detention ; ogoc

chapter seventeen

kari's pov

"alright, get changed and onto the field!" coach presley called out. it's last period on a friday, which means that we have soccer.

for some reason, our school's really passionate about sports and they're always trying to motivate us to find a sport that we like, and stick to it. so for me, it's soccer.

i grew up with two older brothers, so i was practically forced to be good at this stuff.

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coach presley assigned us into two teams, and of course, meredith and i would be on the same team, then chantelle and ava would be on the other.

chantelle's also another person in this class, who is good at soccer since she grew up with an older brother too. i mean, we were both in the same soccer team in middle school. we did basically everything together.

a girl in my team named mallory, and chantelle were head to head. coach blew the whistle, threw the ball up, and chantelle immediately tackled it and passed to her team player.

i'm the left midfielder, so i ran towards the ball as it came near me and tackled the opposing player. i tried my best to get closer to the goal, but passed to meredith before i could lose it.

i watched her keep her foot close to the ball and travel across the field - avoiding the other team. that was until chantelle harshly shoved meredith to the side so that she completely lost control of the ball, letting chantelle score into her goal.

i hurried towards meredith as she sat on the muddy grass from the fall, "mere, are you okay?".

i knelt down beside her and quickly scanned her for any injuries.

"yeah, yeah, i'm fine. it was probably an accident" she brushed off as i looked up at chantelle and saw her smirking directly at us.

"sorry," she unsympathetically apologised, continuing to laugh straight at us.

i shook my head at her and helped up meredith before the game continued.

as the time went on, the score was now 2 to my team, and 3 to the opposing. even though her team was winning, chantelle was continuing to purposely, and aggressively, push meredith and even me out of the way. yet she did it way too often for it to be "just an accident".

i straightened up since she'd just knocked me to the side and ran towards the ball that ava had hold of.

i successfully tackled her and started rushing towards my goal. i was almost there and refused to pass to anyone else because i wanted this goal to be mine.

but i was once again pushed off my focus by of course, chantelle. i fell even harder onto the ground this time, causing grass and mud to get everywhere on me.

meredith and ava quickly rushed over and i could hear chantelle laughing with the other people on her team. her taking this as a joke broke my last nerve and i instantly jumped up, and charged towards her, but they pulled me back.

"kari! kari! she's not worth it" meredith hastily told me as i tried to release from her's and ava's grip. "okay? the game's over any ways. let's just go get changed".