Grumpy boo

Christen struggled to loosen the firmed grip on her arms that dragging her away.

“Tobin! We should stop! We need to see whether she’s okay!”

Tobin stopped when she heard Christen pleading voice but her grip never loosen. She turned back to glared at the forward.

“It’s her own fault! She shouldn’t do that!”

Christen sighed loudly. She never want to admit it aloud but maybe the younger player really was at fault for ending their peaceful stroll after dinner like this. Just a few minutes ago she was laughing non-stop at Tobin for her bad attempts to imitate their teammates. She was surprised however when someone grabbed her shoulder from behind before she felt that same someone plant a kiss on her lips. She thought she heard Lindsey soft murmured of apology “Sorry, Chris” just before the kiss landed but she may heard wrong.

Too shock to react, it took Christen a few seconds before she thought of pushing the tall midfielder away. But before she can even do that, Tobin grabbed the tall girl roughly by her arms and as soon as Lindsey’s body turned towards her, she punched her directly on her stomach. Lindsey bowed down and coughed out loud and soon her other posse (Emily and Morgan) came running helplessly to her side.

“Why you do that for! We were just joking around! Sheesh Tobin. Take a chill pill!” Morgan cried out.

Emily meanwhile pat her coughing friend softly on the back hoping that it can lessen her pain.

“Oh god. I told you guys this was a bad idea. I told you. But no…you guys don’t want to listen to me. Now..see what happened?” Emily shouted to both her friends while continue patting Lindsey’s back.

Ignoring the three, Tobin grabbed Christen arms and pulled her away. Which brought her back to their current situations now. Tobin was pacing agitatedly in front of her back and forth while mumbling angrily under her breath.

Christen walked closer to the steamed midfielder and stood in front of her. Tobin stopped her ranting but Christen can see the nervous energy coming out from Tobin’s body and she knows she need to do something fast. She stepped forward and hugged Tobin close to her body.

“Hey…hey please calm down. Tobin..take a deep breath, please.” She rubbed Tobin’s back comfortingly.

She know this is the only way to calm Tobin down at the same time trying to distract her from going back. From her agitated state and wild eyes she knows that was not far from Tobin’s mind.

“Tobin…look at me. I’m okay. See…I’m not hurt. Please, calm down.” She urged the midfielder again.

“I’m not gonna calm down! She kissed you without permission! She can’t do that! She knows that!” Tobin huffed out angrily.

She pulled out from Christen’s hold and continue her pacing.
“But you shouldn’t just punched her, Tobin. You heard Emily just now. They are just kidding around. I think they are doing some prank with each other. Jill will not be happy if she heard about this.”

“I don’t care! She can’t just do that! She knows you are mine dammit!” Tobin said in angry tone.

Christen eyes widen. “Wow Tobin. I didn’t know that I was your property?”

“That’s not what I meant. They all should know that they can’t simply do that with me there.”

“And that really doesn’t help your case here.” Christen replied back sarcastically.

“I don’t care! Only I can kiss you and no one else!” Tobin retorted back childishly.

Christen let out a small smile. “Is that what this is all about? You are jealous she got to kiss me?”

Tobin shuffled her feet nervously. “Yeah…”

Christen let out a small chuckles this time. “Come here.”

Tobin turned beet red and just shook her head.

“Come here you big baby.” Christen urged the midfielder again.

When Tobin walked closer to her, she leaned down and leave small kiss on her left cheek. She then moved to her right cheek and leave a kiss there as well. She continue to leave a few small kisses all over Tobin’s face until she can see the slight tilt at the corner of the midfielder’s lips.

“If you want me to kiss you, you can just ask me you know.” Christen whispered softly before kissing Tobin softly on the lips.

When she leaned back a few seconds later, her grin widen at the dazed look on Tobin face.

“You are a dork.” Christen started to say.

“Am not!” Tobin denied.

“Are too!” Christen said.

“Am not! Take it back!”

Christen internally cheered when she noticed that even though Tobin was protesting, her demeanor has calmed down a bit.

