Chapter 38

ALEXIS' POV

Today, unlike other days that I'd had to tell the boys to look away while I dress before the do so...it not do so at all, I did not take any permission from them before going ahead to slip out of my shirt. Immediately, the boys look away even without being told.

I smirk to myself in discreet and I recall grandma Rivera's words that I had encouraged me to take this initiative in the first place.

If you can't beat them, join them.

I guess the psychology played out well for me after all.

After we all get changed into our issues the boys leave without me and I follow them from behind. If I am being honest, as much as it hurts that they treat me like an outcast in the team, at the same time, I do not really care that they don't carry me along at all. If that is the price I have to pay to experience a lifelong passion and dream, then so be it. I don't regret a thing.

We finally get to the pitch and my eyes scan the empty bench where Lori and her minions used to sit and cheer at