Spiked with Love

Spiked with Love 1

Body weak, dripping in sweat and my skin burning from the sun. My breath was heavy breathing into the hot summer air. I step up the the line ready to hit. As I take my steps I throw the ball up into the air and useas much momentum as possible to smack the ball right over the net.

My opponents quickly receive the ball and begin to set it up. First the bump. Set. Then spike. The spike was heading straight towards the ground till I pounced for it, scooping it up.

This point was very important. This point was our winning point. If we get this point we are moving to the semi-finals and are going to North Carolina to play other teams for the Beach Volleyball U.S Cup.

Finally the ball is tipped over the net flying down towards the other team. They easily popped it back up and they set it up again, spiking it back over to us. My partner, Kaliee receives it and sets me up for a spike. She sets it high up and far off to the right side. I had perfect visual of everything, like where my opponents were set up and where the ball was. Finally I take my running start into the spike. Plant, step, and I jump swing my arm around and hitting the ball perfectly over the net into the left side, planting it into the sand.

As I realized that the ball hit the sand, I went wild. Jumping up and down getting on my knees screaming. Kaliee runs over tome and picks me up screaming and bouncing everywhere. We both began to cry, we were so excited and determined to go the the semi-finals.

A little while after the game, a news anchor came up to me and began to ask me questions.

The anchor was a blonde hair women with shorts and a tank top on. "So Willow, I plan on seeing you and Kaliee in North Carolina soon. How do you feel about winning this match and how will this effect your upcoming match?"

"Well, I know that we are both super excited about the next game but now we know its not gonna be easy to beat these other teams. We're just going to have to work hard and train like crazy. No distractions."

"Okay, thank you for your time." She then turns toward the camera and says, "And that's Willow Campbell for you. Jeff back to you."

I thanked the news reporter then walked over to Kaliee who was also done with her interview.

"I can't believe it, can you?" She gushed, grabbing my arms and shaking me.

"I know, it feels like a dream, an amazing dream!"

I can't wait till school starts just so I can be really popular amongst the cool kids. I've never been on elf the cool kids not that I wanted to, just I didn't want to be known as the girl who isn't involved in any school activities. That's how devoted I am to volleyball.

"Let's go celebrate tonight! I heard Collin Masters is throwing a party. Everyone's invited."

Kaliee wanted the same as me, just to be known. That's why we both started playing beach volleyball in the first place. She always anted to be cool but she figured this is the best she could do, until we started the team, then she has much more hope.

"Okay fine. As long as I pick out your outfit because you have a horrible sense of style!" I confessed jokingly.

She immediately shock her head and hugged me.

In all honesty I had a bad feeling about this party. We both knew we had to train but I know we deserved a break and a reward.

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At seven Kaliee showed up at my door with only an over night bag and her huge smile. She knew that I was going to make her wear something of mine. My family was kinda rich and they buy me tons of clothes and shoes all the time.