Wilder Dreams

Chapter 32

It's been a week, my sister is rocking out her Portland Thorns shirt right now. I try paying Tobin for the Merch but she waved it off and told me it was fine. She's gotten closer to my sister. Mark is very impressed with my sister, that he can't wait until she's 17 to sign her. My sister and I had a long talk, even called my parents about it. She's decided to stay with me and finish school online and play for Portland. Right now we're getting prepared to go against Houston Dash, and unfortunately Alex got hurt in her game against Chicago. She flew in today. She'll be recovering here with me. I'm in the locker room, we're ready. Christine hurt herself during warm ups. So I'll be Center forward.

Lineups/ 4-1-2-3

Forwards: Sage Wilder, Tobin Heath, Hayley Raso

Midfielders: Allie Long, Lindsey Horan, Celeste Boureille

Defenders: Meghan Klingenberg, Emily Sonnett, Shade Pratt, and Mealina Shim

We walk out and we do the National anthem. We get the ball. I pass it to Sonnett. They ball is passed twice in the backline. Making it's way up. Lindsey passes me the ball, I run passing 2 defenders. I kick up to the right corner but Lydia was able to catch it. She throws it to Poliana, my old teammate.

In the 22nd min, Houston Dash scored. Carli scored. As I make a run, Tobin makes it to the corner and crosses it to me. I slid to the ground and my foot putted the ball in. It slid in. It all happened so fast, I didn't see Poliana on my side. She lost her balance and she put her weight on the cleat that just landed on my knee. Crap
A whistle is blown.
"Hey you okay?" I hear someone ask me. I have my eyes closed due to a sharp pain. I nod. I get up, dust myself off. The ref is talking to Poliana. My knee still hurts, man that's going to bruise later.

"Hey it's bleeding"  The A.T standing in front of me tells me. I nod because that means I have to step off the game for a while. I follow both A.Ts to the sidelines. I sit on the bench, and they start to clean the wound off. They put a gauze on it and wrap some tape around it. I go back in eventually. We're 1-1. No one scored, leading us into half time. Mark comes in telling us what we need to do. My sister walks into the locker rooms also, she sits by me as we all just try to rest and drink as much water.

"How's your knee?" She asks me with concern.
"I'm alright, I know it'll bruise later. Definitely going to do an ice bath" I tell her laughing, as I drink some water. The ATs come over and take off my gauze and out a new one on.
"Score a goal for me Sis" she tells me smiling.
"I'll try" I let it out with a chuckle.

"Hey you doing good" Tobin asks me putting her hand on my shoulder.

"Yeah I'm good" I tell her. As we make our way back out. We walk to the pitch and get in formation. We shifted into 4-5-1,  Dash gets the ball first.

In the 67th min, and Tobin was caught in Chapman's cleats. She falls, but the ref didn't call it. It's frustrating me. Dash is really keeping defense on lock. Lindsey kicks it to me. I look up and see Tobin making a run. I pass it to her and she kicks it into goal but Lydia dives and she touches it, and it goes to the side, Hayley gets to it and she passes her defender. She kicks it straight into the right lower corner into goal. Lydia was still recovering from the dive. I run to Hayley, and so does the others. In the 76th min, Dash got a corner. We all jump and Tobin headed it away but Moe got it and she kicked it right into goal. I'm proud of her but dang, we were in the lead.
Carli has the ball right now, and she passes it to Ohai, and she enters the 6yard box and kicks it into the goal only to hit Adriana in the face with her cleat. I run to the 18 yard box and the ref blows the whistle. We surround Adriana. Shes face down on ground. I grab her shoulder. The ATs come over and she lifts her head up. She's bleeding from her cheek bone. She gets up and they take her to the sidelines.