CHAPTER NINE
barbie movie marathon !

nc state, iowa city IA
L 81-94

     "YOU could be anyone for a day who would you choose?" caitlin asked. kinsley let out a hum sipping her boba. the cheerleader and the basketball player were walking around a small mall early in the morning on the day of a game. caitlin managed to sneak out of her dorm room before coach caught her and kinsley did so as well.

they've been non stop hanging out for the past few days and neitherless to say, they couldn't get enough of each other. kinsley found herself waking up and receiving a text message from caitlin and smiling. caitlin fell into the habit of texting her goodmorning whenever she wakes up.

"barbie. definitely barbie from either charm school, mermaid tail or princess and the popstar." kinsley said sitting down on one of the tables. caitlin laughed and nodded her head expecting kinsley to say that. "you? but something fun."

"bibble." caitlin said smiling. kinsley was confused at first until caitlin did an impression of bibble and kinsley laughed loudly.

"no way! do that again!" kinsley said putting her hand over her mouth to prevent her laughter to get louder. caitlin shook her head and leaned back against her seat. "come on, cait! caitlin."

"no, no, you called me cait! i heard that!" caitlin said gasping and leaning back forward. kinsley groaned and threw her head back regretting it. it slipped so naturally out of her mouth that she didn't even have time to comprehend.

"i did not. you're hearing things clark." kinsley said playing with the draw of her drink. caitlin didn't say anything and only looked at kinsley. the cheerleader nervously drank her boba and picked in her sandwich.

but little did she know that caitlin clark doesn't care how much kinsley continues denying the fact that she did call her a nickname, the one second that kinsley called her cait it made her entire day. caitlin leaned back against her chair as her eyes never left kinsley.

"anyways, tomorrow clear your schedule." kinsley said looking back up from her drink and straight towards caitlin. kinsley's' stomach erupted with butterflies that she didn't even want there the second that her and caitlin locked eyes.

"why?" caitlin asked tilting her head to the side grinning at the cheerleader.

"we're going to do a barbie marathon. so, clear your schedule." kinsley said breaking eye contact and taking out her phone to text something to stefani.

"okay."

• • •

stefani 💋
private messages between
stefani 💋 and kins🤍

kins 🤍
stefani stefani
stefani i need your help
stefani
STEFAJI IM GOING TO DIE
i want to be mean again 😞

stefani 💋
woahwoahwoah
wait
what's wrong?
what happened?
does matt and i have to go beat up someone?

kins 🤍
yes me.
i told caitlin to clear out her schedule for tmmrw
bc we're going to watch barbie
but SHES TELLING ME THAT ONLY US
AND I WAS GOING TO INVITE YOU GUYS
BUT ABPART OF ME DOESNT WANT TO
A PART OF ME WANTS ME TO BE ALONR WTH HER
STEFANI IM SICK

stefani 💋
one: we weren't going to go
bc we also want you guys to have alone time

two: YOU INVITEDHER OUT YES! THATS
STEP TWO OF THE HTGTG PLAN!!!!

three: why are you sick?

kins 🤍
i got butterflies when caitlin looked at me.

stefani 💋
oh

kins 🤍
oh?
OH? WDYM OH?
OH ISNT HELPINH
AND NEITHER IS TJE GACT THST YOURE NOT
ANDWERINH
OH? STEFANI OH?????

stefani 💋
um what did you say to stefani to get her
jumping off the walls, screaming happily
and kicking her feet?
it's matt btw

kins 🤍
put stefani back on the phone

stefani 💋
OH MY GOD YES
DINALLY OH MY GOD
OMGOMGOMGOGMOGMGOMGOGMG
OFNGOGKGMKGOFFM
i deserve a drink
god i'm so happy
OML OMLOML

WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO ABT IT?
ARE TOU FONNA WAIT A LITTLE LONGER
AND TWLL HER??? ARE YOU GONNA
MAKE THE FIRST MOVE????

kins 🤍
i don't really think imma do anything
i don't even know if she likes girls
plus i don't even know if i got butterflies
bc i was nervous of asking her or bc
her eyes are really really pretty

stefani 💋
caitlin likes girl
if her playing basketball doesn't
give it away...
but caitlin likes girls

kins 🤍
okay but has she said it out loud? no

stefani 💋
oh lord...
come over quickly to the arena.

• • •

kinsley made it to the arena an hour after stefani told her to get there. the girls were playing practicing and doing warm ups waiting for the other team to arrive as well. kinsley dropped her cheer bag inside of the lockers before heading out to the benches where stefani was at.

kinsley sat down next to stefani and sighed deeply. stefani looked over towards her wondering why her cheerleader best friend sighed deeply. that's when stefani followed her eyeline.

kinsley was sighing deeply because she was looking at number twenty two. stefani smirked and let her friend continue staring. kinsley put her elbows on her thighs and dropped her chin to her hand. she couldn't help but admire caitlin who was into her zone as she practiced. she couldn't believe that not even a week ago she hated her. now she's admiring her.

caitlin looked over too the stands and smiled widely at kinsley. kinsley found herself smiling softly back at caitlin. the basketball player brought her hand up and waved at kinsley. that's when kate threw the basketball at caitlin regaining her focus.

"you're in so deep, kinsley." stefani said with a laugh.

"ugh i hate it." kinsley said hiding her face in her hands. stefani continued to smile and put her hand on kinsley's back rubbing gently.

"come on girls and boys! let's start practicing!" coach lucy shouted clapping her hands together. "come on! let's go, people! kinsley stop eyeing the basketball girls and let's go!"

