Divergent High

Volleyball tryouts and feeling

As the bell rings I run out of the classroom to my locker and grab all the stuff I need for volleyball tryouts. I wait for Christina and we walk to the gym together. Once we are ready Christina realizes she left her knee pads in her locker so she goes to get them while I wait in the gym. As I walk by the boy locker room door it opens and I get hit in the head. I stumble backwards and fall on my butt. I see the person who hit me and he looks worried. It was four. He comes running out of the door and kneels by my side.

"Are you ok?" he asks me

"Yeah I think so, just got a bump on my head" I reply

"Ok but let me talk you down to the nurses to get an ice pack"

Before I can get another word out he grabs my hand telling me to follow him. Once we get to the nurses office he tells me to sit down while he goes to get me an ice pack. When he comes back he sits down next to me and places the ice pack on my head. "Thank you" I say and realize I am staring into his dark blue eyes and react by looking up at the time.

"Omg we have to leave our we will be late for tryouts". I run our of the nurses office and he follows right behind me. My head feels better but there is a bump. Once coach starts practice we do warm-ups for about 15 minutes then we start passing back and forth to our partner. My partner is Christina and while we are passing we begin to talk.

"So who were you daydreaming about at lunch, and don't say no-one because I know that face." Christina says

"Just someone I like" I reply

"WHO!" Christina yells. everyone looks at us and then gets back to passing.

"Really Chris I'll tell you tomorrow"

"Ok fine" she replies sounding annoyed.

"Next is setting" coach yells

Setting goes by quickly and so does serving. After a little while we being digging. The boys will hit the ball at us and we have to dig it up to the setters position. When it is my second time going four hits the ball and before I can react it hits me in the nose, I hear a crack and begin trying to hold back tears. Four helps me up and helps me get down to the nurses office. Once we get there he sees I'm in pain.

"You can let yourself be in pain, it's only me here" Four says

That's when the tears start. He puts the sling on my nose and hugs me, careful of my nose. I hug him back and then when I feel better I say "do I look like I've been crying"

"no you look tough as nails" he replies with a smile

I smile back and began to walk back to the gym. Once we get there the coach tells me to go home but whispers that I have a spot on varsity. I smile and leave. Four walks me out to my car and tell him that I will see him tomorrow. I give him a hug, get in my car then drive off thinking "I'm falling four".