My Therapy

Chapter 8

Ella's POV

I slowly opened my eyes, the sunlight found it's way to shine through my curtains. I'll spend my afternoon with Adriane today, the thoughts played in my mind as I pick my outfit for today.

I looked at my clock - 11:30am, I still have enough time to prepare. I only live 15 minutes away from the university, traffic won't be a problem. I stepped out of the shower and put on a white dress, the skirt are about 2 inches above my knee and topped it with a denim jacket. Leaves on the trees are starting to fall, so I figured it will be a bit chilly later on the day. I slipped on my flat shoes making sure my feet will be comfortable on all the walking we'll do today.

I kissed my mom and told her I'll be back later. "You sure she'll just make a tour around the University and not any part of you?" she grinned. I don't even remember since when my mom became a pervert, I thought, shaking my head. "Mom, we're not like that I'm just helping her out." I answered. "Sure you are." She replied still has that mischievous smile on her face.

I arrived at the University and parked near the Admin's office. From a far, I can already see Adriane sitting on the bench waiting for me. She's wearing an unzipped marroon Adidas jacket, white shirt inside, fitted black jeans and rubber shoes. Who knew sporty look would be so hot! She smiled as soon as she noticed me walking towards her. "Now, where to?" she asked smiling.

We walked around the University, showing her places she needs to be familiar with - like the library, bookstore, College of Sciences building, therapy rooms and now we're at the gym. There are girls playing basketball and I can see Adriane looking at them smiling, maybe she likes sporty girls? I don't know.

"Look out!" someone screamed startling me. I looked at the direction where the voice came and saw a basketball flying towards me. I closed my eyes, accepting the fact that I'll get hit straight in the face...but I did not feel anything.

I slowly opened my eyes and saw Adriane holding the ball. "Nice reflexes", says the girl with a ponytail, wearing a green jersey shirt with the University's name in front. "With that height and reflexes, I bet you play basketball. Wanna give me a try?" she continued. Adriane looked at me and I waved my hand motioning her to go. She removed her jacket and stepped on the court.

It's a one on one between Adriane and the girl with a ponytail. Adriane started dribbling slowly while walking towards her opponent, then changed pace showing her dribbling skills. For someone who's as tall as her, she has really good ball handling skills. I can tell, since my ex-girlfriend was the star player of our girls' basketball team while we were still finishing our courses. "Oh, s**t!" I heared the girl shouted when Adriane managed to get through on her defense. She tried to catch up on Adriane but she's too fast for her. Adriane stepped back giving space between them then positioned herself to shoot, the girl jumped trying to block the ball but Adriane's taller than her. The ball went into the ring not touching any sides of it.

"Wow! I knew you are good at this." the girl said in defeat. "We'd love to have you on our team" she said to Adriane. "I'll think about it" Adriane answered while putting her jacket back on.

"So, you play basketball?" I questioned her while we're walking out of the gym. "A bit, I used to play back home when I was in college, that's about 2 years ago." she answered softly. "We'll I can tell you are good at it" I said smiling at her. "Our last stop is the cafeteria, let's also grab something to eat there, I'm starving" I continued.

"What do you recommend?" Adriane asked looking at the food menu list. "Have you tried any Canadian dish?" I asked her. She shook her head and I immediately asked the lady at the counter to give us two orders of poutine.

"These are really good, I could eat this for a week." Adriane praised the poutine while stuffing her mouth with potato fries, covered in gravy and some cheese curds. "Glad you liked it, I don't know about eating just that for a week though, it will add a lot of calories on your body. From what I see, you're the type that wants to maintain their physique" I warned her. "I do eat meals with rice three times a day, so I don't think it would make much difference on that." she answered while showing off her gorgeous smile.

I totally forgot that she's Filipino and they always eat rice as part of their meal. I remembered a time after Lyle's session, Andrea asked me to stay for dinner. On the table they have three dishes - fried egg rolls, soup with some green leaf (I have no idea what that is) and fried noodles, if I'm right that's called "pancit"; of course a lot of rice. To them it's dinner, to us Canadians, that's a feast!

After eating, we headed back to the parking lot. "Thank you for today" Adriane said while rubbing the back of her head. She looks adorable when she's shy like that. "Anytime, will you be taking the bus from here?" I asked, seeing no other cars parked near us aside from mine. "No, my sister will pick me up. Her work is just 5 minutes away from here." she answered. "Oh, okay. See you, then." I told her as I stepped in my car and saw a gray Honda Civic coming in to the parking lot, Andrea driving it.