"i wasn't-i wasn't eyeing no one, coach!" kinsley groaned standing up and going down the bleachers. coach lucy snorted and muttered a, yeah right. kinsley shyly glanced back towards the basketball girls only to not spot her anymore. kinsley frowned her eyebrows before hiding her disappointment.

"you were so eyeing me kenny." caitlin said in her air causing kinsley to jump. kinsley turned around and slapped her arm glaring at her. but the glare wasn't even a real glare, it was — for the first time — a playful glare.

"in your dreams, clark. i rather stare straight into the sun than be eyeing you." kinsley said with a scoff going to turn back around but that's when she froze in her spot as she felt caitlin's arm find its way around her waist and pull her towards her chest. kinsley's back was pressed against the athletes chest.

kinsleys eyes widen and her mind went blank when she felt caitlin breath right on her neck. kinsley tilted her head to the side looking at caitlin who was already looking at her. caitlin smirked and squeezed her grip on kinsley's hip.

"you know kenny, if you want to look at me i can always give you a free and private show." caitlin whispered in her ear. the basketball team and the cheer team were all inside of the locker rooms long forgotten by caitlin and kinsley.

kinsley hummed to what she said. her eyes landed on caitlin's lips and that's when she snapped back. kinsley put her hand on top of caitlin and took it off her body. she pushed herself off caitlin and turned around walking backwards, away from caitlin.

"you fanatiza about that a lot don't you?" kinsley said  emerging inside of the locker room and leaving caitlin outside with the biggest grin known to man kind. caitlin threw her head back and ran her rough hands over her face.

• • •

unknown
private messages between
unknown and kinsley chung

unknown
you really thought you can hide
and think i would never find you huh?
you thought wrong kinsley.
i'll always find you.

kinsley chung
BAHAHHAAH
what...😃

unknown
i know that you're a cheerleader
now at the university of iowa.
i know you live in an apartment with your
blonde friend.
i know you're having some sort of fling
with that basketball player?
what's her name? caitlin.

kinsley chung
seriously who the fuck are you
mind your own fucking business fucking weirdo

unknown
mhm.
does she know about me?
about the things i used to do to you?

kinsley chung
ben
what the fuck is wrong with you fucking psycho
what the fuck do you want from me huh
telling me this shit like as if we're in some kind of netflix movie
this is real shit ben and i can easily report you
i know where YOU live, i know your family
don't know why you're saying all this shit
when it was you who cheated on me
with MY OWN FUCKING COUSIN
so block my shit, to stick your dick somewhere
which most likely has fucking stds and leave me the fuck alone.

• • •

kinsley was out of it. even before they lost the game, kinsley wasn't herself and everyone noticed. they noticed when kinsley put on a fake smile to cheer and then it dropped the second they stopped.

"hey kinsley! we're going out to matt's, wanna come?" kate asked jogging up to her with caitlin, monika and madison behind her.

"um, no." kinsley said stuttering a bit. "no, no thank you. i'm tired, yeah, i'm going to go sleep and um," kinsley blinked away her tears and gave them a forced smile, "you guys go have fun. make sure stefani doesn't kill matt."

kinsley said forcing out a laughing. she tighten the grip on her cheer bag before walking away. the quartet noticed something was off but let kinsley go.

the cheerleader broke down into tears the second that she made it outside and unlocked the door to her car. she threw her bag in the back seat, turned on her car, slammed her door shut and cried. kinsley cried in the dark alone in her car.

it was becoming harder to breath. her grip on her steering wheel wasn't helping. her cheer uniform was starting to become to tight on her and her ponytail. god how much her ponytail was giving her a headache. kinsley let out another chocked sob as she dragged the tie down her hair and put it on her cup holder.

kinsley let out a scared gasp when her passenger door got open and someone came inside. "kenny what's—" kinsley only needed to hear her nickname before bursting into tears and dropped her head down to her hands. caitlin's eyes widen and she leaned forward. she wrapped her arm around kinsley and brought the smaller girl to her body.

kinsley fist up caitlin's shirt and cried more onto her shoulder. "kenny, shh, it's okay. im here. i'm here now." caitlin cooed being grateful now that she trusted her gut and didn't go with the others.

"hey, hey," caitlin whispered pulling away and putting her rough hands on kinsley's soft cheek. "let me drive you home. we can talk there or i can just drop you off and get an uber back to the dorms. whatever you want."

"can you-can you stay over and talk?" kinsley whispered shyly. her eyes looking down to her lap instead of caitlin embarrassed of herself to look at caitlin straight in the eye.

caitlin smiled softly and lifting her head up. "yeah, i can." kinsley brought her gaze up to caitlin. the cheerleaders eyebrows lifting up and she looked at caitlin like as if she's the only girl in the world. "but let me drive. yeah?"

"yeah."

▌ c.speaks ! . . . ˚.
THEYRE SO GIRLFRIEND STOP

we don't like ben clearly.
also i saw another good ass author
i forgot their user but the second i find it
ILL TAG THEM BUT THEY HAVE
a nika book, a caitlin one and a paige one AND
LET ME TELL TOU GOOD ASS MF BOOKS
anyways... i have the same question the author did for y'all.

update... a week late ITS @ohmygoshlol__ i think idk IN SORDY IF ITS WRONG

should i make this book mature? bc i feel
like it should due to this being an enemies to lovers and like the tension and i've both ACCIDENTALLY written and purposely written... but like idk. HELP.