Superheroes Play Soccer

Chapter 9: Hostile Raft Makes Everyone Laugh

.: Julie :.

We had left the locker rooms and headed back to the hotel. I had decided to stay with Morgan tonight, since Jade had yet to return. Alex had gotten ahold of Kelley, but there were no words shared as to what happened or where they had went. Bean had been pretty upset over the thing, which I understood since the two were so close. Carli and Hope had just left, the two of them also pretty concerned for the lack of our friends. I glanced from the tv over to Morgan who lay with her arms wrapped around a pillow, a blank expression glazed over her face as she watched the movie. I let out a soft sigh, glancing at my phone. I wanted to text Jade, ask if she was okay, ask when she'd be back, tell her I loved her and tell her I'm here for her. Tell her we're all here for her. But something stopped me. Something must have gone hella wrong for her to firstly, not tell any one of us, and secondly, cause her to leave right after the biggest game so far in her career. I was about to say something, when suddenly there was a series of knocks on the hotel room door. I quirked an eyebrow at Bean, who then shrugged, before I got up and approached the door. Once I opened it, I was greeted with forced smiles from Alex and Tobin. "Hey, Tobs and I were gonna head out to Walmart and just...." Alex began to say, but then fell short as she tried to find words. After a minute, Tobin finished for her. "We're bored and Walmart is the closest place. Plus, we need to get this situation off our minds, and we thought you could benefit from it too." I gave a soft laugh, nodding at how blunt Tobin was being compared to Alex who was trying to hide the fact they wanted to go to Walmart to get rid of their boredom. I glanced back at Morgan, and she seemed to like the idea because she was already getting up from the bed to slide on her shoes.

We all piled into Alex's car, and drove the 5 minutes to the Walmart store. The car ride was oddly quiet, and I simply stared out the window the entire time, not being able to help myself from wondering if Jade was okay. Carli and Hope had said they were going to just watch a movie and try to relax, which we understood. 

We parted ways at the beginning of the store. Tobin and Morgan had decided to go to the back and look at the sports, because Tobin wanted to buy a new soccer ball. Alex and I had decided to go to the clothes and shop for some new prewraps and some athletic socks. The song "Worth It" by Fifth Harmony came on, and both Alex and I began to dance as we searched for cute socks. Luckily there weren't many people in the Walmart to see 4 national soccer players dancing and goofing off at 12:30 in the morning. I started using my phone as a microphone as Alex was pretending to sing to me, both of us dancing and laughing. 

.: Tobin :.
I juggled a orange and black soccer ball with my indoors, slowly making my way to look for Morgan whom had walked off to look at the multi-color pool noodles. I turned to watch her swinging around 2 pink noodles, in between 2 different isles. 1 isle held the pool noodles, big bouncy balls, a rack with more pool accessories, and some other misc items. On the other isle, held a bunch of different inflatable rafts, a big container of sport utensils, ping pong balls and more items. I laughed as I kicked the ball into my grip, she looked at me and also laughed as she put the pool noodles away. She was about to walk towards me, but I guess something caught her eye. It was a small box labeled "XXL Inflatable Raft: Holds 10 People." "Wooooaahh.... There's a raft in there?" Just as I was about to yell for her not to touch it, she poked the box, and almost instantaneously the box exploded as a large blue raft inflated. It happened so quickly, it ended up knocking into Moe and forcing her into the row of racks behind her, the entire shelf falling, and everything going everywhere. I covered my mouth, watching the scene unfold, and just then Alex and Julie came running around the corner, jaws dropped at the sight. After a few moments, Bean shot up through the large pile of sports equipment,  spitting out a ping pong ball. "Who did that?!" She yelled, and left all of us gasping for air as we couldn't help but laugh at what just happened. Oh what a story this would be. Time to post it on Twitter! If only people had actually recorded that.