Playing for Love by Dana Burkey

Author:Dana Burkey [Burkey, Dana]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Tags: Teen & Young Adult, Literature & Fiction, Sports, Soccer, Romance, Contemporary
ISBN: 1517383609
Amazon: B0159KMMDI
Published: 2015-11-01T04:00:00+00:00

This week is about to get crazy! I mean, I thought I knew how important the next few games are, but it didn’t really hit me until today. It started when Jordan asked me about it this morning in the car. I struggled to even roll out of bed after all the soccer last night, so I was worried I looked the part as well. I tried my best to do my hair and makeup enough so that it looked like I was somewhat awake, and I guess it worked.

“Of course the soccer star is fine after last night,” Jordan joked when he got into the car. “I feel like my whole body is falling apart, and you look like you could do it all again right now.”

“Not quite,” I assured him. “I’m going to be feeling it tonight for sure!”

“I bet,” he nodded. “This week's going to pretty tough for you ladies.”

“We’ll be fine,” Skyler said, turning in her seat to join the conversation. “As long as we keep doing what we're doing and take down North Lake on Thursday then it'll be pretty smooth sailing the whole rest of the season.”

I nodded in agreement, without really knowing. Thankfully Ross turned up the radio and I got out of saying anything else about it. I felt kind of lame not knowing how hard North Lake would be, or what the rest of the season might look like. When I got to practice, though, I found out just what Skyler was talking about.

“Get ready ladies,” Coach Gary warned us while we were stretching before practice. “Tonight isn't going to be fun.”

Talk about the understatement of the year! I was so tired by the time we were done with warm-ups, I wanted to fall over! We did a lot of sprinting, and then would follow it up with longer distance runs. So we had to go from super-fast to more of a paced running for a longer period of time. It wasn't easy, and even some of the girls on varsity were having a hard time keeping up with it all. Once we were done warming up, we did some really hard drills where we had to defend the goal against the rest of the team or go for a goal against the whole team. JV and varsity were working together, so it was also hard to get used to working with Chelsea and Skyler instead of just Torri or Hayley.

When practice was over, I thought I'd need to be carried to the car, but I made it home and even got a little homework done before I did something super crazy. I decided to text Jordan! I don’t know why I thought it was a good idea, but I kind of figured if we could hang out outside of school and even be alone, then it should be okay to text him.

“I wish I'd practiced with you tonight instead of the team. We must have run at least 6 miles

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