“Are you happy, now?” She teased the midfielder while letting both her arms rest around Tobin’s shoulder.

Tobin nodded her head happily and grasped her waist. Christen let Tobin hugged her close before she softly whispered back.

“Good. Now let’s go back and see how Linds is doing. You need to apologise.”

“What? No! I’m not gonna apologise. It’s her fault! Why should I be sorry for defending you?” Tobin took a step back and frowned unhappily at her.

Christen sighed exasperatedly. “It’s still wrong to hurt your teammate, Tobin. Come on..”

“Well she should think about the consequences before she forced herself onto you!” Tobin replied back defensively.

“Tobin…” Christen started again.

“No! Dammit! I’m not gonna apologise!” Tobin shouted before storming back into the hotel lobby.

Christen know this time it will be useless trying to reason out with Tobin when she was like this. So she just took a deep breath and followed the angry midfielder closely from behind. They walked into the opened lift in silence and Christen pushed the button on the side panel ignoring the eyes that she knows glaring at her back angrily.

“Where are you going? That’s not your floor.”

“Well since you refused to go and see her, I’ll have to go and see her for myself. Unless you want to join me?” Christen asked back hoping the midfielder will change her mind.

However, she only received a silence as an answer. When the lift stop at Lindsey’s floor, Christen walked out and sighed in disappointment when she didn’t hear Tobin’s flip flop following her. Before she can knocked the younger midfielder’s room, she heard Tobin voices spoke up from behind her.

“Are you mad at me?”

“No…just…Tobin..maybe..I’m just disappointed.”

“But I was defending you…”

Christen nodded her head and turned back to look at Tobin’s downturn face.

“She was just kidding around Tobin. She and the rest of the girls meant no harm. They were just having fun. I’m pretty sure they didn’t expect you to punch her at all. You need to be the bigger person here. You need to apologise because you hurt her but you refused. That’s why I’m disappointed.” Christen reasoned out.

“You know what…I’m disappointed at you too. I’m also angry that you can’t see that what I’m doing is merely a normal reaction for someone to defend the person that they care a lot. You don’t see your face when she does that. For a minute there, you look so panic and scared at the same time. I punched her because she made you felt that. Even it’s just for a second, you were scared, Chris! I was there! You should feel safe when you are with me dammit! I’m supposed to protect you and you can’t just expect me to stand at the side and watch anyone do that to you and let them get away with it.” With that heartfelt confession, Tobin stormed away.

Christen watched Tobin retreating figure with her jaws agape. Before she can chase her, the door in front of her opened.

“Hey…sorry I heard a noise outside. Didn’t mean to overhear your conversation.” Lindsey greeted her. Her face blushed slightly red and Christen knew the younger girl heard everything that Tobin just said.

“Yeah…It’s just something that we need to work out I guess. It’s Tobin. She’s rather protective of me. How are you? Is your stomach okay?” Christen asked in a worried tone.

“Don’t worry about it, Chris. It’s just a bruise. Nothing that a bag of an ice can’t fix. So..erm…I just want to say sorry about just now. I really didn’t meant to scare you somehow. Erm..how mad is Tobin right now?”

Christen chuckled. “She’s quite mad actually. She didn’t just throw a punch like that just for fun you know.”

“Really, Linds? You gotta asked? You hear that Moe? Didn’t I told you guys earlier?” Emily asked from her perched on the bed.

“Hey…Chris. I am are really sorry too. I still dared Linds to kiss you even though Emily here warned us not to. We didn’t know that Tobin will do that.” Morgan started her explanation.

“Yeah…the thing is, I don’t think you guys have to be worry about that anymore. She’s madder at me than any of you at the moment.”

“If it helps we can go and apologise to her. I felt bad about what happened actually. Maybe you can come with us? That way she may not think about punching the rest of us too?” Moe pleaded.

Christen raised her eyebrows. “Well in that case, let’s go.”

She watched in amusement as all three players scrambled to get their things before rushing out of the room. They were whispering amongst themselves when she unlocked her room and walked in to see the glowering midfielder on her bed.

