Friday

Travis' mansion-house or whatever

Diane's pov

It's definitely cold here I mean it's November. I wore a light pink sweater and black leggings with some white ankle boots. I had my hair down. I stood at the door,  hesitating to press my finger on the doorbell. "....Just get this done and over with Diane" I say to myself and quickly pressed the doorbell.  Not even ten seconds passed and the door opened. Why am I so nervous about this? Could it be the game tomorrow? Maybe it's just jitters or me shivering from the cold. It's the first time in a long time I saw him, besides pictures, but seeing him in real life-it felt different. 

His brown soft curls were a bit messy as usual, and he had on a black and grey Calvin Klein tracksuit, and matching Jordans we stare at each other for a bit.

 He lets me in, closing the door behind me. "It's been a bit conejo. (rabbit/bunny)" I follow him to the sofa and we both sat down. "Drink?" he asks (idk why this was so awkward for me to write like idk😂) 

"Air." I reply. 

He chuckles a bit, "So....how have you been? I heard you went to Brazil" 

"Other than college it's okay I guess. But, I had a great time in Brazil, you know seeing the stars and all. What have you been doing?" 

"Nothing much, besides photo shoots."

 "Have you thought about a career yet?" 

"I don't know maybe business or something....I had a slight interest in fashion." he says. 

"You could've done that now you know" I say.

"I know but I just want a proper education before jumping into things" he says. 

"Ahem. So you wanted us to talk?" 

"Yeah.....I just wanted to apologize to you Diane. I know that we probably won't be back together," he scoots a bit closer to me, but keeping space between us. "...but I just want to say that even though I'm already in a relationship, it won't be the same one as ours and never will be." a slight blush dusted his cheeks. He's already in a relationship? For some reason, it felt like my heart dropped a bit, but I hid it well.  

"I know you're still mad at me but-" 

"Travis I'm no longer upset about that. I actually still feel a bit hurt-" I stop and look at him. I saw the tears in his eyes, "You better not cry!" I smile away the tears, his eyes dart at the floor, avoiding the spill but it didn't stop it. "Travis..." I trail off, wiping my tears off on my sweater sleeve, "Listen. You made a mistake. Just learn from it." I smile through the inner emotional train wreck.

 "Diane, that's the biggest mistake I'm never going to get over. You never deserved that" he says as I scoot over and got on my knees on the couch so I could reach his face and wipe his tears away. Travis was always an emotional guy. "I'm sorry pequena, from the bottom of my heart, I really am. But maybe I'm just not the one for you" 

"I could probably say the same thing" I sniff. "Diane, you're one of the most intelligent people that I've ever met, some of the stuff you talk about I know nothing of, but you're one of the nicest people out there, besides....your sarcasm" he smiles.

"My sarcasm?!" 

"And the way you snap at people" 

"I don't. snap.like.that" I say blankly. "Like what you're doing now. You're too smart for me Diane, you're just out of my league." he smiles slightly. 

My cheeks warm up, "What? No-You're just saying that! You, mister are the one out of my league. I'm just a nerd compared to you" I laugh.

 "The most beautiful nerd I know" his hand caresses my cheek. "Y-you're making me emotional again" I wipe my eyes again. "I don't want to forget about you- most definitely I won't but I want to have some type of bond, can we at least be friends? Like how we used to be?" he asks me. Why am I thinking about Teletubbies? ".....I guess we can still be friends."  I hug him, and he hugged back- a bit too tight, "Okay enough."

 "You're still not a fan of human embrace? My, I thought you would be used to that by now" he lets go.

 "Oh don't you start!" 

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-Saturday-

"But!" "Diane I'm sorry but the rules are the rules. I let you last time but from now on the jacket is out. You'll have to go out there like the others. Besides, it's a violation, a distraction and it's a potential safety hazard, that is what the board says. I mean you don't want to get kicked off the team do you?" the coach says to me, I sigh silently.

 I couldn't wear my jacket around my waist anymore like I used to, that was literally my staple. But I really wore it because I knew I would be embarrassed about wearing shorts, I don't even wear shorts- the beach was an exception though. "Now come on, if you want to warm up out there, you got five minutes left. Everyone's looking at you." she walks out of the girls locker room. I grumpily removed my black hoodie and shoved it in my gym bag and zipped it back up, and locking it with the combination lock. I dealt with too many thieves. 

