Wait. She plays football?!

Chapter 23

Iti's POV

I wake up to loud noises coming from the living room. I groan. I roll over and look at my phone. It's 9:50am. I guess I should get up. I roll out of bed. I go to the bathroom and brush my teeth not worrying about my hair or anything. I walk out into the living room. I see everyone and I mean everyone, cam, Nash, Kieran, hayes, Molly, Jarrett. They're all goofing around. They all look up at me. "Did we wake you?" Molls asks. "Nah dip, yall are so freaking loud." I groan walking into the kitchen and grabbing an Arizona tea. I walk back into the living room and curl up on the couch. I don't make eye contact with anyone. I'm almost asleep again.. when someone plops down next to me. "Can we talk? In private?" He whispers in my ear. Before I even acknowledge who it is. I agree. "Yea let's go" I say sleepily getting up. I walk into my bedroom and plop down on the bed cuddling the blanket. I rub my eyes and look up as the door closes. "Oh it's you" I say looking at hayes. "Infinti, baby let me explain yesterday. Ok?" He says. "How about you explain the fact you haven't talk to me since you left." I say. "I'll tell you everything ok?" He says. He sits down next to me. He turns his body to face me and has me facing him. "She was just a model. Only taking pics with us. You can ask the guys she just started clinging to me I didn't do anything with her. I've told her many times to leave me alone. But she's crazy. Yesterday was the last photo shoot with her. I promise you." He says looking in my eyes. I just look at him. "And as for the not talking to you thing, I thought it'd be easier for you to focus on everything. I even got dads opinion on it. He said to do whatever I thought would help you focus better because that's what you truly needed. I thought leaving you alone would allow you to focus on all your sports." He says lifting my chin up. "You left me alone. I needed you. It's the opposite of what you thought I didn't focus on anything except hating life. I stayed in bed, cheered and ran. That's it. I hated life" I say. He looks at me. Looking into his eyes he looks shattered. "Baby girl I didn't mean to hurt you." Hayes says. "I know you didn't. But I needed you. Next time let me make the decision for what's better for me." I say putting my hand on his cheek. "Always from now on it's your decision." He says. I lean in and kiss him. He deepens the kiss. I push him down on the bed so he's laying down. I'm over him. "You're still wearing my shirt" he says chuckling. I smile at him. "You want it back?" I say going to lift it off. "As much as I'd love that view, I like you in my clothes more." He says. I plop down on my back next to him. He pulls me into him. "I've missed you." I say.

"Baby girl, I missed you more" hayes says. I smile at him and lay down next to him. "What's the plan for today?" I ask. He has his hand resting on my belly. "I honestly don't know, would you like to go check?" He asks. "Yea Let's go" I say. He gets up and grabs my hands and pulls me up. I wrap my legs around him instead of standing up. "You're a goofy little one" he says, I put my head in his neck. He kisses my head and walks into the living room area. "Finally" Cam says. I'm assuming as soon as he sees us. "God she's been so mopey, thank you" Molly says. "Hey" I say. Hayes chuckles. "You think she was mopey, you would've thought zan had been killed or something. This kid was a mess" Nash says "hey" hayes says and now it's my turn to laugh. Hayes sits on the couch still holding me. "Sooo what's the plan for today?" I ask. "Well we've got until like 5pm to do whatever and then we have a sunset photoshoot" molls says. "Scoreeee" hayes whispers in my ear. By this time it's already 10:30am. "So what do we wanna do?" Kieran asks. "I could use a spa day, and some new clothes." I say. "My nails are looking gross too" molly says. "Great molly Let's go get our nails done." I say. She hops up and goes to her room. I get up and go too. "So what're we supposed to do?" Nash asks. "Boy you're a grown man figure it out" I say. From my room. I start digging through my clothes when I feel breathing on my neck. "You're crazy if you think I'm leaving you when I just got you back" Hayes says. "So you're going with?" I ask. "Better believe it." He says. I smile. Seeing as he's already ready he plops down on my bed. As I continue to search for something to wear. I turn and look at hayes. "Dress or shorts?" I ask. "Is that even a question??? Obvi dress" he says with a wink. I grab the outfit and go to the bathroom area to change. I lift hayes' shirt off me. And look in the mirror. I've lost a tremendous amount of weight. All of a sudden I notice hayes is right behind me. He looks at me. "Scale now." He says with no emotion. My breath catches in my throat. I know I'm probably not even 100. His eyes not leaving mine he pulls out the scale. I step on it our eyes locked through the mirror. The scale beeps causing him to pull his focus, terrified I don't move my eyes. "79, Infiniti. 79 pounds.." he says broken. Scared to see the pain in those blue eyes I don't move. I catch myself glancing at my wrists hoping he doesn't notice. My luck he sees just where my eyes have been wondering for too long. "You didn't please tell me you didn't." He says. I stay quiet. All of a sudden my feet are no longer on the ground I'm now sitting on the counter. My hands are being turned. My wrists examined. I keep my head down. "Infiniti I am not this important, I'm not worth you're pain. Beautiful why." He says. He states it not as a question but more as a please tell me this is fake. "I'm sorry. Nobody knows please don't say anything I'm better I'm fine now." I say begging. "Iti you can't play football this size you'll be killed. You can't throw yourself upside down without eating you'll faint, you can't continue to live life like this and thin you're going to trick death. This will eventually kill you. You have to stop." Hayes says tears in his eyes. I don't know what to say cause me talking won't fix how he feels. I wrap my arms around him. "I'm alive. Baby I'm alive." I say. He melts down his head in my neck. I wrap my legs around him. He picks me up and spends us around. I look in his eyes. "I love you" I say. He smiles all the way reaching his eyes. "I love you more" He says connecting our lips. We pull away, he kisses my forehead. I take a mirror pic of us. "What would I do without this boy" I post it on my story.

