Grumpy boo

Christen looked up from the card that she was holding when Tobin stormed angrily into the room.

“Hey…why are you back so early? I thought you supposed to have a girl night’s out with Allie and Alex?” The forward asked curiously.

Tobin just chucked her jacket to the other bed before crawling onto the forward’s bed. Having been faced with the same situation before, Christen just slides a little bit on the left leaving an empty space on her right side. What surprise her is that Tobin doesn’t even hesitate to put her arms around her waist and hide her face in the juncture of her neck.

“Erm..Tobin..we’ve got company.” Christen’s cheek flushed bright pink.

Tobin doesn’t reply she further tightened her hold on the forward waists.

“Note to self…avoid playing cards with Chris when Tobin is in clingy mood.” Julie said jokingly.

Christen tried to hide the little shivers she felt when Tobin soft whispers tickled her neck.

“Can’t hear what you mumbled there, Heath.” Kelley teased.

“I’m not clingy.” The midfielder repeated, even louder.

“Right….yeap. We can totally see that from here. What are you doing here? You are not supposed to be back tonight that’s why we are sleeping over here tonight. You can’t keep yourself away from Press here huh?” The defender teased again.

Unknown to her, it totally brought back Alex’s word earlier and it irked the midfielder so much that she glares at the oblivious defender.

“So what if I seems to be clingy or controlling? What are you or the rest of the team gonna do about it? Huh?” She challenged with a raised voice.

“Woooahh..hey..calm down. She didn’t meant it like that. What’s got into you, tonight? You know Kelley’s just teasing you.” Christen rubbed her hands up and down the midfielder’s back comfortingly.

Tobin just huffed under her breath and leaned back against the headboard to wrap her arms defensively around herself. She know it was wrong for her to just attacked Kelley like that. But she was not in a good mood to begin with, dammit!

“Tobin…apologise.” Christen instructed.

The midfielder sighed and shrugged her shoulder but remained stubbornly mum.

“Tobin….” Christen said again.

This time she can hear there’s a slight hard tone in Christen’s voice. It’s her ‘don’t try me’ tone.

“Sorry, Kell.” She mumbled in relent.

“It’s okay, Tobs. No biggie.” Kelley smiled back accepting Tobin apologies.

Julie nudged Kelley and signaled the door. They both agreed maybe they should call it a night seeing as Tobin was currently in one of her mood.

“Erm…I think we should go.” She said as she stood up while Kelley just nodded her head and followed her.

“Guys..no we can still continue to play..Tobin can join us too.” Christen urged her friends.

“It’s okay, Chris. Maybe we can try this again tomorrow. Tobs, I hope you feel better soon, okay?” Kelley commented before both defenders left the room altogether.

“Are you mad?” Tobin suddenly piped up when the room went silent for a few minutes.

“Why would I be mad?” The forward asked curiously.

“That I spoiled your card games. Our friends just cleared the room in a rush because of me.” The midfielder looked down her fingers busy picking at the bedsheet.

“No..I don’t mind. Kelley cheat either way.”

When Tobin doesn’t say anything Christen leaned forward and pulled the midfielder’s chin to face her.

“Want to tell me what happen? I just saw you like half an hour ago. Now you are back and clearly you are unhappy about something. Come on you can tell me.” Tobin just shook her head stubbornly.

“Will you tell me if I offered you my cuddle services?” Christen invited knowing this may be the only way she can urged the midfielder to blurt out the truth.

Tobin crawled back closer the forward’s opened arms and let her head rest on her shoulder. She dropped her leg in between Christen letting the forward enveloped her with a warm hug. Tobin let out a contented
sigh when Christen leaned down to kiss the side of her temple and run her hands through her hair lovingly.

“Why didn’t you answered my text earlier?” Tobin asked suddenly.

The hands stop running through her hair for a seconds before it started again.

“I did.”

“Nuh..uh..I didn’t get it.”

“Yes I did. Give me your phone.”

Tobin pull out her phone from her pocket and put it on the Christen’s opened palm. Once the phone was in her grasp, she quickly type in Tobin passcode and open her most recent text.

