Name of the Game

Chapter 4: His Towering Body

Since it was early in the morning, and it was a chilly crisp morning I didn't sweat a whole lot and I didn't stink, so I decided I didn't want to take a shower. I also didn't want to go to my truck, go inside and change, go back to my truck, and then back into the school so I just said screw it and decided to change in the truck. I climbed in the back and pulled my shirt off, threw it in my athletic bag, and put on my white t-shirt. I then slipped my shoes and leggings off, throwing my leggings in my bag, and slipped on my ripped skinny jeans. I put my shoes on and jumped out of the truck grabbing my deodorant out of my bag removing the cap when I looked over to see Harry leaning against the bed of the truck.
"Mmmm changing in your truck, that's an interesting choice," Harry said smirking as I rolled my eyes.
"Well, I didn't feel like going in and changing but maybe I should from now on to avoid perverts like you. Besides it probably wasn't the first time you've seen a girl half naked," I said starting to apply my deodorant. He was watching in such depth, when I had finished I held it where he could see the whole thing. "This is called de-odor-ent, it helps for you to not stink."
He looked down shaking his head, "I know what deodorant is."
"Are you sure? Because you kinda stink," I said with a half smile.
"You should know all about stinking, because of how you play football. You stink!" He said making my smile disappear and making my eyes roll again. I put on my denim jacket and grabbed my school bag locking my truck.
"What's your deal with me, hmmm? First you seem to like me, then you're a total dick to me, and THEN when you seem to like me again you  just have to return to being a dick. I don't care which way you act towards me, just let me know which one you'll be sticking to, so I know how to treat you. Also, get the hell off my truck!" I said walking off to go inside the school to meet Mitchie so we could go to first period together.
I found her by her locker placing some books in there, she noticed me and greeted me with a big smile.
"Hi!" She said all happy.
"Hey," I replied.
"How was your morning practice?"
"It was fine, just mainly warm ups and lectures from the coaches."
"Mmmm, when I was walking towards the school I saw Harry leaning against your truck talking to you. What did he want?"
"Oh he just reminded me that I don't belong on the team and he was just being a dick."
"Yeah he can be a major dick."
I nodded my head in agreement.
The warning bell rang so Michie closed her locker and we headed to our first period.

