Just Good Friends?

Chapter 53 - Old enemies

Nate.

"Bex Holden! Where is she? Nate! Where is Bex?" Bex coach calls over to me in a state of panic.

"Chill coach, im right here" Bex comes up behind me and snakes her arms around my waist. She has another heat today, and her coach is relying on Bex to get them through. This is a team they have never beat in the history of heats.

"Get over here and put him down. I need you focused on running not s*x!" Bex laughs.

"I'll always be focused on s*x whilst Nate is near sorry coach." f**k, I could grab her and fjck her right now.

"Jeeze sis, give it a rest. I don't need to hear this s**t about you and my best mate. Walking in on his hairy ass bouncing back and forth was enough for me" Joe moans at us. I can't believe he is still going on about that!.

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Bex is starting last today. We wait for the first runner to come through. We don't wait long, and Bex makes an appearance. f**k, that girl can run. None of us are surprised she's overtaken the others, not even the boys on our football team are surprised anymore. Her coach is beside herself, but trying hard to contain it.

"She's totally unaware of any of us being here, even you Nate. That must be a first for you" Brad teases.

"Dude, I'm glad she has blocked everything out, because if she was thinking of me, she wouldn't be able to run" I wink at him and look at Joe with a grin.

"f**k you Nate" he grumbles.

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Well surprise surprise, Bex did I again. She came 1st, Lina came in 2nd and the other 2 came in 3rd and 4th, so the team as a whole, smashed it out of the bag. I take Bex home to rest up.

"I need to go to work for a bit beautiful. You sleep, and I'll see you later" I lean down and kiss her, and she's asleep before I even leave the room.

I started work for Dennis Holden a few weeks ago, and I loved it. I knew now that this career was definitely for me. Bex had also started work experience in a youth centre, and she was fantastic at it. The kids loved her. We were making a future for ourselves, and for each other.

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Joe.

"Wheres Nate!" Coach shouts in to the locker room

"Probably f*****g Bex somewhere coach!" Harry shouts back, then ducks as I throw a ball straight for his head.

"He better not be! He doesn't need any distractions before a game like this!" Coach storms out

"Nice Harry, nice! Coach is stressed enough after finding out about our last encounter with half of this f*****g team, he doesn't need you f*****g with him" I snap at him.

"I'm the fucker that was bashed up Joe, I don't need the reminder either. But f**k it. Where is Nate anyway?" He asks.

"With Bex" I grin and laugh.

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Nate.

"f*****g put her down for f**k sake Nate!" Harry shouts at me as I say bye to Bex. We hadn't actually been doing anything, but I needed her calmness before this game.

"I'm only like this because of you, you f*****g dickhead" OK, I need to get my head in the game. I sit on the bench and block everything out around me, I think about only the game ahead, and how we play it out. We just found out, that not only is the majority of the Trayton lot on the team, but Zach is too. He transfered to a different college after my outburst, but the only one that would accept him, was the one near our home town, where the Trayton lot went.

"You good Nate?" Joe comes up and sits next to me.

"Yeah, just getting focused. We need to watch ourselves out there Joe. Keep Harry in sight at all times. It may have been a while now, but Trayton are that pathetic, they will still be gunning for him." I say to him. We get up and head over to the rest of the team.

"You too Nate. Zach won't let what you did, go. And they won't like the fact you're with Bex now either" i know this only too well, but I can handle myself just fine.

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"So, you got her in the end then Bowers. Zach here tells me she gives it out a bit too" f*****g Tony f*****g Gibbs. "You've grown a bit too Bowers. Might be a bit more of a match for me now" he sneers. I just stare down at him, and remind myself, we are here for football.

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"Harry! Cover Brad! You know these assholes better than anyone! Joe, it's your time dude. Ready!?" I shout over to them, just as we start off the second half. I run, throw the ball over to Joe, just as Zach is about to slam in to me. I side step quickly and run. Joe throws back. I can see Gibbs heading for me so I throw to Harry just as Gibbs slams in to me and give me a sly jab with his fist. It doesn't bother me, and I jump back up quickly just in time to see Harry slam the ball down.

I overhear Gibbs say to Zach "you f*****g failed to tell us that Bowers is like a f*****g brick wall these days. We can't f*****g get through him!"

That gave me a bit of an ego boost, and we smashed it out to the end of the game.

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Joe.

"Dude, call Bex and tell her to wait in the stands with Cal. The lads just overheard Gibbs say if they can't take you down, then they take your girl down instead" Jake comes over to us in the locker room with a really worried look on his face. Oh f**k, I look at Nate and his face has turned to stone. He's out for blood if they touch her.

"Nate, wait here. I'll go out and see what's going on" I motion to Jake and Brad to stay with Nate, then take Harry out with me.

"Go, find Cal and Bex, I'm going to check down here" Harry runs off towards the stands.

"Well if it isn't the sidekick. I'm guessing that's what you are now Joe? No longer captain, or the biggest bastard on the team. Your boy Nate has the power now doesn't he. I'm quite impressed to be honest. He's really upped his game. Had to I suppose, to get his girl to look at him" Givbs and his henchmen are gathered together in the carpark.

"Seriously Gibbs, have you not grown out of this s**t yet?" I see Nate come out the other door at the back of the carpark. I'll be having f*****g words with Jake and Brad. He comes up behind them, and they have no idea he's there. I can see him mentally working out how thjngs will go. There are 9 of them left here.

"I have upped my game, you're right" Gibbs turns around suddenly at the sound of Nates voice. He lunges at Nate, but Nate easily moves out of the way and Gibbs slams to the floor. It all breaks out then, there are fists flying everywhere. I mentally tune out everyone, and concentrate on whoever is infront of me. I keep an eye on Nate all the time though, but he needs no help whatsoever.

I just throw my last punch at the guy infront of me, and he falls to the floor, then I hear someone shout my name and turn around. It's Jake. Him and 2 other guys off our team have shown up, and they are holding Nate back before he kills Gibbs. He's lying on the floor blood streaming from his face, but he's still conscious.

"Nate, it's all good dude. They won't be f*****g with us again. Look around" Nate relaxes, and I nod at the boys to leave him go. He looks around, then at me.

"Wheres Bex?" He hates what happens to hjm, and he hates that Bex knows what happens when he loses it too.

"She didnt see anything dude, Cal and Harry got her out of here. I sent Harry in the wrong direction, I didn't want him involved this time. He suffered too much before"

"f**k man! You smashed 7 of those idiots! Joe you only managed 2, I'm not so impressed" Brad says finally, and everyone laughs, even Nate has a smirk on his face. "So now we've seen it for ourselves, not just one guy, we won't be messing with you Nate"

"I'm a big softy really dude" Nates face clouds over briefly.

"I heard what he said, and if I thought you couldn't take him on, I would have jumped in too, but you had it covered!"