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"Harper" Alex calls.
"Yeah" I say turning around.
"We're going to go to the team dinner" she smiles.
"Okay" I say a bit hesitant.
"Start getting ready. We'll leave in 15"
I nod and close my door. First meeting her family, and now a team dinner? I don't know if this will go very well.
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"Hey" Alex smiles as we walk in.
"Hi Al" someone says hugging her.
"Now you must be Harper" she smiles.
"That's me" I say giving her a soft smile.
"I'm Crystal. It's nice to meet you"
"It's nice to meet you to"
Alex and Crystal talk for a bit, and then we go to sit down.
"Attention" Alex says standing up and hitting the fork against her glass. "So, I think that most of you know by now, but incase you don't this is my daughter Harper. I had her when I was 15, and now she's back with me. I hope that all of you can treat with hospitality and kindness" she says and sits down.
I give everyone a smile, but I notice that someone is glaring at me. She's brunette, with tan skin, and she's now whispering into another brunette's ear, but she's a lot more pale.
I try to ignore it, and carry on talking to Crystal who's sat next to me.
"I'm going to go to bathroom" I tell Crystal.
"Okay" she smiles back at me.
I get up and start walking to the bathroom. But when I open the door I see the brunette with tan skin dancing with a blonde.
"Excuse me" I say trying to get around them.
"Sorry" the blonde says and she moves out of the way.
I'm able to get past them, and I do my business, but stay in the stall since I hear them talking.
"She seems annoying" I hear the brunette whisper to the blonde.
"Don't jump to conclusions Mal"
"But like who other than our team shows up to our team dinners? It seems entitled. And it would only work for Alex's kid, since Alex is like the cover girl for our team"
"It's fine"
"It's just annoying Linds"
"Mal, let's just go back out there"
"Fine"
They walk out and start laughing as they close the door.
So far I don't feel very welcomed into this supposed "family."
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"Did you have fun Harps?" Alex asks.
"It was fine" I reply, looking out the car window.
"What made it not fun?"
"Well there's this girl. I think her name is Mal, but when I went to the bathroom she was saying that I seemed entitled and annoying"
"Oh Mal. I'll talk to her"
"Thanks"
"It might just be hard for her to warm up to you"
"I guess"
"We're here. Do you want me to walk you in?"
"I'll be okay. Bye"
"Bye Harper, love you" she says as I close the car door.
I walk up the stairs and then unlock our hotel room with my key. I go to my room and collapse onto the bed, I'm so tired.
"Hi Harper" Jen says opening my door.
"Hi"
"Are you going to bed?"
"Yeah"
"Okay. Goodnight"
"Night" I say as she closes the door.
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"Wake up"
"What?"
"You overslept Harper"
I open my eyes to see Jen standing over me.
"Sorry"
"It's okay. Just get ready though, we're leaving for lunch with Alex's family in 30 minutes"
"Okay"
"We'll just be going straight to the game after lunch"
I nod and Jen leaves.
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We go to lunch and everything is normal. It's still just Pam and Michael, since Jeni was dealing with a situation at work, but I didn't mind. It felt nice not to have to meet another person.
After awhile, we then leave for the game since it was starting soon. And once we arrived at the stadium, everything was again pretty normal.
"Go, go, go!" Pam yells as Alex dribbles the ball.
"Damn it" Michael says as the Japanese defender wins it.
"Go Christen!" Pam yells.
Christen crosses it into the box and Alex scores!
"Yay!" I scream and clap.
It was a strange goal though. I thought that you could only score with your feet in soccer.
The game then ends and unfortunately the score was 2-2. Japan scored a late goal, which was very annoying.
"Great job sweetie" Pam says as we meet up with Alex.
