Emily's POV

I pulled into the parking lot. I grabbed my backpack(and soccerbag) and headed toward the school. I saw Kenny. I tried not to make eye contact.

Yesterday was embarrassing. I hope he doesn't come near, I can't deal with him today. I walked down to my locker and dropped my soccer bag off. I walked into my english class and sat down.

I began to read my book. Such a boring book. This class was boring! Ugh! Later I have to face Kenny at soccer practice and Art class. Wait. I don't even think he likes art. Whatever.

I continued to read till the bell rang. I grabbed the question sheet for homework. I walked out the door into the huge crowded hallways. Dodging people, I eventually made it to the science hallway were I would walk into my classroom.

"Hey!" Claire Exclaimed as I sat down next to her. We are science partners for the year.

"Hey!" I replied. She smiled. Science is going to be long today especially with the conversation we had yesterday afternoon in my backyard.

"What?!" I asked. She continued to smile and Bob her head back and forth.

"What?!" I said again.

"Come on Emily! You're a Junior in highschool, and I think you can remember at least 1 day. Yesterday," Claire said with the biggest smile on her face.

My response was a dirty look and getting out my notebook for notes on Molecules. I scribbled down the first slide. I looked at her. What a great bestfriend, not.

"Can we not talk about this! I'm trying not to think about yesterday!" I whispered a little loud.

"Why not?" She questioned.

"Because it's embarrassing and Bestfriends are supposed to keep secrets!" I exclaimed.

"Ok, Ok," she replied. She looked at me again. I responded with a blush.

Lunch

I walked to the lunchroom with Claire, Hailey was already at the table.

"Claire, I'll meet you at the table. I have to go potty really badly!" I suddenly exclaimed.

"Okay, you go do that," she responded with a little laughter.

I walked into the restroom and did my business. As I walked out Kenny was walking out of the men's room. Great. What a coincidence.

He was staring at me. I ignored him and started to walk in to the lunchroom.

"Wait," Kenny said. I immediately stopped and slowly started to turn around.

Kennys POV

What am I doing? Oh God she's turning around.

"What Kenny?" She questioned.

"Um... ready for practice?" I asked suddenly feeling myself going into a fake grin.

"Yes, Yes I am." She responded. Then she turned around and started walking in to the loud lunchroom. I just stood there wishing that I never rushed this "could have been perfect" relationship. I know the only way to get her back to me.... I need to make her jealous.

Emily's POV

Ok that was wierd. I continued my way toward my normal lunch table. When I got there Hailey and Claire were having a peaceful conversation.

"Hey!" I said.

"Hi Emily," they both responsed.

"So what took you so long?" Hailey questioned.

"Um... nothing..." I responded. I started to fish my salami sandwich out of my lunch box.

"Really, nothing?" She said.

"Yes nothing." I said.

"Well Claire just told me-"

"What?! You told her Claire?! It was supposed to be a secert!!!!" I yelled.

"I didn't say anything. Just that you went to the bathroom, that's all." Claire innocently said.

"Oh....." I started to blush.

"Yeah, you used the bathroom... Anything else you two don't want me to know since you(Emily) freaked out over using the bathroom?" Hailey asked supiscisiously. Claire looked at me.

"Ok, Ok-"

"Can I please tell her?!" Claire asked excitingly.

"Yes you can." I shrugged and took a bite out of my sandwich.

"Well Hailey, this girl just rejected the captian of the boys soccer team, Kenny-"

"OMGEEEZ, Emily?! No way... he is literally the hottest kid at school!" Hailey screamed. Of course as you can tell by now we are all single. Claire laughed and continued;

"He took her to the lake and tried to kiss her but this "loser" told him that she couldn't. That she didn't know how too." Claire explained.

"What is it natural? Any hows why didn't he see my charm last year?" I said defending myself. Claire and Hailey shook there heads and laughed. I started to laugh too. We continued to eat lunch.

After School

I walked to my locker and put on all my soccer stuff. Today is my first practice with this team. When I finished changing, I put my stuff in my car. Then I walked out to the field. I was the 2nd person there Astrid was the first.

