~CHAPTER 10~

*•*•*•You guessed it, Mr. Stubborn ass•*•*•*

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*Tiny note I don't know shit about soccer so if this isn't accurate to real life soccer, I'm so sorry*

After the party on Saturday night, Sunday went by fast and it's now Monday afternoon. I spent the whole Sunday playing soccer with Max and the boys.

After Max and Grey dared me to try out for the soccer team, I said yes, I'm never one to back down from a dare and that's why we spent Sunday sweating out our hangovers and playing a little bit of soccer. I don't want to be part of the team, but I'll complete the dare. I'm currently standing in the field talking with the coach, while all of the boys are standing behind him.

"So, you want to join our team."

"Nope." I say bluntly and he looks at me with wide eyes. I hear a snicker come from the back and when I look to see who it was, I was that it was Chase. "Oh, believe me when I say that I love soccer with my whole heart, but I don't really like the idea of the whole school knowing that I love it."

"Then why are you trying out for the team?"

"Because Twiddle Dumb and Twiddle Dumbass dared me too." I say pointing at Max and Grey.

"So, you're not taking this seriously?" The coach asks

"Yes, I am. I just don't want to join the team. Believe me, I kick ass at soccer, but I don't want to be in a team, I'm more of a keep-it-to-myself-but-still-plays-with-the-guys-sometimes kind of gal." I tell him and he shakes his head smiling

"If you're good, I'm not going to make you stay on the team, but I'll be a little disappointed that you didn't join. Even if it is an all-boys team." He turns around. "Okay boys, Christian, Edward, James, Max, Jacob and Daniel. Team blue." He looks at his clipboard and starts again. "Chase, Robert, Landon, Grey, Carlos and Maddie. Team red." Coach Rogers gives each of us a shirt in the color of our teams and we start the game. In halftime I see the girls sitting on the bleachers and I jog towards them.

"What are you girls doing here?" I said smiling

"Well darling, we heard from James and Carlos that you were trying out today and we came to support you." Liz gives me two thumbs up and smiles, I laughed at her excitement.

"Why are you trying out anyways? I thought you didn't want to." May asks

"I don't, but I got dared to do it when we were at the party on Saturday."

"Oh yeah, I heard about that. All the bitches from Alastair Hall were talking about it none stop on Sunday morning." May says, clearly annoyed with all of the girl.

"Yeah, a lot of the bitches from Alastair Hall were drunk when I got back from my amazing skinny dipping adventures. A couple of them were threatening me, but I think the rest were there to get shitfaced." I said. The Alastair Hall girls know how to party, but some of them go too far sometimes. Who gets that drunk on a Saturday night? Oh right me.

"Ooh I wanna hear about the ones that threatened you. Those are the bitches you better look out for." Liz says

"Okay, I'll tell you all about them once I'm done with the tryouts."

"I thought you didn't want to be on the team." May says once again.

"I don't, but this bitch is never one to back down from a dare. One time when I was back in Miami I got invited to this party. I was really drunk, and when drunk Maddie kicks in she's not one to say no. long story short, I was dared to jump off a roof and into the pool. I ended up with a hangover and a broken leg. Thank God my dad was a doctor." I smile at the memory and see that May and Lizzie were going to say something but got interrupted by coach blowing the whistle. "I'll talk to you guys when I'm done."

I go back to the field to finish the game. My team has one point left and we win. Coach told me that if we win, I will get into the team, but we both know that I'm not joining the team, and that I'm just doing this as an old-fashioned dare; that's it. When I get to the team and Chase is telling them what the play is.

"Okay, Maddie, you're going to pass the ball to Grey and Grey is going to keep going as far as he can while the rest of us try to keep the guys off of him. Grey's the fastest, so he can get the ball to the net easily. Maddie you wil-" Chase continues but I interrupt him

"I don't think we should pass it to Grey."

"What?"

"I've seen you guys play and yes, Grey is the fastest, but his kicks are too hard, he would just send the ball nowhere near the net. We would lose, and even if I'm not entering the team, I still want to win. Anyways, I believe that the one who's most likely to get the ball past the goalie and into the net would be Carlos. He has a hard kick, but not hard enough to send it spiraling outside." I pause and they give me the go ahead to keep talking.

"I think we should start with Chase passing the ball to Grey. They know all your strengths, so they would immediately go towards Grey because he's the fastest, but what they don't know is that Grey is going to pass the ball to Carlos, and they won't be expecting it because Carlos is a tiny dude so short legs, small strides. No offense." He shakes his head

"None taken." Carlos said.

"What they don't know is that Carlos will be passing the ball to me and running as fast as he can to the goal. Then I'll pass it back to him so he can make the goal. Boom. Instant win." They all agree with me except Chase. God, he's so fucking stubborn.

