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I open the door and see Tanner just on the other side. “How long have you been there?” I ask him harshly. He just shrugs and says, “I was just walking by, man.” I don’t believe him cause I know he wasn’t invited to stay the night, and he doesn’t need to be up here if he’s not. I stay with him to make sure he heads b
ack downstairs, and when he gets back outside I head to the kitchen.

There I find Cole downing some Jack Daniel
s and looking really bad off. “Hey, Bray, man! Can you believe she was fucking around on me? I was just getting ready to ask her to make it official, and she was with another guy who was a teammate. What kind of bitch does that kind of shit, man? I can’t believe she would mess around on me.” I try in my most reasonable voice to represent Hampton’s side to Cole, “You guys were casual, Cole. You wanted it that way. There were no real rules in your relationship. How can you pick who she does and doesn’t hook up with if you weren’t committed to each other?” Cole just drunkenly shakes his head at that, “She knew I was getting more serious about her. How could she do this to me? How could Jace?” I look at him and can tell he is really broken up about this. I feel really bad but also feel like he brought it on himself. Hampton is a popular girl, and he kept her casual too long. But he is still one of my closest friends, and I feel bad for the guy.

Just then Gray and Grant bust through the back door into the kitchen. They take one look at Cole and decide to cheer him up. Grant starts with, “Cole, my man, let’s get you back outside. There are a ton of women out there who are dying to make you feel so much better. Jessica Smith is dying to show you a good time. The word of the blowup has gotten around, but from what I can tell there are a lot of girls that are waiting to console you
right now. I would take advantage of this and have a good time letting somebody else make me feel better tonight.” Gray agrees with Grant and bounces on his feet in excitement of this plan. Grant and Gray are both so commitment phobic that a one night stand that lasts more than two hours is scary to them. They are just perfect for cheering Cole.

“Alright, alright, I’ll come out and see who
wants to do the cheering up!” Cole says drunkenly. He still looks upset but I think this is just the thing to not let him wallow in his misery. Hampton is gone with Jace now. Cole had never given her enough, and now it was too late to even try. As they are headed back out to the party, I quietly tell Grant, “Do not forget to remind him to wrap it up if he gets with anyone, but especially Jessica, I know she really gets around.” Grant looks at me like am I stupid, “You know I will remind him. Shit, I’ll put it on him if I have to, Bray.” I just shake my head at him, head back up to my little piece of paradise. Grateful to not have my relationship right in the drama of breakups and hookups, I just want to curl up next to my girl for the night.

Chapter 17

Carter

Months have gone by since the first football game, and our team has remained undefeated. Bray has practically carried the team to every victory. The defense is definitely not what it used to be without Keller, but Cole is doing his best. Tanner has helped our offense score a ridiculous amount of touchdowns. Our football team is on the way to winning another state championship title, but tonight is all about the volleyball team for me.

We are one game away from the state championship game. I feel th
e pressure of wanting to win this pumping in me. With Keller and Bray always being such stellar athletes, I put a lot on myself to perform and make them proud. Everyone, except my mom, has always told me how beautiful I am. I love to hear that from Bray, but I don’t want that to define me to others. One of my goals has always been to play volleyball in college. I have already talked to scouts, and the scholarship offers have been coming in. Bray and I will sit down when our seasons are over and discuss where we want to go together. The goals are all within sight, but I want to hold a state championship title that I helped earn in my hands. Tonight will determine if that will ever be possible.

Walking through the halls, I hear a ton of good lucks and we’ll be cheering for you from a lot of friends and people I hardly even know.
I try to answer back in a pleasant way without having to stop and talk to anyone. Finally, I reach the girls locker room to get ready for the game, and I see Bray standing there waiting for me. Our relationship has just gotten stronger since we got together, and I feel myself getting more confident in my role as his girlfriend. I drop my bag and just jump on him, wrapping my legs around his waist. I bury my head in his shoulder and just listen to him breathe. He strokes up and down my back while he just holds me. He starts to give me the pep talk that I need, “Baby doll, you know you can beat White Valley. You have watched their games, and you know their weak spots. You are the best volleyball player in the state. Your setting has never been so on, and you seem to sense where everybody is without even having to look at the court. You have been in the zone for weeks, and nobody can touch you. I will be watching from the front row to cheer you on. You are going to kick ass out there; believe it, Baby!”

He pulled back my head from burying itself in his shoulder and just stared hard into my eyes. It felt like he was trying to force all the belief and strength of my win into my head just by his stare. I took note of how gorgeous he looked while he was staring at me. His dark blue ey
es looked lit up from the intensity coming off of him, and his dark blond hair was gorgeous and going in every different direction. His perfect face with his full lips, cut cheekbones, and tan skin was just staring at me like he had no other focus in the world. Whenever I looked at him too long, I started to want to do more than just look. With all the adrenaline I was feeling before the game, I just attacked his lips and started kissing and sucking on them until he started groaning.