I pulled my hair up into  a ponytail, leaving a long tress out, and wrapped it around my band that held my ponytail and tucked it in. I went out onto the gym court and saw the opposing team, our royal blue and white contrasted to their luxury purple and yellow. Some were chatting with each other, or people on the side lines, and some were practicing with each other. 

The moment I got out on the court I thought I heard the crowd a little more louder for a moment-at least I think. But then I saw a girl from the Stablin team stare at me, while talking to one of her team mates, it was not a look of approval, she looked like she wanted to kill me. She was a tall slightly-pale girl but had a hit of a golden- tan on her skin, brown hair in a messy ponytail, her whole face made-up, brown eyes, she favors Tekeyla a bit.

 Tekeyla was a girl who bullied me in high school because simply, pretty boy Travis paid more attention to me than her, I couldn't help that.  

But however, when we were players on the Middleton High volley ball team, she decided it would be a good idea to try to fight me in front of the entire school, she assumed that I wouldn't do anything. But the tables turned when her extensions were scattered on the gym floor and my fist was covered in her blood. That was my first fight and hopefully my last.

 I decided to regretfully look over to my right of the huge crowd, near the front row, I saw Chance, he's actually in the front this time? I couldn't have paid him to be in the front row, I saw him, Dominic, Louis, and Travis with Angelica Marinara-Sauce all talking with one another. 

Chance looks a lot different, compared to him covering up all the time. I look away, and decide to take a break, leaning against the wall, a bit of my anxiety was rising up, knowing people were looking at me, but the air hitting my legs was something I wasn't used to. 

 A few minutes later, the same girl who stared at me, walked up beside me and leaned against the wall, having her hands against her back. 

"You're Diane aren't you?" she asks. I look at her, "Yeah why?"

 "So you're the one that beat up my sister!" "What?" I raise a brow,  "I'm Sofia, Tekeyla's sister, does that name ring a bell?" 

"Yeah so what?" a frown rests on my face.

"Just saying, you're gonna get it-" I walk off, noticing the timer was close to the game about to begin. 

"Everyone! In positions! The game is about to begin!" the announcer says on the speakers. I went to my serving position as Sofia walked past me, roughly brushing my arm. I shown no emotion whatsoever. As everyone went into their positions, the game began. 

The ball was handed to me, I'm doing first serve? The whole stadium went quiet, I looked at the crowd then the ball, then looked up at the tall net. GREAT WHY DID IT HAVE TO START NOW! NOT NOW! I swallowed a huge lump, bouncing the ball trying to shake off my nerves, I took a breath, 

"You can do it Diane!" someone yells, as a few cheers filled the gym, making my dimples show along with my smile, the voice sounded familiar, but I had so much going through my mind I couldn't make out who it was.

 Don't let her get to you Diane, I placed the ball in my hand, then served an underhand. 

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In the middle of the game, when Sofia served, she served an ace, but the ball was 2 inches from hitting my foot, she can hit a ball hard though. Every time she had the chance to hit the ball, she would aim it for me. But I had it when she purposely made the ball hit my face, knocking me down. So here I am, lying on the floor, nearly half conscious during match point on a tiebreaker.

  The winning point would be the winning team. My teammates were all around me and a few from the Stablin team too, all there is residing in me at the moment is the noise from the stadium, anger that I can't express at the moment, since my face was hurting so bad. 

If only my grandparents were here, they couldn't come this time. Then the very person who did it was acting all worried, I was staring at her the whole time with a bloody nose. I was given a towel for my nose, and helped up.

 "Diane you can't play like this!" someone says as I stumbled a bit, and managed to stop my nose bleed.

 "You're lucky you're not blind from that! I really do apologize for that Diane, that was my fault" Sofia says,   I look right at Sofia, "I suggest you go back to your side before you end up like your sister." I say to her, my voice a bit deeper. "What?" "You. Heard. Me. So if you try to bring me down again, this gonna be one show nobody's going to forget." I say before walking off with my team mates.  It was time for me to serve, I walk slowly to my spot as the crowd cheered louder. I never have seen so many phones and lights in my life. 

The ball was handed to me, I looked at everyone, then at Sofia on the other side, in position. I grabbed my pony tail and flicked it. I threw the ball up in the air, jumped up, let the beast out of me and slammed every bit of force on it. 

The moment it hit the floor the on the other side of the net the whole stadium lit up! Ace on that, read 'em and weep!

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