Shy | Park Woojin

Forty

SOHYE

It's almost our volleyball game at kinakabahan na ako. I don't know why. Our coach trained us for this competition but i don't know why I'm suddenly nervous.

"Sohye, are you okay?" It's Jessie. Isa siya sa teammate ko. Napansin niya siguro na kanina pa ako palakad-lakad kasi hindi ako mapakali sa isang pwesto.

"I-I don't know." I said. She looks worried kasi ngayon lang naman ako naging ganito sa mga competition namin eh.

"Drink water, Sohye. Eat something. Chocolate gusto mo?" She asked me. Nagtaka ako kasi kakachat lang yon sakin ni Woojin kaninang umaga.

Alam ba ni Woojin na may laban ako ngayon at pinaalalahanan niya yung mga teammates ko para sakin?

Hays, ayoko umasa.

Pero yung chocolate na inaalok ni Jessie ay kagaya nung chocolate na binigay ni Woojin sakin nung isang araw.

"S-Sige. I'll have one bar of this chocolate." I said and she smiled as soon as I ate one of it.

"Okay, good. May tubig doon sa bench. Uminom ka after. Saka kalma ka lang. Madami namang magsusupport sa atin mamaya eh." Jessie said before eating the chocolate she have.

I just casually smiled at her "I'll try to keep calm."

Tumango naman siya sakin bago siya pumunta sa may bench.

I sighed.

Hindi ko rin kasi maintindihan bakit ba ako kinakabahan. May mangyayari bang masama sakin ngayon?

Wag naman sana.

"Okay team! Let's gather!" tawag sa amin ng coach namin kaya pumunta agad ako sa pwesto nila.

Sinabihan lang kami ng coach namin kung anong strategy ang gagawin namin mamaya. Kasama rin ako sa first six kaya siguro kinakabahan ako.

After kami i-brief ng coach namin nagulat ako nang tawagin niya ako.

"Kim Sohye."

"Yes, po?" I asked her.

"Don't be nervous, okay?"

I just smiled "I will not be nervous po mamaya coach."

She just casually tapped my shoulder "Good to know. Okay, upo ka na muna sa bench."

"Okay po."

•••

It's already 1pm and our match with the other course is now starting. Kasama ako sa first six kaya medyo kinakabahan ako pero I just closed my eyes and prayed a little for me to be able to calm a bit.

"Sohye, okay ka na?" Jessie asked after I opened my eyes.

"Yeah. I think I'm good now." I assured her.

She smiled and nodded "That's good. Let's get it on."

I nodded.

I will do my best for today's match.

When the game officially started, we're in lead and I'm happy about it because we really need to win this year's competition since we need to secure our title we earned last year.

I'm also happy because I wasn't feeling nervous anymore. I don't know but when the game started I just felt that there's someone who's supporting me at the gymnasium today. Maybe it's Kuya Donghyun. I told him to watch our game today. I hope he's here, he didn't texted me so I have no idea if he's here or not.

Game 1 ended smoothly with the score of 25-22. We won by 3 points and now we need to change court with the other team. Our coach gathered us for a team meeting and then the second game started again.