Selfless

Chapter 33

Me and Sadia walk through the double doors of our new gym. Each of us with our gym bag. Coach had sent us the email yesterday.

A short blonde white woman that looks around my moms age is standing in front of a group of men and women. She stops and looks at us with a smile. I assume she's our new coach. She leaves the girls to walk over to us. Everyone happens to be looking at us now, some whispering. Hopefully good things.

"You girls must be Sadia and Ariel. It's nice to have you both joining the team." She stops in front of us. "I know Megan likes to go by Coach but I honestly prefer Heather, my name." It took me a second to realize Megan is Coach.

I smile. "We're happy to be joining." I tell her honestly.

"Are you Ariel or Sadia?" She asks with her head tilted slightly.

"I'm Ariel."

She hums and looks to Sadia. "And your Sadia."

Sadia nods with a friendly smile.

"That's good to know, let's go to my office, I have a few things to discuss with you both ." She starts walking to the side of the gym where a door reads office outside of it and we follow.

The gym is nice and huge, almost better than the one at school. One blonde girl makes eye contact with me as I look around and I send a smile her way. She quickly looks away in a shy manner or as if she's just been caught doing something she shouldn't be.

We take a seat in front of her desk as the coach sits behind it. "I assume you two know everything there is too know otherwise Megan wouldn't have suggested you two but I still would like to see you girls do every tumble your expected to know. Think of it as a review."

"Ok." I don't have a problem with that.

"Once that's over with we'll get into practicing our routine. Ask someone to show to the locker room where you can leave your stuff.

We stand and thank her before leaving. I follow behind Sadia, letting her do the talking. As we approach the group makes it obvious as they start whispering. I catch the blonde from earlier smack a slightly tall olive skinned brunette next to her on the arm causing the girl to stand up straight. Her now wide eyes go to me and Sadia. It's like she didn't realize we were so close.

Most of the girls and even a few guys are looking at us like we're celebrities but we kinda are I guess. Going to the school that I go to I forget that I'm famous due to my moms since almost everyone there comes from the school has famous parents. Even Rani's dad, Owen is a well known lawyer. It's just not really surprising to anyone unless it's a new student.

"Could one of you point us to the locker room, please?" Sadia asks no one in particular.

"Yeah, I'm ok to walk you both there." Some brunette girl steps up almost eagerly it seems.

Sadia gives her a smile. "Thank you."

She hums as we follow behind her then looks over her shoulder at us. "I'm Natalia by the way."

I smile and start to introduce myself. "I'm-" She interrupts me.

"Ariel De'Sacra, we all know already." She says with a smirk before looking to Sadia. "You're Sadia Hassan, the daughter of the man that owns Abdari. Love it by the way."

Abdari is the jewelry company Sadia's dad owns. He also invests heavily in a lot of big businesses mostly in Iran.

Sadia chuckles. "I am." She squints her eyes curiously. "How'd you know?"

Natalia shrugs. "Some of us looked you both up after learning you come from the most expensive private school in Manhattan. Also Kya De'Sacra is very known anyway so the last name made me curious. Little invasive, maybe, but can you blame us?"