Love, Bets and Football

7.5

~Jeremy's Pov~

I have never thought I would come to hate anyone in my life, but Cain West had actually turned that delusion and brought it to life.

I hadn't always thought or felt that way about him. In fact, I had come to actually look up to him.

But my feelings had gradually grown, slowly changing over time from admiration, jealousy and envy and eventually to anger and hatred that I currently felt for him.

Even though I felt this way, it hadn't occured overnight.

It started from the moment I realized that the motherf*cker had everything that I had always wanted for myself. While I mostly worked to earn/get what I wanted, everything came to him smoothly, handed to him on a silver plate.

He had been born with the good looks, the good genes that kept him in good shape and the wealth that let him have anything that he wanted.

That hadn't mattered to me at all in the first place, but all that had definitely changed the moment I met Pearl McKenna. She was the most beautiful girl I had ever laid my eyes on, and I recall never wanting to take my eyes off of her.

I had believed that I had no chance with her, and so I had settled on watching her from afar instead. On a fateful Saturday evening, everything changed. Pearl herself gave me her number, saying, "Instead of just looking, why don't you do something about it and actually as me out on a date?"

Dumbfounded, I simply nodded but obliged nevertheless.

We quickly became closer, and three months and lots of dates and flowers later, we made it official. It was simply the best and happiest months of my life.

However, six months in, things began to change.

I noticed that Pearl began to behave in a manner that I didn't understand anymore. She began to hate body contact with me, cutting our conversations short,always making up excuses of how busy she was and always complaining about the littlest things.

Of course being the fool I was, I simply brushed off everything.

I loved her deeply But as they always say, time truly does reveal everything. It didn't take long for me to find out that she was cheating on me.

I could have forgiven her, probably mended the relationship and pretended that the relationship had been purely a mistake, if she had slept with any other guy, but she had to f*****g go and sleep with the one person I envied, the only person who actually had everything I wanted.

I couldn't bare to look at Pearl the same way again, so I broke things off with her.

From then on, I swore, that I would take away everything else that Cain the asshole loved and treasured. I would take away his fame, his quarterback position his popularity and the girl he actually loved.

After all, he had taken away the only thing that I had wholly treasured in my life.

Like a mad man, I practiced, hit the gym constantly and even looked after myself more than I had ever done in my life.

As I got much more popular among the crowd, I became confident, which eventually led me to the football tryouts.

As expected, Cain was there. I knew it was my moment to shine, and so I gave it my all, hoping to impress the coach. The tryouts had been quite hard, but I didn't care. I had long prepared for this, and I was capable of making it to the team. I was confident my points would also overrule anyone else's, especially Cain's.

It didn't take long for me to realize how wrong I was. As I watched Cain perform, it suddenly dawned on me why he had been nicknamed as the 'beast'.

Even though I hated him, I couldn't deny how magnificent he was, and how he took to the field like a natural. He was a pro at this.

When the results came out, it was no surprise to anyone that he came in first place. I came in sixth place, barely making it to the team as the last person was seventh.

Step one was out the window as it had failed, but that didn't mean I wouldn't be successful with the rest of my laid out plans.

However, everything else I planned failed. When it came to the ladies, Cain never seemed to be interested in one long enough to blackmail him. He changed them faster than he changed his own clothes.

With every win he brought, so did his popularity grow, so much that he even made an appearance on Sky sports news as the 'future' of Football. It all made me sick and my resentment grew each time he was praised.

Not matter how much effort I hard put in, I had only acquired myself a position as a cornerback.

Despite all that, I had always believed that my patience would be rewarded. I would go as far as saying that the thought hadn't occured and everything had only happened impulsively.

It was one of our practice rounds and coach had gone as far as let us practice 'Tackles', an exercise I believed was as useless as it sounded.

If I had known the universe was on my side that day, I would have taken back the words that I had impulsively muttered.

With glee as big as an elephant, I watched as Cain rolled around like he had been kicked in the balls, groaning and grunting as he held his leg in pain. Coach instructed some of my teammates to carry him to the athletic infirmary, and I watched with amusement as he whimpered like a dog all the way.

As soon as it was reported that he had actually put some damage on his tendons, I couldn't help but punch the air with joy.

It served that asshole right. And the fact that I didn't have a finger involved brought me immense joy. It was so rewarding after all the effort I had put in.

However it seemed like the universe hadn't stopped at all with the rewards, because the next thing I knew, it brought me the best gift I could have ever asked for.

The girl that Cain West was actually in love with. His caretaker, Racheal Saint Charles. She was a petite thing, pale skinned with overly long hair, but nothing compared to 'my' Pearl. If the two actually stood together, Pearl would instantly outshine her. But that didn't matter at the moment.

I was going to crush that asshole by making the girl that he loved fall in love with me, quickly followed by crushing her so much that she would never recover.

The best part about all of this though, was that this fool didn't even realize that he was in love with her. It was the icing on the cake that I hadn't realized I needed. Such a pity, but that didn't mean I was going to deter from my plans.

Cain f**cking West, it's high time you got a test of your own f**cking medicine.