Monday morning Lindsey wakes with a mild headache. She gets up and dreads having to go to her morning class. "Why did I choose a morning class?" She asks herself, walking to her door. As she made her way to the stairs she saw Emily standing by the entry.

"Why are you here, do you follow my every move?" She asked jokingly

"Sometimes" Emily pulled the taller blonde into a hug, "I missed you" she mumbled into her sweatshirt

She smiled over how whipped the older girl was, "We saw each other last night"

"How does your head feel" Emily asked

"Hurts still...a lot"

Emily looked up at her, "You know you don't have to go to class"

"I know but I should"

"Linds you aren't even going to be able to pay attention if your head is hurting"

"I'll be fine" She kissed her girlfriends head, "I have to go"

"I'll walk with you" Emily grabbed the younger girls hand

"Sonny you don't have to do that. I'll be okay walking to class"

"Just let me" she begged

They walked down the stairs hand in hand. Keeping small talk as they walk over to Lindsey's first class.

"You going to practice today?" Emily asked

"No, they won't let me until my headache's are completely gone" Emily hummed in response

As they walked up to the door of her class, the older girl left a peck on the Lindsey's cheek and walked back to her room.

Lindsey sat in class that morning not being able to pay full attention to what was going on. Of course she would never admit that to Emily, not wanting to hear her boast about being right. She sat in the class taking notes, but still not fully understanding them.

She still had a pounding headache that was just getting worse as time went on. The more she would try to focus on something in the room, the more she wished she was back in her dorm. The class finally wrapped up and she got out of the room as fast as she could.

Once she got outside she lifted her hood onto her head trying to block out the sun. She felt someone grab her arm which caused her to turn around, to see Rose.

"You okay?" Rose asked cautiously

"Yea, I'm good why?"

"You just looked lost for a second, how are you feeling?"

"Fine, my head hurts that's all. I was on my way back to my room, so I can lay down" She explains

Rose looked at the younger girl surprised, "So you're not going to breakfast today?"

Lindsey just wanted to be back in her room so she tried her hardest to wrap up the conversation, "No, tell Em i'll be in my room"

"You want me to go with you?" Rose offered

"I'm okay Rosie, I promise" She started walking away towards her dorm

~~

Rose walked into the dinning hall to grab some food before making her way to the table.

She saw Sam over by the fruits debating which one looked the freshest, "Hey Sammy"

"Hi Rose, which banana looks the best?"

"That one for sure" she said pointing to the ripest one

Sam looked around, "Where's Linds? Don't you two normally come together to breakfast on Monday's?"

"Yeah we normally do, but Lindsey wasn't feeling good so she walked back to her room" Rose told her

"Oh, should we tell Emily?"

Rose thought back to their conversation, "I don't know she sounded like she just wanted to be alone" she continues on, "speaking of Em, how are you guys?"

"Uh, I mean I think we're good, but I'm still pissed. That was a sucky situation to be put in"

"I know, I was mad at her too. I still am, but you could tell she felt bad for doing it" Rose said grabbing her last thing

The two girls started walking to the table, finally having their food. "I know, I could tell that when she came to apologize. I guess if they are okay, I am too"

They saw Emily and Mall sitting together at there normal spot, "hey guys" Emily greeted them

"Where's Linds?"

"Question of the hour huh?" Sam said

"She said she wasn't feeling good, so she went back to her dorm" Rose explained

Emily looked down at her phone to see if Lindsey texted her and she just missed it, but there was nothing.

Rose looked at her, "I'm sure she's fine. It sounding like she just wanted to lay down. You have to give her space."

"I know, I just want her to feel better. I feel like I should be there." Emily started picking at her food again

"I'm sure she's fine"

~~

Lindsey entered her room and collapsed onto her bed. Her head still hurt so much, it was beginning to cause her to get nauseous. When she got up to close the blinds that were causing so much light to peer into her room, a wave of dizziness hit her.

The dizziness and nausea cause her to rush to the nearest trash can and throw up noting but the water she drank earlier in the morning. She whipped her mouth and feel back into her bed. She texted Emily,

Linds- come to room

Emily got the message while at breakfast. She excused herself and made her way out. The other girls looked at her confused, but let her go.

Em- coming

Emily walked as fast as she could to the younger girls room, nearly shoving some people out of the way. Once she got there she ran up the stairs not caring that her legs were burning. She opened the unlocked door and rushed in.

"Hey baby, you okay?" Emily walked over to the side of her bed

"No" she mumbled into the pillow case

"What happened?" Lindsey pointed over to the trash can

Emily walked over to where to where the girl was pointing and looked in to see the incident from earlier. She gagged as quietly as she could, Emily turned around and walked to the bed.

Lindsey rolled over now looking Emily.

"That's gross Linds" she joked

"Stop my head hurts a lot" she complained

Emily brushed hair out of the younger girls face, "I know, sorry. Let me get rid of the bag and then get you some medicine. Are you hungry at all?" She asked

Lindsey shook her head and Emily picked up the trash bag and took it out. As she walked back in Lindsey was in the same position as before

"Okay, let's get you this medicine" She grabbed the bottle and poured out some pills into her hand

She handed Lindsey a water bottle and then some pills. The younger girl laid back down after swallowing the pills.

