My Four Superstar Ex-Boyfriends

Chapter 14: For Yourself Only

Until after Heinz had pushed his bike away, Emily was still in a feeling of lightness. It was simply ...... happiness that had come so suddenly, that it had caught her off guard, and left her not knowing what to do at all!

As a novice coach who had only just joined the profession, how could she be so virtuous! She was actually able to make a player she had brought along choose to give up an invitation from a League C team and instead try to join the team she was coaching, in the next level of the tournament! The boy didn't even ask her how much she was paid to play in the Prague Meteo!

Emily, who was half a beat slow to react, was so happy she didn't know what to do with herself after clearing her head!

It's only been a year since she started as a soccer coach! Only a year!

Emily jumped hard downstairs several times before sprinting all the way up the stairs as if on adrenaline! When she was happy she wanted to find something to do for herself! Emily put on her apron and cleaned up the dishes, washing and drying them as fast as she could!

Emily then started to clean up her own clothes! It was another few moments before her jumpy mood calmed down a bit and she took her pajamas to the bathroom for a shower. As she stepped out of the shower, she finally managed to wrap her towel around her and stand in front of the mirror on the sink, looking squarely at the version of herself in the mirror.

The truth was, in her earliest days, she hadn't been the type of girl to be in particularly good shape, and after her two-month binge, her weight had even topped 150 pounds at one point.

Over the past year, although she had lost 17 pounds through regular diet and proper exercise, she still had a weight of 130 pounds, and she was simply a different person from the person she was before she gained weight. Mirror her, compared to the memory of that self, face because of those extra meat, even the eyes have been squeezed a lot smaller.

Emily turned her face to look in the mirror again, her double chin could not be hidden, not to mention all the meat on her body that she could not cover up with the towel around her chest, Emily even felt that she could not find her collarbone, and as she looked down, her belly, which was easy to come out once a woman got older, was clear as day.

Emily didn't even need to turn around to look, she knew that the butterfly bone that she had practiced with difficulty through yoga and a series of workouts, and which she must have to look good in backless clothes, was long gone.

This was the first time in a year that she had looked so seriously at her own body after gaining weight, before this she had either intentionally ignored it or didn't dare or want to look at it. She hadn't even put on any makeup in the past year because she felt that since she was already like this now, it didn't mean much whether she put on makeup or not.

But at this moment, she began to look at herself squarely.

At this moment, she began to ask herself if she was going to just let herself be the way she was because of yet another bad relationship experience and never want to be the same again.

Yes, it was true that she didn't want to start that kind of relationship again, and she didn't expect much from her so-called boyfriend anymore.

But does a woman have to change herself for the person she likes?

Can I ...... just make myself pretty again just because I look happy?

After such a voice appeared in her heart, Emily all of a sudden seemed to open the door to a new world.

It was better to choose the day than the day! She then rushed into her room and rummaged through a drawer to find an underwear, then drew out a sporty short-sleeved t-shirt and a pair of sweatpants from the clothes she had already packed before rushing downstairs once again with her keys and cell phone!

She was going to run! She was going to ask herself to practice her long runs like she asked her players to do! When she got back from her run she had to do an indoor combo set of ab rips! Oh yeah, yeah, and after all that she's going to do a yoga set to stretch her whole body to avoid developing blocky muscle lines!

Thinking and doing, Emily didn't procrastinate any longer and started her long run around Krumlov late that night!

Emily knew that everything that belonged to her was slowly starting to change for the better! She was starting to become less confused, and she had even been able to start imagining what her future would look like. It was nothing like the last ten years! The future that she had once imagined was all based on a person other than herself. A man!

But now, the future she imagined was all about herself, all about what she would try to create!

Success or failure was no longer about others, but only about herself!

As Emily ran up to the town's Tower of the City, she couldn't help but look over at the Krumlov town landmark that looked exceptionally bright at night time, this one Renaissance style on the outside and Gothic style on the inside. At the top of the tower, below the yangzhi striking bell was, was a golden clock dial. In the middle of the tower, the bell chamber is a beautiful orange-pink color. The Tower of the City is so different that when you see it, you can realize that you are in Krumlov, Czech Republic.

Although she was breathless and tired, and her legs were so weak from the intense running exercise that she could almost fall to her knees if she relaxed, Emily still felt a sense of joy when she looked at the scenery in front of her!

What Heinz had said to her earlier was too sweet to be recalled in her heart!

This player that she had brought up by her own hand had told her to trust her! He said he believed that as a coach she would be able to take him further! And for that reason the boy had given up an offer from a Division C team to try out for her Division D team instead!

