Chapter 11 Eleven

Tamiloore flipped her notes from time to time as Semiloore paced around the compound with the ball practicing.

"When last did you practice?"

Semiloore shrugged "Quite a while"

"You'll be fine either ways though" Tamiloore said with a smile. Semiloore laughs as she kicked the ball and the ball hit the glass of the gateman's window and then crash!, the glass came crashing down and the gateman stomped out to yell but upon sighting Semiloore and Tamiloore, his mouth was left hanging open.

"Close your mouth awey" Semiloore said as she turned and froze

"They'll come repair the window tomorrow" her mom said to the gateman

"Mom"

"Go to the field"

"Am done practicing" Semiloore said as she smiled slightly. Her mom sighed and walked off

"She didn't blow off after all" Semiloore said with a smile while Tamiloore stood up and dusted her clothes

"She's in a good mood"

"Its good both ways"

"C'mon, I need to show you something"

"What is it?"

"Let's go" Tamiloore replied pulling her.

The bus pulled in front of the house and horned. Semiloore swaggered out after Tamiloore as usual with her skirt zipped halfway.

"What kind of lady acts like this?" Rolake asked no one in particular

"Don't you get tired of starting your days with insults?" John asked the latter.

Semiloore did a special handshake with the bus driver as the latter laughs as she slumps into a seat beside Peter

"Your skirt"

"Chill out man"

"Semiloore"

"Hey prick" Semiloore replied not daring to look back

"Look at me hey"

"Just say whatever you want to say"

"Its about the project so we need to talk about it" Nathaniel replied and Semiloore froze

"Let's talk about it at school"

"Are you avoiding them?"

"Of course not"

Peter raised his eyebrows "You suck at telling lies, anyone ever tell you that?"

Semiloore managed to laugh "Yeah"

"Who?"

"My mom, Tammy gave up on me already"

Peter can't help but laugh.

"You do really suck"

"I know"

"What happened?"

"Imagine falling into Folakemi's laps"

Peter hits her while Semiloore courses into laughter

"How dare you? Are you still even my friend? Couldn't you have imagined any other girl?"

Peter asked getting infected by Semiloore's laughter

"Yeah! Right, I fell into Nath's laps"

Peter laughed "This is the funniest of your jokes Semiloore, you are getting better"

"Am serious" Peter refused to pay her attention as he laughs. Semiloore tapped and turned his face to hers

"I said I fell in his laps no kidding!"

Peter froze for a while and searched her eyes. She was been serious!

"Holy shit! He pushed you away right?"

Semiloore laughs a little "Why would he do that?"

"Excuse me, don't tell me you haven't noticed that Nathaniel hates touching"

"Well, right I bet you didn't"

"He's not the book I came to read how would I know such?"

"Its like the first obvious characteristics about him"

"No, the first is he's really hot"

Peter laughs slightly as he raised his hands to his face "I give up on you babes"

"Not happening" Semiloore replied with a smile as the bus drove into the school.

Nathaniel's eyes strayed to where Semiloore was seated;she was quietly doing her classwork. She had disappeared when they got to school, she was avoiding him.

"Hey you good? " Joshua asked him

"Yeah, all good"

The students were just glancing around when Semiloore appeared in her sports wear. She walked towards Snr Oniye and the other footballers and gave her a curtsive gesture and ignored the rest.

"You good?"

"Yeah"

"You'll be playing against me, this is a one on one match okay, first to reach 5 okay?"

Semiloore nods as the footballers start talking between themselves

"She wants to play with Snr Oniye?"

"She'll surely beat her"

"That should tell you maybe she wants to embarrass her and still not take her into the team"

"She could have just asked the poor girls to play against Damola"

"Like she will be able to win against her"

"At least she will be lenient"

The girls laughed as the boys team watched with keen interest.

"She definitely going to kill her butt" a guy said before students started trooping in to watch the match.

"Need water?"

"I'll get heavy" Semiloore replied "Coach always said when you don't practice you'll fail, you think I'll get my butt kicked?"

Tamiloore laughed "For the record you did practice it just wasn't intensive and I think you'll just kick her butt all clean" she replied as she nodded at her before she walked to stand to watch. "Snr Oniye is very good at almost every position"Peter started

"She should have just said she didn't want her on the team instead of her trying to embarrass her" Maria said angry

"I know Semiloore plays good but its Snr Oniye she's playing against" Peter said

"We don't always get to be winners all the time" Maria said. Tamiloore chuckled as she continued to smack her gum.