“There…see..I did.”

Sure enough there was a text from Christen. She must have missed it while she was arguing with Alex earlier.

“Oh..Okay..sorry. I thought you were ignoring me.”

“Why would I do that?”

“Cause you are getting tired of me pestering you all the time?” Tobin voice out.

“What made you think that? Did I said anything that brought this on?” Christen asked anxiously while trying to untangled herself from Tobin’s limbs. But the midfielder response was to hold her tighter refusing to let her go.

“No..no..it’s not that. It’s just something that Al said earlier.”

Christen gave up trying to move away from Tobin’s strong hold on her body. As soon as she felt Christen relaxed her body, Tobin went back playing with the hem of Christen’s shirt.

“So does this has something to do with your dinner with Alex just now?”

“Uh huh.” Tobin answered with her go to one word sentence.

“Tobin…” Christen sighed.

“She said I’m not taking this serious enough.” Tobin said hesitantly.

“Serious enough about what?”

“Getting back together with you.”

“Are you playing around with me then?”

“No! I meant what I said. I’m 110% serious committed into our relationship.”

“Okay then. I trust you.” Christen replied back shrugging her shoulder.

“That’s it?” Tobin leaned back and stared at Christen shockingly.

“Yeap. Should I said no?” Christen eyes widen.

“No! But Alex said…” Tobin started.

“I don’t care about what Alex said. Let me guess, you’ve been arguing about this at dinner huh?”

“Yeah..but really Chris. You don’t care?”

“Hmm..nope..and you know why?”

Tobin just shook her head as an answer.

“Because it’s none of her damn business what I decided to do.”

“You said a bad words.” Tobin breathed a sigh of relief.

“I will use a lot more when I have a few words with her later.” Christen grumbled under breath.

“Erm…that’s not all.” Tobin hesitated.

The forward sighed. Of course that’s not all. It never is with Alex.

“Just tell me the full story, Tobin. Right from the time you walked out of our room.”

For the next 10 minutes, Tobin recounted what happen earlier.

“Chris…you okay?” Tobin asked when few minutes passed without a peep from the forward.

“Yes…I think I will have a few words with Alex. She seems to be bothered about something.” Christen blurted out her thoughts at last.

“What? That’s what you get from the story I told you? You don’t think she was being unfair to me?” Tobin let out a surprise huff.

“I think you deserve it, honestly. Allie already warned you to stop but you’ve kept going so basically it’s your own fault.” The forward said amusement thick in her voice.

“Well, I’m glad my issue with Alex is an amusement to you.” Tobin pouted and glared at the forward before turning around and lay down on the bed while grumbling something under her breath.

Christen just chuckled and rolled her eyes. So dramatic. She leaned down to grasp Tobin’s shoulder and place a small kiss on her cheek.

“Sorry. I can’t help it. She was just being protective of me. I feel quite honored actually. It means that she accepted me as one of her close friends. All this time, I’m just someone from the outside looking in, you understand that right?” Christen explained softly.

Tobin turned around and Christen can see nothing but understanding eyes looking back at her. She smiled gratefully down at Tobin.

“Now let’s order room service. You must be hungry. We can have our own girl’s night out today. What do you think?” Christen said in a cheerful voice.

“Yeah…our sleepover will be much better!” Tobin wiggled her eyebrows.

“Like I said. Just a sleepover. Nothing else. I’m gonna call Kelley and JJ back. So you’ll be sharing the bed with Kelley while I share with Jules.”

“Aw…we don’t even have a time for a make out session?”

“No…”

“Then that’s no different if I have girl’s night with Alex and Allie!”

“Well..you can go ahead and continued with your plan then. I’m not stopping you.” Christen replied back nonchalantly.

“……”

“………”

“Can I still get to cuddle with you?”

“….”

“Please?” Tobin pouted her lips.

Christen sighed and opened back her arms. Tobin grins widen and jumped back into the forward’s arms.

“Yeay! It’s going to be the best sleepover yet!”