"someone just shoot me now please, it will save me the pain of facing my mother," I say to the people around us.
"She'll understand what's been going on Speedy," Rachel says trying to comfort me as we sit on the bus back to the hotel
"Rachel, you're the one person here to have met my mother, you know full well it's not going to be okay," I say glaring at her only to get a sheepish look back
"We'll all be there to back you up and try to explain the situation," Jill tells me
"One look off my mom and this whole team will run away, trust me, she gets this full-on mother hen look about her" I explain cowering at the thought of it
The girls all leave me at that noticing that no matter what they say to try and calm me down it's not going to work because I know what Alex Morgan can get like and it's not a pretty sight.
So thinking I don't have much else to lose I take my phone out and finally turn the thing on. It's flooded with thousands of notifications and I let it do it's a thing until I can finally tap the screen without it glitching on me.
I ignore all the messages for now but cringe when I see over 30 from mom and 26 missed calls. I go to Auntie Ash's contact and call her knowing that she'll be pissed to starts but will get over herself pretty quick.
"Kate! Is that you!" Ash shouts down the phone
"Yeah it's me Auntie Ash," I say sheepishly
"Kate Harper Grant Morgan you gave us all a heart attack!" She scolds me
"I know! And I'm really sorry that I turned my phone off when it all happened and didn't think about the consequences" I explain hoping it will be a good enough reason
"You had your mom worried sick! Hell, you had us all worried, do you know how many people we called trying to get in contact with you?" She continues to shout and at this point, the people around me are looking to me apologetically as I sink further into my seat
"A lot I'm guessing," I say
"Yes Kate a lot! We even got Carli to call Steph but she wouldn't pick up either" She says making me cringe at the telling off Carli is going to give me too
"We all turned our phones off last night because of the messages the team was getting from everyone Ash, we didn't mean to worry you guys it just got to much," I say and heat her least out a deep sigh on the other end
"I know kiddo, the video was very well said by the way and I'm proud of you for opening up like that you just sent us all into early retirement over here," She tells me and we both chuckled at that
"Is mom mad? Why'd I even ask that of course, she's mad" I ramble out
"She's not mad Kate she's just worried about you, we all watched the game and heard what the press were saying afterwards, she just wants to know you're okay and then you released the video and disappeared on us," Ash tells me
"and I regret doing that big-time now but you know that's how I handle stuff, I like to shut off from the world until I can get my head around things," I say to her hoping she'll get where I'm coming from
"I know kiddo but you can't do that anymore, you're got family who cares about you deeply" She replies and I let my eyes close slightly at that
"Look Kate, you can't go back and change it now but just let your mom rant and shout at you a little, she'll stop soon enough but she needs to get all her feelings out first," Ash tells me and I nod my head but realise she can't see me so I managed to muster out a couple words
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Becoming A Lioness
FanfictionAfter Kate received a call that shattered her dreams of playing alongside her heroes, and for the country she grew up in, she knew the only way to achieve her goal of playing in a World Cup was to choose a different route. Follow Kate adjusting to t...
