Kya & Xavier: It's Always Been You (Life As We Know It Book 1) (30 page)

“We have a recruit coming today so
Coach moved our time back. We have dinner at five and then we’re running
through a weight session with the recruit after we’re done.”

“You’ve got somebody coming on a
Monday?” Recruits usually visited on the weekend so it was strange that
somebody was visiting on a Monday.

“Yeah, he’s local and apparently
being vetted by a lot of schools so Coach is trying to get him before the
others get their hands on him.

“Break him in good.”

“No doubt. We don’t really want him.
From what I hear he’s good but he knows it. Not a team player and flashy as
hell. I don’t have time for that.”

“What position?”

“QB”

“Good luck with that. I’m out. I’ll
catch up with you later.”

“Alright.”

When I made it to my Jeep I started
the engine and turned the heat on high. I sat there for a minute to give it a
chance to warm up before I pulled off. Ethan’s truck wasn’t in the parking lot
so I figured he had already left. I hadn’t really seen much of him in the past
24 hours but when I did it was at practice and we didn’t have much time to
talk. I needed to feel him out about Toni to see where his head was at because
both Ky and Toni were counting on me to fix Toni’s screw up. I wasn’t really
pressed about the issue because I figured that he just needed a minute to let
things settle and then they would be cool again.

As soon as I walked into the locker I
knew that this was going to be a long practice. Coach was writing on one of the
dry erase boards and he had already scribbled out plays on three of the others.

“What’s up with him?” I sat down in
front of my locker and looked at Davis who was across from me.

“He’s on one today. Apparently we’re
tied in the conference so we need to win Friday.”

“Here we go.”
Damn, definitely not in the mood for this.

“Seriously.”

“What’s up Zay?” Ethan sat down next
to me and dropped his shoes on the floor in front of him.

“What’s up with you, you straight?”

“I’m good.” I looked at him trying to
figure out what kind of “good” he meant.

“You talked to Toni.”

“For what? She made her choice.”

“So you’re done like that?”
Shit.

“Bruh, I don’t have time for that. I
don’t do that back and forth.”

“Keeping it one hundred, you can’t
really trip. You’re still kickin’ it with Shaunie.”

Ethan laughed, “Damn man, you’re
supposed to be on my side.”

“Dude, I got you but your situation
is complicating my situation so this is about me.”

“That’s even worse, how are you gonna
have my back but then make it about you.”

I laughed. “Look I need Ky to be
happy right now so if it means throwing you under the bus then hell, a brothers
gotta do what a brothers gotta do. But real talk, she messed up and she knows
it don’t be too hard on her because she told me she hasn’t been with him since
you two have been together and I believe.”

“Yeah I know. It just pissed me off.
I’ll talk to her.”

“All eyes on me.” We both looked up
at coach along with the rest of the team.
…and
here we go

-----

I decided to check my mailbox since
it had been almost three weeks. I never really got mail at school so I could
have probably gone another month or so and not really missed anything. When I
reached the mail room I swiped my id card, pushed the door open and walked to
the end of the hall where my box was. I could hear voices on the other side but
neither of them sounded familiar so I opened my box and pulled out the
contents. Basically the usual, credit card offers, school flyers and post cards
but there was also a large over stuffed manila envelope. I read the return
address searching for clues on what it could be and realized it was from my
father. I was curious how he knew my mailing address at school and even more
curious about what on earth he could have sent me but I wasn’t really in the
mood to deal with it at the moment so I shoved it under my arm, tore up the
card offers and threw them away along with the flyers.

A few minutes later I was back in my
dorm room and about to shower. I already had the water running so when my phone
rang I almost ignored it answered at the last minute.

“Sup?”

“What’s up stranger?”
Damn Tori.

“What do you want?”

“Wow, that’s where we are right now?”
she sounded irritated like she had the right to be.

“You’re joking right? I don’t have
time for this. I’m out and do yourself a favor, delete my number.”

“Zay wait…”

I hung up.
She had to be crazy
.

I pulled off my shirt, practice
shorts dropped them both on the floor before I walked into my bathroom and shut
the door. The bathroom quickly filled with steam so I shed by boxer briefs and
stepped inside.
Did she really just try
and talk to me like nothing ever happened. Like she didn’t confront Ky about a
fake pregnancy and almost make me lose her. This chick had to be crazy.
I
laughed because it was so insane that I couldn’t help myself.
Absolutely insane.

               
When I
opened my bathroom door I noticed my bedroom door was open so I stepped out,
shut it and looked around the corner. Ky was sitting at my desk on the phone
and she looked up and smiled when she saw me.

               
“He just
got out of the shower.”

               
“That is
extremely in appropriate and I will tell him that.” She grinned, stood up and
moved close to me placed her free arm around my waist and let it rest on my
back. I realized that she was on my phone.

               
“Who are
you talking to?”
 
I asked but she ignored
me and kept talking

               
“Exactly.
I will make sure he knows that.” She laughed and then lifted her weight onto
her toes to kiss me.

               
“I will
call you back on my phone in a little bit okay?”

               
“I
won’t, bye.” She tossed my phone onto my bed and then locked her hands behind
my back.

