Fighting fit ( discontinued)

Meeting the team

Hartley's POV
My chest was rising and falling. I had never been so scared and nervous at the same time will standing outside of the hotel. I must've been standing there for 20 minutes before I plucked up the courage to walk in. Just as I was about to step in my phone went off.
" hey Jason what do you want" I huffed down the phone, really not in the mood to talk to him right now. " I am just making sure you remember the cover story before you go blabbing to anyone about who I am and what you do" he said in his usual angry tone. " I remember the ducking cover story alright. You are my uncle, I lived with you ever since my parents died, and your a wealthy business man but I don't know what business you are in because I don't really give a shit. Happy ?" I heard him sigh down the phone obviously not happy with the tone I took with him but at this point I really couldn't give a shit, I wanted him to leave me alone. " what what tone you take with me Hartley, you don't want to suffer the consequences. Goodbye" that's when I ended the call and shoved my phone in my pocket, annoyed at the whole conversation.
On the other hand the conversation with Jason pushed my nerves aside, so I strolled into the hotel ready to face everyone. I walked up to the receptionist and told her why I was here. She gave me my room key, and said the team was in conference room 1 with Jill and dawn. Therefore I quickly took my bags up to my room and put them next to the other empty bed in there, I'm guessing my roommate had already arrived like most of the team.
After that I took the stairs down to the conference room and knocked before I entered. "Ahhh hartley, nice of you to finally arrive" she laughed, gesturing me to the front of the room so I could introduce myself. As I stood infront of the team my nervous started to creep back in. I mean some of these women were my idols, and I never thought I would meet them, nevermind actually play on the pitch with them. However I didn't show I was scared, just like my parents taught me and I addressed the room "hey guys, I'm Hartley, I'm 18 years of old and I play striker". Suddenly everyone in the room started talking, either between eachother or directed their questions at me, until Jill told them it settle down. " now you can all ask Hartley any questions you like, just one at a time please". The first hand to shoot up was lavelle's she asked me if I was gay, Mal gave her a slap on the back of the head for being so blunt l, which made me chuckle. I turned to lavelle and answered her question " well let's just say I know to please the ladies" I said with a smirk throwing a wink her way. This causes the rest of the team to laugh, rose to blush, but mal just rolled her eyes. I guess it would take a little longer to get her to warm up to me.
The next couple of hours I was asked numerous questions about my life, my family, school, and I stuck to the cover story that me and Jason agreed on. Everyone gave me looks of pity when I told them about my parents, which just wound me up as I hate pity, which I think they could see was evident on my face as they quickly changed the subject. However after telling them about Jason, I could tell that mal was suspicious as she gave me a skeptical look. Shit I would have to make sure to not get to close to her, before she found me out.
Finally Jill dismissed us and said we could all go back to our rooms to relax before team dinner later on tonight, we had no training today so that started Tommorow. As I was walking back up to my room I realised that mal was heading in the same direction. Fucking great, of course shes my roommate. I mean don't get me wrong I like her and she's extremely beautiful, but she's skeptical of me and that could be dangerous if she ever found out too much.
We both entered the room in silence, I started to pack my clothes away while she just sat in her bed watching me. " take a picture it'll last longer" I grumbled starting to get annoyed with her eyes on me. " there's something off about you, and I'm gonna figure out what it is". This made me freeze and my body tense up and I think she noticed. However I quickly relaxed and turned to face her. " I don't know what you mean" I chuckled. " I'm as normal as can be" I said throwing a wink she way, which did indeed make a blush spread across her cheeks. " awww is Pugh blushing" I gushed trying to wind her up. " shut the fuck up" she scowled obviously not liking the effect I had on her. I slowly started walking towards her where she was sat on the bed. I could see her eyes go wide as I got closer and a smirk spread across my face. I crouched down next to her and brought my lips or her ear " or what Pugh ? You gonna make me?" I said seductively. I could see her biting her lip obviously trying to control her emotions. I smirked at her again, and could see this visibly annoyed her. She stood up and pushed passed me leaving the room.
Huh. Maybe rooming with Pugh will be a lot more fun that I thought.

