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Chapter 9 - An Admirer or A Hater?

Shaine along with Alex and their team captain are having a little practice session with the new girl on the team, Elizabeth Morgan, but the team calls her Liza for short.

"I think that's all for today Liza, good job." yell their team captain who gently pats Liza's shoulder with a smile on his face.

Theodore Patterson is a great team captain who thinks more of his team's health than the game.

Shaine walk up to Liza and gave her a high-five. "Nice shots Liza but I hope you can shoot when Tiffiny is the goalie," she said chuckling a bit.

Tiffiny Allisons is the other girl on the team who takes up the role of the goalie, she may be small but she is incredibly fast and strong.

Liza smiles and slightly quivers from Shaine's words. "Thanks," she said shyly.

Elly didn't attend school today due to his sprained ankle, hopefully, it would heal up in a few days.

Shaine run up to the middle of the field where lots of soccer balls are scattered, her sudden dizziness is slowly decreasing though they still don't know if she was sick or not and she refuses to go to the hospital, it was not that serious, she said.

"Hey Shaine." said a voice from behind, she turn her head to meet eyes with her friend.

"Hey Alex what's up?" she asks smiling with her dimples showing on her fair skin.

Alex scratches the back of his neck. "How's Elly doing?" he asked without looking at her eyes.

Shaine hums with a small nod along. "He's fine I think he may be back on his feet by tomorrow, it was only a mild sprain but I guess the hit from that guy was too strong that he can't even stand up after the game." she awkwardly chuckled, whispering the part where she mentioned the boy hitting her cousin.

After what happened yesterday both Shaine and Elly spend their afternoon laying on the white beds in a small room, when it was time to go home Elly's dad had to bring a wheelchair for him, but he didn't mind it at all though he did first refuse to sit on it.

"I hope he can get back on the field soon, oh yeah coach said that the team from yesterday will be visiting." hearing this made Shaine snap her head towards Alex.

"What do you mean visiting?" she asks with her brows slowly meeting each other. She did say that she had forgiven the boy but there's still a hint of anger in her heart.

Alex shrugged his shoulders. "I think they wanted to do surveillance or something."

"When will they be here?" she ask, just then a honk came from the school gate.

"Right now," Alex said chuckling to himself.

Shaine looked towards the gate which is a bit far from the field, there in front of the gate is a yellow school bus with a logo on the side, boys in different school uniforms came out one by one of the buses' each with their heads turning from side to side.

When all of the boys had gotten off the bus they slowly made their way toward the field, all of the students from the university can't help but glance at the group of boys walking down their school grounds. They were all good-looking, enough for some girls to silently squeal.

Shaine and Alex slowly walk up to them along with the other teammates.

"Good to see you again." the other team's captain greets with a smile.

Shaine didn't say a word and just stare at her shoes playing with a few long grass on the ground.

"You must be Shaine I presume." she snapped back to reality when she felt a little tap on her shoulder. She looks up to see the other team's captain smiling and staring at her.

With a little nod, she answered back. "Yes I am, it was a great game by the way."

"My name is Leonard but people call me Leo." the captain said and held up his hand, Shaine did resist and shook it.

"We were hoping to see a few actions from the princesses of the Stone Serpent," Leo said looking at his fellow team captain.

"Well, we would love to show off our princesses," Theo said and pointed to each of the three girls, Liza being a shy girl shyly waved at the group, Tiffiny on the other hand being a tomboy kind of girl saluted making a few laugh and Shaine simply wave with a smile.

"Alright then let's see more of what you got," Leo said clapping his hands. The two teams walk towards the left side of the goal, the three girls run up to their spots, Tiffiny on the goal while Shaine and Liza are not that away from her.

Theo looks back to one of his teammates. "Effrin if you please," he asks one of them, Effrin runs up the front of Shaine and Liza with the ball in hand. "Effrin is one of my great members." he continued.

"Now you see each one of our princesses has their special strength," Theo said calmly before giving a small nod towards Effrin.