Thinking once more about Heinz's remark, Emily burst out laughing with delight! With that laugh she simply felt so sore and weak that she almost collapsed! She hurriedly braced her hands on her knees and stabilized herself before she reached for her cell phone and texted Carolina, [Are you asleep?] Barely half a minute later, Emily got a reply from the other party: [Not yet, what's wrong?] Knowing that the other party was still awake, Emily called her, and the moment the other party picked up the phone, she took a deep breath and asked, "Do you know what I'm doing right now!"

It was a puzzling statement, and Carolina, hearing Emily's gasp, asked, "Are you having s*x? You're having a nice evening with your one-night stand?"

Emily, who had been ready to pick up a long sentence right away, sat down on the floor at once without holding on when she heard that, and then said indignantly, "Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah! I'm running!"

"Now? Twelve o'clock at night?"

Apparently, after Emily said that, Carolina on the other end of the line held the phone away from her a bit to check the time, before expressing her skepticism as to what Emily was actually doing at that moment.

"Right! It's twelve o'clock! I have to make up my mind.Carolina, if I can keep running like this for a month, I'll go to Prague and find a place to learn free sparring! When I wasn't fat, I just kept in shape by practicing yoga, but after I met you, I realized that a woman has to be like you and learn free sparring! I'm sure it will make me more confident! And, compared to practicing yoga, women really look so much sexier when they practice up free sparring!"

Carolina, who had introduced Emily to Rutland High School as the varsity soccer coach in the first place, smiled after Emily said those words with a post-run gasp, "I'm glad there's one more place we agree on. I always used to think you were a soft girl and that you were too soft, but now it seems I was mistaken. Congratulations in advance on joining our Fight Girl Club."

Hanging up the phone Emily took a breather, which lifted her spirits again and ran forward!

Right now, she could not contain her excitement at the mere thought of what a brilliant version of herself she would become later on! She felt her heart leap! She wanted to be better!

She didn't want to care if the assholes recognized that it really meant something!

From today on, she was only in it for her!

Three days later.

The town of Krumlov.

"Hey, moving company? I'd like to know the cost of one move from here to Prague."

"Yes, I have a lot of stuff I want to send to Prague. Almost one large suitcase, and eight large cardboard boxes, and I'd like to get a quote on shipping costs here at the post office."

"Yes, I've been to both the moving company and the post office, and would also like to find out what would be a better option for me to do to bring my luggage to Prague."

Over the past three days, Emily had packed most of her bags, which led to inquiries with the local moving company and post office about how much the shipping costs would have to be to get those bags of hers to Prague. Over the course of the year, Emily had added a lot of things to herself without realizing it. None of them were expensive, but she couldn't leave them behind. This caused her to organize many, many things before she had to move to Prague. So much so, that when she went to ask for quotes from the removal companies, the prices she got had to be quite a bit more expensive than her mental price tag. Just as she was worried, she heard the sound of something hitting her window.

Emily hung up the phone, pushed the window open, and saw several members of the varsity team waving at her from just below her floor!

"Ms. Emily! We're here to pick you up for the party!!!"

Hearing these varsity members shouting out such words from their own downstairs, Emily then exclaimed towards the stairs with a smile on her face, "Okay! I'll be right down!!!"

"Ms. Emily, is everything organized? Have you set a time to move?"

Since both Heinz and Matz were the organizers of the lineup, the two of them stayed in the small wine cellar where the party was being held to continue setting up preparations while Inuyasha Luthor came over to pick her up with a few members of the varsity team.

As Emily had said the town of Krumlov was exactly the kind of place you could flatten with your feet, so these varsity boys had come over completely on foot and had intended to take Emily along with them as well. When Emily, who had already changed her clothes, came downstairs, one of the members of the varsity team opened his mouth to Emily and asked.

The boys had already been told by their captain Heinz, who had graduated this summer and had been accepted by the University of Prague in the capital, that Emily would be coaching the D-League team Prague Meteo after the summer vacation.

When they first heard the news, they were sad that Emily would not be coaching them anymore, but when they thought about it, they were happy that Emily would be coaching an adult team, a serious league team, and they were still happy for the female coach that they had been with for a year.

"Things are pretty much all organized, but I haven't contacted the right moving company yet."

Luthor, who still looked as if he had been frowning all day long at his young age when he heard this, but smiled and bumped his arm against the boy who had just asked this of Emily, who was a grade below him.

The boy then said with courage, "If you don't have a lot of luggage, I think my dad can help you move your stuff to Prague!"

Unlike Heinz, who was already very tall when Emily first met him, the boy still had a very pure teenage look about him, and he said with a red face, "My father drives a cab in town! The kind of cab that specializes in helping the town's hotels pick up travelers from the station!"

Emily: "The kind of cab that drags a big metal box with four wheels behind it? It looks like an assembled pickup truck ......?"