Screw Friends

“All right ladies. I have decided on a new captain for this camp, and possibly for the rest of her career. She is a smart, dedicated, and incredibly creative leader, and I am very happy to announce, Tobin Heath as our new captain!”

Allie and Alex started to jump on top of Tobin while she was in her seat, and all Tobin did was stare at Christen’s face right beside her. Both girls had enormous smiles on their face, and couldn’t stop smiling. Tobin couldn’t hug Christen because Allie and Alex were covering her like a blanket, so she reached out and squeezed Christen’s hand, laughing.

Christen smiled. Tobin’s hand fit perfectly over hers, and her hand was warm and soft. She looked over at Tobin who was now getting dog-piled by Alex and Allie, and the rest of the team was congratulating her, laughing and smiling away. Tobin looked as happy as ever, her million dollar smile on her face, and her head thrown back in joyous laughter. Christen snapped a picture of Tobin, and posted it to instagram with the caption: Smilesarehuge, heartsarefull. CongratsT.

Tobin and Christen stayed behind as the room began to file out, and Coach Ellis gave Tobin one more congratulations before she left. Once everyone was gone, Tobin wrapped Christen in a hug, and Christen relaxed into Tobin’s arms. Tobin smelled like fresh air and mint, and her hair was as soft as ever. Christen twirled it as she was wrapped up in Tobin, and smiled as she did it.

“I’m so happy, Tobin. This is so huge for your career! And for you, you’ve worked for this forever, I’m sure. And now you’ve got it.” Christen said into Tobin’s ear.

Tobin pulled away and looked into Christen’s eyes. She slightly smiled and squeezed Christen’s hand.

“Thank you.”

“No problem, you deserv-” Tobin interrupted Christen with a quick kiss on the lips.

“No, not that. Thank you for this Christen.”

Christen’s heart was beating out of her chest. Did she want to be together? Is that what Christen wanted? Christen put her busy and irritating mind to rest, as she just smiled and nodded at Tobin, who was now helping her up and they began to walk side by side to the team dinner. Arm’s brushing and smiles forming, Intentionally.

The team dinner went well, and the girls headed up to thier room for bed. When they got to their room, Tobin immediatatlety called the shower, which caused Christen to giggle. She took off her shirt and shorts just leaving her ethika bra and spandex. All of the exposed skin caused Christen to blush and look away, and Tobin smirked. She knew exacty what she was doing.

“Hey Chris can you take a picture of me in my ethika stuff? I’m doing stuff for their campaign and they want a picture.”

Christen took a deep breath. “Uh- yeah. I mean, yeah um sure.”

Tobin gave Christen her phone, and Tobin smiled at the camera, and gave it a big thumbs up. Christen was paralyzed, she couldn’t take the picture. She was so distracted by Tobin’s body, staring at it through the screen.

She finally shook out of it, and took the picture.

“Thanks Chris.” Tobin said with a knowing smile. Christen just nodded, and went to go pick out her Pjs. Tobin was about to get in the shower when Christen stopped her.

“You know, Tobin, you- uh you should be in magazines, maybe. Um, that sounded stupid..” Christen stumbled over her words, awe-struck still.

Tobin smiled softly. “I know what you mean. Thank you, maybe we’ll be in one together one day. I can see it now: Stars of the Olympics 2020, Christen Press and Tobin Heath.”

Christen giggled. “I hope so. We have to get through the world cup first.”

“Yeah. My goal is to win a world cup and olympics back to back. Sounds impossible, I know. But, I think, I can do it.”

Christen smiled. Tobin seemed so nervous and unsure.

“Well, I want to score in the Olympics and the World cup this year. If I even play.”

“Are you joking Chris?” Tobin asked, serious all of the sudden.

“No.. Is that a dumb dre-”

“You are THE best forward on this team, I can’t imagine Jill wouldn’t start you, or even play you. Open your eyes! At training you blew through everyone, and scored on almost every shot you took. God Chris some girls can’t even hit the target when in movement, and here you come, blowing everyone’s minds with a curving shot into the upper 90’s! And you’re timing is impeccable. Like, you know exactly when to go, when to shoot, so that it hits the target in your brain perfectly. So don’t say that again."

Tobin was about to walk away when she added, "Please."

Christen was blushing up a storm, while Tobin walked off to her shower. Christen couldn’t believe that Tobin had noticed every damn thing about her playing. Most people just complimented her by saying nice shot, or good game. Tobin told her every single thing that she did that was amazing, and Christen couldn’t stop smiling.

The next morning, the girls had a quick training, but then had the rest of the day off. Tobin and Christen decided to spend the morning with Ali, Ashlyn, Moe and Lindsey, but then have lunch by themselves. They all met up in Moe’s room.

“Where should we go?” Moe asked, while shoving a handful of tortilla chips in her mouth.

Tobin’s face lit up, “Oh! I know! We should take a hike! I know exactly where a good mountain is, and it’s gorgeous up there.”

Everyone nodded and agreed to the idea, and grabbed their backpacks, water bottles, and phones, and took a team bus to the mountains. Since Ashlyn knew about Christen and Tobin’s ‘thing’ she put them up front together.

“Okay. Moe and Lindsey go in the back, Me and Ali will go in the middle row, and Christen and Tobin go up front.”

Lindsey rolled her eyes, “Ashlynnnn! We don’t want to hear you and Ali making out the whole time!”

Ashlyn and Ali both blushed and everyone hopped in the car, on their way to the mountains.

The car ride was really long, and everyone but Tobin and Christen were fast asleep.

“Is the coast clear?” Tobin asked.

“For what?”

“I want to hold your hand, finally. It’s been too long.” Christen giggled, it had only been a couple of hours since they last held hands, but Christen’s hands were aching for Tobin’s touch too. And her lips. And any other body part.

They sat in silence, holding hands while Tobin was driving for a while, when Ashlyn woke up. She smirked, and took a quick picture of them.

“Ashlyn!” Christen hissed.
“What? We’ll need good pictures for your wedding!” Christen rolled her eyes, while Tobin just looked confused. She quickly moved her hand from Christen’s, and focused on driving. Ashlyn and Christed just giggled.

“T, it’s ok. Ash knows. I might’ve maybe told her..”

Tobin immediately grabbed Christen’s hand again, and they all started to laugh. Luckily, no one woke up until they got to the hiking spot, so Tobin got to hold Christen’s hand all the way there.