4 hours later

My first four classes were super easy today. We mainly listened to the teachers explain what would be happening the rest of that week and then we got to talk and be on our phones. Since school just started not a lot is happening this week.
It was finalllllly lunch, and I was so ready to eat. Cynthia and I were on our way to the lunch room to meet up with Beth, Mitchie, and Andrea. When we got there they were in line towards the front.
"Hey y'all," Cynthia said as we approached them. "Thanks for saving us a spot in line."
"Who said we were saving you spots?" Beth asked sarcastically.
"I did," Cynthia now making her way into the line.
"Come on Em I was saving you a spot, because she's actually nice," she said harshly looking at Cynthia. We all just started chuckling.
After we got our food we made our way out to where we ate yesterday.
"So Emma" Andrea started to say while sitting down. "How is football treating you? Is Lou being nice to you? Because if he's not then I'll whoop his ass!"
I just started chuckling. "Practice has been fine, we haven't done that much but we're going to start practicing plays after school. And your brother and his friends aren't the... warmest people I've ever met."
Andrea just started laughing. "Yeah I get that. He's not real nice and the football team is like a second family to him and your kinda asking to join his family so he's going to be rough at first but he'll end up liking you. Like who couldn't like you?? You're amazing!!"
"Harry" I muttered under my breath.
I just heard Mitchie start chuckling and I let out a puff and a half smile.
"Besidesssss I don't need their acceptance or approval, I think I'm pretty damn good and that's all that matters," I said giving a cheesy grin. "But enough about me, how's cheerleading practice going?"
"Well yesterday was just tryouts, today is our first real practice." Andrea replied.
"Yeah tryouts were good tho, and I'm looking forward to practice!" Cynthia added.
"Oh-oh I almost forgot, I've got some news that might excite Cynthia and Emma." Andrea said excitedly. Cynthia and I looked up from our food waiting for her news. "I had to switch up my schedule so I now have Photography with you guys 4th period!"
"Oh that's great!" I replied.
"We're gonna have so much fun!" Cynthia added.
"Yeah! We can go to each other's houses and be each other's models and just take a bunch of fun pictures! I legit can't wait!" Andrea said excitedly.
"I legit can't wait," I heard a British voice mocking Andrea. I then notice Louis coming over.
"Like omg, lol, brb, fyi, btw," Louis said trying to sound like a girl.
"Oh shut up Lou," Andrea said with a half smile.
"Mum just called and wanted me to tell you that she wants us to come home before our practices," Louis said typing on him phone.
"I was gonna come home anyway. But did she say why she wanted us to come home?" Andrea asked.
"Nope," Louis said walking away, back to his group.
"Nope," Andrea said mimicking Louis. She was also mimicking the way he was walking. I guess I was laughing pretty loud because I noticed that Harry was looking over. He had a neutral look, he curled his lip and shook his head back and forth and did a major eye roll looking away. I guess I got my answer from the question I asked earlier.
The warning bell rang signaling lunch had ended so we all got up and proceeded to our next classes.
My next three classes went by really fast. But now it was time for gym and I love and hate it at the same time. Today we got our uniforms so we would have to start exercising, which I didn't mind but I didn't want to have to interact with the members on the football team. They were quite ugly uniforms, it was baggy grey shorts that were cut off right above the knee, and a big red t-shirt with the letters 'RW' written on them. I tucked my shirt into my shorts and put my hair up into a high pony tail. I walked out with everyone else and we all took our seats. Then boys then started to come out of their changing room and my eyes immediately went to Harry. I don't know why my eyes went to him because everyone is wearing the same thing, he just looked... kinda special in it. I then snapped out of whatever I was in, rolled my eyes, and looked towards the teachers.
"Alright everyone, the next two weeks we will be getting to know your strengths and weaknesses. You're not graded on how well you do but on how well you try and improve. Now today we are just going to play a fun game of volleyball," Mr. Evans explained. We all nodded and got up and got into groups of six and then put our team names on the board. Of course the five of us were in a group plus a freshman girl named Patty. We called ourselves "The Fireballs". Of course the five boys and Chris were on a team and they called their team "Boys Rule", which in my opinion is a stupid and non unique name. Mr. Evans put us in face offs and of course we had to go up against the "Boys Rule" team. We were up first. So we each got into our positions and Chris served trying to slam it down right away but Cynthia recovered it and got it over the net. It went about mid court to where Zayn was and he set it and then Niall barely hit it over the net but once again Cynthia recovered it sending over to their side. This went on for a little while till it was coming towards me and I rounded up all the strength I had and hit that ball, spiking it as hard as I could sending it over the net. I watched Harry dive for it but he missed and we finally got a point. My team members all came up to me and gave me a high five, I watched Harry stand up slowly smoothing out his uniform never taking his eyes off of me. He was mad, real mad. But I couldn't care less. Andrea then took the ball and served it making it barely cross the net, the boys weren't expecting that so three of them dived and they all missed putting another point on the board for us. We all went to give Andrea a high five, we only had to score one more point to win the game. Andrea served once again and it went farther than last time and Louis hit it back over the net, Beth set it up while Cynthia spiked it. Louis once again recovered it, setting it up and then Liam sending it over the net. Where Mitchie set it up this time, then Cynthia set it up again. The boys were expecting her to spike it again so they all ran towards the net but she didn't spike it. Beth then took the liberty of spiking the ball over the net to the back of the court where it hit the ground giving us the final point to win. We all jumped up and down celebrating.
"Congratulations team Fireball you guys one and scored a point on the score board. Sorry Boys Rule you lost, but don't be too sad, they'll be a chance to redeem yourselves," Mr. Evans then went to the whiteboard and wrote a tally mark under our team's name. We all went out into the hallway to get a drink from the water fountain.
When we had finished up the boys made their way into the hallway.
"Well we creamed your asses," Andrea said to her brother laughing. "You guys couldn't get even one bloody point."
"Volleyball isn't my sport and you know that," Louis responded.
"Yeah, like I could cream each and every one of you at football, no questions asked," Harry added. I let out a laugh, and his eyes darted right towards me. "What's so funny?" He asked harshly.
I let out another laugh because he looked so serious. "You think you could cream us at football, that's just funny to me," he started to walk towards me. He stopped only inches in front of me making me have to tilt my head to look at him since he was so much taller than me. His towering body looking down at me, not making a movement, only his lungs inflating and deflating.
"I could cream YOU in my fucking sleep," he looked down at me with piercing eyes.
"Bring it." I simply replied.
"Be careful what you ask for because someone's going to get seriously hurt, and it's not going to be me." He said backing away from me. He got his drink along with the rest of the boys while the girls and I went inside to watch the other teams play. We sat against the bleachers watching the teams play.
I couldn't get what Harry had said out of my head, ...someone's going to get seriously hurt, and it's not going to be me. Would Harry really try to hurt me on purpose? I started to feel throbbing sensations on parts of my body and I held the back of my head, massaging it. I then sat up straight making the throbbing go away and put a serious look on my face. I was not going to let Harry get to me, he doesn't scare me. I've been through things he can't even imagine, I know pain, and he will not bring it apon me. He can't hurt me, no matter what he tries to do. I've felt all the pain I can feel for the rest of my life. We'll see what he has plans for for practice tho, we'll just have to wait and see of what he tries to do.

I'm so sorry for the long wait everyone. I've been terribly busy lately with school and after school activities. I hope you all like this chapter tho, let me know what you think in the comments and don't forget to vote!!😘