Collision || rini au

11

the week went by quickly and it was friday night. nini and sam changed the day of their practice because her birthday party was the next day and she didn't really want to miss her practice

nini grabbed her duffel bag that was ready and went downstairs in her gym clothes

"hey dan, could you tell aunt ida that i'm going to practice?" nini yells as she makes her way to the front door, taking her car keys

"okay!" he shouts back

she opens the door and goes into her car, driving to east high

when she arrives, she parks the car in the back of the school, discretely entering the doors that sam left open for her

walking down the hallway, she reaches the gym doors and hears the basketball being dribbled already

not thinking much of it, she opens the doors and her eyes widen when she sees ricky playing while sam was sitting on the bleachers

"what is he doing here?"

both of them look up and sam smiles as he stands up

"perfect, you're here!"

"what is he doing here?" nini asks, walking into the gym

"hi to you too." ricky says

nini ignores his comment and folds her arms, looking at sam

"okay, i invited him-"

"sam!"

"just hear me out!" sam pleads "i told him to come because you need someone to play with-"

"i have you"

"yeah, but let's face it, i'm getting old, you beat me every time and you need someone your age, and since ricky is the only one who actually knows about you, it's him."

nini sighs and looks down at the floor before rolling her eyes and nodding

she puts her duffel bag down and ricky passes the ball to her

"you sure you don't want to warm up first? i mean you might-"

nini ignores him and fakes a move before dribbling past him and performing a lay-up that immediately goes in

she exhales and jumps up before taking the ball and looking at ricky, who was shocked and still standing where they were in the beginning

sam laughs softly "just a tip, when she's on the court, no one can really psyche her out."

nini walks up to him and holds out the ball, waiting for him to take it

"are you going to play? or stand there like i just grew wings and flew around the gym?"

ricky shakes his head, snapping himself out of his trance and clearing his throat as he takes the ball out of her hand

he notices the focus she has on him and has never really seen this much determination in her face before. it was as if she was a completely different person

just when he's about to perform his usual move, nini beats him to it and grabs the ball out of his hands before running past him. he runs after her but she performs a set shot which goes in

she turns back to him with a small smirk playing on her lips "two things bowen. one, you're losing your touch. and two, maybe you should stop with all of sam's predictable 'fake right break left' thing," she folds her arms "this isn't high school musical."

ricky stifles a laugh and looks to see sam glaring at her

"okay, that gets the other teams every time and stop dissing high school musical." sam says