Olivia Hartley. Born a basketball player but forced to be a photographer.
When she tores her ACL, she decides to transfer schools and start l over again. Except she's not starting over with basketball. She's starting over with a new career. Photogr...
So today, Sof and I went back to the beach for a bit before I had to go with my sister to her practice. We took more photos and I posted a selfie on my Instagram story.
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"Alright I should get going" I tell Sofia and collect me stuff. "Alright. I'll see you around" she gives me a hug and I make my way to the car and drive home to quickly change and maybe call Kate.
I quickly get home and change into some sweatpants and a compression shirt. Just in case they make me work out with them or something. I then send Kate a message saying good morning and stuff and asked what she's doing today.
"Yo Liv. You ready?" Ellie shouts from the other side of the door. "Yeah" I grab my backpack and walk out the door and downstairs with my sister and to her car.
During the car ride, I kept checking my phone. No messages. She's about to make me go crazy. "What's wrong? You're checking your phone a lot" Ellie says and looks at me since she stopped at a red light. "It's nothing" she rolls her eyes and starts driving again.
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Olivia What's going on with Kate?
Sydney Nothing why
Olivia Kate I know you're seeing this so could you like maybe answer your phone so I know that Gabs or Jada didn't kill you?
Gabbie Hey that's rude We would never I mean I wouldn't but Jada might
Jada Shut up
Olivia I'm going to start spam calling everyone until I know where she is and why she isn't answering her phone
Molly She's doing homework
AJ She's at the gym
Caitlin She moved cities
Hannah You guys are dumb as hell
Olivia Is she at the gym, in a different city or doing homework? Which one?
Gabbie All?
Olivia She's clearly not doing any of that. She doesn't do her homework unless with when she's with Caitlin and I know she didn't move cities and I know she's not at the gym because she hates working out on her free time so someone better spill the beans
No one answered to my last text so i decided to text Kalea. She knows what's up.
Kalea
What's going on with Kate
Hello to you too
What's going on with Kate
I'n not so sure but after you 'call' with Sofia she got upset and also didn't help that you and Sofia were basically naked together
What
She's upset that you didn't tell her where you were going and kind of ghosted her so now she doesn't feel like talking to you
Bruh Can you tell her I need to talk to her please? What if I was dying
Are you?
Well obviously not
So why should I lie?
KALEA Just do something please
Okay I'll talk to her
Thank you
"We're here" I nod my head and put my phone in my backpack and follow Ellie to the entrance. We walk in and immediately see Sydney walking our way with A'ja behind her.
"Why is her pants that long?" I ask Syd and she looks back at A'ja. "See. That's why I roll my shorts up because I look homeless" A'ja says making her way inside the gym.
"What am I supposed to do?" I ask Ellie. She sets her bag down and starts putting her shoes on. "Stand there and be pretty although you already look pretty so just stand there" Sydney tells me and puts her shoes on.
"Go talk to coach. She'll tell you something" my sister tells me. I stand there and look at her. "She won't bite. Now run along" I flick her head and slowly make my way to the coach.
"Hi. My sister told me you want to talk to me about something" I say as I stand by the coach. "Ah yes. You're Olivia right?" I nod my head and she smiles and grabs some papers and tells me to follow her.
Am I going to get killed?
"Please take a seat" I nod my head and sit down in front of her. "Did your sister tell you anything about what you're here for?" I shake my head and start playing with my hands.
"Well then. I'm here to offer you a little something" she smiles and pulls out a folder and hands it to me. I open it and I see the photos that I took for Iowa and some few others.
Some that I've never shown anyone so I have a feeling that Ellie had something to do with this. "You have an amazing talent and I want you to use it which means I want you to take part of this team" my jaw drops and I quickly close it.
"What do you mean?" She leans back and crosses her arms and smiles at me. "I want to fly you over to our next few games so that you can take photos for us" my jaw drops once again and I had to shut it.
"Well obviously pay for your flights, hotels, food and obviously for doing your job" I slowly nod my head and shut the folder.
"Your sister told me that you got into a little trouble back home and that you'll have your mid term break or something like that. Is that so?"
"Yeah that's right" she hums and nods her head. "So this will be your pay if you ever decide to take the job. It'll be for a couple of weeks until your school starts back up" she shows me a folder with all the money I'd be getting if I do this.
And let me tell you. It's a lot. I think. Probably. It's the WNBA.
"Please take time to think about this of course. Here's my number. Contact me in the next week or so and let me know your decision" I take the piece of paper and put it in my back pocket.
"I'm sure the girls will love to have you on the team" she says standing up and I follow her out the door. She talks to me while we make our way back to the gym and the girls are trying to shoot baskets from half court.
"Should I just like sit here?" I ask not knowing what to do. "If you'd like. There's like vending machine and things outside if you'd like to explore but feel free to hang out "
I thank her and watch practice for a bit then got bored so I decided to go look around. Kate still hasn't answer and it's driving me crazy.
I sat down by the window and called Kate. Once...twice and three times. She didn't answer making me start crying. I then heard the door open and I didn't care to pay attention to who came in. "Why won't you answer me" I whisper and wipe some tears away.
