Grumpy boo
“You know you are not supposes to block the goal right? We are in the same team? You remember that right?” Christen teases the midfielder beside her.
Tobin gives her girlfriend a ‘no bullshit’ glare. When the forward raised her eyebrows the midfielder’s face soften and turn sheepish. A little grin breaks across Christen faces at her girlfriend behavior. The last 15 minutes since the midfielder sit beside her on the bus, Tobin didn’t say anything to her. She just open her book and start to read ignoring the questioning eyes staring hard at her.
“I mean I know you’ve been practicing the same moves but I don’t think Jill really appreciate that you apply that skill during the game?” Christen continues again.
She doesn’t think Tobin can keep ignoring her if she talks about the recent game right? Tobin open her mouth to argue but before she can utter a single word, another voice chips in from beside her.
“Yeah…I know you got mad skills, Tobs. But maybe next time you can give your girlfriend a chance to score once in a while?” Pinoe adds before she just walks pass them.
Christen can see Tobins’s shoulder a little deflates after that. The midfielder turns her head slightly and whisper to her companion.
“Sorry for the block, Chris. I really didn’t mean to do that. I know how hard you want to prove to Jill.”
“Yeah you really didn’t help me today.” Christen replies jokingly.
Tobin put down her book and turn sadly to her girlfriend.
“Believe me, Chris. I really tried to push away from blocking the goal but I got tangled up with the other player.” The midfielder pleads.
“Hey..hey..No. I’m just joking. It’s not your fault okay. I mean with everything that’s happening inside the box, I’m surprise that I can even get a single shot to the goal.” The forward replies back softly.
Looking at the still gloomy face of her girlfriend, slowly she take Tobin’s right hand and cradle it between her palms. She lovingly massages the midfielder’s fingers slowly one by one knowing this helps sooth the tense middy.
“Really, don’t worry about it. By the way, how’s the tummy? I saw your slight winces when you bend down just now. Anything I can do to help?” The forward asks. She can’t hide her smile when Tobin offers her other hand.
Tobin take a deep sigh of relief. Yeah she like it when Chris massages her hand like this. She didn’t know whether it is part of her Yoga training but her girlfriend really know the exact area that need attention the most. The first time she does this is when the midfielder was in pain after being kick on the shin by her teammate. She just massage the area between her thumb and index finger and the pain is gone. Since then she is literally a putty in the forwards hand.
“Nah..keep doing that. It’s not pain that I feel now. I feel im’press’ed. Get it?” Tobin wiggle her eyebrows and smirks playfully. Her earlier grumpiness gone the instant she feels her girlfriend comforting touch.
Christen pushes Tobin’s hand away from her body. The quick transition of her girlfriend’s mood sometimes gives her a whiplash. She tries to act like a concern girlfriend and where did it get her? Tobin seems to be making fun of her now. When she feels Christen releases her hands, Tobin whines like a child being denied her favorite candy.
“Awww…Chris..I’m sorry. I don’t mean to make fun of you. Can you please continue?” Tobin whines again.
Christen wears hear earphone and ignores her 28 turn 5 years old girlfriend. She can feel Tobin tapping on her shoulder but she lean her head on the window and closes her eyes. Let her be sore tomorrow. Who cares right?
What 5 years old will do in this situation? As if to prove a point, Tobin just get up and sit herself on her girlfriend’s lap. Christen eyes open in shock when she feel Tobin’s weight on her. She pulls out her earbuds and glares at the face in front of her.
“What are you doing?” She tries to push the midfielder away from her lap but lo and behold, her girlfriend really know how to cling. Really tight.
“Get up, Tobin. Or else.” The forward threatens.
“Soooowwwyyyy…I’m sorry.. Chris….sorry, baby…” Tobin draws out the last syllable at the forwards ears.
She can feel her girlfriend body shudder when she does that. Yeah she knows what her girlfriend weakness is and she’s not ashamed to use it.
But before she can finish the thought, Christen pushes the unsuspecting midfielder off her lap again. Her girlfriend really has a strong arm, Tobin thought just before she collapse down hard to her own seat.
“Oww….” The midfielder pouts heavily. When the forward just ignores her she whines again.
“Owww…..Chris I think I bump into something hard. My stomach hurts now.” Her pouting lips jut out further.
