Wilder Dreams

Chapter 37

Today's Friday, also it's game day. We're in our locker rooms changing into our warm up gear.
We walk out of the locker room and into the field. I look around and the stadium is half way full. The thing about Portland, is that it's such a really nice place. A lot of fans here, everytime we play Home. They come and most of them have season tickets. I recognize a lot of faces. It's a great City to live in.

"Don't you love this energy!?" Tobin yells from 8 yards away from me. I'm on the ground stretching.

"Yeah! Makes me never want to leave Portland!" I yell back to her, earning a smile from her. She has such a cute smile. What the fuck. No Sage. No. I shake the thought off and go back to stretching. We start warm ups and I'm in Tobin's group. We start the drills.

After warm ups we head back inside. Coach Gives us a speech and what we need to do. All the usual stuff. We start changing into our gear. Someone starts playing music. We have 5 more mins. I'm just tuning into my zone. After my goals last match, Sam Kerr and I are tied. Today's the night to see who breaks it. We are playing SkyBlue.

We're playing a 4-3-3 , I'll be up front with Christine and Tobin. We stand in line, and we play the anthem. Christine walks up and shakes hands with the SkyBlue captain. We go into a huddle, and talk about what we are going to do in this match. We walk to the pitch and get in formation. We got the ball first. The ref blows the whistle and Christine passes the ball back to our defense. Sonnett passes it to Lindsey. Sam hot on her tail, making Lindsey pass it to Kling. Kling runs up the right flank and passes it to Tobin. She's surrounded by 2 defenders. She fakes a right and goes left and passes the ball back to Kling. Kling passes it to Raso. We start to push up along with defense. Christine makes a run towards the 18 yard box. Raso lofted up to Christine. She has SkyBlue defenders on her.

"Drop Christine, Drop!" I tell her as I get around Kelly. Christine passes it to me and it's just the goal keeper and me. I volley the ball over her and she's to slow and the ball goes in. Christine jumps on me, and I hug her. I high five the other girls. As I walk by Kelly, she gives me a smile.

"Next time, you aren't getting past me" Kelly tells me.

"Try me" I tell her walking back to my formation. I turn around and give her a wink. She just chuckles. It's going to be a good game, we've scored and it isn't even the 15th min yet.

We're in the 34th min. Sonnett fouls Sam. Earning SkyBlue a free kick. She kicks it over the wall of players, it was going into goal but Mykayla caught it. She throws it back to Kling. After a while no one scores. We've kept procession of the ball most of the time. I've tried cutting through Kelly but she's been aggressive. She's taken the ball from under me, I've fell twice. It wasn't called but that's okay. She's a good defender. If she wants to play that way. I'll give her my best. We go into half time.

"Kelly giving you a hard time?" Tobin asks me chuckling. I haven't noticed how adorable she looks when she smiles, with those pretty brown eyes. Fuck.. No.

"Yeah she is, but it's all good. She's just doing her job." I tell Tobin. She nods smiling. We sit in our cubbies, we have 4 cubbies between us. I'm #12 on this team. I drink some water, gotta keep hydration. I look at my knees and thighs. I have a couple bruises from when I landed on the turf. Coach Mark comes in and tells us we need to break through the defensive line. He tells Defense to lock it in. I zone out since he's talking to defenders directly. We head back out.

The ref blows the whistle and SkyBlue has the ball. Kelly has the ball, and she's tryna cut through as Tobin runs towards her. Kelly kicks it up crossing it Sam. She makes a run for it passing our defenders. When she's 1 on 1 with my sister, she fakes a right. Mykayla wasn't having it though, she didn't move. She kept her eye on the ball. Sam kicks it into upper 90, and Mykayla jumps up and punches it out. Maya Hayes heads into goal before my sister could recover. My sister gets back up, and I'm sure she's probably scolding herself in her head. She grabs the ball out of the net. I give a sad smile. She nods. I go back to my position.

In the 78th min. Kelly's got the ball, and she passes it to Rodriguez (not A-rod) but it was conceived from Lindsey, she runs down the middle and drops it to Tobin. She looks up to pass it to me. She drops to me. Kelly runs towards me, I fake a right and kick the ball between her legs with my right leg, I run around her and feel her hand on my stomach ushering me one way. I shake it off and I see Lindsey from the corner of my eye. I pull back and I kick it to her, and she kicks it straight in 10 yards from the box. I run to her and I hug her, I high five the others. After that goal, we had a few fouls, and 2 yellow cards. Kling received a yellow card, and Lindsey received one too. Ref blows the whistle indicating the games over. I walk over to a couple of Skyblue players near me and we shake hands. I see Sam, I walk to her as she shakes hands with Christine.

"Well If it isn't my favorite Aussie" I tell her, she turns around and gives me a smile

"I guess you're one of my favorite Americans" she tells me jokingly. I chuckle and she pulls me in for a hug.

"This competition we have going on, it ain't over. May the best woman win" she tells me giving me a cheekily smile.

"May the bet woman win" I tell her and we shake hands.

"Catch me!" I hear from behind me, and I was quickly jumped on by someone. Sam laughs

"Oh kells" Sam says in her Australian accent.

"Is it weird if I asked, if I could marry you voice?" I ask her jokingly. I just love Australian accents.

"No you weirdo" she tells me playfully pushing me

"You got plans tonight?" Kelly asks me as she puts her chin on my shoulder.

"I do but you can chill with Tobin and my sister" I tell her. Kelly gets off

"Your sister? Your sisters here?! Where is she?" Kelly asks me excitedly.

"Over there in her Keeper kit. She was the Goalkeeper today" I tell Kelly. Her eyes widen.

"Really? Well Dang, are all Wilder's skilled?" Sam asks me smiling.

"We're very very pretty too, in the Gene's man" I tell her laughing. Kelly pushes past me and runs to my sister. Making Sam and I laugh a little.

"You're welcome to come over and chill at my apartment. Everyone usually does it" I tell her offering to come. She nods

"I'll be there, I'm going go out of the limb here and say you're going on a date" she tells me as we walk towards the lockers.

"Ha indeed I am Sammy" I tell her smiling.

"She better be treating you right, or else she's got this aussie on her" she tells me jokingly.

"She's doing fine, she's great. Hows Niki?" I ask her. Sam and I know each other pretty well.

"She's great!, sad she didn't get to play. She hurt her knee last match. She's pulling through as always" Sam tells me, as we finally make it the lockers.

"I'm really glad she's doing great. She always pull though Kerr. I'll see you soon" I tell her as I walk to my locker room. I see my teammates all happy and laughing with each other. I see Tobin with her arm around Allie. I guess I started to long because Tobin and I make eye contact. She gives me a confused look. I realized I'm giving them a glare. I turn around blushing because I was caught. Ugh. I start to change out of my Kit and put on the outfit I'm wearing tonight. Alex told me to dress casually. Once I'm done, I out my gear in my bag. I walk out the locker room. Heading towards the exit leading to the parking lot.

"Sage wait!" I hear someone calling me, I turn around and I'm met with those creamy brown eyes.

"What's up tobs?" I tell her playing it cool.

"You okay?" She asks me worryingly. She puts her hand on my shoulder.

"I'm fine why?" I ask her. I'm fine just didnt like her being that way with Allie. Fuck I can't feel that way. No I can't.

"Just making sure, drive safely" she tells me, putting her arm back down. I give her a nod and I walk to my truck.