Angelina's POV

Have you ever done something which the old you would never have even dreamt of? I have done a lot of such things today. One, for the first time I am at a football tryout. Two, I am supporting the triplets. Three, I am even supporting Jacob! Four, I am actually trying to learn the rules.

"So if your team plays offence, Justin will be the center and he would pass the ball to Dasher who is the quarterback?" I am telling them what I understood but it came out more as a question.

"Yes, then quarterback will call the play. Do you remember what he can do?" Justin asks.

"He can run with the ball, hand off the ball to the running back who is Jacob or throw it to a receiver. Drake is the wide receiver." This time I answer more confidently.

"Now defense!" Noah exclaims.

"But the rules of offence are not over." I say confused.

"He is the Cornerback which is a defense position so he is getting antsy." Drake says shaking his head.

"What do you do?" I ask Noah and his face automatically lights up.

"Most of the time I have to block the receivers. But I also defend against some running plays." He explains. They are not going into too much detail because even if they are explaining it vaguely my head is bursting from the amount of information.

"Back to the offence, how can you score points through goals?" Drake asks.

"By a touchdown which earns six points and then you can try for extra point or two points which most of the times you don't do. Or you can go for a field goal which is of three points." I answer grinning. At least I remember something. Ash and Rosie are trying not to laugh at me since they already know the basic rules. Katie had to go home and Chris is with Dylan.

"So now the penalties..."

"No! I can remember only this much. If you explain even one more rule, I am going to forget everything!" I exclaim. Ash and Rosie burst out laughing at my outburst while the triplets look at me amusingly.

"But princess we have not even told you anything about the downs or other terms." Justin says.

"Why does this game have so many rules?" I ask to no one in particular then add "And I can't learn everything in a single day. Just teach me the other rules some other day."

"Easy there, anyways the tryouts are about to start." Drake says raising him arm in mock surrender.

After we wish them luck and they make their way down the bleachers, I feel someone sitting down next to me. Ten points to the one who guesses who it might be!

"Don't you have a tryout to prepare for?" I ask dryly.

"Hello to you too, sunshine" He says grinning cheekily then adds "You said you weren't going to cheer for me, now look at you all set on the bleachers."

"I am here for the Triplets and Dasher." I say folding my hands and narrowing my eyes at him.

"Whatever helps you sleep at night, Sunshine." He says flicking my nose. He then leans closer. Is he going to kiss me!

"What.."

He then whispers in my ear "And after the tryout maybe you can show me how much you know about physical chemistry." He then lies back smirking. I am going to kill him!

"I think they are calling everyone." He is still smirking. I take my bag and hit him on the back repeatedly with it.

"Oh so you are into kinky stuff."

"You think you are funny, you asshole!" I yell still hitting him.

"Sorry!" He exclaims then runs down the bleachers. The people who witnessed the exchange are either laughing at him or giving me weird looks. Well they can suck my non existing d*ck. I only care about dealing with that little sh*t.

I glare at him and he has the audacity to wink and blow me a freaking kiss!

"What was that about?" Ash asks.

"Him being...him" I say not being able to think of anything else and sit down shooting Jacob a last glare to which he makes a heart symbol. That idiot still finds out how to be adorable after getting under my skin.

"Is something going on between you two?" Ash asks. Is he high or what?

"What no! Why would you ask me that?" I exclaim.

"You two were being friendly and you hated sorry strongly disliked him so I was just wondering." He shrugs.

"Okay, well no nothing is going on." I confirm then shoot Rosie a look 'Do you have any idea' to which she shakes her head.

Suddenly we hear a whistle and we turn to see coach calling everyone. He divides them into groups and sends those groups to different places on the field.

"What are these groups for?" I ask the other two.

"I think he is dividing the groups on the basis of position." Rosie answers pensively.

"Yes he is and then he will make him do the drills suited for their positions." Ash says looking at the field. When I notice closely I could distinguish between the drills.

In between the drills coach makes some people to go to some other group.

"Why is he doing that now?" I ask.

"They may have not played before so they must not have known what they are good at. So I think coach is putting them into the group of the position that may suit them the most." Ash answers.

"For someone who does not play the game you sure know a lot." I say raising an eyebrow.

"Curiosity" He shrugs.

With that we continue watching. According to the little knowledge I have, I think everyone is doing pretty good. That's when my eyes fall on the blue eyed devil. Ok maybe devil is a bit of exaggeration...

