*Recap*

He kisses the top of my head and says, "Good night Wifey."

Karla's pov

2days later (aka Saturday)

The stadium lights blare in my eyes as I watch the play moving on the pitch. I sit by Tina who eats her hot dog tensely.

We're at the football match between Baylors and Troits.

(Our schools team is Baylors)

It's the last half, effort from both teams to win had flunked which resulted in the edgey mood from the spectators.

I, on the other hand, rub my eyes as the contacts were making my eyes feel itchy and teary. It's probably because I took a nap with them or because I continuously rub on them.

Yeah, I should probably stop.

Attempting to distract myself I try thinking of something but my mind drifts to Thursday night and Aiden.

The following days after, things went back to how they were. Kind of.

I say 'kind of' because Aiden's demeanor changed.

He started acting different,
   a good type of different,
                     more civil at least.

What showed there was a change was first of all he acknowledged me.
Not like I'm begging for his attention when I have the Creator on my side but it was actually nice for once that in the mornings before he left he'd say hi or good morning or later in the day he'd ask about my day.

You know those little stuff which made my 20 year old self swoon.

when I saw him before he left for work, asking me how my day was and.giving me his starstriking smile.

Also one day when I came home I met  two boxes of Nutella with beautiful pink tulips beside them which made and it had my name on it bedazzled on it.

Like bruhhhh,
it was definitely unexpected, like.......

"KarBear you okay?"
Tina asks bringing me out of the trance. 

"Yeah, I'm fine. Why?"
I ask and rub my long sleeved arm as the cold breeze passes by.

We wore football jerseys on top of our tops with Tina wearing Nate's and I wearing Devon's.

Yes.
It was the same one I wore before but this time I was well aware of the implications and I wore it as a supportive friend.

Underneath, I had a black long sleeve body suit paired with blush pink straight legged jeans and air force 1s which had butterflies drawn on them.

My natural hair was braided in cornrows with a scarf over it making the starting of the corn rows peek out, highlighting the edges also making the pink beaded ends hang out.

I wore hoops and glossed my lined lips. Nothing too extreme.

"You keep rubbing on your eyes and staring into nothingness." She says giving me a concerned look.

"Oh, i think my contacts are acting up. The lights are in my eyes too." I say.

"Oh sorry. I didn't think the lighting there would be a problem since these were great seats.
Also, you could have at least worn your glasses gurl since you don't want everyone up in your business.
You're always wearing those contacts. Let your eyes breathe Karlz."

She states in an 'as a matter of fact' tone turning her attention back to the game and I eat my hot dog.

A few munches later, on this heavenly food, me minding my business, Tina beat taps me.

"Chile what-" I say a little annoyed but I'm cut of by her saying,"Your Man's about to score a touchdown!"

"He is not my Manz." I stressed rolling my eyes but focus my attention to the pitch she points at.

Unfortunately for my friends, I do not share the same love of American football as my they do but I know a few things.

I watch Devon as he runs through the field to the other side of the pitch dodging each player who tries to attack.

With the good front row seats, I could see what was going on clearly.

He was almost past the centre of the field before he got tackled by a player out of nowhere but thankfully, he gets up as soon as he hits the ground and gracefully continues running.

There was a chorus of Ohhhh from the spectators and commenter

Like a sort of illusion,
making it seem like, it never occurred like an absolute professional.

' Montoya is up with the ball,

running past the Troits with immense speed,

those legs are kicking up,

he moves,

he's about to score,

Troits are nowhere to be seen, it seems like there's no one to stop him,

and ......

Touchdown!!!!!!!'

A cheer breaks out from the Baylor spectators who stand jubilating.

The moment was so powerful that I didn't even notice when I started cheering him on with Tina and jumped alongside.

The boys crowd him and jump on him celebrating as we continued to cheer them on.

We were so lost in cheering that we didn't notice when the camera had focused on us.

*Time lapse*

Right now we're at the after party with the guys because I wanted to congratulate the guys on the win who since they went straight to the place as soon as those who were talking to scouts were done.

I decided to go with Tina, since I wanted to congratulate them.

Tina, on the other hand, was unsure since she knew this was not my scene but she let me tag along with the promise that I'd call Dave to come pick me up.

Once we got there I told her I'd stay and wait outside so that she wouldn't have to worry.

She looked at me like I had 10 eyes and gave me a very strong NO.

We used the back door which was unlocked thankfully so we didn't pass through sweaty bodies.

Holding my hand, we stuck together walking through the crowd of college students who were doing, well, what college students do at a party under dark neon lights.

The music blaring so loud that our ear drums would be left scarred forever.

Locating the guys was not too hard.

We asked around and found out they mostly stayed in the football room if they were not doing stuff like this.

The football room a little hard to find since it was like some basement and had been renovated since we didn't know that we were looking in the wrong places.

The place was nicely designed it had a  in addition to the normal lighting strip of led lights in addition to the normal lighting system, pool table, bean bags and a sofa.

Once we found the place, we saw five guys and Nate inside.

"C'mon." Tina says noticing the pause in my steps and I follow.

Walking closer to them one of the guys talks to Nate nodding his head to our direction making Nate turn.
Now, Nate's looks at TiTi with googly eyes. I felt the hotdogs resurfacing.

Talk about pukable.

He says something and the guys slowly file out passing by us and saying hi.

Before we continue walking Nate gets to us first.

"Hi babygirl." He says hugging Tina who lets go my hand and hugs him back.

Gurl, .... I thought we was loyal.

He tells her something resulting in her blushing and giggling and lightly hitting his arm.

*Loud clearing of throat*

This makes them break apart.

"Oh hi. Didn't see ya there sweet pea." He says smirking since he called me sweet pea which I hate.

