Rough on the Pitch||Katie McCabe

🤍CHAPTER 14🤍

A/N: So sorry i'd ghosted this book for so long. But I did figure out what I want to happen. BUT! if you have recommendations for anything on the book, I'm open to hearing them, And I will get a schedule going for this book. Maybe every monday and friday? LMK. 

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(Katies POV)

It had been weeks since the incident in the gym between me and Rylie occurred. Since then we'd only grew closer. Going out for walks and hanging out after training. I really started to like her. I liked her so much; I'd forgotten all about Ruesha.

Today, we had a game, and I'd offered to take Rylie to the game and drop her off after. I was currently sitting in her driveway, waiting for the blonde to come outside.

I'd been sitting there, scrolling on my phone when the car door opened.

"can you pop the boot?" Rylie asked.

"yeah" I said back to her and popped the boot of the car so she could put her bag in the back with mine.

She fully got in the car. I had been staring, that was, until she noticed.

"Is there something on my face?" She asked with slight laughter.

"Uh- Nope. I was gonna ask how have you been today?" I said, thinking that I would make a good save.

"You asked me that this morning over the phone?" She said, giving me a smirk and laugh.

"Oh- Uh, Just forget I asked then." I said, Chuckling back in pure awkwardness.

Fortunately, the drive to Meadow Park was not awkward, as Rylie put on her music and started singing, and then got me to sing along. We began singing lines with one another and dancing slightly. At that moment, I badly wanted to grab her hand. Just to feel her touch. But I was too scared that I'd ruin a perfectly good friendship, for something I do not even know she wants.

We arrived at the ground and got out of the car and went to the boot and got the bags.

"I can get it." I say, I wanted to carry her bag in for her.

"are you sure?" Rylie asked unsure.

"Yep! Now come on so we can go win this game." I said with slight laughter, and she just does the cutest chuckle and smile. That famous smile I'd loved and longed to see.

We'd get into the locker room and set her bag down at her locker.

"good luck tonight, Your gonna crush it, You always do." I said to rylie with a wink.

I began walking back to my locker and continued to get dressed. That was until I'd heard Beth and steph whistling, which grabs the whole locker rooms' attention.

"damn, Those abs are insane!" I'd heard Beth say.

So I looked over only to see Rylie flexing her abs.

"What can I say, I'm a girl who loves to workout." Rylie says as she rolls her eyes and gently slaps Beths shoulder.

I was intensely staring at her abs until I looked up more and saw her staring back at me with a smirk. She winked at me and pulled her compression shirt over her head, and then her jersey. She put her cleats on and walked away.

We'd all took our places in the corridor, and I was standing behind her in the line. I smelted her vanilla scent. It was not masculine, more of a feminine scent. She looked back at me with a cheeky grin.

"You liked what you saw?" She asked. I was dumbfounded.

"what?" I said confused what the blonde was talking about:

"In the locker room, You liked what you seen? 'cause you were staring a bit hard." She said with a smirk. She was teasing me. My face went a dark shade of red and I hid my face. "Don't worry, I stare at your abs during training to." She said with a smirk and a wink, and began looking me up and down.

I could only hide my face more and more. She was not just winding me up, But making my body feel hot.

The refs released us onto the pitch, and I took my spot as a right winger, playing up front with Rylie. Jonas said it was because we linked up so well in training.

We started the game strongly and exited the locker room aggressively. Mainly, I, but I'd seen Leah take a few tackles that definitely benefited us.

The ref blew her whistle to end the first half of the game. As we were walking back, I saw Rylie walking into the building by herself. She looked mumbling at herself. I'd see that look on Leah's face almost every time we lose a game. She was beating herself up. So, I had to let her know she was not the problem.

"Hey, Your doing great super star! stop beating yourself up." I said, it was more strenly at the end. She was playing amazing. I couldn't believe how good she was.

"Are you sure? I just feel like I'm not being an Asset to the team." She said, With her head down.

"I'm sure. Your doing great. Now once we go back out there, i expect the next goal you score to be for me?" I said with a serious face at the end.

She began laughing and the same smile returned on her face. "Yeah, For you." She said, As she lightly tapped my cheek. I just smiled back her.

In the 60 min, I'd made my way up the wing as one the right backs made a mistake and crossed the ball over to Rylie, who manages to get her head on it and make it into the back of the net.

She began running over to me as I held my arms out. Once she reached me, she jumped into my arms and hugged me while I lifted her up.

"thank you." She whispered in my ear and bent her head down toward my neck. I just patted her back.

Immediately thereafter, at 80 min, Viv scored a banger off the left wing.

We ended the game with 2-0 and won our game. Rylie got her man of the match and game ball.

We began walking around the pitch when I saw Rylie start to shiver a bit.

"I'll be right back" I whispered in her ear as I stood behind her.

"Okay." She whispered as she glanced over her shoulder and chuckled at the fact that I was whispering.

I began running to the bench to get my coat for her. I'd ran back to her and placed it over her shoulders. She just smiled at me. I think I am beginning to fall in love with that smile.