To Know You ║ Kate Martin

Final Four

Kai | after their win against SC

We all walk into the locker rooms that we had during the elite eight.

"LET'S GO!" KK screams as we all laugh.

"WHERE WE GOING?" Nika shoves her phone in my face as my smile grew bigger.

"WE GOING TO THE FINAL FOUR, BABY!" I scream into the phone as I grab Nika and spin her around.

"OK! Settle down, children," Coach Geno says when he walks in and notices how we might just ruin the furniture in here.

"Girl boo," KK says while pouting, but she ends up sitting down anyway.

Most of us laugh when all Geno does is shake his head.

"We still don't know who we have to play against in the final four, but we will soon find out if it's Iowa or Lsu," Coach explains, earning multiple nods.

"Can we get pizza now?" Ashlyn asks, making all us upperclassmen laugh.

"And wingstop?" Ice proceeds to ask, giving coach puppy eyes.

"Yeah, yeah. Get whatever you want and put the tab on me," We all jump up in excitement.

You'd think we would be more excited about winning the elite eight, but no, we're excited about the food. We deserve food.

"Hey," I turn around and spot Paige.

"What's up?" I place my hands on her shoulders.

"Good job. You made 34 points earlier," she hugs me, and I squeeze her, making her hit my back in response to make me stop squeezing her.

"You weren't so bad yourself. I can't believe this is my last few games with THE Paige Bueckers," I say, and she tilts her head.

"Stop saying my name like it has a meaning to it."

"It does, and one day, you'll see that your name plays a big role in a lot of people's lives. Including Coach Geno, mine, these girls, and all the younger girls who dream of being where you are," I say, kissing her on the cheek.

"I still don't get why THE Kaileiya Cameron is so persistent on making my name sound important," she says, rolling her eyes at me when I hit her arm.

"Kate is lucky to have you, you know?" Paige says when we stand side by side with her hand wrapped around me.

"We never made us official, we kind of just admitted that we liked each other and by the end of my stay, we just agreed to not be anything and take it slow," I explain.

"Do yall want anything besides pepperoni pizza, wingstop, and drinks?" Jana asks.

"I want a Supreme pizza," I say, earning some disgusted looks from the room.

"Girl boo, who likes veggies on their pizza?" KK says, jumping over to me and stealing my hat.

"Hey!" I say, trying to snatch my hat back, but KK ran towards Ice to hide behind her.

"Stop stealing her stuff," Aubrey says, reaching behind ice and grabbing my hat, making KK pout.

"Vegetables are good for you," Ice says, turning around and acting like she's lecturing KK.

Aubrey throws me my hat, and Paige grabs it from me to aggressively put it on my head.

"Paige." I say dissatisfied.

I slap the bottom of her cap upwards, making it fly and almost hit Azzi.

"Paige, what is your problem?" Azzi says in the sweetest tone ever.