Chapter 1
Me and Victoria were on a summer break vacation trip congratulating our selves from finishing high school. This was the last summer I had of fun, until I was off to UCLA. I got a scholarship their for volleyball being an outside hitter. Victoria also got a scholarship but it wasn't to UCLA it was for Florida University. So this was basically our last summer together until we were on separate sides of the country. I gotta say I'm gonna miss her we have been friends since our first day of high school. Ever since the tryouts for volleyball. she made it i didn't. But she was the one there for me and comforted me when i found out the awful news. Ever since then we became inseperatable.
Many people told me growing up I wasn't good enough, that I didn't try. And I admit I was lazy in my earlier years of volleyball, I wanted it so bad but I didn't work hard enough. I remember watching the olympics or even highschool teams play. i would obsess over how high they could jump, how hard they could hit, how the setter was so good at setting.
I realized how important volleyball was to me and how bad I was when I tried out for the freshman volleyball team and didnt make it. Those 3 months without playing were horrible. Seeing all my friends go to practice nd being so happy with their team or position killed me. i wanted to be in their position, having fun. So I decided to change everything.
Growing up I was chubby. Yes I was mildly chubby in fact. I'm not kidding you when I say this. I was obese. I was over weight. Growing up was hard I got stares from many people. I got teased everyday, somedays i would go home and cry in my bedroom. But I did a travel league. That started in december which was 2 weeks after school volleyball was over. It was 6 months and I had conditioning 2 days a week and practice 3 days a week. I also got private lessons and did even more conditioning at another place. Molly even gave me a few pointers and we practiced countless hours on hitting and trying to get better. I worked so hard. I made so many new friends, some of which im still friends with today.
The following year I was congratulated a spot on varsity my sophomore year. Do you know how hard that is. I went from cant even make the freshman team to making varsity.
I got various complements from everyone. "You slimmed down so much" "what! Your on varsity now? I thought you didn't even make freshman last year".
And in that moment I knew what self pride was. I knew what being confident was like. I was a new person. And it felt so good.
Now every story like that has to have some conflict. I couldn't just expect a smooth transformation.
Her name was Molly.
