Chapter Twenty

We walked over to the display case.

"Look, you see the best amethyst and golden trophy?" I nodded.

"I won that for our football team. You have to win the amethyst before you go to the Football National Finale. And I also won the golden one. We won last years' finale. And I am going for football again." he said, looking at the trophy, grinning.

I looked at him.

"How do you play football?" I asked.

He looked at me. "Do you want me to teach you?"

"Are you going to crush me if I am holding the football?" I asked, crossing my arm.

He chuckled. "Not crush, I'll tackle you."

"Then no thanks, I got flattened enough." I said.

"Oh well, come one." he said, smirking, grabbing my hand and dragged me to the uniform closet. He grabbed a sports uniform for me.

"You wouldn't want to be playing in that dress." he said, laughing. I hit his head lightly.

"Did you grab a medium?" I asked. He nodded.

"Change in the locker and put the uniform in the recycling bin on the wall. And grab a new uniform in the uniform closet." he said and shoved me inside the girls' changing room.

I quickly changed and threw my uniform in the bin on the building wall. I wore my knee-high tight and a sports t-shirt with the school's name and the school's mascot.

I threw my stuff in my locker and grabbed a shoe from the new shoe closets.

Damn, this school was loaded!

I walked out of the locker room and Jaden was already dressed, not in his uniform suit.

"Ready?" he asked, smirking.

"No tackling, please?" I asked.

He shrugged, "Then how are we supposed to play?" I rolled my eyes.

"Hey! Get off, my chest hurts. Oh my god, the elephant is on top of me, again. Here, here, here, take the football, I give up. You keep on tackling me." I said, getting up when he got off of me. He chuckled.

"I win!" he said, making a touchdown.

I stomped my feet. "I didn't even make a single touchdown and we played for about forty-five minutes."

"Come on, play again. If I played like this against the other schools, we would lose. This is already an easy mode."

"Easy my butt. This is hard mode; you are playing like you're mad or something." I said.

"No, I would've been wearing my gears and pads." he said.

"I give up and you win, ok? Happy?" I asked.

"No, one more game, please?" he asked, holding my shoulders.

"No, I need to shower, I smell." I said.

"No you don't, you smell perfectly fine and you didn't even sweat because you didn't even do anything."

"I did, I chased you and tried to tackle you, I tried to tuck my football; I did everything." I said.

"Please, one more, please?" he said.

I rolled my eyes.

"Fine, but I thought you said that playing with me is like playing with nobody." I said.

"Shut up." he said.

"Well, you did say that."

"Come on, play." he begged.

"Fine and I get the football first." I said.

"Ok." he started running to my side of the field, giving me a chance to run to his side.

I started running, looking behind me as I ran.

Damn he ran really fast! I started to panicked.

Before I knew it, I fell on my face, tripping over my feet.

"Owww," I said weakly, just as Jaden appeared by my side. Jaden knelt next to me, laughing his head off.

I rubbed my forehead. “Shut up, it hurts."

"Wow, that was funny!" I rolled over, closing my eyes, still rubbing my forehead.

"Come on, let's finish the game." Jaden said, shaking my shoulder.

"I can't, you won already. You're gonna tackle me and I'm going to have more bruises. I have seven bruises already." I said, opening my eyes.

"Fine, let's make it super simple. Come." He said, holding out his hand. I took his hand and got up.

He made me stand eight feet away from my touchdown line.

"Ok, if you could throw it past the touchdown line, you win the whole game and if you don't, you lose." he said.

"Oh, I'm gonna win, watch me. I'm gonna win, in your face." I said, smirking.

"Oh yeah, let's see you try." he said, smirking too.

I rolled my eyes.

"Ready?" I asked. He nodded.

“Are you ready for my skills?" I exclaimed. Jaden, smiled, rolling his eyes.

"I am going to prove to you that I am better at football than you!" I said. Jaden smirked.

I threw the football and threw it with all my might.

The next thing I knew, the football landed right on my shoe. Jaden burst out laughing.

"Oh my god, that was hilarious!" Jaden said, rolling on the ground laughing.

I blushed, but thinking, I've never made someone laugh that hard at me before. Oh my god.

"Oh, let's go. I said this was the last game." I said, walking, still blushing.

Jaden ran up to me and touched my cheeks.

"Yep, you're really heated when you blush." He said and laughed again.

"Stop!" I said, kicking him in the shin.

"That's ok, you're just not a football girl." Jaden pulled me into a hug, hiding my blush. I actually liked the hug. It was warm in a… weird way.

"Got to go." I said, pushing him away. I turned around, walking to the girls' shower room, still blushing.

I quickly showered and grabbed a new uniform to change into. I liked this school so far. I smiled. I walked out and Jaden was waiting for me.

"Where are we going next?" I asked, looking at the school map on the iPad.

"Do you want to eat lunch?" he asked, walking.

"Yeah." I said. "I am hungry from all of the football practice."

"You call that practice?" he said, laughing.

"Hey, that was tough, man. I was half squished by the elephant and I didn't even win once. But don't worry, I got some muscle." I said, pushing up my sleeves, showing my bicep. I tried to flex and Jaden gave it a squeeze.

"You call that muscle. If you play with that muscle, I could win you in no time." he said, laughing.

"Yeah, by crushing people." I said, laughing at my joke. He rolled his eyes.

"What? It's true and you know it. The truth hurts, I know." I said, acting out my sympathy. I patted his shoulders.

"You want me to sit on you again?" he said.

I widened my eyes. "I pass, but you can do that to the football team."

"I'm gonna crush you." he warned and I quickly ran. Before I could go any further, Jaden pinned my stomach onto the bench and sat on me. The air in me quickly went out.

"Yep, when I get home, I - I'm gonna make sure your mother gets you a personal coach to help you, the elep-elephant lose some serious weight." I said, breathing heavily.

"Take it back." Jaden said. I grinned, breathing heavily.

"Never." I whispered.

"Jaden! Jaden, what in the world are you doing?" someone's voice said. The voice was familiar.

"You're squishing the poor girl!" she said, again this time I knew who it was; Lucy.

"She said I'm an elephant." Jaden said.

"Get off of her!" Elle ran up to us and pulled Jaden.

He got off of me and I rolled over.

"Ha-thanks Lucy and Elle. Lifesaver." I whispered, trying to catch my breath.

I slowly sat up and pointed at Jaden, "Bad guy."

They laughed.

"Oh, come one, let's eat lunch." Elle said.

"Hope your stomach is not squished." Lucy said, laughing.

"Hey!" I pouted, crossing my arm.

"Oh, come on." Lucy said, grinning.