“Hey..there’s someone here to meet you. I’ll be in the bathroom to give you guys some privacy.”

She smiled when she heard the younger girls apologizing to Tobin for their actions earlier through the bathroom door. But she didn’t hear Tobin’s response. By the time she came out of the bathroom, she noted the other three has left the room altogether. She continue to change into her pajamas noting that the brown eyes followed her every movement. Tobin doesn’t move a muscle when she went under the cover and fluffed up her pillows.

“Tobin…” Christen started.

“What?” Tobin answered back defensively.

“Can you switch off the light when you are done?”

Tobin turned to look at her with a surprised eyes.

“That’s it? That’s all you gonna say to me after what I said earlier?”

“Hmm…mmm..”

“What the hell, Chris! We should talk about this!” Tobin shouted out angrily from her bed.

Christen rolled her eyes. Well there goes my beauty sleep then. She sit back up and leaned against the headboard.

“Okay…let’s talk. What do you want to talk about?” She asked calmly.

“Well I want you to apologise to me.” Tobin started.

“Why?”

“What do you mean why? You know why! You should apologise because I was punching her for making you scared!” She continued her ranting.

“Okay..and how will I know that? Did you tell me when I asked you, the first time?” Christen asked again keeping her tone calm.

“Of course not! I’m not going to tell you that! I don’t want you to make a fun of me if I tell you the truth! You’ll just made that ‘Awww…’ face like you are doing now and tell me I’m….”

“Adorable…”

“Yeah..that..” Tobin sighed.

“So..let me get this straight. You don’t want me to make the ‘aww’ face so you don’t tell me the actual reason why you punched Linds and now you are angry when I didn’t realise it in the first place?”

“Yeah?” Tobin replied back sheepishly.

“Now..are you finished being angry with me yet?”

“Maybe…”

“Tobin..come here.” She patted the empty space beside her.

When Tobin sat down beside her, she gingerly leaned close to leave a kiss on her cheek.

“I’m sorry.” She softly whispered.

She kissed the midfielder’s cheek again.

“And..thank you for defending me…I’m grateful that I have you as my protector. So am I forgiven, now?”

“You know I can’t be mad at you for too long.” Tobin let out a soft smile and shrugged her shoulder like it doesn’t mean much to her.

But Christen knows better. She watched at Tobin stiff body started to relax and leaned against her. Tobin played with the remote on her right hand before looking back up to her.

“Do you want to watch the bachelor with me? Kelley and Alex will be in this episode.”

Christen nodded her head and slid back down the bed. Tobin changed into her pajamas and switched off the lights before sliding in beside her. She opened her arms inviting the forward to rest her head on her shoulders of which Christen accepted without any hesitation before covering them both with the sheet.

“By the way..How’s the hand? Does it hurt?” Christen asked after few minutes watching the show in silence.

Tobin doesn’t reply. She just put up her left hand and flexed in front both of them.

“She got a soft stomach. I felt like I just punched a teddy bear.” She said smugly.

Christen gingerly took the midfielder’s left hand and trace her fingers along the veins stood out on the back of Tobin’s hand.

“I just want you to know that I care about you too and I don’t like it when you get hurt.” Christen mumbled softly into Tobin’s neck.

Tobin just tightened her holds on Christen as a response.

“I’m so sleepy. I don’t think I can finish watching this.” Christen yawned as she gestured towards the TV.

“Okay…then I will let you rest.” Tobin made a move to go back towards her own bed but Christen protested sleepily.

“No, stay. I want cuddles tonight” She pouted her lips childishly.

Tobin chuckled. “Okay..scoot over then.”

After Tobin switched off the TV, she wrapped Christen’s body close on top of her while rubbing her back softly up and down lulling her into sleep. Before long, she can feel Christen breath turned slower and softer which is an indication of her falling deeper into the dreamland. Tobin kissed her temple lovingly and whispered out ‘I love you’ before letting the sleep fully claimed her for the night.