A Volleyball Story

Chapter 29

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of wil."

- Vince Lambardi

Jessica.

This evenings meeting was pretty hilarious tonight. They had a slideshow of pictures that were taken of today's games and practices and to say the least, they got really great action shots. 

They got some of me hitting, or other teams playing. Unfortunately they got a shot at when that guy totally nailed Dylan. Which reminded me of how she was still in the nurses office. I hope she's okay. 

I nudged Sydney, "You think Dylan is alright?" I was becoming really worried.

"She's fine Jess, rememeber Keith is probably still with her." she whispered with a smile. 

"True." I giggled, moving my head forward to where the director was now talking.

"Alright ladies and gentlemen! It's been about a total of two weeks of you guys being here and now its time for our...." he paused for a second before all the coaches joined him on stage. 

"Intensity night!" they all yelled. 

"What in the world is that?" questioned MIchaela who was on my left. 

"No idea." I muttered back. 

"Intensity night is where all of you guys will be in your teams and will do two straight hours of hard core workouts." with that he earned groans from just about everyone in the auditorium. 

"It's not that bad." said one of the coaches. 

Then coach Lily started talking, "Intensity night is where you put your all into these workouts. You encourage your teammates, you push yourself to the most you've ever pushed yourself. You may all groan and hate for when the night comes, but once you and your team finishes, it's all rewarding. I was in your place at your age and like you, I hated when it was intensity night. Despite having to work out for two hours straight, I loved being with my team and working together."

"Intensity night will happen tomorrow. So drink lots of water from now on till then, have fun for the rest of the evening, and see you tomorrow morning! You are all excused." the director said as everyone started getting up. 

"Lets go see if Dylan is back at the room." said to both Michaela and Sydney. 

"Alrighty! I say we watch movies tonight." piped in Michaela. 

"I agree." I smiled, as we started walking back to our dorms. 

"He was totally checking you out tonight." teased Syd. She was talking about Noah and how he kept on staring at me. Well that's what she was saying, I didn't really pay attention. 

"Yeah right. You both know we are friends and not an item." I sighed wishing I was wrong. I was already starting to develope feeligns for him. 

With that Michaela opened the door and we see Dylan and Keith with guilty looks on their faces. Did we just interrupt something? I could see the blush rush to Dylans face while Keith had some pink to his ears. 

"Did we interrupt something..?" teased Sydney. 

"We..uhm..no." Dylan stuttered. 

"I just brought her back to her room. She's got medicine in her system and is fed. She's all yours ladies." Keith smoothly said as he backed out of the room. Once the door was closed, we all huddled around Dylan on her bed. 

"So what was that all about?" I asked as her face was still red. 

"N-nothing." she muttered looking down. "Nothing happened guys. Not the way you think." she then looked sad.

"What's wrong? You know we're teasing you." said Syd. 

"I know..it's just that I've never kissed a guy before." she looked down in embarrassment. 

"Wait. You seriously have not been kissed before?" Michaela finally piped in. 

"I guess I focused on volleyball and studying that I never really cared too much about guys. And now that there's Keith and being close to him lately, we were literally this close," she held up her fingers together to empasize on how close. "And then you guys came in." 

"If only we were a couple seconds behind you would've kissed him!" Michaela raised her hands up in the air. 

"Dylan, you guys will kiss when the moment is right. It obviously wasn't tonight, but I'm sure there will be another time that's perfect and you guys will kiss." I said smiling at her. 

"Thanks guys." she smiled. "So what'd I miss tonight at the meeting."

We all then told her about intensity night which of course, she sounded excited. Only Dylan would love all the extra work when it came to volleyball. That's what I envied of her, how dedicated and how hard she worked for this sport. She truly loved it like it was really part of her life. 

After more teasing about her and Keith, and then the tables turned towards me about Noah, we all laughed, watched movies, and had a great time. Since my whole summer I'll be here with these girls, and everyone else I've met, and of course volleyball, I knew that this was going to be a summer worth remembering. 

"Wake up!" Dylans voice screamed loud enough for Syd, Michaela and I to all grunt in response. 

"Why are you waking up this early!" grunted Syd. 

"We all have to attend the early bird practice." she said it like it was no big deal to be up this early. "So get up!" she yelled once more. 

I rolled back over for a second before getting up. I was the first one to get to the bathroom and change in a t-shrit and my spandex. Looking back into the mirror, I splashed water on my face to wake myself up a little more before putting my hair up. 

"I hate how you can actually function this early in the morning Dylan." I laughed sitting on my bed to wait for the other girls. 

Another ten minutes later and we were out the dorm buidling and on our way to the gym. Walking inside, it was as if more of the campers were in here. We sat down and waited before we are told what to do. 

Luckily we do more stretches and slow workouts more because tonight being intensity night. Then the last half our we got to scrimmage one another and it was a blast. Maybe I'll start coming to these early morning practies more often. 

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I thought I'd give a chapter just all to Jessica.....well how'd I do???? 

And if you went to any NBC camps, you'd understand my reference to Intensity Night, which is actually a real thing. Going to the NBC camp, we literally stayed in our team and rotated to different hard core workouts for about two hours. I'll go more detail to when that chapter comes up. 

But finally uploaded a new chapter!!! Sorry lovelies its been forever, don't hate me!(: 

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