ABBY
My palms are sweaty, my armpits are sweaty and even my thighs are sweaty. I continuously wipe my hands on my shirt then pinch out the cloth sticking to my underarms and pull out my shorts from in-between my thighs.
If uncomfortable was a human, I would be it.
A presence comes behind me so I tense, "Why do you look so tense?", he asks and I move away holding my elbow tightly. His eyes flicker there.
"I'm here", he says, pulling my arm down.
"Are you?", I ask, moving further away.
His confident smile drops and he's with a more solemn look now.
"Look I know you're still upset about the whole-", he starts but coach abruptly interjects his words.
"I see we all have ourselves in groups now..", he trails, looking around at all the groups. "It's a shame you thought this was going to be easy", he continues and I fear he's talking to me again.
"Asher your group has only one girl", coach points out and he carelessly shrugs.
Coach turns to the other groups and his eyes wander. I'm about to piss in my pants when his eyes land on me.. holy butt cheeks.
"Flenory", he calls out and I think I'm gonna have a seizure. I look at Asher and he seems fine because he doesn't know who they called yet.
I turn to Noah and his with an unreadable look on his face. He turns to me and before he can utter a word coach is calling on me again.
"Flenory, go to Asher's team and Zeke switch with Amber", coach orders and as Asher desperately searches for who his new teammates are, I desperately find it hard to move.
I can't go to Asher's team, he hates me. My heart beats fast, skipping a beat once or twice. I hold on to my chest.
"Princess", his voice snaps me out of my oncoming panic attack. "It's okay, I'm here", he says then pats my hair down soothingly and it calms me down.
"Flenory!", coach yells so I look up and Asher's eyes finally meets mine.
His face morphs into an angry one, "Oh hell no", he says to everyone's hearing and there's a loud laughter emitting from the court. I swallow a bile rising up my throat as I walk to my new teammates and for some reason people seem to find it funny and there's another laughter again.
I try to fight the tears circling around my eyeballs, threatening to fall.
I don't want to be here anymore.
I look up and unfortunately my movement causes a tear to fall down my cheeks. Just as I wipe it Noah sees me and I watch his brows bend furiously in anger.
Coach continues to switch people and when he's satisfied with the results he blows his whistle to grab our attention. "Okay, I've given every group leader a letter to signify their team names",
"So the first teams to go on are team A and team B", he says and people look around for who they are.
"Group A", Asher calls out and I almost died. We're first?!.
"Group B", I turn to see Noah walking forward and if I almost died.. I'm dead. We're not only first but we're competing against Noah's team!. Aw c'mon, has the universe not seen enough agony.
"Now three balls each, you know the rules.. any team that defaults will be out with a bad grade", coach says and I look at Asher who was calling the other teammates together.
I walk up to them, "Okay guys when the whistle gets blown we'll take this formation", Asher says.
"I'll be the frontier, Zack and Lucas you guys will be right behind while Sofie and Amber stay close by", Asher says then looks at me, "Get hit and get lost, we're already five with you in it anyway".
He brushes pass me and so does the other teammates. I stop Amber.
"I.. I'm sorry about your nose", I say noticing the little band aid across her nose.
"Sure, it was just a small cut anyway", she says with a small smile then walks away.
I sigh. I can't do as Asher says. I need to get my grade up.
Coach brings the whistle to his lips and I gulp. He blows it and the game starts. Everyone takes position just as Asher ordered. Except me though cause he didn't exactly give me a position.
Team B gets the head with Noah aiming straight for Zack. He doesn't get a chance to dodge so it hits him in the arm.
"You're out", coach yells and Zack groans walking out.
Sofie throws the ball and unfortunately it bounces on the court so it doesn't count when it touches one of team B's players.
Asher hisses to it and tosses the ball at Noah. Noah swiftly dodges, glaring at him and he returns it, also glaring at Noah. Did they have a beef before this? cause the stare is intense.
Lucas tosses a ball at team B and it hits a girl in the arm.
"You're out", Coach yells and I wince.
Right now we don't have any balls so we're just standing, well I wasn't exactly moving but you know.
Asher grits his teeth as Noah smirks. All team B members have balls in their hands now while team A has fear in their eyes. Well not Asher though, the guy just has anger.
A girl from team B throws the ball at Sofie and she succeeds in getting her hit. Amber quickly picks the ball and tosses it back hitting the girl who threw it. Ooh, never knew she was such a sport person.. well she is a cheerleader so I guess it also applies.
"Your out and your out", coach yells like we're not aware. Dude needs to take a chill pill.
No balls in our side once again so team B is well armored. They simultaneously take a stance, stretching their hands behind. Yup, we're dead.
They all strike at the same time and while everyone's trying to dodge, I stay put in fear but surprisingly no ball is directed at me, instead they're all directed at the other teammates.
I look up in shock, my eyes meeting Noah's and I see the look in his eyes from earlier. I'm here.
Everyone manages to dodge the balls and I notice Asher looking towards me.
He looks shocked to see me still in the game, "How the hell is she still here?", he nearly yells. I also have no idea either.
"Watch out", Lucas yells so we look ahead to see Noah tossing a ball towards Asher. Asher quickly picks up a ball and blocks the attack.
The force pushes him back a little.
"Fuck", he lowly curses.
Lucas grabs a ball from the floor and tosses it and it hits a guy on the other team. Asher tosses his as well and it hits a girl.
Right now Noah's team is down to just two players, himself and the first guy who objected me being on the team, while we still have four on our team, well if I'm to be counted as one that is.
I bite down on my lip. I need to do something. I have to get my grade up or else I'm heading to that study camp and I can't imagine running laps there because this is gonna be the only subject I fail.
I pick a ball and the first thing I see is Noah's eyebrow raised at me. Probably wondering what the heck I'm doing.
I can do this, I just need to focus. I take a deep breath and with all my strength, I toss. Everyone watches it, even team B pauses to see where it'll land.
As my ball soars through the air, the whole court goes silent and when it falls on the floor and rolls down to the feet of team B, it becomes loud with laughter.
At this point I wish I'd get swallowed up by the court and probably go die of shame in a dark deep abyss.
Asher face palms while Lucas chuckles and everyone's attention seems to move away from the game but not team B's.
With the corner of my eye I see the guy from team B preparing to toss a ball with his eyes focused on.. Amber!. Oh no, if this lands on her face it's gonna look really bad.
I can't just watch this happen.. I can't let it happen.
As the ball moves in full speed towards Amber, I rush to her and when she sees me running to her she raises a brow.
"Watch out", I yell then push her out of the way and the moment I turn I'm met face first with the ball.
As it collides with my face there's a loud pang noise and then a thud as I land on the floor.
Hollowed voices, that's all I hear as my vision gets blurry. A distinct call of the word princess stands out from the distant noise around and his handsome face starts to come in view.
His lips calling my name are the first things my eyes witness before his brown beautiful eyes then his well chiseled jawline and structured nose.. who is this Greek god the universe has bestowed upon me?.
"Princess? Abby?, are you alright?", he asks.
"Zeus?",
"What?", he asks in confusion then in shock says, "Fuck you're bleeding".
The last thing I see is a panicking Zeus before everything goes pitch black.