NonPopular ~ Book 1 [A LCS FanFic]

Confidence

I stormed into Jeffrey's room: "Jeff!"
"What?", he sat up and looked at me: "What's up?"
"Where the hell is Mary?"
"What do you mean?", he looked at me confused: "I brought her to bed yesterday."
"Well, she's not in her bed nor anywhere else in this house."
Now he stood up: "Eh? Did you try to call her?"
"Of course, but she wouldn't answer", I tried to call her again.
Nothing.
"See?", I pointed at my phone: "Heinz will be so mad if she's not here in one hour."
"Maybe she went for a walk?"
"No, I don't think so", I sighed: "Heinz is awake since a long time, I'm pretty sure he would have seen her. Also, why should she go out in the morning? It's cold."
"I don't know", he touched his head: "I think the only thing we can do right now, is to wait."
I nodded: "You're probably right. Well, I hope she's alright though."

After that, I went downstairs and sat there for 45 minutes in front of my computer, just watching stuff on YouTube. There was a new episode from Hand of Blood's - Call is Call, it distracted me a bit from my negative thoughts. I was a bit worried, cause I had no idea where the hell she could have been. Suddenly my phone rang. It was Mary. It picked it up instantly: "Mary!"
"Lauren", I heard her tired voice: "When is the meeting?"
I completely ignored her question: "Where are you?"
She giggled: "I'm at Kasing's gaming house."
"W-what?", I was confused: "Why? How?"
"I don't know. When we came back home, I was pretty drunk and then I called Kasing and I don't know, suddenly I was at his place", she laughed.
"So, I guess everything's alright again between you guys?"
"Yes", I could see her grin over the phone: "So when is the meeting?"
"Uhm", I looked at my computer's watch: "In about 15 minutes."
"What? Oh shit! I'm gonna hurry, tell Heinz that I'll be there in 30 minutes. I'm gonna take a Taxi", she hung up.
I sighed and turned to Jeffrey.
"What did she say?"
"That she's at Kasing's place and she'll be there in about half an hour. So we need to distract Heinz a bit."

We all sat around the living room table as usual and Heinz looked at us: "Where is Mary?"
"Uhm, she'll be here in about 15 minutes", I answered.
"Okay?", he took his notebook: "Why?"
"She slept at Kasing's place", I said: "But she'll be her soon! And she has no hangover!"
Heinz smiled: "Okay, okay. Let's start in the meanwhile. Thursday Elements and Friday H2K."

After 20 minutes, the door opened and Mary came running in: "I'm so sorry! Heinz, please forgive me! I'm really sorry!"
He nodded: "It's okay. Just sit down. We only spoke about botlane in the meanwhile, so no worries."
"Okay, good. Oh man, I'm so sorry", she sat down and sighed.
"No problem", Heinz smiled: "But now, let's concentrate on the games next week. Friday is gonna be a hard time for us. I think that they learned a lot from the last game. They won't do the same mistakes again."

After the the meeting, I went upstairs and called my mother.
"Hello", she said happily: "How are you?"
"Hey, I'm good and you?"
"Good, now that you called. Are you alright?"
"Yes, why?", I laid down on my bed.
"Cause you hardly call me. I always have to call you."
I sighed: "You know that I don't have so much time. But I wanted to ask you something. I mean, we already talked about it, but I wanted to ask you again."
"Yes, what is it?"
It took me a while to ask, cause I was afraid of the answer: "Do you already know whether you come or not? There are only 2 weeks left and I would be really happy if you could also watch me live on stage."
"Oh. No, I'm really sorry, Lauren", she sighed: "I would love to, but your father and I have a lot of work to do. Also, aren't there other games after these weeks? I remember you told me something like that."
"Yes", I thought about the play-offs: "Well, it depends on which place we make. I mean, I'm sure that we won't make top 2, so we will probably play the week right after."
"We will see, okay?"
"Mum", I sighed.
"Yes?"
I rolled around in my bed and tried not to cry: "Tell dad that he should force you to come here."
She laughed a bit: "I'll call you if I have more information."
"Okay, then I'll go now", I sat up: "We need to train a bit now."
"Okay, good luck. I love you."
"I love you too", I hung up and started to cry. I haven't seen my parents in weeks and I started to miss them more and more. Of course it was awesome, living in Berlin, playing in the LCS every week, seeing Febiven so often, but it was also hard for my feelings. I really started missing a lot of things from Vienna.