Playing The Game
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Complete, First published May 29, 2015
determinationdramaex-cheerleaderfootballgirlhardshiphighschoolmean-girlsreal-lifeself-recoverysexistsouthteenteen-fiction-drama
Not every blonde is stupid.
   In the South if you're a beautiful, blonde, blue-eyed girl high expectations are made.
     Either you're not extremely smart, so you find yourself a suitable husband to take care of you.
Or you are smart and you just pretend to be dumb so you find yourself a suitable husband to take care of you. 

     All her life Avery Skinner has been told what to do and how to do it- by everyone.
By her mother, the girls she calls friends, the guys in school, teachers, family, even Mark the mailman. 

     Needless to say, she's sick of it.

     Its time Avery took control of her life or at least get a firm grip on the sucker.
     She's loved football ever since she was a little girl. Yet she could never play because ladies aren't supposed to do such barbaric things. Especially in the South- unless its a rodeo and you're wearing those ridiculously tight outfits that show you're navel or showing you can hold your liquor.

     Avery has longed to be on the field, throwing the ball instead of cheering on the team her dad coaches that can't seem to win.
     Then her best friend Austin forces Avery to and for sometime everyone is fooled.
     But the truth can only be hidden for so long.
     The moment the townsfolk of Stonehenge, Alabama learned it was a girl under that helmet, was the moment true colors showed.

     It hasn't been easy and it won't get any better but Avery is here to play.
*
     Avery is going to face REAL life problems, and not nice people.
     She's going to deal with sexual harassment, mean words, rude people, pregnancy, injuries, steroids, etc..
     In this story I want to exemplify how sexist and cruel humans can be.
     There will be hard moments, but I want to put it out there because it IS a serious problem.
     Harsh language and such will be present.
     You have been warned, don't read it then complain. 'Kay

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I feel his dirty hands touch me once more and move up higher to my thighs. I try to jerk them away but he locks my arms in his hand above my head as a thousand hot tears leave my eyes. No...no...please... I shut my eyes, not wanting to see this face another time. I shudder in disgust as he brings his lips to my neck and starts kissing me. Suddenly, I hear a groan of pain and I get free of his disgusting hands. I don't feel him on me but I don't dare to open my eyes. Another moan is heard again and a punch. I open my eyes and see him kneeling and bleeding. I watch at the boy who saved me and he hits him hard as more blood floods from his lips and nose. It's so dark and my tears don't allow me to see my angel. My savior moves as his fist connects with his face and my angel's hair glow under the moonlight and I stop breathing. Corbyn? The boy falls to the ground unconscious as Corbyn hits him in the jaw for the tenth time. His eyes move to my glossy ones and without any thought, he comes to me and wraps his arms around my body tightly. And just like that, I start crying harder as I bury my head in his neck and tug hard in this shirt. He doesn't say a word, he just pulls me closer to him and leaves me to surrender to this cathartic cry that overwhelms me. My brain stops working and the only word that exists is 'save'. I open my mouth and after so many weeks, the first words that slip my lips between cries and sobs are "You...you saved me" ----- Amelia is a young girl with a simple life and plans for her bright future. After her parent's death, everything she thought she knew will alter. But actually, all that is about to change when a blonde annoying boy will come into her life and break everything she believed into pieces. And who knows even save her and himself...

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