“Baby doll, I do not think that you have time for that now.” He pulled away and started trying to pull me off his waist. I decided that I wasn’t having that, and sometime with Bray was exactly what I needed to release a little bit of the tension I was feeling. So I started pouting a little to see if he could be swayed. He started frowning because he hated not to be able to give me what I wanted. “I always help you release tension before your football games if there is time, and even if there isn’t. Last week, we hid in your Range Rover, and just made out to help you relax before the fame against Wilson. I’m asking for you to just return
the favor and give me you to focus on.” I stomped my foot at that because I was feeling beyond frustrated that I just wanted a little more time with him. “Okay, baby, let me help you relax a little then.” He opens the door to the closet beside the girl’s locker room that can be locked from the inside.

He hustles me in to the closet and immediately locks the door and lays me down on a counter that normally holds balls and sports equipment. “Whoa, Bray, what are you doing?” He leers at me and pulls my skirt down and drops it. “I’m helping my baby relax. Isn’t that what you wanted for me to do, to take some tension away for you?” Oh, damn, I meant with a good old
fashioned make out session, but Bray always has to take things like this to the extreme. I think he is going to go down on me, and that always blows my mind and still make me feel a little crazy and uncomfortable too. I can barely hold back from squirming all over the place.

He pulls my underwear aside and just looks at me down there. “Oh, baby, all of you is just so damn beautiful. Sometime
s, I hold my breath and don’t even realize it just from looking at you.” He leans down between my legs, and I can feel myself just getting wetter for him. “I can see how turned on you are getting, Carter. You want me to do this as much as I want to.” With that he starts lapping and licking at me and I am trying to stifle my screams and moans. I can barely hold out as he works me down there exactly how I like. He starts putting two fingers in and out at a slow and steady rhythm while he sucks on my clit. He finally picks up the pace and I let go and just come. I scream and don’t even stifle it. “That’s it, baby. I love when you let yourself scream and let go like that!” He says to me as I am trying to recover from my orgasm.

Bray helps me up and gathers my skirt for me, and we stumble out of the closet and back into the hall by the locker room. The entire volleyball team is standing there looking at us when we come out. Oh, damn, this is so uncomfortable; I didn’t hold back on that last scream and now all of them heard that. I just want to sink in the floor and die, but we have a game to win. I try to put the embarrassment aside and focus on the task ahead of us tonight. “
Sorry, to keep you waiting everybody, Bray and I had something to discuss.” Riley, a junior on the team, says, “it’s okay. We didn’t want to interrupt you and Brayden. It sounded like you were discussing something very important in the closet.” I try to stifle my own urge to giggle at that and manage to say, “Thank you for the consideration, but we need to get changed and warmed up before the game now.” Everyone smiles knowingly at me with maybe a little envy, but they all seem fine and not upset about the delay. Except for Lena who is glaring at me and then staring at Bray, he doesn’t seem to notice her though. I start to head in with the rest of the girls, but Bray leans down and give me one last kiss. “I really enjoyed our discussion, baby! Maybe we can have another one after you win tonight. I love you.” He says all this out loud and doesn’t even try to muffle the I love you so the girls can’t hear it. I tell him quietly, “Love you, too.”

He walks away after that and I finally join e
verybody inside. We get into our volleyball uniforms and start to warm up on the court. Lena pounds a ball at me while I am setting on the other side, and I am able to dodge it. But, I turn to her with a frown. “Hey, be careful, Lena!” That could have been really bad if I would have gotten hit in the face before the game. They won’t let me play with a bloody nose!”

She gives me a sickeningly sweet smile and says, “So sorry, Carter. I just caught the ball with the tip of my hand, and it went completely the opposite way than I wanted!” Her excu
se was legitimate, that happens all the time while hitting, but I felt like it wasn’t true for some reason. Why did I suddenly feel like Lena despised me? I knew I had never been her favorite person, but that didn’t bother me that much because I thought she was fake and wouldn’t have been a good friend anyway. We had always had the understanding that we didn’t really talk outside the court but we got along on it. Right now, though I felt like she didn’t even want to work together on it either, and that could be a problem for me. This was an important game and if she didn’t want to work with me the team could be in trouble. Lena was my right side hitter and blocker. We all had to work together like a machine if we had any hope of winning the game.

                                                                              
Chapter 18

Brayden

Life was so much better now that I am actually with Carter. I can’t believe I got to give her that before the game. I can tell that and talking to her actually made her feel much better. I love that she needs me for encouragement before a big game like this, and I love that we are a team together even more than before. There aren’t a lot of certainties in life, but I know that I always want to be standing in Carter’s corner, cheering her on for the rest of my life.

Two years before Carter came to live with Keller and me, we had lost out mom to cancer. Dad had already told her he didn’t want to be married
anymore, and it had been just the three of us for a year before she was diagnosed. The cancer was quick and took her from us after only six months after it was found. Those two years between mom and Carter were the worst of my life. There was no one to hold us together emotionally, we were both just adrift and going through life without really caring about anything. That all changed the night Carter stepped through our front door. She made both Keller and me feel so much more right from the beginning. Now that Carter and I have are together; it feels like all the support and love I have craved for so long is just there now. Carter feels for me what I feel for her, and I don’t have to do any of it alone. I get to have a life with the most beautiful, kindest person on the planet.