snap myself out of my thoughts as I throw the covers off of me getting out of my bed, walking to the bathroom. I have a quick shower. I get out of the shower doing my hair throwing on my jersey and shorts as usual. I walk in my room sitting on the edge of my bed putting on my socks and shoes. I get out of my bedroom grabbing my car keys and house keys from off the kitchen counter. My phone vibrates with notifications in my pocket, I ignore the notifications leaving the house getting in the car. Unfortunately I do have to show up to training with all the boys and girls Bronco's team, I've been soloing all week just going to the gym, like I said distancing myself from everyone.
I arrive and meet all my girls greeting them with hugs, I realise that I have no reason to not be talkinf to them. Anyways they ask me where I was for the past week and all the basics. Anyways our game is at 3:30, early for what reason which I don't know. It's about 12:30 and we all start training we had to play good against the Dragons. It's important that I focus on my Rugby career that's why I've been training extra hard lately.
It's been a few hours of training so we're now going on the bus to go the stadium. I'm gonna have to face Reece again, I don't wanna talk to him at all. Apparently him and Hannah are still I thing but I don't really know cause I don't talk to Hannah that much. I sit on the bus resting my face on the window just sitting there thinking about life... until my thoughts are disrupted by you know who. Reece sits down in the seat next to me.
"What are you doing?", I say, sounding pissed off.
"Sitting next to you, what does it look like mate?", he says.
"Why don't you go sit next to Hannah instead huh?", I say.
He sighs not answering, "Yeah, that's what I thought", I say.
The rest of the bus ride is silent, I know he won't
say anything else, if he does I swear I'm gonna lose it. We arrive at the stadium and I leave the bus as soon as I can, Cobbo walks up to me asking, "We're good aren't we?".
I reply saying, "Yeah, sorry I've been distant with everyone, I've been focusing more on training and stuff, you know".
"Oh yeah all good, hope you do good in today's game Lani".
"Yeah thanks Cobbo", I say, walking off, following all my friends into the stadium.
Me and my girls are using our extra time before our game to train/warm up before I'm pulled away by... yep you guessed it Reece.
"Seriously what do you want?", I say arrogantly, slapping his hand away from my arm.
"What's your problem, is it Hannah? Why do you even care? You're acting like you didn't do anything with Cobbo", he says.
"Are you fucking kidding me Reece, why do I care? Should I just not care?", I say now yelling. I see my girls looking over and some of the Broncos boys sitting in the bleachers.
I yell once again, "You know what Reece, fuck off don't distract me before my game", I say storming off going back to warming up.
My girls ask me if I'm okay and I nod just telling them that we shouldn't let ourselves get distracted and use our last extra minutes wisely.
Short time skip.
The game is starting, we're called onto the field and so are girls Dragons. We do the Australian National Anthem as usal or whatever and then the game starts. The Dragons start off with ball, the ball falls onto the ground and I grab it, deciding to run for it until one of my opponents tackles me. Unfortunately for me she jumps up trying to take the ball from me and then one of her other teammates also tackles me, her boots/studs (whatever you wanna call em) hit the bridge of my nose, I fall onto the ground scraping my knee. I look down to the sight of my knee, the whole top layer of my knee scraped, leaving blood trailing down to my knees. Another trail of blood falls down but now from the bridge of my nose. "Fuck", I groan, the crowd goes wild and the ref stops the game checking if I'm okay. I tell the ref that I'll be okay despite the feeling of agony.The ref tells me that it'd be hard to play considering how bad I hurt my knee but I refuse and play the ball. Ali passes the ball to Hannah and she dodges a few tackles running for the try lining getting it. I run up to her limping, struggling but jumping in joy congratulating her.
The pain of both my injuries hit, it hurts bad, like real bad but I have to keep playing. We make the conversion.
Little time skip (half way through the game)
Dragons start off with the ball, I catch it perfectly making a run, despite the pain of both my injuries. I keep running and running running through a space between to girls. I'm about half a metre away from the try line, still running before a girl tackles me , jumping onto me on the floor though not stopping em from getting the try. The crowd goes wild and all my girls come jumping onto me in joy and congratulating me for the try. I make the conversion and another one of my teammates make the try just a few seconds before the last minute timer. We did it, we won again, 26-14.
Another time skip.
I sit in the bus until Reece decides to sit next to me AGAIN. I sigh not bothering to react to his appearance.
"You okay? You got hurt pretty bad mate.", He says.
"Yeah I'm fine I got the bleeding to stop and coach got me a bandaid or whatever to put on my knee. You know me, I'll survive.", I say.
"Yeah, I do know you, that's why I asked. Anyways you wanna sleep at mine today?", he asks.
"You know what, don't do that. Don't act like everythings fine", I say, my comment makes him shut up and yet again the bus ride back home is silent.
Sorry this wasn't the best chapter I was going through writers block but credits to the person who gave me the idea for this chapter. Obviously this chapter was definitely rushed but it's 1 am where I live so bare with me.
Thank you for reading ❤️
Until the next chapter...