His dark locks are falling over his forehead dripping from sweat. Even when he pushes them, they fall back again. The sweat is as if illuminating all his features. High cheek bones, strong jaw and the fact that the shirt he is wearing is stuck to his body like a second skin doesn't help the case at all. I can practically see those stoned abs and the muscles rippling under the shirt and he still has a lean body and not bulky like those body builders. Some may like that but not me. I don't think I have really ever noticed him so closely and now that I have...

When the whistle blows I realize what I was doing. I can't even deny I wasn't checking him out because I would be lying. Damn hormones...

Ok I am attracted to him but I don't have a crush on him. Yup that’s it.

Are you sure about it?

Yes, love and lust are two different things and what I am feeling is lust which will blow over in a few days.

Whatever you say

This doesn't matter, Drew promised to always love and protect me.

Flashback (2nd Grade)

"Give it back to me!" I yell trying to get my pouch from two boys.

"Take it" One says when I go over to him but he throws it to the other one. Don't cry... don't cry...I chant inside my head.

"Just give it back to me." My voice cracks at the end.

"Are you going to cry now? You are such a crybaby." They both start laughing.

"Give it back to her" I turn to see Drew making his way to them. Now I feel better since I know he will deal with them.

"What are you going to do about it?" One says mockingly and then laughs with the other.

"Do you really want me to show you?" He asks holding him by his shirt.

"N..no" The boy stammers. When Drew leaves him he gives me the pouch. And they run off after apologizing .

"Are you okay?" Drew asks concerned.

"Am I a crybaby?" I ask sniffing.

"Angel, you are not a crybaby, you are just sensitive." He says.

"Why do they keep picking on me? Am I that bad?"

"No you are not bad at all!" He exclaims then adds "You are sweet and beautiful. They are just idiots who have nothing better to do than pick on people."

"But they don’t pick on them." I say pointing to a group of our classmates.

"They just target you because you show more reaction."

"So I should not show any reaction?"

"No! You should always show your emotions. And anyways I will always be there to protect you." He says.

"Promise?" I ask.

"Promise" He confirms. He seems to be thinking about something and then suddenly gets down on one knee.

"What are you doing?" I ask.

"I wanted to do this later but," He takes out a plastic ring from his pocket "Angel, I love you and will you marry me?"

"Yes of course! And I love you too!" I exclaim happily and extend my hand. He puts the ring on my finger grinning.

"Will you always love me? Because I will always love and protect you."

"I will always love you"

"Anne! The tryouts are over!" Rosie's voice breaks out of my reverie. I look around and see everyone on the bleachers either going out of the gym or standing near the locker room waiting most probably for their friends or family who were in the tryouts.

"What were you thinking about?" Rosie asks.

"Nothing" When our parents found out they said we are too small for actually getting married but then conducted a small dummy wedding. But we used to act like we were actually married. Of course except the sleeping in the whole room thing. I still have that plastic ring and the wedding ring.

"Whatever, anyways the boys asked us to wait in the parking lot. We could have celebrated but Katie is not here and Sophia also has to go home. Everyone decided to celebrate when the results are out." She says informing me.

"Oh and where is Ash?" I ask.

"He went with Chris and Dylan to talk to their coach about something." She answers.

"Ok"

"Seriously tell me what you were thinking about because clearly it is still affecting you." She exclaims.

"I..uh.."

"It is about Drew, isn't it? You need to move on." She says holding my shoulders and looking into my eyes.

"But I love him and I promised I will always love him."

"Look I think a part of you will always love him but you don't have to be in love with him. You don't even know if you will ever see him again and even if you do you may not recognize him or his personality may have changed. You can see yourself that you have changed so much." She tries to explain more but I run out of the gym to the parking lot.

I just lean against the car and take deep breaths and try to ignore what I already know. Because that's what I do, ignore it till it bites me in the ass. But this is something I will ignore with all my life since I still have hope that we will meet again someday, somewhere. We have to.

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Author's Note

Hello everyone 😄! I hope you all are safe and sound.

These online classes are a b*tch right? Technically my high school is over but since our exams are not done our teachers want to teach us once in a while.

So this chapter had some bickering between Anne and Jacob. Aren't they too cute?

And it also had a flashback. What do you think about Angel and Drew? To those who forgot Drew is her first love that she lost when she shifted and only he calls her Angel.

Many of you must have seen the announcement or must have noticed that I have changed the cover. It got the most votes and I think it suits the basic theme of the story which is attraction and love. Surely the story contains a lot of other things but the main theme is love. So do you like the new cover?

Anyways I hope you like the story so far and have a nice day/night 🙃!