Once in a lifetime

~Jarny~

Y/n's pov
"You should sign up for the basketball team and play with me" Chris says as we sit down with the girls on the bleachers to eat our lunch. "I was considering it when I first started. What days are practice?" I ask as the girls carry on their conversation about the need to buy their prom dresses. "Three days a week. 3- 4:30pm. Monday, Wednesday, Friday. We have a game roughy every two weeks" he explains taking a bite out of his sandwich, which I'm guessing his mum made. I miss eating Lisa's sandwiches. Every summer I would visit she would always make us a packed lunch on the days we would go riding on the bikes. She's like a second mum to me and I need to go see her now I'm in LA. "We've got gym class next dont we? Won't the coach be there so I can ask him" I say taking a spoonful of my pasta I made last night.

"Yeah. We've got practice today if you want to come and see if you like it?" Chris offers but I politely decline remembering my plans for tonight. "Lizzie is round mine for dinner so I'll come on Monday if the coach agrees" I say and he hypes me up about lizzie seeing the family, not remembering the girls are right next to us. "My boys making moves! Gonna be your girl in no time" He says making me laugh and shake my head as the girls look over to us shaking their heads playfully. "Boys" scar mumbles playfully rolling her eyes before turning back to Lizzie. I offer Lizzie a quick smile when we make eye contact which she returns before we carry on our separate conversations.

"My bike got delivered yesterday so we should take them out this weekend" I suggest as I take my last bite of pasta, putting the container back into my bag. "Fuck yeah! It's been way too long since we've rode." He exclaims getting the girls to turn and look at us again. "Do you ever stop shouting Evans" Lizzie teases making me giggle and scar agree with her statement. "Oh be quiet lizard. But hey do you girls fancy a ride on the back of the bikes?" He asks and I look at Lizzie for an answer to see she's already looking at me. Damn those green eyes are gonna be the death of me. Looking into them gives me a familiar sense of warmth and comfort I've never felt with anyone but her. "Sounds like a plan double trouble" Lizzie replies pointing between me and Chris before scar speaks up "they definitely are double trouble together but yeah I'm down." Just as she finishes speaking the bell rings so I head over to Lizzie to say a quick goodbye.

"I'll see you after class" I say wrapping an arm around her lace pulling her lips onto mine for a quick kiss which lasts only a couple seconds. "I'll see you soon honey badger, have fun" she replies blowing me a kiss as I walk backwards towards where Chris is waiting after he said his goodbye to scar. I playfully catch her kiss and push it into my chest making her giggle before she turns around away to walk with scar to their cooking class. "Your going soft pal" Chris teases nudging me playfully. "Fuck you dipshit" I reply laughing as we walk into the schools gym. We're one of the first ones in so Chris leads me over to the coach.

"Coach this is y/n he's just joined here and is looking to play basketball for us" Chris says as the coach looks me up and down before offering me a handshake which I accept with a smile. "Nice to meet you son. We're actually doing some basketball drills in class today so I'll keep an eye on you" he says making me nod before I reply. "Sounds good to me". His face perks up at my accent, him clearly not expecting it. "You an Aussie ay! So is my wife" he says making me giggle and nod. "Sure am coach" I reply before he ushers us away to get changed into our gym wear. When we return everyone in the class huddled around the coach so we can listen to what we are doing. We end up going through many drills testing out each of our skills all ranging from defending to shooting. When we are on our final drill it's a 1v1 between the attacker and the defender. When it's my turn as the attacker I look up to see who I'm against and it's Robbie. I didn't even see him in this class until now. Perfect time to embarrass him in-front of all the lads.

As we wait for coach to blow his whistle me and Robbie hold an intense eye contact, all the thoughts about what happened this morning are now fresh on my mind again. Remembering how he called Lizzie a bitch. This guys getting done dirty as soon as this whistle blows. When it does I quickly dribble over to him and fake a turn to the right and when he goes in for the tackle I quickly use my shoulder to barge him making him fall as I quickly change the direction of my turn, running straight to the the hoop scoring an easy layup. A bunch of the lads in the class offer me a cheer before they laugh at Robbie's state.