Chapter 37

ELLIE

I found myself waiting for practice to be over, as I couldn't wait to get along with Troy who had shined in the practice like he had promised to. It was quite hard for me to notice anything else in the environment besides him at that point, and that gave me some concern.

“There are just too many of them that you get confused…” Jasmine and her friend Zaya had been conversing about all the hot boys on the school's football team that they fancied.

It was an almost inexhaustible conversation as every single one of them seemed to be such a hotshot. I was wondering why I had never been frequenting that part of school ever since.

At that moment, it almost felt like my eyes were slowly opening to the parts of my life I hadn't been enjoying because of my affair with Aiden. I was almost feeling like a bird set free.

“Here you are…” Troy had me a bit scared as he suddenly poked me with his index on my shoulder, causing me to turn to see him all dressed and ready to go. “Shall we…?” He