(H)Arrogance *h.s in aus

Chapter 3

"Any time now Styles!" Yelled the boys' coach, snapping us out of the moment. The boys game had paused, and they were all waiting for the retrieval of the ball.

"Uh thanks." Harry said awkwardly, grabbing the ball and turning back to the game.
My cheeks flushed red, and I crouched back down to my bag, trying to cover the fact that I was freaking out on the inside. The sweltering gym just seemed to drastically rise in temperature. My heart pounded in my chest.

"Stop staring. As if you'd ever have a chance." Spoke a snarky female voice from behind me. The redundant comment was followed by hushed giggles.

I turned around to face a gorgeous looking girl, semi-enclosed by a gaggle of about 5, not as stunning girls- clearly her wannabes. She had long, blonde hair that was braided off her face and into a straight, swinging blonde pony. Her long, golden arms were crossed, and her face was sneering.  She looked over my shoulder, and I turned to see Harry waving at her. She waved back, and gave me a malicious and venomous in-your-face kind of look. She sauntered off, closely followed by the sheepish girls.

I whipped out my phone, trying to find a distraction and make myself look like less of a loner. I realised I hadn't texted Niall back.

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Me: trials are ok. i got josh to tell him
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Was that too blunt? Will he think I'm mad at him? Wait, am I mad at him? Me being me, I overthought everything.

Just as I'd decided to press send, Sarsha wandered back over, "We have to run a cool down lap apparently." I rolled my eyes, and we jogged off to join the rest of the girls.
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We gathered in for another debrief. "Listen up ladies!" Megan hushed the chattering group of teenaged girls, "Thank you all for trying out, we will have another try out next week, and the team will be announced on the day." A few gasps could be heard, including my own. Same day announcement?! That meant everyone was there when the team was announced, if you didn't make the cut, everyone else would know. Oh my god.
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We were finally allowed to leave, as I was wheeling my bag down the ramp, Harry caught up with me, "Saidie isn't it?"

"Uh, yeah, that's uh, that's me." I stuttered. Why did I have to be so awkward?

"Ah thought so, nice one. So how'd trials go?" He asked, undoing his bun and shaking his brown locks free. I almost had to stop myself from drooling.

"They were great! I did really well, better than I'd expected for sure." Came a catty voice from just in front of me. Ugh, it was the same girl that had been waving to Harry earlier. She obviously assumed that he was talking to her.
She adjusted her bra, pushing up her boobs, and making them look even bigger.  I cringed. She too undid her straight, blonde hair, tossing it over her shoulder to once again expose her cleavage to the boy. I cringed again.

Harry sped up slightly, and continued the conversation with her, but not before turning around and mouthing "Sorry." to me.
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Heaving my bag into the popped boot of Josh's car, I sighed.

"So?" My brother quizzed me, "How'd you go?" He slipped off a head band he had been wearing and tossed it into the back seat, I shuddered.

"It was better before I realised that my mullet supporting male twin wore a headband! Well truth be told, it wasn't really better at any stage, it sucked the whole time." I countered back to Josh.

"Haha, lighten up Saidie. I think it looks great." Josh said, posing and checking himself out in the car's mirro, trying to keep a straight face. We both burst out in laughter.

"Wearing a headband and having a mullet for an entire week is totally not worth $20 J. You're an idiot."

"Haha. True. It's probably not, but I'm too competitive to lose a bet, you should know that by now." He agreed with me for once, "My trials went really well, thanks for asking. I landed every drag flick, and showed up Mr Harry Is-An-Ass Styles a couple of times too."

"I didn't ask, Josh." I nonchalantly replied.

"Hm. Well you should have. At least pretend you care about your dear old brother." Said Josh, dramatically, "Aye, I told Coach about lover boy's absence. You're welcome." My idiotic brother winked.

I sighed, switching my phone on to inform Niall. Josh switched on the radio to maximum volume, belting out the (almost entirely incorrect) song lyrics to each song.
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A good thirty minutes into our painstakingly long drive home, and Josh was still belting out every word. "BANG MY HEAD AGAINST THE WORLD!" He screamed.

"Josh, if you're going to scream every lyric, at least get some of them right. It's bang my head against the wall." I sighed.

"WHAT?" He yelled.
Turning the radio volume down, I repeated myself, sighing and rolling my eyes, again.
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A/N:
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