"Where are my boots?" Allie asks as I rest my head on my twin's back.

Kelley is sitting on my lap painting my nails neon green while we sit in the home locker room of Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta. We play Australia today and Kelley and I are starting.

Weirdly I am the captain for today's game.

"Astrid where are my boots?" Allie asks.

"How the fuck should I know dumbass?" I ask.

Allie huffs then walks away.

"Do you have her boots?" Kelley whispers.

"No."

"Astrid." Kelley warns.

"Technically I don't." I admit.

"What did you do?"

"Just used some connections...You'll see when we walk out for the anthems."

Kelley finishes painting my nails then she returns to her locker. I wait for my nails to dry then I put on my turquoise keeper jersey and a few seconds later Christen, who's also starting, helps me strap on the captains armband. The rest of the starters and I head to the tunnel and wait to be lead onto the pitch.

A minute or so later we are lead out onto the field by the refs and a few seconds after that the anthems are played. After the anthems are over we shake hands with Australia and the refs then Sam Kerr and I do the coin toss. Once that's done we have a team huddle then Kelley and I walk to our positions.

"Do you see our logo on the scoreboard?" I ask.

"Yeah." Kelley says and looks up.

"Look about 10 feet up from that and to the right."

"Oh. My. God." Kelley says then she looks at me. "You put Allie's cleats on the roof?"

"I didn't...but a worker who I handed the boots to did."

"Remind me not to get on your bad side."

"She's lucky I didn't cut her hair." I say moments before kick off.

- - - - -

"So how was your first game being captain?" Kelley asks as we walk into the locker room.

We beat Australia 3-1 with Tobin, Christen, and Mal scoring for us. Chloe Logarzo scored off a deflection which sucks.

"It was fine." I say then head to my locker.

I change out of my kit and into my street clothes then head to the bus. Once on the bus I sit in mine and Tobin's row then wait for my girlfriend to get on the bus. Minutes later the most beautiful women in the world sits down next to me.

"Hi Boo Bear." I whisper as Tobin rests her head on my shoulder.

"Hi Baby." Tobin says as we head to the hotel.

While we're driving back to the hotel I hear Ms. Long talking shit.

"She needs to shut the fuck up." I whisper and clench my fists. "She's about to know exactly what I think of her and have a black eye to go along with her green hair."

"Don't." Tobin says as we pull up to the hotel. "I know it's annoying, but her opinion of you and our relationship has no value."

The bus pulls up to the hotel so my girlfriend and I get off and head up to our room. The two of us then take a shower together which is sadly very tame. Once we're both clean and dressed we head to Christen and Alex's room for movie night with some of the girls.

"Hey." Christen says when she answers the door.

"Hey." Tobin and I say then walk in the room.

"You guys are the first ones here."

"Sweet." Tobin says.

The two of us lean against the headboard on the unused bed in the room and wait for the Kelley and Allie to show up. Eventually the two girls arrive so we start watching some movie. Minutes into the movie I lean my head on Tobin's shoulder, wrap my arms around her closest arm, then I start playing with her fingers.

I then hear Allie's annoying ass voice whining about something

"She has one more chance before I blow up at her." I whisper.

"At this point she deserves it." Tobin whispers.

"What are you two whispering about?" Christen asks then Allie mumbles something.

"Do you have a problem with me Allie? Because everytime I touch my girlfriend, kiss my girlfriend, talk to my girlfriend, or even if our names are mentioned in the same sentence you get all pissy." I say.

"I don't think you're good enough for her." Allie says.

"Well no shit I'm not." I say. "It's blatantly obvious I'm not good enough for Tobin. I mean I have issues upon issues upon issues that I have to work through, but fortunately Tobin is helping me through my issues so I can be the girlfriend she deserves."

"Just because you don't think she's good enough for Tobin doesn't mean you need to talk shit about her." My twin says.

"It also doesn't mean you need to almost ruin my hair with a stupid prank. Like seriously what adult pranks someone? I get scaring people, but pranking? What are we four?" I say.

"You pranked me too." Allie says.

"Because you pranked me first...and you're lucky I only dyed your hair, put icy hot in your underwear, and took your cleats. It could've been a lot worse for you." I say.

"You know Astrid almost left yesterday." Tobin says.

"What?" Kelley says and looks at me.

"It's true." I admit.

"Why?" Alex asks.

"My natural reaction when I can't handle something or people learn about something I don't want them to know is to run." I admit.

"Oh."

"Allie I get that you want to protect me, but it's my life and my choice who I date." Tobin says.

"I know." Allie mutters as I get off the bed.

"I think I'm gonna turn in." I say then walk out of the room

I walk down the hall to my room then head inside and strip out of my clothes. Once I'm nude I plug my phone into the charger then I get into bed and watch some show on tv. A couple minutes later my forward comes into the room, locks the door, puts her phone on the charger then she strips out of her clothes. Tobin then walks over to our bed so I lift the covers up and my girlfriend slides into bed. My girlfriend then brings me into her arms and tightly hugs me.

"I love you." Tobin says.

"I love you too." I say and look at my girlfriend.

"You know you are more than enough for me." Tobin says as she strokes my face.

"Some days I do." I admit. "But somedays I know I put too much stress on you with my issues."

"The only reason your very few issues stress me is because they hurt you and I don't like seeing you hurt."

"This makes it better."

"What does?" Tobin asks.

"This." I say then gesture to the two of us. "You holding me when the days get to be too much, Being my shoulder to cry on when I'm down, cheering me up when I need it, and just overall being the best girlfriend I could ask for...Truthfully I probably wouldn't be here if it wasn't for you."