"Hey, you want to pass?" Astrid asked.

"Sure why not?" I said. We started to pass, I interrupted the silence by saying;

"Why weren't you here with Benny? Aren't you two like Bestfriends?" I asked.

"Oh, he's sick today. Coach Buck knows because I told him." He responded.

"Ok," I said. We continued to pass the ball. The team members one by one started to arrive.

"Can I join in?" Remy asked.

"Sure," We responded. We started to triangle pass. Finally when the whole team got to the field, Coach Buck came over.

"Ok team, huddle up." He ordered. Everyone headed towards him.

"Today is our first practice. Our first game will be next week on Wenseday against the bulls. Let's prepare by staying hydrated, running, and of course playing soccer. So get in stretching lines and start stretching. Kenny lead them.

"Yes coach, everyone get in 2 lines. First stretch is open the gate." He demanded. We all followed until we were done with stretches. Then we jogged over to coach who had a possession Game ready for us.

"Ok half the team is in pennies the other in shirts." Coach Buck explained. I grabbed a penny along with Winter, Remy, Jason, Bill, and Frances. Robert, Mike, Chris, Nick, Kenny, and Justin were in shirts. Marty was Neutral. We all gathered into the box made of 4 of Coach Bucks cones.

"Ok, pennies get the ball first. The team who gets 5 passes in a row earns a point and so on." Coach Buck said.

So he passed the ball to us. I got the ball and passed it to Jason who then passed it to Remy. Remy dribbled passed Nick and played the ball to Winter. But Winters pass got intercepted by Kenny who passed the ball to Justin.

The possession Game went on for about 10 minutes. My team won by 2 points.

"Ok guys and gal go do 4 laps around the track." Coach Buck said. A lot of moans and groans erupted from the team while I made my way to the starting line.

"It's the first practice and you're already groaning. Wait til you guys get to mid-season. Come on we need stamina!" Coach Buck explained.

We ran the 4 laps with Kenny on my tail the whole time, Remy in third, Jason 4th, etc.... Then we did a passing drill and we had to get in partners.

"Hey, Emily wanna be partners?" Remy asked.

"Sure, I guess. Let's go." I responded. We had to go side to side through cones then we pass the ball. It was quick moves and then pass. Real easy.

I looked over to Kenny who was partners with Astrid. At times I see him eyeing Remy.

"So how far do you live from school?" Remy asked as he passed the ball.

"Couple blocks." I responded while quickly moving through the cones.

"Yeah me too. I live in a big white house on PollyWag Street." He said right when I passed him the ball.

"OMG me too! Which house are you?" I asked.

"Um... I'm the house right at the end of the street. I have a huge water fountain that my driveway goes around." He answered while passing me the ball.

"Oh, I go by that house everyday while going to school. I've never seen you there.... why?" I asked. I started making my way through the cones.

"That's because my family just moved there a month before school started. I never walk outside in the front yard because my parents don't want me too. They are never home and they don't want people to know that I'm the only person home. They are on a business trip right now in Hawaii with their hotel business for a month." He said.

He started to move toward the other side of the cones.

"Oh wow. Me too. My parents aren't home tonight because they are going to one of their most popular fashion store in New York." I explained. We continued talking until Coach made the team split up into different teams for small sided games.

We played small sided games until Coach Buck signaled it was the end of practice. It was almost 4:00pm when I got in my convertible.

Kenny was in his Honda next to mine. I looked at him through my window. He waved goodbye. I did the same. I turned on my engine and speed off to home.

The electric gate opened on my arrival as I started to pull into the driveway. Suddenly I stopped soon enough til I could see Claire's house and at the end of the street Remy's. I waited till I saw a white corvette pull into Remy's house.

"Yup, that's Remy for sure," I said to myself. I parked my car into the garage and walked into the house. I walked up the stairs to my room. I started on homework.

When I finished homework it was 5:35pm. I decided to go visit Claire. So I locked the house up and walked over to Claire's. I walked up the the security cameras at her gate and waved. The gate opened for me and I walked in.

"Woof, Roof, Woof!" I was greeted by Claire's cream colored Crocker Spaniel named "Cookie."