"We should probably start getting ready." I say. He stands up and sets me down. He kisses my forehead letting his touch linger. I look up at him. I just smile, full blown happy smile. He looks down at me. "Wow you're beautiful" He says. "Now I really gotta get ready" I say. "We're going for food, before nails" He says. His eyes lock with mine, I know better than to argue. I nod. He kisses my temple one last time before going back to the bed. I strip out of my pants and pick up my dress. "Hot damn" hayes says from the bed. I shake my head. "Pose for me" He says. I die laughing. I turn around and pose. "Ahhh that's my girl" He says. "That's all mine" He says. I smile. I grab my dress and pull it on. I look in the mirror and just to see how loose the supposed to be fitted dress is. Taking in my appearance, my hairs natural and wavy. I don't have an ounce of makeup on. I've changed and maybe a little too much. I feel hands on my hips. "I want you to know, I love you, I love you too much to let you be unhealthy. I love you when you're happy, and I love when you feel beautiful, not when you're trying too hard. Just when you're you. That's when you hit the highest of your beauty. Baby I love you when you're you." He says looking at me through the mirror. I look up at him and he looks down. He kisses my nose. "Grab me a pair of shoes while I finish?" I ask turning around with a pout. He kisses my lips "perfect" he says pulling away. He turns around to go pick out shoes. Mmm that boys got a nice ass. As he walks away I smack his butt. He turns around and winks. I just laugh. I turn back to the mirror trying to figure out whether I should use makeup or not. "Don't you dare put makeup on. I want the freedom to kiss you whenever" hayes shouts from the other side of the room and in the closet. Well that solves that. "Shoes are on the bed" hayes says. I grab a chapstick and put it on I do light mascara just so I look awake. I brush my teeth. I run my hands through my hair. "Babyyyyyy" I whine. "Yes beautiful?" Hayes says. "Do you happen to have a hat on you?" I ask. "Hold on." He says walking out. I go over to the bed. What a babe he pulled socks out too. I slide the socks and shoes on, just as I finish my tying my shoes, hayes walks in. He walks over and places a white vineyard vines hat on my head. I smile up at him. "Wow you're gorgeous." He says. I stand up and kiss him. I walk over to try and find my stuff. "Poseeee for me baby girl" hayes says. I pose while laughing. "Stop laughing." He says chuckling. I stuff for like 2 seconds. "Got it" He says smiling

I die laughing again he just shakes his head. I grab my phone, wallet and sunglasses, making sure I have chapstick in my wallet. I put my gray sweater on. "Let's go" I say pulling him up off the bed, we walk out of the room into the living room....