International/ Payton Moormeier

8.

The next day I woke up with a good mood. I didn't care much do anything anymore. Vanessa had to give me a ride in the morning and she did, thankfully. So here I am slowly walking to my sport class. I chose team sports and I can't wait to see what it's like.

Yesterday evening Payton and I were watching series till Vanessa came back. As soon as we heard someone's car parking I insisted on Payton leaving the room, because no one could see us. Moreover, I told him to keep it a secret. At first he didn't even realise why would we need to keep it a secret. So I obviously had to explain it.

"Okay, Payton. No one can see us together especially like that. I don't even have friends here but it's not what matters. I told you before, I don't hang out with boys. And I don't want anyone to know that we hanged out. At all. We can talk in public it's not a problem. But nothing too personal. Nothing private."

"I mean, I'm still waiting for the moment when you gonna call me the man of your dreams, cause I am." He complains, but I just breath out loudly. It's even funny.

"Do you understand me?" I ask him and he nods. "You won't tell anyone, right? I don't wanna people get involved in my life"

"I honestly, don't really see your point, but fine. I'm not gonna tell anyone."

"Good" I reply as Payton slowly walks to the doorway.

"I'll see you at school." He says.

"Yeah, bye" I gave him a short response and quickly close the door, hurrying him out of my room.

I mean, the time that we had wasn't that bad. The serial was funny, Payton even made some jokes but it wasn't annoying either. Moreover, when he had to leave, he insisted on me having the rest of the snacks. I mean, it's a huge plus. So I don't complain at all, though.

After changing in my sport clothing which is black sweatpants, a t-shirt and running shoes I got to know some of the girls. One of the sweetest was Mack she told me that she's into team sports as well. We talked a bit while we were walking to the gym and I told her that I used to play football (soccer) a lot and I'd love to play some here. She said that I can try and get into the team during this lesson when we gonna play football. Moreover, she said, that she is already in the team.

Of course I was shocked. I didn't expect everything to happen that fast and that I'm gonna try and get into the team today. So being half elicited and half anxious I walked into the gym.

"Wow" slipped through my mouth.

I've never seen such a huge gym. It looked so modern and cool. I mean, you should've seen the gym in my school and you'd be shocked at how terrible it looks.

"In line everyone!" A coach commands and I hurry to do what I'm told. Feeling extremely awkward around unknown people I felt a little bit better when Mack stood close to me, thankfully we were almost the same heigh. "Good morning class" he greets.

"Good morning, Mr. Willson" everyone replies at once while I make a mental note not to forget his name.

"Okay, so for today." the teacher started "You're running 3 circles around the gym, then Travis gonna help you with warm-ups, right Travis?" The teacher asked in a teasing tone and I guess, this Travis is one of his "favourite" students.

"Right, Mr.Willson" a dark skinned tall guy breathes out.

"Great, Travis. Then we gonna play some football. And-" the teacher looks down at his wristband "one, two, three. Run, run, run!" He exclaims and everyone started running.

Just to be honest, I'll say that I'm not a huge fan of running, but when you run in the game it goes almost unnoticeable, because you're to caught up. While we were running something in another corner of the gym and to be exact in the place where it connects to another room caught my eye.