Freya's POV
"Since when does it snow in Arizona?" Sophia questions as she looks out the window of the bus as we travel to the Valley FC stadium.
We're in Phoenix for our last match of the first half of the season.
"I think it always has Soph." I say as Raven and I look at our line-up for tonight.
1-Katana Solo
2-Ona Batlle
4-Jasmine Hadid
12-Tierna Davidson
3-Katja Nordström
6-Jaelin Howell (C)
14-Aitana Bonmatí
11-Alexia Putellas
9-Sophia Smith
10-Raven Nightingale
7-Freya Nightingale
After I look at the line-up, I pass it behind us then I relax with Raven.
Once at Talking Stick Stadium, the bus parks then everyone gets off and heads to the locker room.
When we get to the locker room everyone puts their stuff down in their respective lockers.
After my stuff is put up in my locker, my teammates and I head outside for the pitch inspection.
When I get onto the pitch, I head to the center circle, stand on the center spot, then I do the Haka.
Taringa whakarongo!
Kia rite! Kia rite! Kia mau!
Hī!
Ringa ringa pakia!
Waewae takahia kia kino nei hoki!
Kia kino nei hoki!
Ka mate, ka mate
Ka ora' Ka ora'
Ka mate, ka mate
Ka ora' Ka ora'
Tēnei te tangata pūhuruhuru
Nāna ne I tiki mai whakawhiti te rā
A Upane! Ka Upane!
A Upane Kaupane
Whiti te rā,!
Hī!
After I finish doing the Haka, I head back to the locker room.
When I get to my locker I take my AirPods out, then I take out my nose ring, I take off my necklaces, earrings, bracelet, and my rings.
After my jewelry is off, I put my jewelry in it's safe then I put my jewelry safe, phone, and AirPods in my bag.
Once I'm jewelry free I take off my tracksuit and put my dark brown locs up in a ponytail then I put on my long sleeve forest green undershirt, my warm up top, and my game shorts.
I then sit down in my locker and put on my socks, my shin pads and my yellow boots.
Once I'm dressed Sophia comes over and sits in-between my legs.
"Hey Soph." I say.
"Hi Frey." Sophia says as she hugs my leg then she sits up straight as I begin running my fingers through her long luscious hair.
After a minute of playing with my friend's hair, I pull it back into the normal bubble braid she puts it in for games.
Once Sophia's hair is in a bubble braid, I lean down and kiss my friends head.
After I kiss her head, Sophia and I get up, walk out of the locker room, and head onto the field with the outfield players.
When I get on the pitch I run through my warm ups with the starters for a while then we head back to the locker room.
Once in the locker room I change out of the training top and change into my forest green jersey while Amaka does her last minute talks.
When the last minute talks end, we are told to head to the tunnel so I kiss my wife and hug her before I head out to the tunnel
Once in the tunnel, I line-up in-between Sophia and Raven then I wait for us to be called out.
Minutes later we are told to head out onto the field for the prematch stuff so I follow Sophia out onto the field.
Once on the field we stand in line for a few seconds then we shake hands with the Valley FC players.
After we shake hands, we take a starting XI picture, Jaelin does the coin toss, then we do our team huddle before we head onto the field.
"Can we play in the snow after this?" I question as I walk onto the field with my wife.
"Yes Frizzy." Raven says with a smile. "We can play in the snow."
- - - - -
"It's a good thing we figured out you were a toy husky Balto." I say as I look at my little husky.
"I was getting worried about you." I say.
Balto smiles at me then he looks out at his siblings who are playing out in the snow in our back yard.
We won our game yesterday 3-0 which is good and now we're back home.
"Go play." I say as I lower Balto onto the ground then my small husky runs out to his siblings.
After Balto leaves I look at my two older dogs.
"At least you two love me." I say as I look at Bear.
Bear woofs then he rests his head on my leg.
"Yay." I cheer then I look at my oldest husky.
"Lava you may actually love snow more than you love me." I say.
"Oh you know she's just happy to be in element." I hear Raven say then she sits down next to me and hands me my hot chocolate.
"I guess." I say then I kiss my wife's head.
After I kiss Raven's head I see the doggy who loves her the most appear in front of us.
"Neptune don't you be stealing my girl." I say.
"Don't listen to her Neptune." Raven says. "You know what we have is special."
"Hey." I say then the rest of the dogs woof.
"I was kidding." Raven says.
"Better be." I say then I look at my middle husky.
"Pluto get her." I say.
Pluto ignores me and continues playing with Balto.
"Yeah you two definitely love snow more than me." I say.
"AWOOOOOOOOOO." Sequoia loudly says as she walks over to us.
"And what's got you all vocal." Raven says as she looks at our golden.
"We're back." I hear Everest say causing me to turn around and see my best friend coming out onto the patio
"And you brought food." I say as I see my mom, my mama, Jaelin, Cosette, and Sophia following Everest while holding our bags of food. "Fuck yes."
"Freya." My mama says in a warning tone.
I cheekily smile at my Mama then I grab my food from Cosette.
"So are you four ready for the winter break?" Mom asks.
"So ready." I say. "So fucking ready."