Fighting fit ( discontinued)

Game dayyyyyyyyy !!

Hartleys POV
Oh my days. I'm so comfy right now. I have had the best sleep of my entire life. Just as I'm basking in the warmth of my bed I hear subtle voices whispering. " awww they are so cute !!" The first one said this sounded a lot like Kelley. " shut up you idiot they are gonna hear you" the next voice said, this one was Alex. " let's just take a picture and leave before they know we were here" now this voice shocked me. It was Carli. Out of all the girls on the team I expected her to be the least likely to be doing this. I finally decided to make my presence known making all of them jump. " I'm awake yanno I can hear you" I said still not opening my eyes. Alex then spoke in her normal voice, realising there was no point whispering no more. " this your fault Kelley your always too loud !". I finally sit up rubbing my eyes releasing there's no way I'm going back to sleep. " what are you guys even doing in here?" I say confused as fuck. This time Carli answers my question with a sheepish look on her face " I came to make sure you were ok considering it's your first game today, but then we saw you and Mal cuddled up and it was too cute not to take a picture" that's when I realised the sleeping girl next to me, no wonder I had such a good sleep. " I suppose I can forgive you as long as you send me the picture" i said to Carli. " alright will do. Now how are you feeling about your first game?" I smiled at Carli appreciatively, she was like my big sister on the team always looking at for me. " I'm really nervous, I mean what if I mess up ?? Or what if I'm not good enough?" I say to Carli expressing my concerns. In all honesty I forgot the other two were in the room until I heard Kelley scoff. " yeah right, you are an amazing player you are gonna run rings around the England players". This put some of my nerves to rest. "Thanks Kelley" I replied. " anyways come on kid is time to go down for breakfast the bus leaves in thirty" Carli said her and Alex leaving the room. I looked at Kelley hoping she would take the hint to leave the room aswell. We had a solid staring contest for at least 5 minutes until she huffed and stomped out the room slamming the door. " damn she's too hyper for mornings" I grumbled. I then looked at the Mal next to me. She looked so peaceful and beautiful in the mornings. I leaned down and kissed her on the cheek " time to wake up beautiful" I whispered. She just groaned turning over and snuggling into my neck " I don't wanna" she moaned. " come on, remember if we win we have a date to go on" at hearing this she jumped out of bed faster than I have ever seen anyone before. She starts sprinting around the room getting changed while I just sit there eyes wide. " well at least we know what motivates you" I said with a chuckle. She stood in the middle of the room slightly embarrassed. " aww don't be embarrassed I can't wait to take you on a date" I said bringing the forward into my arms. She relaxed at this and I smiled at the gesture. We then both proceeded to get ready and Mal changed my bandages once again making sure they were tight so that I would be able to play in today's match with minimal pain- If Jill let me of course. When then both headed down for breakfast. I just grabbed an apple and protein bar knowing if I ate too much I would just throw up before the game. Ash looked at me disapprovingly. " you gotta eat more than that kiddo" she said pointing to my food. " I'm too nervous" I said honestly. She just nodded in understanding. " you'll do fine trust me". Everyone then left the dining room and all got on the bus. Mal decided she wanted to sit next to me.
" hello stranger long time no see" I said resting my head on her shoulder. " you literally saw me half an hour ago" she chuckled. " yeah that was too long" I groaned burying my head into her shoulder. She just laughed at me and patted my head " okay Lee" she said. " Lee?" I questioned. She blushed " it's a nickname for you; if you don't like it I won't call you it" she rambled. " no it's fine, I love it" I said. Honestly hearing her call me anything was amazing.
The bus pulled up to the stadium and we headed into the locker room. I looked at my shirt. Damn I had finally made it. Jill read out the starting line up which to no surprise I wasn't on, but I wasn't expecting to get any game time. I zoned out of her team talk considering I wouldn't be playing. We then went out and did warm ups before lining up and singing the national anthem. Has to be one of the proudest moments of my life. We were playing England in a friendly. It would be a hard game because their team is really really good. I went and sat on the bench with the other subs as the staring whistle blew.
