Make It or Break It

Chapter Four: Pranks Go Wrong

Riley slammed her office door closed as she stepped inside, she shivered as she slipped out of her soaking black jacket in quilting that she had paired with a white wrap blouse, black leather trousers with biker detail and silver heeled sandals.

A couple of footballers had decided to drop several water bombs on her as she had stepped into the building.

She sighed and looked at Aiden who was at her desk drawing she had only gone to her car to get her mobile phone charger.

Aiden looked at his mother confused, as she started to take off her wet clothes before she caught a cold.

“Mummy?” he asked her as she ran a hand through her hair. She looked at him and smiled, before putting her jacket onto the heater.

“One of the boys playing a silly little joke sweetheart,” she said wondering if she should mention this to her father. She shook her head dismissing the thought, it was as she had told Aide

n; a silly little joke. Aiden nodded before he turned back to his drawing, Riley plugged her mobile in before she stretched; she had a meeting with Ashley in fifteen minutes, though she wouldn’t be surprised if he didn’t turn up.

She didn’t know what it was but since the bonding session her father had held a few days earlier, she had become enemy number one in Stamford Bridge.

Riley jumped as she heard someone knock on her door, clearing her throat she spoke as she tried to dry herself in some way.

“Come in?” the brunette said though it sounded like a question, she hated that she was being targeted for no reason and that they seemed to think that their behaviour was fine.

None of the boys took her work seriously at the club and if they didn’t turn up for her sessions then they were usually late.

Ashley smiled at her as he stepped into her office, however he frowned when he saw that she was soaked from head to toe.

Riley sighed as she nodded towards the next room knowing that she would have to focus on their session instead of on the fact that she was being targeted.

“What happened to you?” he asked slightly concerned making Riley sigh as she too sat down, she ran a hand through her wet brown hair and bite her lip.

“Boys being boys,” she said making him nod, he felt guilty that the younger players were now playing pranks on her; they had taken Didier’s declaration a bit too far.

They had poured paint on her the day after the bonding session, then they had redecorated her car the next and now dropping water bombs on her; he wondered if it would stop before someone got hurt.

“So what do you want to talk about?” she asked turning the conversation away from herself, Ashley sighed and looked down at his left hand.

Riley smiled sadly at him, she knew the story behind his divorce, and while she knew that he was to blame; she did feel sorry for him.

“Take your time,” she said as he looked at her and nodded, he was thankful that he had someone to talk about this with.

Ashley took a deep breath before he started to speak, he hoped that finally talking about it would help him move on.

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Stepping out of their session, Riley frowned as she spotted two of the youth teamers in her office; both boys froze like a deer in headlights when they spotted Riley and Ashley.