The bubble
Amari POV
It all started 3 years ago , The best day of my best friend and I were at at track meet . That was the first time we were scouted by a college coach in the 9th grade . Lilia my best friend was the first to freak out . The scout told us " yall are very talented young ladies" . In My head I was thinking about "really" because my 400m time was really trash and lilia was running miles in 6 minutes. We both look at each other surprised because we know this was a practice meet so we were practically jogging and still winning races. So the next day everyone was look at us as the popular kids but we were use to being in our own little bubble. It was always just the two of us. As the high school years went on we started getting more scholarships academic and track. Once we hit junior year i was running in the low 50's in my 400 and Lilia was running the mile faster than men in college. This is when we started getting alot of buzz on social media our dms were filled , we had to make private social media accounts just to try to live normal teenage lives. When track season came around everyone had their eyes on us and sadly we couldn't use the trick of telling them i was slow because everyone knew who we were.
So lets fast forward to the week of Lilia's and I commitment I was feeling kinda down, always had headaches, but that don't slow me down until i got in my room and drank a lot of gatorade. Every day that week me and Lilia were thinking of what we were gonna do to tell the school what college we were committing to. The Idea was we were gonna bring our dogs to school with t shirts on with our second choice. Then a big screen is gonna say "SIKE tricked ya" We are going to.... OREGON". Then we'll take off our jackets to show the oregon shirts and put on the hats . The whole school went wild that's when I got happy . I looked at Lilia she was crying tears of joy. You wouldn't know she was a crybaby unless you saw her really Happy. After that day there were reporters at our school the next 2 days and instead of learning we were talking to tens of hundreds of different people. Which got really over whelming . Lilia liked the attention. She was very honored to called the future of track. I heard that and got really scared because all of these what if's came to my head. I couldn't take the pressure . On Wednesday I had a panick attack while doing my second to last interview . I could see lilias face she looked really scared. They took me to the hospital. I was wondering why because most kids would have gone to the nurse. That's when it hit me I wasn't a normal girl anymore . Lilia laughed at me as I ask " why aren't I at the nurses ". The principle was even in the ambulance with us which was really weird cause I didn't even like the guy . Lilia was always my rock,she made me laugh when I was sad, she helped me break out of my shell.after I came from my hospital my room was decorated with get well soon. It was like I had come home from a big surgery and everyone started babying me.
