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Kimora's POV

"Here you go Bubs." Mom says then she hands me tonight's line-up.

21-Adrianna Franch
14-Kimora Heath(C)
4-Sarah Gorden
25-Alana Cook
15-Casey Krueger
19-Crystal Dunn
20-Catarina Macario
11-Mal Pugh
23-Christen Press
2-Sydney Leroux
9-Midge Purce

It's about time we have an all woman of color line-up.

"This line-up's sick." I mumble.

"Very sick." Mama says as we pull up to Audi field

After the bus stops everyone grabs their bags then we get off the bus and head to the locker room.

When I get to the locker room I put my stuff down in my locker then I open my bag and grab my jump rope.

"Bubba." Mama says. "Did you see the back of your jersey?"

I shake my head then I look at the back of my jersey.

On the back of my jersey, in place of my first name, is the name Daddy.

Tonight we're doing a Military Veteran appreciation game since Veterans Day was a few days ago and we're putting names of military members in our family's on the back of our Jersey's or, if you don't have any in your family, then they gave you files on different fallen soldiers and you got to pick who to put on your jersey.

I'm obviously putting my Dad's name on my jersey, but I only ever called him Daddy so I put the name that Kyra and I called him on my jersey.

I miss my Dad.

And I miss my Mama's.

After I look at my jersey I follow the girls out to do the pitch inspection then I stand off to the side and do my normal skipping routine with the jump rope while listening to music.

After 15 minutes I stop doing jump rope thing then I follow my teammates back to the locker room.

When I get to my locker I take my AirPods out, take out my nose ring, take off my necklaces and my rings, then I put my jewelry and AirPods in my bag.

Once I'm jewelry free I put on my warm up top then I put on my game shorts.

I then sit down in my locker, put my long, curly, raven black hair up in a ponytail, put on my socks and put on my black and rainbow boots.

After my boots are on I head onto the field with the outfield players

When I get on the pitch I run through my warm ups with the starters for a while then we head back to the locker room.

Once in the locker room I change out of the training top and change into my white jersey while the coaches do their last minute talks.

After the last minute talks are over we are told to head to the tunnel so I head to the front of the line in the tunnel.

Once in the tunnel I see I'm escorting out a world war 2 veteran so I stand next to him then the two of us chat.

"Sir can I ask you something?" I ask.

"Sure." The old man says.

"How do you feel about me kneeling during the anthem?" I ask.

"Sweetheart." The old man says which makes me feel fuzzy. "I fought fascist and racists over in Europe so you could have the right to peacefully protest...Lemme ask you something."

"Anything."

"Do you believe in what your kneeling for?" The WW2 veteran asks.

"100 Percent." I say.

"Then you fucking kneel for as long as you want." The old man says making me smile.

"I will."

"Atta girl" The old man says making me chuckle.

Seconds later we are told to head out onto the field for the prematch stuff so I push the WW2 veteran out onto the field and lead the team out onto the field

Once on the field my teammates stand in a line and stand in silence for the German anthem.

When our anthem starts, myself, the whole starting eleven and a most of the ladies on the bench all take a knee.

After our anthem plays we shake hands with the refs and the German then I escort the veteran off the field and hug him before I do the coin toss with the German captain.

Once the coin toss is done with I head to our bench, do our team huddle, then I head onto the field with my teammates.

"LET'S GO MOMO." My twin shouts as the game kicks off.

For the first 35 minutes of the game the Germans are in control of the game and the German captain and I have a couple decent battles.

Luckily I win all of them.

In the 36th minute one of the German defenders passes the ball up field to Melanie Leupolz who then turns up field and looks for an option.

Popp notices space behind me so she calls for the ball and starts moving towards the space so I follow.

Melanie notices Popp's call so she plays a ball towards us.

When the ball bounces in front of us I stick my long ass leg out and tap the back through Popp's legs then I spin around and run up field with the ball.

As I run up field I notice Mama running into space so I put my head down then launch the ball towards the brunette.

After the ball leaves my foot I watch as the ball flies towards the forward then Mama brings the ball out of the air and runs towards goal.

Mama pulls a Mama and drops a few defenders then she gets enough space so she shoots towards goal and bends the ball around the German keeper making the score 1-0.

"So far." I mumble then stay in my position.

Some of the girls celebrate with Mama then everyone gets onside before the German's restart the game

In the 44th minute we get a corner so Mama goes over to take it while ghost around at the top of the box.

After the whistle blows Mama sends the ball towards me and I watch as he ball drops right to me.

When the ball gets to the perfect height to volley I put my right foot through the ball then I watch as the ball rockets into the top corner of the goal making the score 2-0.

Once the ball hits the net I take off toward Mama to hug her.

"That's my Bubba." Mama says

The rest of the team join the hug then we all head back to our side of the field.

The ref then blows for halftime so we all head into the locker room and rest for fifteen minutes.

Once halftime is over everyone comes back out of the locker room and gets to their positions then we kickoff the second half.

In the 55th minute I notice I start to get a bit emotional so I motion for a sub then a few seconds later someone subs in for me.

When I get to the bench I sit down at the end of the bench, throw a towel over my face, then have a good cry.

"Let it out Baby." Mommy says as she wraps her arms around me. "Mommy's got you."

"I miss my Daddy." I sob. "I miss him so much."