Stanford
Flashback
"You lied to me, Hope !"
Shelina is out of her mind, as the older girl just stares at her, only half-interested. They are in the team's meeting room, and their teammates aren't here yet. It's only hours after their game that they won to officially join the Final Four, and minutes after the brunette heard about Becky's arrest. The truth is that she hasn't seen her girlfriend ever since she sneaked out of the apartment to join Hope in the forest.
And the defender is freaking out right now. But Hope, on the other hand, is her usual calm self, when she says :
"She, I have nothing to do with what happened to Rebecca. I don't even know how they came to the idea of her being guilty."
"I don't believe you !"
"So be it."
As the brunette is about to fire back, the door opens and some of their teammates come in.
Hope immediately feels the hating looks on the girls faces, as Jess Fishlock and Lauren Barnes don't even say 'hi' to her. She knows only few people are happy she's back, and those two are not included. When Mel, Christen and Andi make their way in as well, the goalie starts tensing up, setting her jaw : she knows nobody really like her here. Especially since she screwed up big time.
Fed up with the overall atmosphere, she lets out :
"I think we need to talk."
Jess turns around, raising her eyebrows, and sarcastically says :
"What ? About the murder you committed because you wanted to gain power ?"
A deadly silence takes place, before Hope says :
"What do you know about power, Fishlock ?"
"Not as much as you do, obviously" the girl fires back, insisting on the last word of her sentence. "You've been blinded by it since the beginning, and this time you won't get away with it. Even though I didn't like Christie that much, she didn't deserve to die like that."
"So you think I'm guilty ? All of you ?" Hope asks, raising her hands in the air.
Nobody dares to answer.
The door opens again, as Shelina just lets herself fall on the chair behind her. 'When did all of this become so complicated and messed up ?' she asks herself, rolling her eyes. 'It used to only be about soccer, and now we're tangled up with death and ennemies'. But her thoughts suddenly fall on Becky again : there might be a reason why the older girl hasn't answered any of her calls, or texts, after Shelina left her that night. And now even more since she's in custody.
A rage starts exploding in Shelina's body, as Carli Lloyd makes her way in as well. When she realises the atmosphere is pretty tensed, she shrugs and sits down next to Hope, who is trying to come up with something to say.
But Christen beats her to it :
"Maybe it is time to be honest, Hope." she says in a rather bossy voice, and Mel tenses up next to her.
But the Latina is not the kind of girl who just gives up : she wants her team to survive, keep fighting and win the championship, and she's not willing to let anything about rivalry ruin their hard work.
