The Sideline

10: The cover

After we all left Ugo and I went back to his place to get ready for practice.

"Are you okay with them doing this?" I asked Sean.

"What do you mean? Don't they kinda have to?" He responded.

"They don't have to. We could just come out and say he was talking about us. Or we could all ignore this and let it blow over." I explained.

Sean looked conflicted. "I don't know. The revealing of any relationships on the team would take way from everyone's focus." He sighed. "I have no idea what to do."

I sighed as I realized the reality of this all. "Well Andrew and Eric seemed like they wanted to anyway, we're going to have to talk to them before they do it."

Sean nodded and we arrived at his apartment. He opened the door and went straight to his bed and plopped down on it. I soon followed and laid down next to him and he started playing with my hair.

I smiled at how cute he was and rolled on my side with my head propped up by my hand.

"I love you Harrsion Andrew delbridge." He stopped playing with my hair as he gazed in my eyes.

I blushed and looked away. He gently grabbed both of my cheeks and kissed me. I was fighting a smile as I kissed him back. I pulled away and looked into his golden glowing eyes.

"I love you too, Sean Ugo Okoli." I grinned.

He smiled back and I never wanted to leave this bed or this moment with him.

He pulled me in by my shirt for another kiss. I melted like puddy in his arms. He tugged on the bottom hem of my shirt so I disconnected the kiss and pulled it over my head. He did the same. He pecked my lips and laid his head down on my chest. I was taken by surprise and I had to re-adjust my self so we could just lay there together. I felt him draw shapes on the skin of my hip and I smiled.

As I laid my head back I thought of how lucky I could be to have him.

Some time had passed with us laying there in silence. Ugo's finger never stopped drawing patterns and neither of us fell asleep. It was just a nice, peaceful silence that we got to share before we had to leave for practice. A soft tone cut through the silence signaling that I had a text message. I reached over to the table and grabbed my phone to check it.

Coach John: Practice is canceled due to the resignation of Jamie Dell this morning. Things have to be sorted out, but training will be continued tomorrow at the regular time. Thanks.

"Looks like practice got canceled." I stated.

"Really? Why?" Ugo asked.

"It says because of Jamie..."

"Oh wow." He said. "Wait, so what does this mean with the whole Andrew and Eric thing?"

I sighed. "I don't know. It might be better just to wait it out until tomorrow."

"Yeah, I don't want to deal with this now anyway." Sean sighed and rolled over out of bed.

"Well now that we have the night off, we should do something."

"Like what?" I asked while sitting up in the bed.

"Well I don't feel like going out, but maybe we could invite Andrew and Eric over?" He suggested.

"That sounds great." I smiled warmly at him.

~*~

Not long after, Eric showed up with Andrew, and Jimmy came home. We all were sitting in the living room playing fifa and drinking.