Chapter 6 

Every once in a while I would look at him through the corner of my eye, but then I would quickly turn away. The bell rang, which meant I made it through this agony. I picked up my bag and my books heading for the door.  

"Hey, Jaden." I turned around and Wes was the only one in the, besides me. I looked at him for a couple of seconds and continued walking to the hall.  

He managed to catch up with me so fast, "Hey," he tapped my shoulder,but I ignored him and kept walking. "C'mon, look I won't take much of your time."  

I stopped walking and turned around, "What!"  

"Look, I'm sorry about yesterday I was kind of frustrated about the whole lunch thing." I was silent and kept listening. 

"I hope you can forgive me." 

"I don't think I can. You hurt my feelings." I looked down the hall and they were almost empty, "I gotta go." I walked to my class, leaving him in the hall. 

On my way to lunch I went to my locker to get my notebook for science. When I opened it a slip of paper fell from my notebook. I bent down and picked it up and opened it, meet me at the park 4:30 --Wes. Wes put this in my locker? How does he know where it is? 

I put the note back in my science notebook and walked to lunch. 

"Guess what I got?" Riley said shoving a paper into my face. 

"What is that?" I said walking to our table. 

"It's the tryout sheet for volleyball. Today!" 

I sat at my seat and took a bite from my burger, "Volleyball tryouts?" 

"Yeah, do you want to go?" 

"Yeah, sure but first I have to figure out why Wes put this in my locker." I pulled out the piece of paper out of my notebook. 

"Wes put this in your locker? Are you sure? How does he know where it is?" 

"I'm sure it says his name on it. I don't know how he knows." 

"Maybe he's a stalker! He wants to meet you at the park? Why?" 

"I don't know why. That's what I'm trying to figure out." 

"You should ask him about this." 

"I'm not going to go. I'm going to volleyball tryouts." She handed me the not back and sat down.  

The rest of lunch I looked at Wes when he wasn't looking. He looked so cute, but I had to resist. 

After science class when I was picking up my science notebook a paper slipped. I was about to pick it up but Wes beat me to it. 

"Here you dropped this." 

"Thanks," I said reaching out to grab the paper. 

"Who gave you this?" He asked. 

"I found it in my locker. Didn't you put it there?" 

"No, I don't even know where your locker is." 

"Then why is your name on it?" 

"Maybe because someone else put it there." 

"I guess." I said grabbing my paper and the rest of my stuff and walked to my next class. 

When I arrived at the gym before tryouts, after school, I called homw to tell my mom that I was going to stay for volleyball tryouts. "Hello?" 

"Hello, who is this?" My mom answered. 

"Its me Mom, Jaden." 

"Oh hello, what's wrong?" 

"I'm staying after school for volleyball tryouts, is that okay?" 

"That's fine, but as long as you call us after tryouts are over to come pick you up, got it?" 

"Yes, Mom. I'll cal you later. Bye." 

"Don't forget to call, alright?" Bye." 

I saw Riley walk into the gym and I waved at her. 

"Hey, have you signed up yet?" I nodded. "Then let's go!" I grabbed my bag and followed Riley to where a bunch of girls were standing. "Excuse me! Excuse me!" I heard Riley shout. 

The signup sheet was full of names I didn't recognize. Riley handed me the pen, "Here, sign your name." I took the pen from her and wrote: 

Jaden Moreno. 

We all walked into the locker room and dressed into our P.E clothes. "Everybody for volleyball tryouts please step out onto the basketball court." One of the P.E coaches said. All the girls quickly left the locker room and went outside to the basketball court. 

"Okay thank you guys for coming and choosing volleyball. Before we start I'd like to see how good you are at bumping and serving." 

The coach lookes at her clipboard and called out, "Emma Potter." A girl with short blonde hair stood up and walked up to the coach. "First I'd like to see your serve." Emma took the ball and did an underhand serve. The ball went flying over the net on the opponents side. "Very good, Emma." 

"Thank you." Emma said. 

"Now let's see your bump." The coach walked to the opposite side of Emma and threw the ball to her. Emma bumped it high to the other side. "Thank you, Emma." 

The coach scrolled through the rest of the names. "Up next, Rachel Frankle. Rachel Frankle?" 

Could it be the Rachel? The one that made me drop my stuff at lunch? Nobody answered. "Rachel Frankle?" 

"Yes?" She finally answered. 

"Please come it's your turn to demonstrate."  

"Alright. See you later Wes!" She said walking up to the coach.  

Wes was talking to her!? And she talks to Wes? I thought Wes didn't talk to anybody. 

Rachel did a jump serve, but the ball barely went over and so did her bump." 

When it was my turn I did an under hand serve. The ball actually went high into the air and so did my bump. "Thank you, Jaden. Up next is Riley Garcia." Riley got up and did a standing overhand serve. She was really good at volleyball and would definitely be on the team. 

"Okay everyone tomorrow after school I'll post the girls that are going to be on the team. Our first practice won't be until a couple of weeks, probably two weeks because of the science field trip. Thank you all for coming and if you have any questions jsu t come by the girls locker room and ask for Coach Synders." 

"Thank you Coach Synders." Riley said when we got up. I noticed that Wes was still watching us.

Friday 

After school I went to my locker and packed my things into my backpack. I headed to the gym and waited for the girls in front of me to finish looking. 

Once it was my turn I scrolled through the names until I found mine: 

Jaden Moreno...........Made Tryout. 

I made the volleyball team! I couldn't believe it! Yay! When I turned around I saw Riley. 

"Hey." She said.  

"Have you looked at the list?" I asked. 

She nodded. She walked up to the list and took a couple of seconds until she turned around with a sad face. 

"Did you make it?" 

"No." She said. 

"Really?" 

"Just kidding! I made it!" 

"Yay!" We both said jumping up and down. 

"Did you make it?" She asked me. 

"Yeah!" We continued to jump up and down. 

"What are you two so happy about?" Rachel asked. 

"We made the team." Riley answered. 

Rachel looked at the list and then turned around to us, "I wouldn't be so happy. The coach probably just chose you two because she felt bad." Then she walked away and left. 

Riley looked at the list, "she didn't make it!" She said chuckling.

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Heyyy!!! What did you think about the chapter? It was pretty good, right? I'm sorry if it doesn't explain good but I tried my best to explain the volleyball tryout thing. Hope you like chapter 7!!!!