Love and Football // c.h

Erin

7:30pm, and theres around 800 kids from school watching tonights football game. "Come on  23! Eyes on the ball!" My bestfriend shouted, throwing her hands in the air, nearly knocking out a guy stood beside her. "Shit i'm really sorry, i mean 23 needs to keep his eyes on the game and not on us watching." She said to the guy still throwing her hands about. 

"Stand still Cleo." I huffed nudging her. I hate coming to football games with her, i get into it but she gets way too into it. 23 was only looking over here because someone had shouted once it had all gone quiet, but a player from the other team took him out and got the point.  "How can i stand still when he just lost us a point!" She shouted to me over the noise of the crowd. "You can't be serious not 20 minutes ago you were going on about how cute he is, blonde hair and all that, now you look like you want to strangle him." I said lauging. "Shut up Erin." She huffed turning back to the game and crossing her arms. 

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"I still can't belive they actually won, after how shit they played!" Cleo walked out of the football field gates, grabbing her hair and pulling it back so it laid down her back. "I know, its insane, i mean 23 really picked up after the second quarter." I said tightening my flannel around my waist. "Are you parents home?" Cleo asked now searching around in her bag for something. "No they're at some hotel for the next couple of days for their anniversary." I answered, knowing Cleo she's going to use this as an excuse for something. "So theres a party, like right now, i got a text from Angie half way through the game, its at 23's house, and she said we can get on the palyers bus to his." Cleo said a slight smirk playing on her lips. Knew it.

"So this is why you turned the corner to take the long way home." I said shaking my head. "We don't even know the team really, the only one we ever speak to is Ashley, and thats because he's your cousin." I muttered as i heard the chants from the boys get louder. "Come on, apparently not that many people are even going because he's like some goodie two shoes and his parents said the team and a few friends only." How could she know all of this if she'd only gotten the text off Angie? I never saw her call anyone. 

"I'm not exactly dressed for a party." I groaned rolling my eyes. Shorts, a red and black flannel and a white t-shirt. Proper party attire. "Shut up, you look fine. Anyway there's Angie." I looked over at the grooup of like 10 girls i knew from school, they're not the popular, stuck up bitches, they're the calmer actually quite nice half of the popular cheerleaders. "Hey you two! I thought i'd invite you guys since its been ages since we all got a chance to hang out!" Angie and Kayla smiled at us, me and Cleo were cheerleaders at one point. 

Yeah. Us. Me a cheerleader. But because of my grades, i made the decision that i was going to quit to focus on them, and hopefully if they picked up within the year i was going to join the team. Cleo on the other hand got kicked off the team because she's an idiot and never turned up to practice. When we were cheerleaders, we never really got to know the football team, it wasn't really our thing i guess we're just different to most of the girls at school. 

Before i knew it, Cleo was dragging me onto the players bus and was already drooling over number 23, weirdly enough they'd all had showers already but had shirts on with their jersey number on. And just as before Cleo was nudging me into a seat and going on about player 23. "You talking about Luke?" Sophia said nudging her face between the seats to talk to Cleo and I. "Is that his name? Luke?" Cleo said all too fast making Sophia laugh. "Yeah he's pretty cool." She said removing her face from between the seats leaving Cleo and i to talk again. 

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The bus ride was full of shouting and chants from the boys, Cleo ended up getting shouted to the back of the bus by Sophia, who had moved to sit with her boyfriend. Last time i looked Cleo looked pretty happy sitting next to 23 aka Luke. We all piled off the bus and outside of a house, i tighedened the flannel around my waist and watched everyone talk until i found Cleo and Luke. 

"Erin! This is Luke and Luke this is my bestfriend Erin." Cleo said introducing us quickly. "Hey" I said giving him a small wave, he said hey back but got interrupted when he tried carrying on the conversation by a curly haired boy and another with dark hair and tanned skin. "Mate are we going in the basement?" The curly haired one asked. "Yeah, take my keys and just go in." Luke gave the curly haired boy his keys and the other just went with him. "Number 17 is Ashton and 11 is Calum." 17 Is Ashton and 11 is Calum, 23 is Luke. I can remember this right?

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Hey guys,

So basically i'm really going to take this story seriously. Its going to get completed, i was never committed to my other ones. But i promise i'm committed to this one. I thought it would be a good idea to do this over Christmas break because i can hopefully get a lot of chapters in before the new year starts and everything gets busy again.