Are You Afraid of Musicals?

Chapter 6.1: Beginning

Gabby's pov:

I can't wait for the summer to be over. Don't get me wrong it's been absolutely amazing, but I really want to see what happens tomorrow.

Tomorrow it's our first day back in high school, the beginning of our senior year and I couldn't be happier about it, but I'm a little nervous too.

This summer it's been everything I could've asked for and more. Since that day when my friends came to help me at the cafe, my two friend groups have kind of merged, and it's super cool to be able to be with all of them.

They're not completely merged, I mean I do meet up with them separately sometimes like we used to, but we do things together and when we happen to find each other during our not vey often separate hang outs, my friends do not ignore Dani's.

It's weird to keep calling Gina, EJ and the others Dani's group, but I found out that as they're all my friends it can get confusing when I talk to other people, cause now other people talk to me.

That might sound sad, but before this whole soccer thing happened and before Gina basically adopted me and introduced me to Dani and her friends, I only talked to Hanna, Jai, Luke and Conor, and now everything has changed.

During the summer I didn't really noticed it, but since the soccer preseason started, it's very clear to me that this year is going to be very different from the last.

The soccer girls were already kind of my friends before summer, but now a lot of other people approach me.

We have the practice at school and Soccer preseason it's not the only one that already started. Football, Basketball, Athleticism and a bunch of other teams are starting to prepare the season and the upcoming "tryouts week", which makes the surroundings of the soccer and football field be absolutely crowded by people. People that I was kind of scared of last year and that turned out to be very nice.

I'm actually very happy with how everything is going, cause the girls of the soccer team are amazing. I was already very close to Ruby and Morgan, but now that I've been training with the team for a couple of weeks, I'm starting to feel part of it.

Coach told me that I have to go through the tryouts like everyone else, but all of the girls tell me that I'm basically already part of the team.

There are 3 spots to fill for next season and Ruby always insists that there's no way on this earth that coach Borjas can pick 3 girls over me, but I'm working very hard anyways.

There's a new girl that has come today and she's really good. I don't really know her name or how she is personality wise cause she appeared for the friendly match of the end of the practice, but I can tell that she's a Coach pick just like I was.

Last season Borjas came to see me play at the park and he offered me a spot in the team, so I guess something similar happened to this new girl since I haven't seen her for the two weeks we've been training.

I know I already said it but she's good, very good and she's right now playing in my position for the other team.

I just know that Coach did it in purpose, to see how I work under pressure and to not let me relax thinking that I'm already into the team. This is his normal behavior and I'm actually surprised that I'm taking this as a challenge.

Old Gabby would've overthought this, would've thought that she's not good enough and that Coach Borjas wanted to get rid of her, but the Gabby I'm now... I'm willing to take the challenge and prove myself, and it's all thanks to the people that are watching me on the stands.

I take a quick look and I find Gina, Kourt and Dani there, watching me play and waiting for the practice to end to go to our last summer hang out together.