Who Would Have Known

Chapter 5

Seeing Harry without a shirt while we were swimming made my eyes drawn to him. His seemingly random tattoos drew many questions to my mind about what made him want them. There are so many things I want to know about Harry but he avoids all questions directed towards him. A week had gone by since we skipped school and Harry has avoided me every day since. I tried to talk to him in the hallways but he always walked away. Did I do something wrong for him to treat me like this? Why do I care anyway? I shouldn't care about what Harry thinks of me, it's not like I have feelings for him or that we even started to have a friendship.

I lace my cleats and check the time, I still have ten minutes before I need to leave for my game tonight. Maya sent me a text telling me that she was already at the field with her friends. The image of Harry being there flashed through my mind, but that would never happen, Harry isn't the type to go to school events.

"Sorry I can't make it to the game tonight." My mother says as I enter the living room.

"It's okay. I'll be out late with my friends after anyway." I give her a small smile even though it does make me sad that she never has any time to see me play.

"I'll go to the next one, I promise." I know that promise will be broken, but I can't be mad at her, she does everything she can to support our family. I grab my keys and quickly head out of the door. The drive to school doesn't last long and I soon see the parking lot beginning to fill with cars.

I immediately walk into the school, hoping not to run into Maya before the game, I'll be forced to have enough with her later. The majority of the grade planned to go to the bonfire on the beach after the game.

The locker room is loud when I walk in, everyone talking about the game excitedly. Niall runs over to greet me and begins to go on about how the team we are up against will be easy to beat. Niall gets cut off by the sound of the coach's whistle. We all begin to file out of the locker room, towards the field.

I feel jittery with excitement to play. The crowd cheers as we walk out onto the field. This is the first game of the fall season, so most of the school showed up.

The team we are up against stands on the opposite end of the field. Niall was right, the team looks quite scrawny and timid.

We assume our positions on the field and the game begins. The rush of running across the field, passing the ball, makes me feel alive. Before I know it the game is nearly over and we were winning by a landslide, the other team not having scored at all.

The crowd cheers louder than ever as we score the last point, just as the timer runs out. I feel so happy, it always makes me so happy to play and win. The team moves their way over to the bleachers. I see Maya running towards me from the bleachers. She pulls me into a hug, squealing. She presses her lips to mine and I'm just too happy to try to push her away. I wrap my arms around her waist. When I pull away I can taste her cherry lip gloss and quickly wipe it off when she turns away.

"Are you ready to go to the beach?" Maya turns to me after waving her friends to leave. I nod my head and Maya laces her fingers through mine. It feels strange holding her hand but I was in too good of a mood to have Maya ruin that by complaining about me pulling away.

I drive quickly to the beach so I can spend more time with my friends than Maya. Liam texted me before we had left for the beach, that he would be there soon. The drive there was longer than I had hoped and it was soon dark.

Maya left me to find her friends as soon as we reached the beach, which made me relieved I wouldn't need to deal with her, at least for now. I see Niall and Liam sitting on a log beside the fire and make my way towards them. Liam seems distracted as I sit down next to him.