It was time to go down for team dinner, which I was actually really anxious for. Jason never let me each much, I only got really decent meals after I won a match. This meant that I had grown to have a really small appetite, and large amounts of food made me want to be sick. I entered the dining room and noticed most of the team was already there. I didn't want to interrupt the groups they were already sat in, so I went a grabbed a salad, and sat on my own in the corner, pushing the food around my plate. I really wasn't in the mood to eat, and I had to go train with Liam tonight, I never liked eating before training.
Suddenly someone came and sat next to me. I didn't know who it was, as I hadn't looked up from my plate since I sat down. " yanno you have to eat more than that, it's not good for someone your age to eat so little" I recognised the voice to be Carli. She was one of my biggest inspirations, however I automatically felt comfortable around her for some reason. " I'm just not hungry" I sighed, I wasn't lying to her it was partially true. " fine, I'll let you off just this once, but don't think I won't be checking up on you to make sure your eating properly" she warned. I sent her a grateful smile, it was weird I haven't really had anyone show any care towards me since my parents, the feeling was unusual but welcoming. We continued talking throughout the whole of dinner, and we actually had a really good time and got a long rather well. At least I know one person on the team will like me.
After dinner I returned to my room. Ready to get my training bag for the gym with Liam. The bag contained my boxing gloves, hand wraps, two bottles of water, my shadow hoodie, and some protein bars. I hated the things, but Jason forced me to eat them after every training session, and Liam not wanting to disobey him, made sure I ate them too. I didn't blame Liam he was in the same situation I was, under the control of Jason. I left the room and I was just about to leave the hotel when I hand grabbed my wrist. My natural fighting reflexes kicked in and twisted the person round so their arm was behind their back. " what the actual fuck Hartley !!" Mal screamed obviously not expecting me to do that. " shit I'm so sorry, you just caught me by surprise". She gave me another scowl, and I really couldn't be arsed to deal with her so I started to leave the hotel. "Wait where are you going?". I turned to look at her and asked her why she cared it was none of her business. What she said next shocked me. " because I care about you for some reason, I don't know what it is, but I'm drawn to you. Plus you apart of the team now, meaning you are apart of the family". I could tell she was being genuine. This made me smile. " don't worry about me Pugh, I'll be back soon" I told her. She looked at me concerned but nodded letting me go.

Mal's POV
Hartley had been gone for 5 fucking hours. What on earth has she been doing, I was starting to get really worried. I didn't know who to tell. But then I remembered her and carli got along well at dinner so I decided to call her. " hey Carli, Hartley left the hotel five hours ago and she hasn't come back, I'm starting to get worried." I heard Carli pick up her car keys before telling me to meet her in the car park.
" where should we even look?" She asked me climbing into the car. " she had a gym back with her when she left so maybe we should start there" I replied. Carli nodded and we drove to the nearest gym. As we pulled up we saw Hartley leaving the gym so we shouted for her to come get in the car. " oh hey guys, didn't expect to see you here, I was just on my way back". At this point my blood was boiling, she disappeared for five hours and all she has to say is hey ?!!!!. " hey !! What do you mean hey !! You've been gone for five hours !!!". She turned to look at me and smirked. That god damn smirk. It gets me everytime. What is this girl doing to me. " awwww Pugh did you miss me ?" She remarked you could hear the sarcasm in her voice and that just made me even angrier. I turned away from her not in the mood to deal with it. This is when she grabbed my shoulder, obviously seeing that I was genuinely worried about her, and her face softened. " hey, hey; I'm sorry I didn't mean to make you worry. How about I give you my number so I can text you next time so you don't worry?" She said trying to make me feel better. Ha, now it's my turn to tease her. " you trying to ask me out hartley ? If you wanted my number all you had to do was ask" I smirked. This time she was the one with the blush all over her cheeks. She was spluttering over her words trying to find a comeback but eventually gave up and just huffed. We finally arrived back at the hotel and went back up to our room.
We both showered. When we were getting changed for bed I saw her shirt lift up and there was a dark purple bruise. How the fuck did she get that ?? I didn't want to ask her right now as we were finally in a good place and I didn't want to ruin it. We both climbed into bed and she turned off the light. " night Pugh, sleep well" she said her voice drowsy, alerted falling asleep. This made me smile. " night hartley" I replied but she was already fast asleep. There is something going on with girl, and I am going to find out what it is, if it's the last thing I do.

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Hey guys. So we are now back in the present. Let me know if you like the multiple view point or if you just want to stick with hartley's point of view. Is mal a potential love interest ? And is Carli gonna be a motherly figure for her ?? Will mal find out what is really going on with Caitlin ??