Love and Basketball

Chapter 4

The day is almost over and I still haven't seen Jack anywhere.

Rosa seen me and asked if I think jack is cute and I felt kind of obligated to lie.

"He's decent. I'd never date him though."

Wrong choice of words.

"Angela, we may have just met today, but I wasn't born yesterday! You're totally into him! Don't worry though, you're secret's safe with me."

Well, I hope I can trust this girl. My face turned red and I was so embarrassed.. he would hate me if he knew..

"I have to get to practice, I'll text you afterwards, okay?"

"Okay! Have fun at practice!"

Yeah sure. Fun. She's lucky enough to be able to skip practice because she has a dentist appointment.

As soon as Rosa is out of sight someone grabs my shoulder. It's Jack.

"Angela, I'm glad I caught you before practice."

So am I, he can't see me all sweaty and gross.

"Do you need something? I'm kind of in a hurry."

"Well, I'm having a little party tonight and I wanted to invite you. If you aren't too busy anyways."

First day of school and I'm already invited to a hot jock's party? Must be the Van Halen shirt.

"Uh yeah sure, I'll give you my number and you can text me your address."

"Is the number really just for the address or an excuse to text me?" He lets out a laugh as my cheeks turn red.

I snap at him. "You know, you're so full of yourself. I don't like you and I'd never like you."

"Haha that was cute."

Cute? Did he just say I was cute?

"Did you just say I was cute?"

"No, I mean ummm? I better get going and you have practice, so I'll see you later or whatever, uh bye"

"Bye Jack"

He has my number. I wonder if we will text about stuff other than addresses, I'm going to have a heart attack. I've never been so excited about texting before! The only guys that ever texted me were my friends on the basketball team and literally all we talked about was basketball.

Enough day dreaming. It's practice time.

Everyone goes through and introduces themselves to me seeing as I'm the "new kid" and then coach starts talking

"If anyone thinks they can show leadership and bring forth to the team what a real captain would, raise your hand now."

My hand was the only lonely hand to go up.

"Looks like we have it team. New girl is your captain this year."

I hope he knows my name isn't "new girl". Why didn't anyone want to be captain? Being captain is an honor and everyone back home wanted it.

We started our drills and let me tell you, these girls were a nightmare. They couldn't pick their head off the floor when they were dribbling, they couldn't pass or shoot, they traveled, double dribbled, carried, this was an absolute disaster. I could take the whole fam versus me alone and still win by fifty. I have a lot to work to do here.

Practice is finally over and I check my phone as soon as I get home expecting a text.

It's Jack

Hey Angela, u ready for tonight? Sure to be a killer party. I sent you my address. Starts @ 7. Hope to see you soon ;)

7?? It's already 5:30 and I'm a sweaty mess! I hurry up and get a shower and go to my closet to decide what to wear. I really want to impress him so I try to find something decent in the garbage Cleo bought me. I put together an outfit that actually isn't half bad. I'm gonna wear a short, white lacy dress, with a blue jean jacket and white converse. Man I hate looking like such a prissy girl, but it's what all the guys like I guess. I just can't wait to see what Jack thinks when I show up looking like this.

Let's get this party started!