Christen roll her eyes at her girlfriend who seem restless at her side now. There is no way she will bump into anything. She want to ignore it but she knows she really kicked the ball hard earlier at the game. She saw how the midfielder bend down awhile to catch her breath. She sigh in relief when Tobin just nods her head signing she’s okay. But she also know Tobin doesn’t like to appear weak in front of her teammate.
Christen groans internally. She turn slightly to look at her seatmate and shakes her head in disbelief. On top of the pouty face, now she has a very grumpy girlfriend. The midfielder is now kicking the seat in front of her non-stop signaling her agitated states from being ignore.
She continues watching the display with a fond smile. She is disturb from her musing when her fellow forward suddenly pop her head up from the front seat and glares back at them.
“Watch the legs, Heath! Stop kicking or I will go there and kick you for real!” Alex complains angrily.
Tobin stares back defiantly. There’s a tense silence for a few seconds while both play the staring match. Oh god where’s Kelley when she need her. They are going to start a fight if this continues. She grabs her girlfriend wrists before Tobin can move her leg again to retaliate.
“Sorry, Al. She’s just grumpy cause of her sore belly. We will keep it down. Sorry again.” Christen starts to apologise.
Alex turn back around and huff loudly.
Christen knew she need to initiates the move now. So she take Tobin’s right arm and put it around her shoulder. She moves in closer to the midfielder and rest her head on her girlfriend’s shoulder.
“Hey….come on. Let’s settle down. When we get to the hotel, I will most definitely take care of my sore girlfriend. Anything you want just say it.” She promised and gives the midfielder a chaste kiss on her lips.
She saw the corner of Tobin’s lips twitch upwards and the arms around her continues holding on tight until they reach the hotel.
When the bus stop, Tobin clears her throat to wake her sleepy girlfriend. Once the beautiful green eyes starts to blink open, she blurts out quickly.
“Let’s go Chris. You promise me a massage.” The midfielder excitedly stand up and starts to pull her girlfriend out of the bus. When they reach near the hotel entrance, they heard Julie’s voice shout from behind them.
“Oiitttt…how about the rest of your gears?” The defender holds up both their bags and shakes her head when they both pretend not to hear her.
“Nah…let me get it for them. I think Tobin has been waiting patiently enough.” Alex replied back kindly.
After she saw how excited her friend is, she doesn’t want to burst their bubble. Plus she need to apologise for her harsh behavior earlier. When she’s tired she can be very grumpy too. But of course her friend take precedent because she just took a ball to her stomach and she needs her girlfriend attention right now. She really wish Press luck in handling her grumpy girlfriend
Currently the said forward is trying to get Tobin lies still on the bed while she try to massage the midfielder back. But her girlfriend has another idea. She keep trying to pull her masseuse on the bed and join her in cuddling session.
“Baby…I want cuddles, now.” The brown eye middy pleads.
“Just now you want a massage. So let me finish this first then we can cuddle okay?” Christen insists.
“Okay..make it fast then.” Her girlfriend retorts back before turning around.
That is not endearing at all, Christen thought to herself. Before long she finishes off the massages and asks the midfielder to turn back around and lies on her back.
“Hm..I don’t want to turn you on. I mean you see how hot my body is right?” Tobin replies jokingly.
“Oh god, just turn you idiot.”
When Tobin turns around, the forward was shocked to see the dark bruise coloring the midfielder abdomen. It looks very painful and it surprise her that Tobin never say anything about it.
She crouches down beside the bed and ran her hand lightly over the bruise.
“Does it hurt?” She asks worriedly.
“Not so much. Just don’t poke at it directly it should be okay, I guess.” The midfielder shrugs her shoulder.
Christen presses a small little kiss around the bruises and smiles back at her girlfriend proudly.
“There. I kiss it better.”
“Yes you do make it better.” Tobin replies back lovingly. Her eyes stares warmly at her green eye girlfriend.
“I’m in love with you, Chris. I really do.”
The forward blushes red when she heard that.
“I love you too, Tobin. You are the only one I have ‘heart eyes’ for.” She replies back while smiling happily.
The midfielder laugh out loud and pulls her girlfriend onto the bed.
“Now, lets cuddles!”
Christen indulges her girlfriend demand. If they do more than cuddles afterwards, well she has promised earlier that anything her girlfriend wants she will gets it.
Sure enough on the next day, the rest of her teammates constantly teases her about the dark bruises marring the skin around her neck but she just shrug it off playfully. At least it match with the one she left on Tobin’s neck as well. ;-)