Becoming Hers

18

*LEXI'S POV*
It was good to know that Steph wasn't mad at me anymore. I've missed her a lot but I've mostly just missed having a best friend. I know I have Gracie but it's not the same. I don't want to be her best friend, I want to mean so much more to her than that.

Then there's Caleb, yeah he's my best mate but he doesn't understand the things I used to talk to Steph about. It's just different.

I got a text, knocking me out of my trance.
'Hey it's Dani,
Caleb gave me your number.'

'Yo! Are you doing anything right now?' I texted back, in need of getting out of the house.

'No I'm not, why?' She replied a few seconds after.

'Can you meet me? I could do with some extra training' It was the only excuse I could think of to get her to meet me.

'Yeah sure! Meet at the track in the park'

'See you in a minute :)' I typed after I saved her contact into my phone.

***

"How did Caleb manage to persuade you to help me train?" I asked, two minuets into our run.

"He just asked," She replied.

"He didn't promise you sex did he?" She looked disgusted but not because of the thought of having sex with Caleb, more the fact that I thought she'd take him up on the offer.

"No, besides I generally play for the other team," She answered, smiling.

"So you're gay?" I smirked. I guess I should have realised that already, she has abs and wears SnapBacks.

"Yeah I am," she nodded and carried on running.

"Nice to know another gay person," I said when I caught up with her again.

"I suspected as much," Her smirking this time.

"Really?" I raised my eyebrows.

"You kind of have a vibe I guess,"
She mentioned before speeding up.

***

"Have you figured it out with that person yet?" I tugged at my ponytail, to tighten it slightly.

I didn't want to just come out and say 'are you gay?' Because that's fucking rude, besides, when I was in the closet and someone asked me that I lied. So I'm just hoping he trusts me enough to come out to me. It feels like he wants to but he's scared.

"Lexi, I can't. If I tell them they would hate me," He replied.

Recently Blake had been a lot less himself, he'd been quiet, which isn't rare for him but it was like he was emotionless and empty.

"How would you know?" I picked up the basketball from the stand.

"Because it will ruin our friendship," He answered truthfully.

"If your friendship with this person is strong then you will get around it," He squeezed his legs to his chest.

"How do you know that they don't feel the same way about you?" I asked him as I positioned my feet in the correct way.

"So I just tell them how I feel?"

"I guess so," I said.

My fingers were all correctly positioned on the ball and I was just about to aim for the rim. I concentrated on the balance, remembering everything that Dani had told me about shooting.