Chapter Six

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After I finished recording my video, which I was very proud of, I went straight to my laptop to start editing it. It took a couple of hours but I finally got it perfect. I called the boys in, Dom wasn't home as per usual but Alex and David came in and I played the video. I watched David's shocked expression when I said Taylor Dobrik at the beginning. Judging by their facial expressions I thought they liked it.

"Pretty good Tay," David smiled, patting my head.

"Is it ready for YouTube though?" I asked nervously.

"Yeah I mean sure," David said. Something tells me he's not quite convinced.

"It's awful isn't it?"

"What? No it's perfect I'm just shocked you used Dobrik. I haven't heard you use it yet."

"Oh, uh did you want me to keep it as Franklin, or?" I said, ashamed.

"Oh no I guess I just forgot you were a Dobrik now," he looked disappointed.

"David, what's wrong? You seem upset."

"It's nothing, really. Anyway let's set up your channel and upload this baby."
David and Alex helped me to make a channel. It was pretty simple, up until the part where I had to type in my username. I hadn't actually thought of a channel name yet. After trying of thinking of something creative and failing miserably, I gave up and just used Tay Dobrik; The most original name going. I breathed out slowly and clicked the upload button.

"Well, it's up," I sighed. David took out his camera and started recording me.

"Hey guys, Taylor just started her very own YouTube channel, head over to it and click subscribe and show her first video some support, her link will be in the description below," he said to his viwers.

"God dammit David how come you never shout my channel out? Huh?" Alex shouted angrily for the camera.

"Because man, you don't upload," David laughed.

"I don- I don't upload?" Alex shouted storming out to the living room as David followed, repeatedly shouting his name. He put his foot through another table and started smashing it up. Once David stopped recording Alex was back to himself. I hate that he's so different on camera. It's almost like he's lying to all of David's followers about his personality. I looked down at my watch. It was 6:15. I got changed once again into my football gear this time. I grabbed my duffel bag and stuffed my football boots, bottle of water and a change of clothes, just in case I needed them, into it. I said goodbye to David and Alex and made my way to the park for my first training session with the Gold Globes. There was a whole bunch of emotions going through me as I walked to the park. I was nervous, excited, anxious, happy and every other emotion I can think of.

I arrived at the grounds 5 minutes early and saw a man who looked to be in his mid 30s. He was dressed in a pair of sports shorts and a yellow jumper with a green globe and the initials T.C on it. I walked over to him, assuming it was Tom.

"Hi, I'm Taylor Dobrik, are you Tom?" I asked.

"That I am, you must be David's daughter. Welcome to the team," he announced and stuck out his hand for me to shake, which is exactly what I did. His grip was firm and intimidating, matching his voice, build and appearance. Everything about this guy was intimidating.

"Right, well let's see what you got," he said with folded arms. I was lost for words. I just assumed I would do a normal training session with all of the girls, you know doing drills and stuff. I quickly changed into my boots and grabbed a football.

"What exactly do you want me to do?" I asked nervously.

"Well first up I want you to dribble the ball around those cones and uh, Tia here will be waiting for you at the end. You have to get passed her and score a goal on Francesca over there," he explained, pointing over to a very burly looking girl who was about twice my height. Let's scratch that I was 90% sure this Tia girl was actually a guy in a wig. Regardless, I did as he said.

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