"Come lay down with me" she mad grabby hands toward the other blonde

"Okay" Emily climbed into bed with her and laid down.

She's learned a few things about sick Lindsey. One, she doesn't like it when you joke. Two, she likes being cuddled and being the small spoon on top of that. She also doesn't eat a lot, so you have to force it down her. Stubborn but that's also normal Lindsey.

Both girls end up falling back asleep and are only wakened by Sarah who was back from her last class.

"Don't you have practice soon" she whispered to Emily

Emily looked down at the clock, "shit, yeah. Thanks for waking me up"

"Yeah no problem" Emily climbed out of the bed and started walking out

"Just let her sleep she wasn't feeling good" She informed Sarah

"Oh okay, I will"

Emily walked out the door, just now realizing that she missed all her classes today. She ran to the field being just 2 minutes "early".

"Wow Sonny, almost late again" Rose joked

"Shut up Rose" she slipped on her boots

"How's Linds?" Mal asked

"Not feeling good. She texted me to come over and when I walked in I saw throw up in the trash" She told them

"That's gross" Sam added

"Trust me, I know, I had to get rid of it" Their coach called them all over

"Does anyone know where Lindsey is?"

"Yeah, she's still hurting from her concussion. It's gotten worse over the last couple of days, and the last I saw her she was sleeping" Emily answered

"With you" Rose said in-between coughs, and Emily elbowed her in the ribs

"Oh okay. Tell her to see the trainer whenever she feels good enough to go"

They were in the middle of practice when Lindsey walked up. Not in practice clothes just sweats and and a sweatshirt. She had a talk with the coaches and her and the trainer walked off into the locker room. At the end of the practice their coach gathered them again.

"Alright girls, good practice. We have an away game this week. From the looks of it, Lindsey probably won't play. So show me who wants to fill her position. That's it for today, stay hydrated, keep your body's heathy and we'll see you tomorrow." They group separated and went their own ways

Emily made her way to the locker room to see if Lindsey was still in there. As she was about to open the door the tall blonde walked out.

"Hey you" she said

"Hi" Lindsey said in a saddened voice

"I heard you might not be playing" Emily pushed the girls hood off, since the sun had set and it wasn't as bright out

"No, I'm not. They aren't even going to let me practice this week, at all" she said disappointed

"I mean it is pretty bad Linds, and it's only getting worse" Emily reminded her

"I know" Lindsey answered now in an annoyed voice

"Hey calm down. I know it sucks to not play, I didn't play last week. You'll get through it. You still have three more years don't forget" She rubbed Lindsey's forehead

"Stop, now you're trying to make it sound like I have memory loss"

"You kinda do Linds" it made the younger girl laugh.

Later that night with girl were now laying in Emily's room. They both were laying there staring at the ceiling above them.

"Linds, we're good right?" Emily asked

"Yes Em, I promise"

"You're going to be alone on Friday and Saturday" Emily mentioned

"I know, and you guys better not loose. I want to played one more time"

The team was competing to make it into the final. It was a one loss knockout. They won the week before so they were still in it. This week they play UCLA in California, so it was a ways away.

"I'm going to be so far from you" Emily said turning into Lindsey's body.

"I know, but it's only two days we did it for a week, I think we can do a two days" Lindsey reminded her

"I know we can, but what if you don't feel good?" Emily said as if she was pointing out the obvious

"I have Sarah, she will take care of me"

That night they said, goodbye, and went their separate ways only to meet up again the next day.

The rest of the week flew by, school, practice, sleep, repeat.

~~

It was now Friday morning before boarding the bus, Emily went to Lindsey's room to say goodbye, even though they said it last night. She knocked on the door, Lindsey opened it with tired smile.

"Hi, I came to say goodbye"

"We did that last night silly" she brought Emily into a hug

Lindsey had been feeling better as the days went by. Her head still hurt but it was barely there anymore. She felt good, but sad since she wouldn't be helping her team today.

"I'll miss you" Emily mumbled into her shoulder

"I'll miss you more. Go win for me, yeah?"

"Of course" Emily pulled away and kissed her girlfriend, "I love you"

Lindsey heart fluttered, "I love you too"

Emily walked off, turning around to smile at the women she loved the most. Later that night Lindsey put the game on her computer. She watched her girlfriend run around the field along her friends. She smiled every time Emily touched the ball, or completed a pass, actually she smiled at every little thing she did.

UVA was down 2-0 by halftime. It wasn't looking good for them. Lindsey was mad at herself, at her head, at the world. She just wanted to be there.

Once the second half started Rose made a perfect pass to Mal, who was onside of the defenders, she was able to take a shot making it 2-1.

Sam then got a hold of the ball and rocketed it into the goal outside the 18, shortly after. The game turned around, until Emily went in for a slide tackle and got a foul called on her, in the 18. It was a bullshit call, but they had trust in their goalie. Good thing they did because she was able to save it.

Rose once again made a pass to one of the other forwards and she was able to make it 3-1, off the crossbar.

Once the final whistle blew not only did the girls on the field feel relieved but so did Lindsey, who was on the edge of her seat back at the dorm.