"Okay, so, as I was saying... Grey will start us off and we'll keep the others away from him as he runs to the goal as far as he can then shoot and boom. Instant win." He say that last part mocking me

We start off, and Grey had the ball. They started to go towards them, but he looks like he's trying to follow Chase's plan even though he really doesn't want to. He signals me and I nod. I signal for Carlos to be ready, and he when he is, Grey sends him the ball. He quickly gets crowded, so he sends me the ball, as planned, and goes running as fast as he can towards the goal. I dodge everybody and pass the ball back to Carlos; he quickly shoots it and scores. We start cheering except for Mr. Stubborn, Chase. Can't he just accept that I was right? Coach comes our way and is amazed by the play.

"Good job Maddie. That was an amazing play. And a good call on Carlos"

"How did you know?"

"The way Chase is sending a very nasty glare your way. I should probably stay and be the responsible coach, but I'm going to leave so I don't get caught up in the shit that's about to go down."

"Good game." I say to Max and Grey, the darers.

"Yeah."

"See you around guys." I start walking toward the girls but get stopped by Chase. I look up to see that he was mad. Damn he is very tall. "What do you want Giraffe?"

"What the hell was that?"

"What was what?"

"That you giving orders and telling everybody what to do." He's maaaad.

"I was just helping us win. You don't need to be an asshole about it."

"Yeah, well it's not your place telling them what to do." I was just trying to help. Why is he so pissed? Afraid a girl might take his place? Aww

"Yeah, because your plan helped us win... oh wait, that was my plan." I gave him a fake smile

"My plan was working." No, it wasn't.

"No, it wasn't or else he wouldn't have sent me the signal to help him out." I look behind him and see the girls waiting for me. "Now if you will excuse me my friends are waiting for me."

And with that said, I left with the girls, and we headed towards the dorms. We made it back and we started talking about random things like we always did, and May looks like there's something she want to ask but she doesn't.

"Hey what do you want to ask?" I ask her.

"It's nothing." She shrugs, but it clearly isn't nothing.

"Well, it's obviously something." I smile at her. "Hey, come on you can ask me anything."

"When we were on the field you said that your dad was a doctor. Did something happen?" I look away and feel tears building up in my eyes. "You don't have to answer if you don't want to."

"Thank you." We went back to talking about the girls that threatened me at the party.

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I feel pain all over my body. I try to move but I can't, I start to open my eyes and wake up in a very bright room. I look around and see Natasha sleeping on a chair next to my bed. I see machines on either side of my bed. I'm in the hospital.

"Nat. Nat." I shake her and she wakes up almost immediately.

"Oh, you're awake. Let me go get the doctor." She left the room and in less than a minute she came back with the doctor.

"Hello Maddison. How are you feeling?"

"In pain, but other than that I'm okay." I then remember. "Is dad okay?" Natasha looks like she is about to cry. She comes and sits next to me and grabs my hand.

"Sweetie, your dad was hurt very badly in the crash. Honey... he didn't make it. He had already passed when the paramedics got there."

"No, no, no." I feel tears at the brim of my eyes.

"I'm sorry Maddie." She hugs me while I cry into her shoulder.

"Why him?" I sob. Why dad? Why him...

...

I wake up. Damn it, these need to stop. I breathe heavily. I look to my left at my clock and see that its only 5:00 p.m.

After the girls left, I decided to take a nap so I could catch up on some needed sleep, but my dreams, more like nightmares, decided to be backstabbing bitches. I heard something move in the room. I look at the source of the sound, it was Chase. Of course, he's here to witness the train wreck that is me sleeping.

"Hey." I say my voice hoarse from sleeping.

"Hey, you were talking in your sleep again. I was about to wake you up, but you woke up on your own."

"Yeah, another nightmare." I pause when I see he was doing his homework. "Sorry if I interrupted your studying."

"It's okay. I was putting it off anyways." He chuckles. "Are you okay?"

"Yeah, these happen all the time you should know this you're my roommate." I laugh lightly

"Yeah."

"You're looking at me like that again."

"Like what."

"Like you looked at me on Saturday night. Like I'm broken"

"Sorry."

"It's okay. Just... please don't look at me like that."

"What are your nightmares about? If you don't mind me asking."

"I'm not really comfortable telling people yet. The only people who know are Sebastian and my stepmom."

"Hey, it's okay. I had nightmares for two years when I was little, and I didn't tell anyone what they were about, so I understand."

"Thank you." I smile at him

"No problem." He smiles and goes back to his homework, and I go back to bed.

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AUTHOR'S NOTE

Happy Friday everybody! Here's chapter 10.

Ooh they got into an argument, but then again, when aren't they arguing?

Hope you're all doing great and that you have the best weekend.

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Thank you so much for reading, and I will be seeing you guys next Friday! Byeee