"Alright everyone enjoy your off day." Jill says at breakfast then she and the coaching staff leave.

Everyone finishes eating breakfast while talking about what they want to do while I look over some ideas for tattoo's.

"Watcha lookin at?" Mal asks

"I'm getting a tattoo today so I'm looking over some designs I want." I say.

"You're getting a tattoo during camp?" Becky asks.

"Isn't that bad to have while working out and sweating?" Sam asks.

"I've gotten one on the 2nd or 3rd of April every year since 2008 and I'm not gonna stop now. And if you properly care for it then it will turn out good...and I'm not playing tomorrow so I'll be fine."

"Why?" Allie asks.

"The same reason I did that running thing." I say and look at Kelley and Christen.

The know the reason I do this every year.

"Who are you going with?" Carli asks.

"Uh nobody?"

"What time are you going?"

"Um my appointment is at 10 am so I'm leaving in...30 minutes." I say.

"Do you want people to go with you?" Ash asks.

"If you want to spend a couple hours doing nothing then sure."

"We'll go." Ali says and Ash nods.

"I'll go." Kelley says.

"We'll go too." Alex says and Christen nods.

"Okay."

"So how many tattoos do you have?" Allie asks.

"After today 10"

"Can we see them?" Mal asks and I nod.

"Do yours have meaning?" Andi asks as everyone looks on.

"They do...some more significant than other's." I say then adjust my hoodie.

Thankfully I wore a crop top hoodie so I don't have to adjust that much.

I turn to show my right side.

"I got the Phoenix on my right side for a personal reason."

I then turn to show my left side.

"Uh I just liked the way this looked."

I turn around and pull up my crop top so my shoulder blade can be shown

"I got the wolf one on my back because I was tired of people always assuming that Kelley and I weren't good enough."

"Good enough for what?" Mal asks.

"To play with the boys. We were always told to stick to barbies."

"Yeah...then when we beat their best two players 11-1 they shut up." Kelley says.

I lower my hoodie back then show my right arm.

"The one on my right upper arm is for Kelley."

"For me?" Kelley asks.

"Yeah...I was the first one to call you squirrel and I always wanted you with me on the field."

"Aww." Christen says.

"I got this one because well I like tigers." I say and show my right forearm.

"The one on my left upper arm has a personal meaning."

"And I'm not gonna pull down my pants, but on my right hip is a lion and on my left hip is a panda. I got them both for personal reasons as well."

I then sit back down and lift my leg up so people can see my left Calf.

"This is a Lily and It has a deep personal meaning to me." I say.

I then notice Christen and Kelley looking at me with wide eyes.

"Well everyone enjoy your off day...if you're going with me I'll see you in 5 minutes in the lobby." I say then grab my trash and take it to the trashcan.

After I've disposed of my trash I go to my room and grab everything I need for the day then head to the lobby and wait. A couple minutes later the 5 girls going with me show up to the lobby.

"Ready?" I ask and everyone nods.

The 6 of us head out to my rental then we drive the 10 minutes to my tattoo girl's house. Once there everyone gets out and we head to the front door then ring the doorbell.

"Hey Astrid." My tattoo girl, Holly says.

"Hey Holly." I say and hug her. "Oh these are some of my teammates and my twin."

"Nice to meet everyone...come on in and make yourselves comfortable."

Everyone makes them selves comfortable in the living room where the chair and tattoo stuff is setup.

Holly has her own studio, but since we have history I'll usually fly her over to Germany to do my tattoo, but since we are in Denver today, which is her hometown, we are doing it in her house.

"So what tattoo today?" Holly asks.

"This one on my left forearm." I say and show her the tattoo.

"Think it's time?"

"I do."

"Alright I'll go sketch this up while you get comfortable." Holly says then walks away.

"Astrid how do you know her?" Christen asks.

"You remember THE girl?" I ask.

"Yeah." Kelley says and Christen nods.

"Holly is her sister."

"You've got to be kidding me." Christen says.

"Nope."

I then proceed to relax and wait for Holly. Holly comes back and has it sketched out and I agree to how it looks so she transfers the design onto thermal paper then position it on my arm and then removes the paper leaving the blue ink design on my arm. Holly puts on earbuds then starts tattooing and I talk with the girls. Sometime later Holly finishes up then cleans the tattoo up.

"Thanks Holly...it looks great." I say while looking at it.

"Of course...come on let's go get you your stuff."

Holly and I walk to some room in her house and get the new tattoo care products then she wraps the tattoo in that clear wrap stuff.

"You know she'd want you to be happy." Holly says.

"I know...it's just hard."

"I know...just try to put yourself out there again."

"I will."

"Good." Holly says as we walk back to the living room.

"Thanks again Holly." I say and hug her then hand her the payment for the tattoo.

"Of course Astrid. I'll see you in a year."

I nod then the 6 of us walk out of the house and head to the car.

"Who's hungry?" I ask as we back out of the drive way.

"ME." Everyone shouts.

"Cool. Um I don't really know what's around here so just shout when you see something."

"PANERA." Kelley shouts.

"Fucks sake Kelloggs. I didn't mean it literally." I say and rub my ear.

"Sorry." Kelley says as I pull into the Panera.

The 6 of us go through the drive through and get our food then head back to the hotel. Once at the hotel we head to Christen and Kelley's room and chill there.

"So sis." My twin says. "How's the love life?"

"Uh non-existent."

"What about you and a certain Thorns player getting close to each other?" Christen says and wiggles her eyebrow's at me.

"Yeah you two have been getting pretty close." Alex says.

"I'm actually a bit worried about that." I admit.

"Why?" Ali asks.

"I've always been a fuckgirl...probably the biggest fuckgirl ever."

"No you aren't." Kelley says.

"Kelley I had sex with four of our friends mom's on multiple occasions. I slept with most of our senior year high school soccer team. I had sex with my college english, math, and engineering professors so I could be eligible to play. And you all know about my escapades at the Olympics."

"Astrid you were hurting." Kelley says. "You haven't stopped hurting since we were 14. With everything that happened at home then the stuff that made you go to Germany."

"If anything your allowed to distract yourself." Christen says as I eat some of my sandwich.

"Still who would want to be with a girl who's slept with more people than she can count, has family issues, has issues from a past relationship and frankly......... someone who is scared to love."

"Ali did." Ash says causing me to look towards. "I was like that to, and to be honest in the beginning of our relationship I was just trying to get in her pants."

"Please tell me she knows this?" I ask as Kelley grabs my phone.

"I do." Ali says with a slight laugh.

"Yeah...but the more I spent time with her the more I realized that if we never had sex then I'd be more than happy with that...thankfully we do have sex and it's amazing."

"Ash." Ali says and smack Ash on the arm. "They didn't need to know that."

"Here." Kelley says and hands me my phone. "You have a date tonight."