Emma's POV
"You okay?" Ali asks.
"I feel like I haven't had a break since Jessie got pregnant." I admit. "A week later we had the November friendlies, we had appointments for the babies, then we had your wedding. We then had training camp before the Olympic Qualifying tournament, then we had the Olympic Qualifying tournament, and now we have SheBelieves."
"It has been a hell of a schedule." Ali says. "But you're use to this so what's really wrong?"
"I missed one of Jessie's appointment again." I say.
"Oh Emma." Ali says then she hugs me.
"Jessie says she's not mad, but I still feel like shit for missing an appointment." I say as we pull up to Red Bull Arena.
We're playing Spain today in the second game of SheBelieves and I'm starting in goal.
"Do you think she's mad and just not saying it or is she's truly not mad?" Ali asks as the bus stops.
"I know she's not mad." I say.
"Then you have nothing to worry about." Ali says then I follow her off the bus and to the locker room.
As I walk to the locker room I look over the line up for today's game.
21-Emma Harris
14-Emily Sonnett
7-Abby Dahlkemper
4-Becky Sauerbrunn
19-Crystal Dunn (C)
8-Julie Johnston
16-Rose Lavelle
3-Sam Mewis
13-Lynn Williams
10-Carli Lloyd
15-Megan Rapinoe
When I walk into the locker room I I take my AirPods out, take out my nose ring, take off my necklaces and my rings, then I put my jewelry and AirPods in my bag.
Once I'm jewelry free I put on my short sleeve yellow undershirt, my warm up top, then I put on my game shorts. I then sit down in my locker, put my long long curly brown hair up in a ponytail, put on my socks and put on my black and gold boots.
After my boots are on I tape my wrists, hands, and fingers then I put on my black and white keeper gloves before I head onto the field with the other keepers.
When I get on the pitch I run through my warm ups with the keepers for a while then head back to the locker room.
Once in the locker room I change out of the training top and change into my yellow keeper jersey while the coaches do their last minute talks.
After the last minute talks are over we are told to head to the tunnel so I grab my towel and water bottle then I head to the front of the line in the tunnel and stand behind Crystal .
Today's Crystal's 100th cap celebration.
Minutes later we are told to head out onto the field for the prematch stuff so I follow Crystal out. Once on the pitch we do all the prematch stuff.
Once the anthems are done, we shake hands with the Spanish and the refs, take a starting XI photo, then we do our team huddle. After our team huddle is done I jog to my net, put my water bottle on the outside of the net, hang my towel on the net, then I wait for the game to kick off.
"90 minutes." I mumble. "90 minutes then I can talk to Jessie."
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"Look at you." Christen says as she hugs me. "3 Caps and 3 wins."
We Beat Spain 1-0 with Julie scoring in the 87th minute.
I only had to make 3 saves the whole game, but the game was tense as hell.
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Serendipity
FanfictionIn Emma's 21 years of living she has been to hell and back. She relies on a handful of people to keep her going. When one of them breaks her who will be there to pick up the pieces?
