The First Girl I Loved

#21

Lucy's POV

*whistles

I let out a heavy sigh as I heard the whistle. My teammates are practicing right now for our next game except for me. My coach insisted that I should rest my ankle for the mean time to keep it from getting worse. I was watching quietly here in the bench when my friend, Troy suddenly appeared from nowhere and sat beside me.

"What are you doing here?" I asked with my brows raised

"Nice to see you, too" he greeted casually and hugged me lightly

I tapped his back and gave him a confused look, "How come you're here?"

He rubbed the back of his neck nervously and avoided my gaze.

"You didn't ditch your training in Manila, aren't ya?" I smirked at him and saw his cheeks redened

"Well," he chukcled nervously and scratched his head ,"Kind of"

"Ouch!" I smacked his head with an empty plastic bottle and grabbed my phone

"What about calling Coach Mikey and telling him that one of his players is actually ditching right now. Hmm?" I looked at him and saw his eyes widened, but smiled ridicoulously

Before I knew it he snatched the phone in my hand and gave it back quickly with his smug smirk.

"Unbelievable," I shot a playful glare at him which caused him to laugh devilishly. He deleted Coach Mikey's contact! I shake my head and smacked him repeatedly in the head with the bottle.

"Lucy! *laughs Stop, okay? Aren't you happy to see your handsome friend? *laughs," he placed his hand in an L-shape below his chin and gave me a panty-dropper smile. But as for me who was born with a dick, not literally , that doesn't work for me.

I just punched him for the last time, when I felt my ankle aching.

He seemed to notice my injury, as he knelt on the ground and raised my feet carefully ,"Does it hurt?" he asked stupidly

I gave him a sarcastic laugh and frowned ,"What do you think?"

"Of course," he answered and laughed genuinely

He just smiled and sat beside me again. We watched the game and talked about some stuffs. He said that he wanted to watch our game here in Orlando, but unfortunately we're already off to our next game in Spain.

"Plus I missed both of my friends," he said referring to me and Yeshia

"Ohh come on," I chuckled and ruffled his hair ,"Just say that you're happy escaping from your training, lazy ass"

"Yeah that one, too" he said while giving me a high-five

My gaze went back to the field when I heard another whistle, which means that they're having a penalty shoot-out. I saw Yeshia looking at me and gave me a thumbs up, asking if I'm okay. I reciprocated and raised my thumb. She noticed the person sitting beside me, and when she knew that it was none other Troy, she waved at him happily. I looked at him and saw him waving his hand back at her.

I smiled at them happily. But my smile faded when my eyes met my teammate's gaze. She smiled at me sadly and turned her back to me.

All of the feelings that I felt last night went back again. My vision became blurry as the first tear drops from my eye.

"I missed that weirdo too. I'm so happy that--- Hey, why are you crying? Is it your ankle? Hey, hey, come on. Lucy. I'll walk you to your hotel room if you want," I looked at him and shook my head