Nothing much happened in the first 20 minutes as both teams were just getting a feel of eachother and their playing style. The ball just went back and fourth but no chances were created for either team. The suddenly a bad pass from Kelley leads to white intercepting the ball. Lucy bronze then runs up the line " Kelley !! Behind you!" I try to warn her of the incoming player. Thankfully she hears my shout, abs turns around just Into to stop the pass going to bronze. She boots the ball up to Tobin, thankfully keeping the score 0-0. Tobin then pushed up the line nutmegging the defence and then sending a beautiful cross into Alex who volleys it top corner. YESSSS!! 1-0 we were winning. Half time came stoke and no more chances had been made after the goal so we went into the locker room with smiles on our faces glad to be in the lead. Jill then read out the subs and said that I would go on for Tobin and Mal would come on for Alex. I was so nervous I didn't want to mess up. Come on hartley you can do this. Jill told us that she expected another goal so that what we were going to do. We returned to our places on the pitch and the whistle blew once again. Carli passed the ball up to me, I started pressing on their back line, until a nasty tackle took me to ground. Fuck that hurt my ribs she practically kicked me in the side!!! I held my stomach and closed my eyes waiting for the pain to subside. When I opened them again I realised the player who fouled me was Mille bright. She held her hand to help me up but I just pushed it away. Stupid bitch. I stood up and realised the ref hasn't made the call. " what the hell ref she clearly fouled me!" The ref then continued to ignore me. This got me really fucking angry, how did this woman even get a job ffs. I started walking towards her about to give her a piece of my mind when two arms wrapped around my stomach from behind. " Lee don't, you'll just get yourself sent off, ignore the ref shes stupid, just get out there and show her what we can do" Mal whispered. Instantly calmed down and focused, she was right. With the ref not giving us the call a newfound energy burst surged throughout the team. We all wanted to win even more then before. We continued passing the ball just trying to keep possession until we saw in opening. I was at the half way line with the ball when I noticed their goalkeeper was off their line. None of their players would expect me to do it, especially with being the rookie, so I thought I would take my chance. I advanced forward about a metre or so, making it look like I was about to start a run so their players came towards me. I then brought my foot back and booted the ball in the direction of the goal, the goalkeeper could see what was about to happen but it was too late. The ball dipped under the crossbar and hit the back of the net. Holy shit. I just scored in my first cap. The team all Came and jumped on me telling me how insane the goal was. " where did you learn to do that!" Julie asked me. " I've done it a bunch of times in high school is my signature move" I said sending her a wink. " well it was fucking awesome" ash said, earning a slap on the head from Ali " language ashlyn Harris" she said. " sorry babe" ash replied rubbing the back of her head. " ha whipped" i said, ash responded by throwing a glare my way. We then all got back into positions. We were in the 85th minute so all we had to do was keep possession and we would win. Suddenly daly got possession of the ball and was making a run, Ali tackled her but the ball deflected to whites feet and she tapped it over the goal line. Dammit 2-1. The whistle then blew signalling the end of the game. We all ran to the bench, happy that we won the game, me even happier than I scored. I was given the match ball that the whole team had signed. We all walked back to be locker room, most people showered and got changed there, but because of my stomach I was waiting till back at the hotel. We all got on the bus and relaxed tired from the days events but still excited over the win.
Once we got back I showered and changed into joggers and a T-shirt. Mal kindly did my bandages for me, but I saw the sad look she threw me every time and I hated it; I think I was going to do them myself from now on. " so I think you owe me a date" she said wrapping her arms around me waist. " that I do" I replied. " be ready by 7 and we will head out" I told her . She left the room and said she was going to get ready with Julie and rose. I called ash over and asked her to help me get ready. We picked out such a sick outfit. I had on black tipped jeans, with my Air Force, a orange Adidas top and a black Adidas cap. On my finger I had a Nike ring and on my left wrist I had a Rolex.( ok so maybe I did spend some of the money I earned from the fights). I thanked ash for her help and proceeded to walk over to roses room. I opened the door and my jaw dropped. Mal looked absolutely gorgeous. She was wearing this little maxi dress that was an orange colour, we kinda matched which made us look even better. Her hair was around her shoulders in waves. " you look stunning" I told her. " you don't look too bad yourself" she said looking me up and down. I grabbed her hand and we proceeded to leave the hotel. This was gonna be the best date ever.

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Longer chapter for you today guys hope you like it. Let me know who else's POV you would like to see, who do u think will find out about hartley next ? And how well do you think the date will go ??