BETWEEN OUR LIPS. paige bueckers

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IT WAS MEDIA DAY. Everyone had to be in the gym by 10:00 AM. The players had been awake since 5:00 AM, they didn't want to be late and have to face Kai Slade. Kai groans while hauling in the last light fixture. Kai goes back to her office and grabs three different lenses and two different cameras, as well as the camera stand. It was 9:48 AM and some of the players were just arriving.

The players 'ooo' and 'ahh' at the setup. Kai smiles while adjusting the light fixtures height. "No, don't you dare KK!" Paige yells while running after KK to stop her. "Hey!" Kai shouts as there's very expensive equipment on the floor and they're acting like children.

KK and Paige stop in their tracks. "If you're going to play fight, don't do around thousand dollar equipment!" Kai scolds and KK has to stifle a laugh as Paige was getting yelled at. "I'm talking to you too, Arnold." Kai finalizes with a pointed finger at both of them.

"Go in the locker room to calm down." Kai demands while pointing to the locker room. The two girls nod and scurry off to the locker room. "Jesus Christ, KK!" Paige says while pushing her lightly.

"It's not my fault that you think Kai is mesmerizing." KK teases as Paige rolls her eyes. "Doesn't mean you have to tell her that." Paige groans and looks at herself in the mirror. More players enter the locker room not wanting to get scolded by Kai as well.

"What was that all about?" Nika asks as she watched the interaction go down. "Paige has a crush on Kai!" KK blurts out. Paige cuts a glare to KK, "you are so lucky we're taking pictures today." Paige threatens and KK smirks at the blonde.

"Alright, let's go!" Kai yells while walking into the locker room. All the girls rush out of the locker room and into the gym. "Okay, I'm glad everyone is here and ready to go." Kai says as she looks at the players that were clad in their white uniforms, hair done, and makeup done. "KK, you're up first."

Kai directs KK and positions her over and over again to get the right angles and shots. After about a 100 photos later, it was Aaliyah's turn. Kai did this with every player. After taking everyone's pictures, she had over 1,500 photos to look through.

"Thank you, everyone. You have practice in thirty minutes, go get ready." Kai says releasing the hungry players. Kai gets to work with taking down the light fixtures and backdrops. Taking everything down was much easier than setting it up. Kai was able to get the gym back to normal in just 15 minutes.

Kai heads into her office and puts her lenses and cameras back while taking the SD card out to plug into her computer. "My favorite part of photography!" Kai says sarcastically while the SD loads and the pictures start appearing. Kai smiles as the raw images were looking so good with no editing.

Kai goes through the pictures deleting over half of the initial photos. Kai stretches as it was 2:00 PM already. Kai packs up opting to finish it up tomorrow. Kai shuts off her laptop, and turns the light off in her office before locking it up and heading to the gym. Practice ended so there were no players in the gym, at least there wasn't supposed to be.

"Bueckers, what are you doing?" Kai questions as Paige throws a ball and it circles the rim before going into the hoop. "Just getting some extra practice in." She answers and grabs another ball to shoot. Kai smiles before snatching the ball out of her hands.

"Really?" Paige asks, hiding her smile. Kai nods as she bounces the ball, trying to get the ball through her legs like she's seen the players do but failing miserably at it. Paige laughs at Kai's attempts before running up on Kai.

Kai side steps Paige to dodge her attempts at grabbing the ball. Kai lines up a shot and goes to shoot. The ball was a complete air ball. "I'm not a basketball player, Bueckers." Kai says knowing Paige was going to make fun of her shot. Paige grabs the rebound and does a simple layup.