"Hey Tamiloore.... "

"Just watch"

The match started and Snr Oniye was with the ball and funny enough, Semiloore didn't try to collect the ball from her or run after her or something, she just stood in front of her goalpost. Minutes tickled by before everyone realized that the opponent before them was a formidable one. Snr Oniye had not scored a single goal as she met a strong defensive whenever she got near her goalpost. The first half soon came to an end and Oniye was surprised.

Semiloore sat down while Tamiloore dabbed at her face. John, Joshua and Nathaniel walked up to them

"Heyyy, you didn't tell me you played football" Joshua said laughing

"It wouldn't have helped you anyways"

Joshua laughed "You were awesome out there, everyone is talking about you now, sincerely Snr Oniye is an awesome player and this has never happened before"

"Ohh, the blow of the surprise" Semiloore replied as she glanced at Nathaniel in a second. Nathaniel smiled as he and Theo did a bro hug. "You really weren't kidding, Tam"

"Tam?" Semiloore asked

"Huh?"

"Its restricted, only mom calls her that" Semiloore replied and frowned

"Ohh, Sorry but mehn you have totally kicked her ass" Theo said as everyone laughed

"But at least try to go for the ball"

"I know what am doing alright" Semiloore said as she stood up. Nathaniel just smiled a little without saying anything.

"You good?"

Semiloore high fived her "All good" she replied before jogging back to the field for the second half.

But this time Semiloore was different, she went for the ball this time and in 2 minutes 37 seconds into the second half, Semiloore scored a goal shocking everyone.

Some one yelled as Semiloore walked back to her post no yelling or throwing her hands and running around like you should do when you win or score a goal. Oniye was infuriated as she gave all her strength but the next minute, Semiloore had scored another goal and the goal one after the other until the whistle was blown.

7-0

"Whoa! I didn't see that coming" John said

Semiloore walked towards them sighing and breathing heaving. Maria crushed her into a hug.

"You were awesome"

"Hey shorty, am hanging unto a thin thread of life right now and you hug me like this? Do you want to squeeze the remaining life out of me?"

Everyone burst into laughter as every other students were still dazed. Snr Oniye was beaten point blank 7-0 and to say that the ball didn't even touch her leg in the second half wasn't an understatement.

"Whoa!"

"I told you, you'll kick her ass clean"Tamiloore said as she placed a wet towel on her face

"You made a lot of mistakes though" Tamiloore whispered as she placed the towel and put her hands on it.

"Lousy dribbling, if Coach Musa saw you dribbling like that, he'll probably make you run 200 laps"

Semiloore laughed as she held Tamiloore's waist. She was tired. She hadn't played in eight months and doing this had totally stressed her out. Oniye walked towards her with other footballers. In every footballer eyes, a kind of admiration were in their eyes already.

"Snr Oniye"

Oniye turned to Semiloore

"That had never happened before"

"Things happen for the first time Snr Oniye"

Oniye smiled a little despite the embarrassment "Welcome to Oxford football team"

"Welcome"

"Welcome"

"That was a lousy plan, defending and then attacking" Joba, the captain of the boys football team said and Semiloore chuckled under the towel as Tamiloore had draped the wet towel over her face again

"At least my lousy plan made me beat your second captain"

Oniye glared at Joba

"It wasn't lousy, just new" Oniye said

"Practice every Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays" a girl said

"Thank you"

"See you during practice" Oniye said before walking off.

"Your name has just entered Oxford book of record" Joshua said as everyone laughed.

"You ran away in the morning, we have to talk about our project" John said

"She's tired, we'll talk about it later" Nathaniel said as he slipped his hands into his pockets and started walking away.

Tamiloore glanced at Semiloore who only took a peek at only when he was already afar off.

"Wanna tell me what happened?" Tamiloore asked a mischievous glint in her eyes

"Nothing special"

"Wanna hear it either ways"

"Well, I think I fell into his laps or something"

"You think?" Tamiloore asked laughing

"Well, stop teasing me cowhead"

Tamiloore laughed again as she glanced at Nathaniel's back. If Semiloore liked someone;it was a nice thing.