Désiré

chapter 7

Désiré

I saw him entering the class with his friends and we made eye contact and I couldn't help but wonder what was going on in his head, despite the fact that his friends were having a conversation, he still held me in his calculative gaze and I suddenly felt so little. When his friends finally realized who he was staring at, they smiled and went to take their seat.

I wanted nothing more than to wipe that smirk off their faces and I wish the teacher will enter and save me from this misery.

After tons of introduction at my various classes, I was finally free from the day and I couldn't be more excited. I decided to text joe to ask about his whereabout.

"Where are you?".

"At the field".

"What are you doing there?".

"What do they do at the field, smartass?, Why don't you come check it out?"

"Ughh, fine, be right there".

After much difficulty, I finally located the field, it was a large open space, containing numerous seats, training materials and I couldn't help but wonder how large this school really was. I finally saw my brother among other players, probably about to choose their formation and I rolled my eyes.

Typical joe, 'the athletic one, the favoured one, it's like it's the aura he eminates'. First day of school and he's already joined the football team and here I was thinking it would be hard for him to fit in and make new friends. I guess I was wrong, even back in Chicago, he was also on the football team, the ladies man and every girl's dream, the teacher's favorite, almost everyone loved him. Not to sound jealous or anything but sometimes I wished he would turn invisible for a day and I'll see how he'll feel.

Just then, he sighted me and came jogging towards me and the other players turned their attention to me and I immediately felt self conscious.

"Hi",he says almost out of breath from the training and I couldn't help but wonder how long they have been practicing because it was unlike joe to be like this.

"Since when did you become a player on the football team?".

"Since now, I decided to try out for the team, when the coach saw how good I was, he let me join", he says with a proud smirk.

" Or they are just short of players and want someone to desperately fill the space", I say back wanting to deflate his ego and I must say it worked quite a bit cause his face fell a little bit.

" Yeah, say whatever you want but you also can't deny how good I am", he replies with another annoying smirk that I so desperately want to wipe off.

" How long have you been training by the way? ".

" A few hours", he replies with a nonchalant shrug and I feel my eyes nearly bulge out of their socket.

"Few hours!!, but classes didn't officially end until few minutes ago".

"Well, we have an upcoming game with a huge rival, so they gave us free passes to skip class as players of this prestigious school. In order to practice hard,we can't afford to lose."

" Lucky you"

" You could join if you wanted "

" Nahh, thank you, I think I'll pass"

" So I already called home that I might come home late so you could either wait for me or go home by yourself, anyone's fine by me ", he says and I weighed the odds, going home in a town I barely know didn't sound really appealing.

" I'll stay "

" You sure? ", He asks with a hint of doubt

"Yup"

"Alright, you have a seat and enjoy the game", he says with a playful smile and I couldn't help but smile

"Yeah, whatever", I say with an eye roll, I decided to take a seat on one of the bleachers and use to opportunity to do my assignment and also pass time.

"Watch out!!", Was what I heard before a ball came crashing a my chest, literally knocking life out of me. I couldn't help but scream, clutching hard at my chest due to the pain I felt.

I opened my eyes when I heard my brother screaming and I saw a sign of relief on his face when I opened my eyes.

"Are you okay?", He asked with concerned written all over his face.

"I'm fine", I managed to wheeze out.

"Oh thank God"

"I'm so sorry",I heard a voice say, I looked up and saw a brown skinned guy looking all guilty.

"It's fine", I managed to say out of my pain.

"Come on, I'm taking you home", Joe says wanting to lift me up.

"But you are not done with practice",

"But you need to rest",

"I'm fine"

"You sure?", He asks with a hint of doubt in his voice.

"Yup", I managed to put on a smile

"I'll go get you ice", the brown skinned guy says before running off to God knows where. I then looked around and noticed a bit if crowd around me with concern written all over their faces

"I'm fine guys, you don't have to worry"

"Are you sure, we could end practice so Joe could take you home to properly rest", a middle age man says and I guessed him to be their coach.

"No, you guys don't have to bother, I'll be fine, seriously, just need a few minutes to recover", I say remembering how important joe said this practice was, I certainly did not want to disrupt it over a little hit.

"Here you go", the brown skinned guy says handing me a bag of ice and I accepted it from him with a smile. "Thanks"

"Sure, it's the least I could do", he says nervously scratching the back if his head in guilt and I couldn't help but smile a little at his cuteness.

"Come on now, you guys should go continue your practice, I certainly won't want to delay you guys over it", I say shooing them with my hand and a few of them smile before heading over to the field to resume practice but Joe lingered for a few seconds.

"Don't worry, I'll be fine, you go do you, besides I'm right over here", I say reassuring him with a smile.

He reluctantly accepted and went back to meet his other teammates. He looked back a few times and I kept reassuring him with a smile and a thumbs up whole still keeping the ice pressed to my chest.

Phew, that was a lot, that wasn't how I planned to chapter to be, but I guess it was a spontaneous one🤭.

Who else noticed that I added the character's POV at the beginning.

Who do you think is the new guy??😁. I'll be in the comment section awaiting your reply.

Don't forget to share your thoughts in the comment section, there might be a few grammatical error but please bear with me.

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