Effrin dribbles the ball towards the girls but before he could pass them Liza swiftly steals the ball.

"Liza is great at stealing the ball, she may be shy but her stealing techniques are incredible, she could steal the ball in one swoop," Theo explained smiling to himself.

Liza slowly runs towards the net and passes the ball to Shaine.

"Shaine is an incredible shooter with amazing new techniques of her own. "

Shaine positioned herself ready to kick the ball with all her might.

"Tiffiny is our precious little goalie, don't be fooled by her small size cause she can run fast and block the ball with her small hands."

Shaine kicks the ball toward Tiffiny, and the ball swims through the air, Tiffiny grins running towards the left side and then she jumps blocking the ball to enter her zone.

"Hey, captain," Tiffiny yells making them look at her.

"Call me small again and I'll throw this ball at your face," she said smirking which made Theo shiver a little.

"I'm not really that great at stealing, it's just out of luck." Liza shyly said playing with her hand with her head looking down on the grassy ground.

"And I don't make up new techniques it was just for a one-time experience," Shaine said crossing her arms across her chest.

Theo cleared his throat and stare back at what he called princesses.

"Could you at least be thankful that I'm making you look good for the public?" he said pouting a little.

"Nope," Tiffiny replied.

"Nah," Shaine answered.

"Thank you?" Liza said curious about her answer.

Their answers made Theo's face palmed and then frown, the girls are very talented and cheerful but both Tiffiny and Shaine have sharp tongues from time to time.

Leo laughs at what the girls are doing and comforts Theo.

Shaine kick another ball to the net which Tiffiny blocked with her small hands, she walk up to the two with the ball in between her hips and arm.

"Hey, Shaine were you in a fight?" Tiffiny asks making Shaine raise her brow.

"What do you mean Tiff, you do know that I don't do violence," Shaine answered back chuckling a little.

Tiffiny scratches the back of her neck. "Then why is that dude staring at you?" she asks pointing towards the group.

Shaine stared at where Tiffiny is pointing, she saw the boy who hit Elly staring at her and the minute he saw her look at him he averted his eyes. What's up with him, she asks herself.

" Is he still trying to flirt with you?" Tiffiny asks putting the ball down on the ground and sitting on it with little force.

"I don't think so," Shaine replied sitting along on the grass.

Tiffiny looks up to Liza. "What do you think Liza?" she asks.

The girls are always this close, since the first time Liza join the team both Shaine and Tiffiny keep talking to her which made her warm up to them.

"Maybe he likes her?" Liza said settling down on the ground.

Tiffiny clap her hands together as if she had figured something out.

"That may be it," she said smirking towards Shaine.

Shaine chuckles a little. "Come on guys don't say silly things like that, I know he did say sorry but I still think that he hates the likes of me."

"And why would he hate a girl like you, I read a lot of books and I've learned that when a boy is staring at you and when you caught him and he averted his eyes he likes you," Liza said then smile at Shaine.

Shaine can't help to laugh a bit. "Guys don't assume too much it can kill you, and that's not staring that's glaring," she said using her lips to point toward the boy they were chattering about.

He notice how the girl stare back at her and instantly avert his stare, it was bad for his reputation to be staring at a particular girl, he's known in his school as a bad boy heart breaker type of guy, indeed he has the aura of a bad boy and the appearance too.

The girls then move away from the group and run up to the other side of the field.

"I still think he likes you." Tiffiny suddenly pops up her statement again.

"I second the motion." Liza playfully agreed with a hand raised above her shoulders.

Shaine laughed at what her friends are stating but she doesn't believe a word, the time when she was pinned between the sink and got pushed aside using her head, the smirk he gave to her when Elly was on the ground with groans of agony was enough for her to state her own thought that the boy indeed hates her.

Little that the girls know while they were happily chatting while running, a boy was looking in their direction with a scary stare at Shaine's back, he tsked under his breath and put his hands into his side pockets.