𝙄𝙣 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙌𝙪𝙞𝙚𝙩 𝙈𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙨 - 𝘊𝘢𝘪𝘵𝘭𝘪𝘯 𝘍𝘰𝘰𝘳𝘥

𝙀𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩. 𝘉𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘛𝘳𝘪𝘱𝘴

A mid April heatwave had hit the UK and since we had time off, Jordan and Katie had suggested we go to the beach on a little girls trip out.

I sit next to Steph and Beth, dressed in a black bikini and blue denim shorts ontop.

"Guys," Beth says into her phone as she records a video to put on her insta, "we just learnt that Kim has a license to drive a mini bus so, we've all squished into it and are driving to the beach." Beth switches her camera around to show the team squished into the minibus. Most of us had claimed seats before anyone could, others were less fortunate and were sat on the floor. "What are we gonan do, Elena?"

"We're gonna sunbathe, play beach volleyball and just have a great time." I tell her followers.

"Kimmy!" Beth calls Kim and stands up to go shove the camera in her face, knowing she gets annoyed. Steph and I just sit back and laugh.

"Oh, guys." I catch the team's attention. "I have a good summer playlist that I always used to play back in Houston."

"Put it on." Leah tells me and I walk up to the front, pushing Beth back to Steph to bluetooth my phone.

"Thanks." Kim says to me and I laugh.

"What can we do with Beth?" I say and she also laughs. "Viv." I call the girl as Message In A Bottle starts playing as I put my playlist on shuffle.

"She's got good taste." Viv high fives me as I walk past her to the back of the mini bus to where Caitlin's sat. She's dressed in a brown beach set co-ord. I pull my legs up onto the seat beside her, leaning against the window of the mini buds as I scroll through my phone.

"Are you not going to talk to me?" Caitlin asks.

"Well, you're sat alone in this corner so, I presumed you didn't actually want to talk to anyone, but I thought I'd give you some company." I tell her.

"You've grown to know me well, Pugh."

"Right, I have." I smile at her while I push myself up from leaning against the window and instead rest my head on her shoulder, which she doesn't argue against, but instead rests her head ontop of mine and closes her eyes. I continue to scroll through my phone in the comfort of Caitlin's presence while the girls dance and sing to my playlist.

"Caitlin, look at this." Lia calls her girlfriend so, she lifts her head of mine and I groan as I have to move out of my comfortable position. Caitlin only chuckles at me as she gets up to go to Lia.

"You two have gotten pretty close." Katie says since she was also sat on the back row of seats.

"She's a nice person." I say, my eyes trained on Caitlin, who looks down at her girlfriend's phone while Leah laughs at her reaction. Caitlin and I had partnered up for every training session we'd had since we did that training together after everyone left and we'd also enjoy each other's company whether that was in silence or not. I'd told her about my mum and she didn't push me to tell her more, which I respected because I don't open up to people.

"You are too." Katie tells me and I smile back at her. Her phone rings and she picks it up. I peak at her phone to see a blonde girl with green eye's say hi. She has an irish accent. "Hi, Ella."

"Hellooo." Ella says in the same way I stretch out the word, making me laugh.

"Is that your sister?" I ask.

"One of many, yes." Katie nods and Ella waves at me, which I return.

"You're Elena, aren't you?" She asks, her irish accent strong.

"That's me."

"Katie says you're a great player."

"Thanks." I laugh.