Tony
AS I RAN out onto the field with Hunter and the others, I was still gnashing my teeth. I couldn’t believe my lack of attention when the gnome had dumped my stuff on my desk and actually rendered me speechless for a second.
Nick aimed a kick at me. “Do some passing for warm-up?”
We kicked back and forth for a minute, running along the side of the field, trying hard not to get into Chloe’s line. Well, I did. I had enough crazy going on since last night and didn’t care for bumping into her, too.
At the far end of the field, Nick and I switched positions, and there I spotted the girls. Allie had made it a point that we all train at the same time, so we could give them feedback afterward. Nothing I was really eager about. Girls dancing was, well…if you were a guy you would like it, whether they were pros or not.
Normally, I enjoyed them for a few minutes but then concentrated on the game and afterward told them they were cool. But this time I knew Lisa would be with them. My blood pressure rose in anticipation of seeing her cheering for us.
I had been dumbstruck when she’d announced it yesterday during lunch. But then she’d joined the soccer team for me last summer, so why not be a cheerleader for Hunter now? I searched the small group for her beautiful, long hair. What I got stuck on, though, was a thatch of black weed attached to a body that could stretch like a fucking bungee cord.
The little gnome had her leg bumped up on a tree and was bending forward like she was made of fucking rubber. She quickly looked away. Yeah right, like I hadn’t noticed her staring at me.
Seriously, with all the shit I’d given her last night, it surprised me that she could still look at me and not throw up. Damn, Samantha Summers was probably a nice girl. She must be if Liz had befriended her the very first day. And logically, I knew she and Chloe Summers weren’t the same person. Still…better keep a distance. I’d had my fair share of trouble with one of them and I didn’t need another story I couldn’t tell to anybody afterward.
I raced Nick with headers to the upper end of the field, then we kicked back and forth once more. At the end of it, I sneaked another glance at the girls, who were now practicing some easy steps to music. Lisa laughed when they were all supposed to roll their hips, and I couldn’t look away until she’d done it.
Fuck, just why had I let that girl go? She twisted her hair up and fixed it with a claw at the back of her head. Nothing the bungee gnome could ever do with her hair. She just shoved it out of her face and tried to hook it behind her ears, which didn’t work out. Short as it was, it immediately slid to the front again. She blew the bangs out of her eyes, then unzipped her hoodie and tossed it to the side.
Holy shit!
Sam wore little to nothing underneath. Just a black top that ended right below her ribs and pressed her boobs to her body. It was laced in the back, and together with the camo pants and the heavy black boots she seemed to wear permanently, the bungee gnome suddenly looked a damn lot like Lara Croft. I stopped with the ball under my foot and blatantly watched while she showed the others some street dance moves. With the little she wore on top, this was the sexiest thing I’d ever seen.
Pain exploded in my head as a ball hit me right above my left ear. Cussing and with a roaring head, I stumbled to the side.
“Stop staring at my girl, Mitchell!” Hunter shouted as he came running to me, laughing. He knew I wouldn’t touch Lisa as long as she was with him. He also knew this would change the very instant one of them decided to break up. However, this time his bantering was far off.
“I wasn’t staring at your—” Yeah right. Tell him who you were really looking at. I almost laughed at myself. “Ah, forget it. Let’s play.” I grabbed the soccer ball he’d tossed at me and ran up to the opposite goal to get voted into either Hunter’s or Winter’s team. As always, I ended up Hunter’s first pick.