USWNT Oneshots

Bickering

Prompt: do one with Thalia and Tobin like the coach pairs them up and they have never met each other and they start like arguing but then they develop feelings for eachother

Tobin Heath and I weren't enemies, per se, we just argued. A lot. The bickering would start at breakfast, and last the entire day. We couldn't agree on anything. This had been our relationship ever since Coach paired us together for drills in practice. The other girls found out arguments amusing and somewhat annoying, but had long since stopped trying to stop them. Tobin and I would argue about the most pointless things, too: whether American football should be called "Football" or "Handegg", whether Florida or California was better, and whether the St. Louis Rams really did suck. I'd win some, she'd win others. On this particular day, the topic was Red Sox V.S. Yankees. My dad had grown up in Boston, and had raised me to be a Red Sox fan. Tobin had grown up in New Jersey, which was close to New York, so she was a Yankees fan. Actually, she was probably just taking the Yankees side for the sake of arguing with me. "1918." Tobin said, passing the ball to me at practice. "That doesn't work anymore!" I shot back. "How about 2013? The Red Sox won the World Series, and the Yankees didn't even make it to the playoffs!" we continued this argument for the rest of the day. "What about 2004, then?" I asked triumphantly. "We kicked your asses in the playoffs! Tell me the Red Sox suck. Tell me they-" I was cut off by Tobin slamming her lips into mine. When we broke apart, she was smirking. "You talk too much." she said. "Love you, loudmouth." "Love you too, asshole." I said, grinning.

I am a Red Sox fan because of my dad, so Thalia's view in this story is based off of me. Also, "1918" was a popular chant by Yankees fans when they were playing the Red Sox, because, before 2004, the Red Sox hadn't won a World Series since 1918. Now that they've won 2004 and 2013, that doesn't work anymore. Take that, Yankees fans! (Jk much love to all.) Also, on the topic of Handegg, I do believe that's what American football should be called because you catch the egg shaped ball with your hands a lot more than you kick the ball with your foot, whereas in soccer, the entire game is kicking the ball with your foot.