"Cookie! Here girl! Come here!" Claire yelled. Cookie obediently ran to Claire and disappeared through her huge front door.

"Hi, Emily! Come on in!" Claire said happily.

"Ok coming!" I said. I ran up toward the house and through the front door.
"So what's up?!" Claire said as she closed the door behind her.

"Nothing much. Soccer practice was fun!" I said.

"That's cool wanna go down to my basement and pass the ball?" She asked.

"Sure!" I respond in excitment. I followed Claire down to the basement. She has an indoor soccer field that takes up the whole basement so that's my absolute favorite part about her house!

Claire went over to the equipment closet and grabbed a ball. She placed it on the ground and closed the closet door. She ran to half court and I followed. We started passing the ball and juggling it at half court.

"Guess what?!" I asked as my voice echoed because the field was so big.

"What?!" She laughed as she passed me the ball after 3 juggles.

"You will not believe this but Remy lives 2 houses down from you!" I said.

"No way?! He is like the second cutest at school!!!!" Claire screamed in excitment. She was so excited that she jumped up and down after she passed me the ball.

"Yeah he is kind of cute. But I thought you had a crush on Bill?" I asked.

"Oh yeah. Bill is my first crush and will always be..." Claire blushed. She has never had a boyfriend and nor have I.

"Ok, Ok," I said and laughed. I did an around the world and passed her the ball.

"Oh, about Kenny. Hailey called me about around 3:00pm. She said after lunch Kenny started asking questions about you in the hallway when she was walking to drivers ed." Claire explained.

"Really? He really likes me but it's been awkward for a few days." I said.

"Oh I also need to give you Hailey's phone number so we can all text in a group chat or something. Wanna go upstairs?" Claire asked.

"Ok sure!" I said. We went upstairs. I took one last glance of the wonderful soccer field before I went upstairs. I followed Claire to the kitchen. She took out a sticky note and gave it to me.

"That's Hailey's number!" She said.

"Ok thank you!" I said.

"Honey dinner time!" Claire's mom yelled. I heard Cookie barking in the background.

"Dinner at 6:30?! Isn't that early?" Claire yelled back.

"Come eat, Emily can eat too!" Claires mom yelled.

"Do you want to eat dinner here?" Claire asked me.

"No thanks I don't want to wreck a family dinner. Thanks for letting me come over!" I said.

"Ok well bye!" She said.

"Ok bye!" I responded. I walked back to my house. When I got home I went to my room. I stared out my window seeing my soccer court and pool.

I turn my head back toward my phone where I inserted Hailey as a contact. I then started to text and she responds:

Me:< Hey it's Emily, Claire gave me your number. What did Kenny say to you? )

(Oh, it was just nothing. He was just flirting with me.....>:Hailey

Me:< Just flirting?! What do you mean? Claire told me that he was asking questions about me!)

(I made her say that so you wouldn't be mad at me! I'm so sorry Emily. I don't want you to be mad at me because I know you like him a lot>:Hailey

Me:< Ugh. I can't believe you guys did that to me! I'm not mad at you. I'll talk to Claire and you tomorrow at lunch. I'm not mad at her either, but Kenny?! OMG he's gonna get it. But, I can't really controll his feelings )

The Next Day

After I ate breakfast I hopped into my sports car and headed to school. I parked next to Kenny's Honda. I looked at it through my window. He was in there. He looked at me. I looked away.

Suddenly I heard a knock on my window. It was Claire. I grabbed my school and soccer bag and got out of the car.

"Hey, what up?" Claire asked.

"KENNY flirting with Hailey that's what's up." I almost yelled.

"You jelly?" She asked.

"Duh, who wouldn't be?! I should have kissed him." I said glumly.

"Don't be so glum, chum. Maybe you should have kissed him. *pause* Naturally," Claire joked.

"OMG Claire, you Crack me up." I replied with a laugh.

Kenny's POV

Well I guess my plan is working. After overhearing that conversation I practically feel like she does like me. Hailey is nice though too. I got to keep going. She's(Hailey) only my first girlfriend anyway. But I want Emily to be my 2nd and last.