A week went by, the sports competition started. The first competition was tennis. She won the first match. As she was leading 3-love in the second match, she slips while trying to get the serve. As she tried to stand up, she fell back groaning, as a searing pain pierced her ankle, shooting right up to the back of her leg.
She is helped up and her friend continues to play for her. She managed to persuade her coach to not call her sister but just send her home after receiving a blasting from him for keeping her previous injury from him.
At home she sits down quietly with an ice pack on her ankle, waiting for Jessica and another dose of blasting. “Well just my luck!” she thought morosely. Jessica comes home with David and Darien in tow. They were planning to go out for dinner that night.
Jessica calls out, “Liz where are you, as she entered the den with Darien and David in tow. She stops still when she sees Liz sitting in the dark room, her foot bandaged and propped on a stool.
“Oh God! Liz ! What happened? She moved to kneel down near Elizabeth. Liz bursts into tears. Jessica hugs her trying to calm her down. Between sniffs Liz tells Jessica the truth. “ Oh! Jess, it hurts so bad, I’m so sorry I didn’t listen to you, it was just, I had to play,” she cried out.
“Sh…sh..It’s okay, we can’t do anything about it now. For the next few months you can’t play sports, you would need to go slow. Okay! Let’s forget it, she remembers David and Darien. Oh dear, David, Darien, she definitely should rest her feet, we need to take a rain check on the movie and dinner out tonight.
Hey, sure, …I tell you what…Darien says, “I’ll stay with Liz, David and Jess, you both go and rent a couple of movies..no chick flicks! And I will call for pizza meanwhile and have some pasta take out from the Deli next to the rental shop.”
“Sounds like a good plan to me,” David agreed and he motions to Jess to follow. Liz turned red when she realized both David and Darien had watched her little drama, she looked up and saw Darien watching her. She looked away. He says, “okay, what’s your favourite pizza?” As he grabbed the pamphlet that was lying on the table with the pizza’s from the neighbourhood Pizza shop.
“Hmm, Hawaiian Chicken for me.. I love the pineapple, Jess will take a pepperoni and cheese, she says looking at him.
“Right, he called up the pizza shop and put in his order.
While, waiting for Jess and David to returned, Darien put Liz to ease and started talking to her about sports, and Liz relaxed and became animated talking about the tennis championship which she watched two days back.
From there they started talking about their favourites, and found that they had many similarities. It was at that moment, Darien clasped Liz hand, and she turned to look at him inquiringly, “Liz, will you go out with me, be my steady?”
Liz was surprised, but happy as she happened to have a crush on him, immediately blushed while nodding her ascent.
He bent to kiss her on the cheeks, and was about to kiss her on the lips, when the doorbell rang and spoiled the moment.
