Bring it back

Chapter 8 (Play: Feathers by Domenik Kalinsky)

Kobe

Holy shit.

I can't believe I just kissed her. I made my way out of the pool area as fast as I could, not daring to look back.

Tumakbo ako para mahabol si Marco as he was a little distance ahead of me.

"Did you just-" umpisa niya kaya pinutol ko na.

"Oo. Keep walking please." sabi ko dragging him to my dorm.

We went our separate ways to get ready for whatever it was Coach had planned for us.

As soon as I got into the room I took a shower to wash all of the chlorine off. Getting out, I went to my dresser and picked out a pair of black joggers, a white Billionaires Boys Club T shirt, socks and Adidas runs.

Once I stepped out of my room Noah informed me that it was time to go. We went out to my car and followed the address Coach had given us.

"You good Kobe?" Noah snapped me out of my thoughts.

"Yeah, I'm good. I did something pretty crazy today though."

"Oh no! What did you do?"

"I kissed Cristine."

His mouth dropped as he turned to look at me.

"Bro! You just met her."

"I know! It was a reaction." I tried to explain.

"A reaction is hitting somebody when they scare you. A reaction is getting out of the way of a moving car. That, my guy, is not a reaction." he thought about it for a while before something seemed to click.

He gasped.

"You caught feelings!"

"Oh my God. I don't even know why I told you."

"Because you had to. I'm your bro bro remember?" sabi niya sabay tawa.

Eventually we pulled up to the venue. Curious.. akala ko ba practice? But we were at a go kart park.

It seemed like we were among the last people to get there because just about everyone on the team was sitting outside of the gate goofing around.

"Hey lover boy!" Ricci yelled para lahat sila magtinginan sa akin. Everyone then started making kissing faces at me. I locked eyes with Marco and mouthed 'I hate you'.

This went on the entire night. I can't count how many times I stuck my middle finger up at them.

We ran at least ten races, me being the overall winner, of course.

Coach was in an exceptionally good mood today and decided he was going to take us out to eat after the park. He ended up taking us to a really good steakhouse not far from the go kart part.

We ate and talked trash the whole dinner. Mainly about basketball but then they just had to bring up girls.

"Kobe got all the girls, I'm ready for the season to start up so I can get my count up." Bright said.

"If you ain't get them now, you ain't never gonna get them." Ricci informed him.

"Right. See, what they do is, they look you up before the season. Then they get you all caught up. Then, when your start popping it'll look like they've been with you from the beginning." Marco added as he took a huge bite out of his food. That's facts.

"I've got so many 'hey big head' texts from high school and freshmen flings that its almost sad now." Juan said shaking his head.

Pio looked to be really into it, definitely taking notes.