Apparently me being 5'4 to his 6'0 figure means I'm equivalent to the size of a pea, which doesn't even make sense.

Nate may treat Tina right but he's an absolute jerk but since I love her very much I have agreed to be nice and not wage any pranks of sort on him.

Not like his annoying personality has grown on me. Pffft no.

I give him a side eye and say,
"Awww, you little piggy, I can see you got a little mud somewhere here." I say pointing to a random spot on his face.

Nate is ready to retort when Tina says,
"Hey! You two. Be nice.", warning in her eyes.

"Well, he started it first." I said.

"He started it first." He mocks me in an incredibly high, high pitched tone that I can't even pull.

"Boyyy, I may be wearing boots but
they can be thrown." I say.

"Come on shorty. Hit me with your best shot." He says.

"Ugh, you two are impossible."
Tina says face palming and sitting on the barstool beside her.

I take off my left boot and do same with the right placing the left boot in my right hand.

I'm ready to give him chacla attack but with boots. I'm aiming to throw them at Nate's annoying smirking face when,

"Uhm, Every thing alright here?" Devon's say as he looks between the two of us.

Slowly lowering my hand, dropping my left boot, I say, "Nah, nothing's wrong. Why would you say that?'

"Why would you say that? She says." Nate mocks and I shoot him a glare.

"You had your left boot in your hand and looked like you were about to commit a murder you've been plotting for a while."
He says.

"See she's showing her real psychotic nature." Nate says and is rewarded by a flick on the back of his head from Tina.

"Ow woman, what was that for?"
He asks.

"I told you to be nice ." She says and adds "k, see y'all I'm going to find something decent to snack on." Leaving me with Devon and Nate.

"Stop being a crybaby Patton." I say.

"And your wondering why I didn't play wingman." He says under his breath but it was loud enough.

"Shut up Patton." Devon says.

"Fine! Fine. I know when I'm not wanted." He says walking in the direction Tina went shouting, "Babe!" down the hallway.

Leaving Devon and I. Alone

Enola?

Nahhhhh

A-l-o-n-e.

Alone.

*Pregnant pause*

"Did you enjoy the game?"
He asks me breaking the ice.

"Yeah. It was good " I say and add,
"Congrats on your win."

Almost forgetting why I was here.

"Thanks sunshine." He said with a smile.

"Your welcome. Also you play really well. Before I hadn't  noticed, since I'm not a football fan and all but you're actually a good player and today proved it. I mean, when you got tackled out of nowhere and got up, like it never happened and gave an awesome goal. That was.... You know?

So far this is one of my favorite games I've seen."

I take in a breath after rambling and look at him to see him looking at me with an eyebrow raised, a small smirk on his face.

Gosh, I must have talked his ears off.

"Sorry if I rambled." I squeak out embarrassed and look down at my fingers shyly playing with them.

He chuckles and says,
"It's ok. Thanks Sunshine.
Although, if I didn't know I'd say you were a big fan of football."

Resulting in my face heating up a little more but y'all brown and dark chocolate babes know it's concealed.

" But if we're talking about our favorite parts of the games, although I've had so many games and a fair share of good ones. This was one of my favorites. Wanna know why?"
He asks and I nod.

"The cheer from the audience with this but among them, there was a distinct cheer which caught me.

I saw a girl in a jersey, just like mine,  along with her blonde friend jumping and cheering me on." He says, at this point my face was overheating and I blushed red with embarrassment.

"Oh my gosh! You saw us." I say covering my face from embarrassment.

"Aww. Come on Sunshine, that was cute." He says gently removing my hands from my face placing them down at my sides.

"It's been a while since I had my favorite cheerleader cheer me on."
He says.

"Favorite?" I ask surprised.

"Sorry. I meant one and only." He says winking at me.

I feel myself blush a little more not used to this kind of treatment.

"Devon! You can't be saying stuff like that." I said bashfully.

"Oh come on Sunshine. You been a fine cheerleader. Let me sweet talk my girl a little, aight?" He said.

My girl?
I'm hearing wrong right.

Bruhhhhhhhh .........
I turn around looking for this girl.

"Sunshine, what you doing?" He asks.

"I'm looking for your supposed 'girl' so I can tell her to run from you."

He laughs and says,

"Girl, I was talking bout you."

"Oh my.... Dev! " I say.

"What can I say Kar-bear, it's the  southern charm."
He says tipping his imaginary hat.

I face palm but giggle at his silliness.

      A/N

Hiiiii bubbies.
How y'all doing?
It's been a hot minute but your girl is here.

Even though I'm giving HLY girl I've not forgotten about y'all, okay?

I was actually supposed to post this in March with the chapter before so y'all can have a chapter when I go to school but I came home to find out that it never went through.

Like really Wattpad? *Side eye*
Anyways with me and my perfectionist self after going through it's taken a while till now that I'm completely satisfied and I think y'all would enjoy.

Also special thanks to @rch3l.a on Instagram (I don't know if that's her Wattpad) for reaching out and bringing a smile to my face. She is so sweet and is a IFLIMAM gal!!!!

I love all of you so so much!!!!!
All 1.2K of y'all!!!!

I can't express it enough.
I'm just out here sending heart eyes and virtual hugssss.

Thank you all so much for being beautiful people and adding to my overflowing cup. Tbh, it's to the Glory of God.

*Nate walks in, whispers something in the author's ear*

Nate asks that y'all should send empathy to him for he's being ..... abused? *I say confused, looks at the rest of the cast*

*EYE ROLL from Karla*
*Face palm from Tina*
*Devon shakes his head*
*Poor attempt of puppy dog eyes from Nate*

I'll see y'all next time.

Please continue staring, sharing and saving.

And may the Lord be with y'all have a blessed day. 💞🙏🏿

XO 💞,
        Andrea
                   XO💞.