11. Before

Lillian's POV

The inter house games was a week long competition , simply because we were quite a lot considering we were ten houses competing in almost every sport. The first two days was , basketball, hockey and netball according to the houses that had signed up for it . I playing any of the games mentioned , so for the first two days I was game free and just prepping up for my first game on Wednesday. The school's colors were white and gray, which was also the color of our uniforms. but the house colors were different , each house had to pick one of the school's color and add it to their color.

My house's original color was blue, so we picked the white color , so then were were wearing white and blue jerseys for all our games. that was blue shorts and white and blue striped shirts but for the tennis , it was supposed to be a skirt, for the females , that is what is what is usually worn for tennis games worldwide but i told our coach I couldn't and I would like to remain in the shorts.

My first game was volleyball , and that was against three houses, already two houses had been knocked out as at Wednesday, so we had eight teams to compete against , which kind of made our odds a little better. We were playing against three teams , from house pitt, house cloister and house Shelburne, we had already played basketball and netball . We had six players on both teams and the first team was from house cloister .

The first match began at 9:oo am with three games per match and twenty minutes per game , our next game would be 11:ooam and the last match of the day would be at 2:oopm. I was feeling really nervous and jittery as this was my very first time in front a crowd no less. I had always dreamed of playing volleyball and in a few minutes it was going to be a reality. We entered the gymnasium amidst cheers and shouts of support for both teams and began warmups.

For the first game , I was a libero (back row defense), team cloister gave the first serve and set the game in motion. Since this was the first time most of us were playing ,the game was a bit shaky but we managed to hold our own. The ball came directly to our side of the field towards me, I gently passed to the setter who tipped it gently and another front row player spiked it neatly to the other side landing on their court . The crowd went wild , we won the first round . I turned and saw our coach smiling and gave us a thumbs up of encouragement.

Since we scored the first round, we were serving this round. The ball was given to the server and with the whistle she sent it over to one of the front row players who sent over to the other side and the game continued from there. With a bit of back and forth we were getting tired , then in about ten minutes , team cloister scored us for the second round , we were really discouraged now. It was a draw now , and the final round would determine the winner.

Coach asked for a one minute time out and huddled us, she knew we were discouraged , so she gave us a little pep talk. ''Look , I know this is your first game lads,'' she said in her Scottish accent , '' I know you can do this and I believe you , now we win this round and we win this match , we are going to change formation ''. She did all the necessary changes and we huddled again . '' Now bring it in lads , and lets bring it home ,'' she said, and we were laughing.

We came in closer and stretched our hands together, ''1, 2, 3, team Barry'', and we broke out with shouting and cheers from the crowd as well. We got on the field and did our coach proud . After winning the last game of the match against against team cloister (2 - 1), we went on to win our two other matches . At the end of the game , two other teams were knocked out as well. We came in second to team Airlie, followed by team Clarence, and then team Rubens, with team Cloister and team Pitt close behind.

After all the jubilations , we retired to our various dormitories to shower , rest and get ready for dinner. I fell asleep , after a while only to be awakened by my name being called . ''Lillian, Lillian, Lillian. And then i recognized the voice , Jenna , oh dear Jenna. That girl would put a banshee to shame. I groggily woke up and sat on my bed at the top bunker only to realize that night had fallen which surprised me a little.

Jenna walked in carrying a tray of food, '' Hey Lillian you didn't come down for dinner so i had to bring you something from the hall.'' She gave me the tray and climbed the bunker to join me .

''hey, thanks a lot, I didn't even realize how tired I was ''.

''no problem'', guess what happened at dinner today,''

I mean i didn't even have to reply for her to continue , ''hmm tell me''

''you know the little witch of the west, ''

by the way that's what she calls Hailey, the new girl''.

''She tried to flirt with this guy , and he totally snubbed her , i mean it was so hilarious,'' and she totally deserved it.

After a lot of talking and complaints and laughter , she finally asked me about my tennis game

'' I am kind of nervous, Jenna, '' I mean i haven't played tennis before and to be playing against a male , '' I sighed

'' you'll be okay , just like how you killed it today .''

'' I really hope so,''

'' but you know, I hope he's cute so that you can fall in love and have many babies, hahahha''

''Jenna , are you crazy, '' I said while laughing,

We joked around for a while till I was done eating, by which i was ready to sleep and rest for tomorrow.

''Goodnight Jenna'', and Thank you .

'' Night Lillian, good luck on your game tomorrow.

I fell asleep while thinking and wondering what tomorrow was going to bring.

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