My BestFriend My Teammate and Broken Promises

Chapter 5

Tobin's PoV

We had just got back from the stadium and I was trying to cover my face so that no one could see my red puffy eyes. I was still in a sort of trance from when I was crying, when Alex asks if I needed anything. I shake my head. She says "Ok." And walks to her room.

I go to my room and take a shower. I stand in the freezing cold water, trying to get my mind off of what just happened. I just cried int the shoulder of a friend has no idea why I was crying. I why didn't I just tell her what happened? 

*flashback*

Tobin had just gotten back from lunch and was getting ready to go with Alex to the field, when she got a call.

"Hello?" I ask.

"Tobin?" A man asks.

"Yes, this is Tobin." I say, getting a little suspicious.

"This is your father, Tobin." I almost drop my phone. My father and I have not spoken since I went to play for the United States. He didn't want to talk to me because I wanted to do soccer I stars of stay home and be a "good stay-at-home wife" instead of being a "snobby athlete" which most athletes aren't snobby. He also said that,"No daughter of mine will be an athlete! We have lived peacefully for generations because are daughters were amazing wives. Let our sons become the big all-star athlete!" My family had to much pride in having high up people in the world ask their daughters for their hand in marriage and for having "handsome sons" that become the face of some sport or something very important. I hated it and I wanted to be the different one in the family noatter what the cost. I loved my father dearly but it stunk that I had to become the wife of some prince or king or whatever. He kicked me out of the house when I got the offer and I didn't turn it down.

"What do you want?" I ask, a little more rude than I intended.

"I wanna give you a second chance." He says plainly.

"A second chance at what?"

"I miss you and I want you to come home. I miss you, our family misses you and I want my perfect little daughter back home." I knew there was a catch.

"No. You don't want me to come home just because you is me. You want me to come home because I'm apparently a disgrace to the Heath family. And you don't want your family to be the one with a disgracer."  I'm starting to get very angry.

"Well," he says. I can hear him trying to keep in the anger." I gave you a second chance and you are right I don't want a disgracer in the family. Especially in MY family. So I've got the papers right here just in case you said no." I'm confused.

"What papers?" I ask, getting a little worried.

"The papers that wi disown you from th family." He says. I'm in shock. I knew house pride was really important to him, but not so important that he would disown me.

"I've just signed them. You are no longer apart of this family." He says, then hangs up.

*end of flashback*

After that call I pulled it together pushed way down and went to Alex's room to bring her to the field. But when we were done I couldn't keep it in any longer. I let it all go after I told Alex thanks for being my friend. I'm glad she didn't push me to talk about why I was crying, again.Unlike some of my other friends.

I here a knock on the door. "Hold on!" I shout. I get out and dress quickly then go to the door. When I open it i see Alex standing there.

"Hey." She says. "I came to see if your ready to go down for supper." I nod my head And we head down to the elevator. When we get in she lets me push the button because she knows it one of my favourite things to do. "Are you ok?" She asks. I shake my head.

"I'm not ready to talk about it but when I am, I'll come talk to you." She nods her head and gives me a hug. I feel so safe in her arms. I feel like all the stress from earlier was forgotten. But then she lets go and I remember earlier.

"Are you sure you're okay?" Alex asks, concern in her voice.

"Ya, I'm okay." I lie. The elevator stops and we head out to the dining hall. When we get there the whole team is already there.

"Well looked who decided to show up?" Megan says smiling. "I'm joking." She laughs. We grab some food and we sit down and eat. After supper we all decide to go to the hotel pool. We all go and change then head to the pool.

When I get there, most of the players are there already. I don't see Alex there yet so I go hang with Lauren, Amy, Hope, Carli, and Kelley. We had been hanging out for awhile. When I realize that Alex is still not here yet.

"Hey guys. I'm gonna go find Alex, ok? I'll be right back." I get out of the pool and dry off. Kelley gets out after me and dries off too. "You coming with?" I ask her. She smiles.

"Yep!"

We put a shirt and some shorts over our suit before we head out. We were just getting off the elevator when I see Alex on the ground. She wasn't getting up.

"Alex?" I say. She moans and I can hear soft sobs coming from her. I run over to her and I see her holding her ankle. "What happened?" She just continues to cry. I can see her try to calm down but she must be in a lot of pain since she can't stop. "Kelley help me carry her into her room. Kelley picks Alex up and I hurry to Alex's door to open it for her.

Kelley sets her down on her bed and I tell her to go get dawn. She runs out. I sit on the bed and give Alex a hug. She cries softly into my shoulder. After a few seconds she stops crying and she pulls away. "What happened?" I ask her again, softly.

She takes a deep breath. "Well, I decided to take the stairs instead of elevator," she starts . "Then I remembered that I forgot my towel. And as I was running back up the stairs, my foot slipped and I fell down the stairs. And I think that landed on my foot wrong because once I got up here I felt a lot of pain in my ankle and I collapsed. It started to hurt really bad and I couldn't get back up. So I later there waiting for someone to come find me." She finishes and I hug her again. I feel really bad for her right now. Our game against England was less than a month away and if her foot was more than a sprain then she wouldn't be able to play in that game or probably the World Cup. Just then Kelley comes in with Dawn.

She asks what happened and I explain to her what happened since Alex didn't seem like she was in the mood. Dawn checks her foot touching it in certain areas to see if it hurt there.

"Well it seems to me that you mildly sprained it. But it should heal within a 2 weeks or so." I hear her sigh with relief. "I want you off your foot as much as possible so you can play I the England game." She gives her a wrap for her foot and and some ice.

*two weeks later*

"Hey," I say to Alex we're getting ready to go to the doctor to check out her foot to see if it had healed. "Are you ready?" She nods her head. I can tell she's nervous. In these past two weeks I have gotten to know her really well now, and she knows me really good now to.

We head out to my car and we meet up with Lauren and Amy at my car. Alex is very quiet in the car.

"You ok?" Kelley asks her.

"Yea I'm ok. Just nervous." We were quiet the rest of the ride. All of us were nervous for her. We pull up to the hospital and we all go up to the front desk.

Lauren, Amy, and Kelley wait in the waiting room while Alex and I go with the doctor. The doctor does some little check up stuff on her foot and asks if she has had any pain in her foot recently. She says no and he says,

"Well it looks like your foot is in good condition and I think your ready to get back onto the field." He smiles. Alex sighs with relief and smiles which makes me smile. My best friend coming back!