I never thought I would be getting off a plane in Utah to play for the National team, but here I am collecting my bag at Salt Lake City international airport. Once I see my bag on the conveyor belt thing I grab it and go to a sign that has my name on it. The man holding the sign takes my bags and walks out to his car and sets off to the hotel which I arrive at 25 minutes later.

After I'm settled into my room I'm sharing with Christen Press I went downstairs to meet Jill and the team. Once in the lobby I spot Jill and walk over to her then we walk in to the team meeting and apparently we are the last ones in the meeting. As we step inside the talking abruptly stops and everybody stares at me as Jill and I walk to the front of the room so she can address the team.

"Ladies I would like to introduce you to your new teammate Cairo. Feel free to ask her anything you want." Jill says.

"How old are you?" Ali Krieger asks.

"I will be 22 soon." I reply.

"Who do you play for?" Carli Lloyd asks.

"I Played for Athletic Club Femenino from 2014-2017. Then moved to Juventus F.C. Women in the 2017-18 season. Now I am without a club."

"Is anyone interested in you?" Christen asks.

"Athletic Club Femenino, Juventus F.C. Women, Lyon, PSG, Barcelona, the new Manchester United team, and Wolfsburg are all of the teams that have contacted me, but no American teams yet."

"Did you win the league with Juventus?" Alyssa Naeher asks

"Yes"

"What position do you play?" Lindsey Horan asks.

"Forward and midfielder"

"How many goals did you score this season?" Tobin Heath asks.

"25"

"Damn" Meghan Klingenberg says which I laugh at.

"Sexuality?" Someone asks, but I don't know who. That question kinda caught me off guard.

"I love who I love."

"Whats your last name?" Emily Sonnett asks.

"I don't have one."

Well that got everyones attention I see as they all look confused.

"What do you mean you don't have one? What about your Passport and Drivers License?" Abby Dahlkemper asks.

"I legally changed my last name when I was 18. And my passport and drivers license say Cairo NLN, which stands for no last name."

"Why did you change it?" Megan Rapinoe asks.

"That's personal."

Kelley O'Hara decides to ask the most random question ever.

"So Cairo who here do you find most attractive?"

The question earned her quite a few smacks to the head.

"Thats for me to know and her to find out."

"Well someone is confident." She says while wiggling her eyebrows.

"Not really I just don't see the point in divulging who I find attractive because one I don't know her personality yet and two I don't know if any of you girls have body confidence issues and I don't want anyone to feel less beautiful than they actually are."

The team look at me with shocked expression for some reason. Thankfully Jill spoke up.

"Alright ladies you can get to know Cairo more tonight during team bonding."

When we were released I went straight up to my room and sat on the bed. I was only alone for two minutes when Christen, Ash, Ali, Tobin, and Alex came into the room.

"Hey Cairo" Christen says.

"Hello" I say.

"Would you want to go get something to eat with us?"

"Sure" I say and I follow them.

Once out of the hotel we find a small cafe around the corner from the hotel. We order and pay then grab our food and sit down in a booth. I'm in-between Ali and Ash for some reason. We chat for a bit while eating until Ash gets out her phone and looks up something on youtube

"You guys want to see Cairo's highlights?" Ash asks the table causing me to groan. The table nod and Ash presses play.

"What just happened?" Ali asks after seeing me do three tricks while running towards goal and scoring in the upper 90 as the video ends.

"Well that first player was coming at me fast so I did a Marseille turn. Then the second player looked uncomfortable so I did the elastico. After I got past her I did what I call a seal run. It was easier to run past the last two defenders without worrying about the ball. Only way they could get the ball is if they handball it or foul me so basically their only option was to wait for me to drop the ball and when I did I volleyed it into the upper 90.

"Well damn. I'm glad you're on my team." Ash says and the other girls nod.

"Can I ask you guys something?" I say and they nod. "Why are you guys so nice to me?"

They all look at me very confused "Because you're on our team. Why wouldn't we be nice?" Alex says.

"I've never had nice teammates."

"What do you mean?"

"My old teammates wouldn't talk to me outside the pitch. Never invited me to team activities. They would put in hard tackles on me, but I didn't mind that. My days would consist of waking up, going to training, train, go home and do stuff in my apartment or around town until bed."

"Damn that sucks." I nod and we get up and walk back to the hotel. Once inside the room I took a nap until dinner.

- - - - -

Tonight we are doing team bonding since I'm new with the team. The whole team is in mine and Christen's room and we are playing 2 truths and a lie which was suggested by Kelley. I'm sitting on my bed and Lindsey is sitting next to me. A lot of these girls are very open about their life. I'm not going to be until that trust builds. The team is very interesting though and I might be able to befriend some of them. That is if they like my personality.

"Alright Cairo your turn" Alex says.

"Alright Umm... I am a pretty good free diver, I am fluent in six languages, and I've fucked someone in this room." Once I say the last thing all of the girls eyes widen and they start asking each other if one of them was the girl I had sex with.

After the team discusses for a few minutes Kling speaks up, "Ok the lie is you've had sex with someone in this room. "

"Actually I have." I say with a smirk.

"WHAT WHO?" Pinoe yells.

"Nah I'm just messing with you guys. You guessed right."

"Wait so you speak six languages?" Emily asks me dumbfounded.

"Yeah I speak English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, and Icelandic."

"Why those languages?"

"English for obvious reasons, Spanish and Italian because that is what I grew up hearing and to communicate with my teammates, French and German because there isn't much to do when you don't know anybody in a new country, and Icelandic for a different reason, but I'll get into that later...maybe."

"Okay but what do you mean you are a pretty good free diver?" Rose asks.

"Well my record is 90 meters, which is about 300 feet and I can hold my breath for 15 minutes." Apparently that is shocking to hear I assume based on the looks on the girls faces.

"Where do you go to free dive?" Crystal asks.

"My favorite places are the Bahamas, France, Italy, and California since I live there."

"Wait what is free diving exactly?" Mal asks.

"Well I do two types. The first type is like this." I say holding up my phone showing them a video.

"That's how I got my record of 90 meters. The other is basically I go with scuba divers or rarely with snorkelers, but don't use a scuba tank or a snorkel.

"How do you breathe?" Lindsey asks. She seems the most interested out of all the girls.

"With snorkelers I tend to stay close to the surface so I can surface for air, but with scuba divers one of the divers will carry 2 tanks and every fifteen minutes the diver will swim up to me and give me his regulator while I get the air I need."

"Wow. I wish I could see that." Ash says.

"Well if I'm still on the team the next time we go to California I can take whoever wants to come with me out to snorkel or scuba and you can see it then. In fact I can get my friend who works for a submarine tour to let us use his submarine and you guys can watch from the safety of a submarine." The team nods and I sort of zone out till we decide to watch a movie.

The team decided to watch Black Panther. While the movie was playing Lindsey moved closer to me very gradually and I could see she wanted to maybe cuddle so I decide to move closer to her and wrap my arm around her.

"Is this okay?" I whisper to Lindsey. She nods and cuddles into me and we stay that way until the movie ends and everyone leaves the room and Christen and I go to sleep.