               
“Your
sister said that it was that it was very inappropriate for you to take a shower
while I’m here.”

               
“Technically,
I started my shower before you got here.” I kissed her on the forehead, stepped
around her and picked up my practice clothes off the floor. The towel that I
had wrapped around my waist to almost fall off but I caught it and readjusted
it.

               
“Why are
you here so early?”

               
“Wow,
I’m glad to see you too.”

               
I
dropped my practice clothes into my hamper, pecked her on the lips before I sat
on my bed and laid back.

               
“You
know I didn’t mean it like that.” She sat down next to me.

               
“I don’t
know. I just felt like it.” She lifted her hand and slide her finger up the
side of my towel but I caught it and firmly grabbed her wrist to stop her.

               
“Don’t
start something that you can’t finish.”

               
“It’s
not my fault that you have to leave.” She smiled and snatched her wrist away
from me.

               
“What
did Leigh want?” I decided to change the subject or I knew that I wasn’t going
to make it to my team meeting.

               
“She
didn’t say. Probably because she got side tracked talking to me about this
weekend.”

               
“Can
Toni go with you?”

               
“I don’t
know yet.”

               
“Did you
ask her?”

               
“Zay, I
got this. Chill.”

I could tell that she was getting irritated
and it’s not like Toni could help if anything crazy happened but I just didn’t
like her being on the road by herself like that but I let it go anyway.
For now.

“What time is it?” I held my head up
and tried to see my DVD player, while Ky picked up my phone instead.

“7:22”

“I need to get dressed.”

“What’s the meeting about?” She tucked
her leg under her butt and turned towards me as I sat up.

“Not sure but there’s not telling
knowing Coach. He’s always so random.”

“So you don’t think you’ll be that
long.”

“I don’t know why?”

“Just asking.”

I pulled her across my lap and she
fell back and grabbed my arm to stop herself from falling completely back. “I’m
not gonna let you fall.” I said and laughed.

“I never know with you.”

“Whatever man.” I leaned towards her
and kissed her before she pulled herself to a seated position on my lap but I
forced her to stand up and then did the same.

“Yeah that’s not gonna work or I will
never get out of here in time.”

“Oh so you’re finally admitting that
you have no self-control.”

I opened my draw, pulled out a pair
of boxer briefs and slide them on under my towel before I pulled it off and
tossed it on the bed. “No, I have control which is why I’m getting dressed
instead of undressing you.”

“Mmhm.” She grinned and sat down on
the center of my bed and crossed her legs.

I finished getting dressed and checked
to make sure Chaz was in his room which he was so I stuck my head back in my
door. “I’m about to leave. Hopefully I won’t be that long.”

“Okay. I’m about to do homework.”

               
She slid
off the side of my bed, picked up her book bag off the floor next to my desk,
dumped it on the bed and then she followed scooting back against the wall
before she started pulling out books and binders. I shut the door and left
praying that coach wasn’t in one of his moods.

-----

               
“Anybody
know what this meeting is about?” I asked when I entered the locker room. I was
one of the last ones to show up followed by Trey and Davis who walked in right
behind me.

               
“So what’s
this wasted of time about?” Trey asked right after me

               
“This
waste of time is about the fact that you horny bastards don’t respect housing
rules and therefore I have to spend the next.” Coach looked at his wrist and
then back at us “fifteen minutes explaining the consequences of you idiots not
practicing safe sex.”

               
We all
looked at each other trying to figure out if Coach was kidding or being
serious.

               
“I
always keep it wrapped tight coach. You don’t have to worry about me so can I
skip this.” Trey said yelled from the corner of the locker room.

               
“I
didn’t know you needed to use condoms for self-gratification.” Davis said which
caused the entire team to erupt into laughter.

               
“I got
your self-gratification right here.” Trey said and threw a basketball at Davis

               
“I don’t
want to be here any longer than I have to so let’s get this over with.” Coach
said attempting to get us under control “Apparently, you guys along with the
football team have been breaking the overnight guest rules so I have been
instructed to explain this rule to you as well as the consequences if you continue
to break this rule.”

               
“It’s
the swim team isn’t it coach? They’re just pissed because the ladies love
ballers.” Ty said and laughed. “They’re always sweating us. I swear.”

               
“I
really don’t give a shit who told and I don’t really give a shit why. All I
care about is not getting calls from the Dean at eleven o’clock at night to complain
about my players. If I’m not happy then you’re not happy and trust me, you won’t
like how that turns out. So here it goes. You are allowed overnight guest of
the opposite sex, however the following rules apply. 1 your guest can not stay
any more than three consecutive nights in a row and no more than 6 overnight
stays per month. 2 all guest must sign in at the security station and have valid
id such as driver’s license or school id. Is that understood?”

               
No one said
a word. “Is that understood?”

“Yeah coach”. A few of the team
mumbled.

“And with that being said here’s how
I feel about that, I don’t care who stay in your rooms, when they stay, how
long they stay just be smart enough not to piss anyone else off so that the
dean doesn’t feel the need to make me have his meeting with you dumb asses
again. Understood?”