Concussion •Miniminter•

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     I woke up from my hotel bed remembering that today is a prep day. It was currently 8:43 am and I had to be there by 9:50, so I still had time. I looked over to the other bed to see Jay still sound asleep. I went on social media for a while, and after I quietly got up and went into the bathroom to get ready. I did all the essentials and I braided my hair into two french braids and wore an Adidas short sleeve shirt and sporty knee length leggings. I walked out of the bathroom to see that Jay was awake in bed looking at his phone.

"Excuse me, Princess, I'm gonna be leaving soon," I remarked to him. I had to wake up earlier than everyone else on my team, I guess I had to do some planning with the youtubers or something. Jay isn't going with me because the guests are not allowed to go watch, unless they have "special permission" so he's gonna go sight seeing with people he met yesterday. I still made him get up early. I put on converse and grabbed my football bag and left the room yelling, "bye loser!"

As I got to the lobby, I realized how awkward this was gonna be. At first, no one really noticed me until Simon came up to me.

     "Hey, um I could-a give you a ride to the pitch, if you want," Simon awkwardly said while rubbing the back of his neck.

"Sure," I started, "If we don't crash and die," I said jokingly.

     "Oh, don't worry, I will be the best driver you've ever had," He stated. I gave him a questionable look.

"Hey bro can I ride with you," JJ came and asked Simon.

"Sorry man I'm taking Bailey."

     "Ohhhh I see," JJ winked at Simon, "make good choices." With that he walked away. I rolled my eyes and looked over to Simon looking down and embarrassed. I'd never seen him look so, like me. I'm surprised I'm not the one who's in embarrassment.

"Sooo shall we go?" I said breaking the silence, and seeing that most people are leaving.

"Oh, uh, yea, lets go," I then followed him, along with the other guys, out of the hotel building and into the crisp morning air. It was freezing. That's probably because I'm wearing a stupid short sleeve shirt. I'm not very smart.

"JESUS it's cold out," I say as we approach his car. 

     "Well good thing I already started the car," as he said that I opened the car door and a gust of warm air hit me. He then got in the car and put on his glasses he uses for driving. When I looked over and saw him with his glasses, I chuckled to myself.

     "Ay, what are you laughing at?" He looked over to me and I looked out the window, smiling. I replied,

     "Forgot that you wore glasses when you drove." And that you look hot with them on.

     "It's not that exciting," he replied. I then added,

"Also the fact that I'm in a car with a youtuber known by 5.5 million people, because that happens regularly." And that I'm surprisingly not bouncing off the car fangirling about this. I heard Simon chuckle. I kept smiling, looking out the window.

Most of the ride was the quiet hum of rap on the radio. I guess we weren't very good at small talk. When we weren't that far away, I decided to perk up my courage and talk.

"I guess you seem to be pretty quiet off camera," was the thing that came to my mind to talk about. Really, Bailey? That was an embarrassing question!

"Well, um, I guess I am, I don't really talk to new people like this," he seemed to confess. We talked for a bit and somehow started talking about myself, and about his childhood, and how we were actually really relatable. We ended up getting out of the car laughing and arguing about emon and minizerk. As we went indoors, I spotted Ethan and Josh and had them come over to Simon.

"Oh no don't bring them into this," Simon complained gesturing over to them.

"Too late, they're already here. Okay. I've been needing to know this forever; which one's more real, Minikerk or Emon," I stated. They looked at us intensely, and finally they looked at each other, looked back at us, and at the same time said,

"Minizerk."