Stanford

When Sam wakes up, she immediately regrets everything.

Lucy's arm is around her waist, as the defender is still very much asleep, breathing heavily. Sam tries to recollect the memories : they kissed, had sex, and... pretty much had sex. This is the worse idea ever, Sammy. Her thoughts becoming too overwhelming, the middy tries to put Lucy's arm off her, but every time, the defender puts it right back, this time on her leg.

Shit.

After finally being able to get out of the bed, Sam walks on her own clothes and slips on the ground, naked, in a big noise. That immediately wake Lucy up, who jumps a little bit, before sitting down on the bed. Realizing that they both are naked and hidden in blush, the Brit puts a cover on her body, while Sam covers hers.

The Brit is waiting for Sam to talk, so the blonde says :

"U-uhm... This is unfortunate"

Lucy frowns.

"N-not the exact word I would have used, but yeah..." she lets out in a shy voice.

After another thirty second gone by of only them looking at each other - basically eye-fucking each other - Sam asks :

"Can I ask you something ?"

"S-sure, I g-guess" Lucy stammers.

Damn it, get it together, the Brit thinks to herself, staring at Sam.

The middy, on the other hand, looks like she is about to pass out. She puts a cover on her body too, before asking her question :

"If you, uhm... had to rate my... performance, yesterday... Uhm, this is embarrassing..."

Lucy's eyes go wide.

"W-wait, does that mean..."

"Just answer the freaking question...."

As if that moment wasn't awkward enough at the moment, Kristie chooses this moment to open her sister's dorm door in a hurry.

As soon as she sees what is going on, she picks up Lucy's clothes and throws them at her, while Sam is just getting up. After throwing a despising look at her sister, who is still naked, the blonde rolls her eyes and hands her clothes too. As Lucy is only in panties and bra, Kristie grabs her arm and drags her all the way to the door, before pushing her outside and closing the door.

The Brit hears the two sisters yelling at each other, as she is freezing just outside of the dorm.

And as if it wasn't embarrassing enough for her, Leah Galton and Carson Pickett choose this exact bad timing to walk toward their own dorm. As soon as they see the brunette half-naked and panicking, putting her clothes back on, Leah bursts into laughter.

She then says :

"I knew you guys were totally about to fuck"

Lucy blushes.

When the girls hear the screams from Sam's dorm, they both smirk, before the door opens again. Sam comes out of it, teary-eyed. She doesn't even look at Lucy, avoiding her gaze, before running away, her bag in hand.

Kristie, when she comes out of the room as well, immediately walks toward the Brit, before slapping her pretty hard. Hard enough for a big noise to come out of it, before Lucy puts her hand on her cheek.

The blonde is pissed, and Leah and Carson are silent.

"I blame you for this." Kristie spits out before running after her sister.

After a few seconds, Carson finally says :

"Sisters are the worse."

"Yah" Leah nods, before smirking and looking at the brunette, who is in shock, her cheek burning. "Next time, try to find a fuck-girl who is an only child, it'll cause less problems."

The two girls start laughing, before inviting the Brit over for a tea. Even though she is truly embarrassed, Lucy accepts and joins some of her new teammates. Surprisingly enough, her insertion is finally getting somewhere, and people actually seem to like her.

But when Sam joins the Stanford tea-party - where everybody from the team but Jessie *cough* and Olivia are - she totally ignores Lucy and goes and sits down in between Moe and Cari on the opposite side of the room.

Well, this is awkward.

*

Rachel went to get breakfast for everybody that slept at hers and Mads' form, while the keeper was helping some with hangover by giving them medication. Thank the Lord she's allergic to alcohol, the blonde thinks to herself, thankful that she doesn't have to face four drunk teammates on her own.

It was obvious that Sonnett would be hangovered, but Rachel never expected Caprice, Gibby and Jane to be too. While the blonde keeper is handling it pretty well, same can't be said about the three others, who are just lying down on the floor, waiting for the nausea to pass. Mads is very patient with them, which helps.

As the Brit is about to walk back to her dorm, she comes across Megan, who looks worried.

"Hey, 'sup ?" Rachel asks, raising her eyebrow.

Megan doesn't even bother answering the question, asking another one right away instead :

"Have you seen Lindsey ?"

"No, why ?"

The blonde looks worried.

"We had a little argument last night, and she left pretty angry... She was drunk and I'm afraid something happened to her..."

"Nobody has seen her yet ?" Rachel asks, worried as well.

Megan shakes her head.

The Brit immediately thinks : shit. She got to know Lindsey by now, and if she learned one thing, it's that Lindsey has her moments of 'fuck this shit I'm out of here' mindset, and it looks like she ran away as far as she could from the defender.

Who, by the way, looks sad.

"... Sorry to ask, but is something happening between you two ?" Rachel carefully asks, a little smile on her lips.

Megan shakes her head again.

"Not really... I mean, I don't know... She kinda almost kissed me..." Technically, you kinda kissed her as well..."... And yesterday I wanted to talk to her about that but she just got upset..." Because I was a jerk by telling her that she had to know what she wanted, but in fact I am the one not sure about anything because of Kailen..."...and left."

"Mmh." Rachel lets out, not sure what to say. Instead of going with the whole 'I take my friend's defense' thing, she only says : "Lindsey really cares about you. It must've hurt her that you didn't feel the same way..."

"Wait, who told you..."

"... I have eyes, Megan. And it doesn't require a high I.G. to figure you're afraid to disrespect Kailen by committing yourself to someone else. And it's understandable. But it's probably hard for Lindsey to process that."

Megan looks at Rachel in a weird way, and even Rachel looks weirdly at herself : Damn, when did I become a damn psychologist ? She then smirks, before thinking : Maybe I should direct group seances so that I could make a lot of money.

Meanwhile, the defender looks sad again.

"Look, I'm going to continue looking for her. See you."

"See ya."

*

Lucy is walking on the street after buying some food for her dorm. She surely doesn't expect a car to pull down the road, and then the window being lowered.

Ashlyn Harris is there, pointing a gun at the Brit. The brunette is not bold enough to try and run, so she just opens the car's door and sits down. When she closes it, though, she knows she is trapped.

And Ashlyn is smiling when she says :

"Hey there, Bronze. Long time no see..."

Her smirk is almost frightening, as Lucy is wondering what she did to the Lord to have been involved in such a thing.

The goalie then smiles, while finishing her sentence :

"... Last time I saw you, you killed my girlfriend. Trust me when I say you're going to do exactly what I say, before from now on, I'm taking over Hope's mission."

"Mission ?"

"Things are going to be shaken up, trust me. Right, Lindsey ?"

Lucy turns around, and immediately recognizes the middy's bright green eyes, even in the dark. Her face is so mortified that it makes Ash smirk.

Lindsey, on the other hand, taps the Brit's shoulder, before saying :

"We're going to have fun."

"I don't understand..."

"Abby Dahlkemper is not Hope's daughter..." Ash starts, amused.

"I am." Lindsey says.

Holy Hell, Lucy thinks to herself, before the car starts.