Chapter 6
“Morning.” Erin mumbled into Ella’s hair as she woke the next morning.
“Good morning.” The forward smiled, turning to face Erin, blushing when she realized how close their faces were.
Erin smiled, letting out a small chuckle; the forward was so cute when she got nervous.
“What?”
“Nothing, you’re just adorable when you get all nervous like that.” The keeper placed a kiss on Ella’s cheek before sitting up and stretching out her arms.
Ella looked up at the keeper and couldn’t stop herself from laughing at the view.
“What’s so funny?” Erin asked, giving the forward a little shove.
“I think that’s the best your hair’s ever looked.” Mocking Erin’s crazy bed head, and reaching up to run her fingers through her wild hair.
“Very funny.” Erin pretended to pout, turning away from Ella.
“Hey, I think it’s cute.”
“Yeah?” Erin asked, turning back and facing the forward.
Ella slowly leaned in closer, “Yeah…” the forward pressed her lips gently against Erin’s, still running her fingers through the keepers hair.
After a minute, Erin leaned into Ella, slowly laying her down on the bed as she hovered over top of her, never breaking the kiss. Ella’s hands ran down the keepers back as Erin slipped her fingers under the hem of her shirt.
“Erin, Ella breakfast is ready.” Erin’s mom spoke, just as she knocked on the door to the keeper’s room, causing the two girls to separate themselves quickly, both blushing deeply.
Sharrell opened the door, and immediately realized that she had interrupted something.
“Um… I’m heading off to work, breakfast is on the table. Make sure you girls get to school on time.”
“Thanks mom, I’ll see you after practice.”
“Thank you Ms. McLeod.” Ella added, quietly, still blushing.
“Oh please, call me Sharrell dear.” She said before walking out of the room, with a smile on her face.
-Now we will definitely be talking about sleeping arrangements later- The keeper’s mom thought to herself as she walked back downstairs.
“Do you want to just borrow something of mine to wear today?” Erin asked as her and Ella cleaned up their breakfast dishes. “We are running a little late, and don’t really have time to drive to your house before school.
“Yeah sure, thanks.” Ella smiled, following Erin up the stairs. Erin grabbed some clothes of her own, telling Ella to pick out whatever she wants before going to the bathroom to change.
Erin knocked before going back into her room, Ella was wearing a pair of dark grey joggers and a plain white t shirt, the keeper couldn’t help but thoroughly look over Ella.
“Does this look okay?”
“You look beautiful.” Erin replied simply, getting another blush out of the forward.
“Thank you…” Ella answered shyly, looking down at her feet.
“Hey Ella, um… I just wanted to uh… sorry if I um went too far earlier… I kind of got carried away and-”
“Hey,” Ella cut off the keeper, and walked over to her, taking her hand. “It’s okay really… I uh I didn’t mind, I promise I’ll let you know if I’m ever uncomfortable with something.”
“Okay, so uh on that note, I was wondering if uh...” Erin smiled nervously looking into the forwards eyes. “Ella... will you be my girlfriend?”
Ella smiled widely, going up on her tiptoes to kiss the keeper, she may still be a little confused, and scared about everything that was happening, but she was one hundred percent positive that she wanted to be with Erin.
“I would love to be your girlfriend Erin.”
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Erin and Ella walked into art right as the bell rang, taking their seats next to Kealia and Meghan.
“Hey guys, E are those new pants?” Kealia asked.
“Oh um.. no they’re uh Erin’s, I stayed the night and I didn’t have a change of clothes..
“Oh cool, they look good on you.”
“Thanks K.”
Meghan gave Erin a nudge, winking at the keeper
“What?”
“Oh nothing.” The smaller girl smirked.
When the bell rang, Kealia and Ella walked to math, and Erin and Meghan went the other way to English.
“Okay spill.” Kealia spoke as soon as they were far enough from Kling and the keeper for them to hear.
“What?”
“Oh no don’t act all innocent with me, you think I couldn’t see how you were looking at Erin, and how she was looking at you? Then we have the whole you wearing her clothes thing. Need I go on?”
“I..uh..we just… I.” Ella stumbled over her words, if she told Kealia about Erin, she would have to tell her how it happened, which would involve telling her the truth about everything that she hadn’t been honest about with her and Kling lately.
“Come on, you know you can tell me anything El.”
“I will tell you K, just not now alright? There’s a lot that’s been going on and I’ll talk to you and Kling about it after practice okay?”
Kealia looked worriedly down at her friend. “Okay fine, but can you at least tell me one thing now?”
“What?” Ella asked skeptically.
“Are you and Erin together or not?” The blonde stated bluntly. “And in case you’re worried, it won’t bother me if you are, I’d be really happy for you E, you deserve some happy in your life.”
“Um, yeah we are, and thank you K… that really means a lot.”
“Omg I can’t wait to get all the details on this later, now come on time for you to do my math for me.”
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“Alright spill it McLeod.” Kling said as her and the keeper walked into english.
“Spill what?”
“Oh no, don’t start with me, the girl is wearing your clothes for crying out loud, it took K and I almost three years to get Ella to open up to us. You’ve been here for barely two weeks and she is staying at your house? Either you two are together, or… or… you know what there is no or, y’all are a thing.”
“Kling calm down please! Okay yes Ella and I are together-”
“I knew it!” Meghan shouted, jumping out of her seat.
“Ms. Klingenberg, something you’d like to share with the class?”
“What? Oh, no sorry Mrs. H.”
Shaking her head, their teacher turned back to the board, continuing the lesson.
“Okay just one question, how’d you do it? Really, I mean Ella is about as religious as they come and then like boom! You’ve got some serious game my friend.”
Erin just shook her head at Meghan, “We’ll talk about this later.”
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As soon as everyone else had left the locker room after practice, Kealia and Meghan pounced.
“Okay ladies, time to talk, what the hell has been going on.”
Ella looked to Erin nervously, who took the forwards hand, giving her a reassuring smile.
“Okay so I haven’t been completely honest with you guys in the last little while, and I’m sorry for that, it got really bad for a while and I just didn’t want to drag you two into it. Also uh… there is some stuff I haven’t been honest about since the beginning. I guess Erin has kind of helped me to realize that hiding my problems from the people who actually care about me just makes it harder…”
"You can tell us anything El you know that."
"I know K thank you."
"So..."
The girls talked for well over an hour, starting with why Ella never told them where she really lived. //"i didn't want you guys to show up there when something bad was happening, she's always bringing home random people that sell her drugs and stuff."//
All the way to today where her mom had been missing for two days. //"i'm so scared that something happened to her, she is never gone for this long and I.. I don't know what to think."//
Kealia and Meghan couldn't believe that they hadn't known what was going on. " E i'm so sorry you've been going through all of this alone, please don't hide this stuff from us anymore, we want to help Ella." Meghan pleaded with the forward, then looking over to Erin. "And you." She stated firmly, standing and crushing the keeper in a hug. "Thank you for taking care of her, and not giving up when she was a pain in the ass"
Erin returned the hug with a smile. "I'll always be here for her, nothing that's going on will scare me away."
Ella smiled up at the keeper when she heard this, tears filling her eyes. -how did i get so lucky- "Thank you Erin." She placed a gentle kiss on her cheek, blushing when her friends poked fun at them.
"You two are adorable seriously."