"John.. What are you doing here? ".... Lea asked
John:" I came to see Cole's practice, is there any problem? "
Lea:" huhh.. Are you fine.. do you have a fever.. Let me touch your forehead.. "
Cole: "What happened Lea? "
Lea:" John said he came to see you practice..umm.. Rose you are also here.....Ok, Now I understood !! Rose must have been coming to see Cole's practice and you just followed her here right??"
John shrugged his shoulders and said nonchalantly:" What's the difference? "
Lea:"...."
Lea became speechless and started wondering how there is no difference of course, there is a big fat difference.. who doesn't know that John doesn't like Cole and today he willingly came to see him practice... isn't it a little hard to believe?...Seeing him wondering in his own world John decided to answer.
John:" Just like you follow your childhood friend Cole everywhere...I also follow her everywhere.. Are you satisfied now ? hmm.."
Lea:" Hmm.....this seems to be a reasonable answer ...SATISFIED "
Cole gritted his teeth and said :"If you two are satisfied with each other... Can we start our practice? "! !
Lea:"..... "
John: "..... "
Rose: "sighs.. "
Cole: "Let's go Lea.. Rose you just go sit on the side and watch me practice... OK ? "
Rose: "OK"!
After saying ok.. Rose extended her fair hand in front of him in pretext of asking him for something.
Cole: "Do you want something..Rose? "
Rose: "water and towel"
Cole: "Huh? "
Rose: "water and towel "
Cole: "Oh oh yes... wait a minute.. "
Rose: "Hm"
Cole ran towards their changing room and brought a clean white Face Towel and a bottle of water and gave it to Rose. Seeing this John was pissed.
John: "Do you take Rose as your servant? "
Cole:" No, I take her as my friend...Rose you sit and watch me practice I am going "
Blushing Rose: "OK"!!
John: "Yes, Yes let's see you practice....hmphh!!"
Lea followed Cole to the changing room where the entire team was changing clothes and both also started changing into jersey and shorts. After getting changed, the entire team came to the basketball court and started practicing... they didn't mind the presence of Rose and John in the court because they all were already classmates. So, it was fine to them except to one person, Cole. It was the first time that he was playing in front of Rose so he kept feeling nervous . He was the only one who knew how he actually managed to play in her presence and pledged in his mind to never call her to see him practice again.
Coach: "Good...Go rest for some time and I will meet you tomorrow "
Team: "YES COACH! "
All the members of the team were pretty tired so after the coach was gone, they all sat on the ground and started wiping their face and began to drink water. However, Cole despite being tired ran towards Rose and stood in font of her smiling foolishly. Seeing this Rose lifted the towel in her right hand , held his face with her left hand and started wiping his sweat happily. Cole experiencing her touch on his face started blushing furiously.. and immediately changed his earlier pledge in his mind.
Cole's face was already red because of playing under the Sun, so it was hard to determine whether he was blushing or it was just tiredness. Only, Rose thought that he was tired that's why he is so red and started wiping his face more gently which made his face as red as beetroot.
Seeing this all the members started thinking how lucky Cole was to have a female friend by his side and look at them, they were wiping their own sweat.
Members: "What a shame.. sighs"
John:"... "
After the practice was over, only two periods were left.Cole by some means again sat besides Rose and the poor John had to sit on the last bench again without his adorable brat. This was the worst day of his life and he started thinking about the reason of his existence in this cruel world . However, during the two periods Cole kept thinking about the feeling that he experienced when Rose touched his face. Thinking about that beautiful moment ,he kept smiling foolishly and was blushing furiously.
The last period got over and it was time to go home but Cole kept sitting with his red and smiling face. Seeing his extremely red face Rose became worried because she thought that it was because of playing under the sun, so she lifted her hand and touched his forehead. However, suddenly Cole froze in his position and forgot to breathe which made him cough continuously. Seeing him like this Rose became even more worried and started patting his back which made him even more embarrassed and he started coughing more furiously. The students who were leaving with their bags were all speechless seeing coughing Cole who was as red as beetroot. They all had one thought in their mind.. Why is he blushing so much?..
John couldn't see Rose patting his back anymore so he took her arm and made her stand three feet away from Cole and started patting his back himself. Cole stopped coughing and there were now four of them left in the classroom.
Lea's face twitched seeing this..
So, after making sure Cole was fine ,all of them went to the school's bus stand, took the school bus and went home. After reaching home Rose and her brother ate their lunch silently in presence of their angry mother and went to their own rooms to rest.
Rose changed into her home clothes and started studying without even taking a rest. However, suddenly she started experiencing a sharp pain in her chest and fainted.
"ROSE"!!!!! .... MY CHILD!!
and before closing her eyes completely, she saw her anxious grandmother running towards her crying...