NOBODY KNOWS THE PAIN ( Aiden)

[aiden james wright]

Aiden laughed and nodded his head completely agreeing with her, "Why yes I do know that and i'm proud of it." He deserved to have the confidence he did from all the hard work he had put into soccer. He had even been super confident with girls the only one that he couldn't be confident with had been the love of his life but at least he was with her now. As she brought up the whole going back to the dorm he frowned and pouted the whole time she said she never invited him. "Aww you don't want me around? You're breakin' my heart." He continued to pout as he looked up at her wondering if it would have any effect. He was holding back a grin because he knew he probably looked ridiculous but he was doing his best to keep his bottom lip jutted out. He really wished he could grow a bit of courage to eventually ask her to live with him. He wondered how that conversation would go.

He put his hand over his mouth to stifle laughs as she flexed for him. He was glad he had been wearing under armor as he held out his arms, "I'm pretty sure I win when it comes to the guns." He flexed both arms for her. His arms had gotten ripped since he had been in his wheelchair and that had been the only way he could work out and keep in some kind of shape. Though now his leg muscles were beginning to match his upper body. He kissed her back savoring the brief moment because he had been without those lips for a week and he had definitely missed them.

"Well I don't have much gas right now and I wanted to get to the field so I figured I could blow off some steam and get out here by running." Aiden never jogged it was always a straight sprint for him. He had to continuously run like that to keep it that way though. He wouldn't allow himself to take a few days off otherwise he would find himself short of breath and pushing himself through it and it would eventually make him sick. "No, I was gonna work out here and then make my run back once I stretched out." People called him iron man only because it seemed like he would never stop. Aiden never got injured and on the rare occasions that he did he played through him. He had played with a few broken fingers one game determined to finish strong.

Aiden knew he had many admirer's after that game because he had showed how determined he was to make PPU male's team champions. "Old man?," he called out to her a wild smirk on his face, "I'll show you old man," and with that he was off pushing himself off the ground gaining speed quickly as he took off after her. They were a pretty even match Steph had been able to out perform many of the guys on his team and he made fun of the guys every time. He eventually caught up to her almost three fourths down the field and tapped the ball away turning it around going for his goal. "Come on old lady you're making this too easy," he teased her as he flipped the ball a few times showing off his obvious skills though that sometimes was his downfall.

[stephanie michelle davis]

Stephanie laughed at his attempt to pout, he was just too cute. "Fine, yu haven't gotten to see me in a whole week so I guess I could invite you back to my dorm. I have some snacks in there, we could relax and watch a movie or something." She wanted to laugh as she watched him but instead she just shook her head. "You're supposed to have more muscle then me, if you didn't we would have a serious problem." She said as she couldn't help but stare at his arms as he flexed for her. She found men who worked out to be extremely attractive and of course to her Aiden had been the most attractive in her mind, and to see how much muscle mass he had gained since the wheelchair of course she had found that attractive.

She had to get up though because even if she had wanted to stay like this all day she knew her knee would not appreciate her for it, so as she jumped up and took off with the ball she couldn't look back to see how far behind her he had been. She knew he would catch up to her though, for speed her and him had been matched but his strides had been longer so he could always catch up with her. Sure enough almost to the goal he came in and swooped infront of her stealing the ball and turning to head towards the other goal, Stephanie having to turn sharply and start chasing him down. She blasted past him as he of course showed off for her with his awesome soccer moves, and when she had known she was far enough infront of him she turned towards him and stopped watching nothing more than his feet and the ball right now. She bent slightly at the knee getting into her defensive stance wanting to steal the ball, but wanting to work on her defense at the same time instead of just giving it an easy kick to the side as he made a move while she was running past. That would have been easy, Stephanie had known most of his moves so that had been nice when the two were just messing around like this.

She watched him move the ball from foot to foot, his dribbling having been damn near perfect as he didn't leave much room for chance with the ball, but from watching she noticed he had been favoring his left foot today and those strides had been a tad bit larger then with his right, so as he got closer Stephanie waited until the perfect moment and soon she took off in a dart watching his footwork as she contemplated her move. She knew it had been the perfect time as he kicked the ball slightly infront of him, and Stephanie darted right infront of him kicking the ball to the side with her heel turning quick to follow the rolling ball, and soon enough she stopped it with her toe before popping it off in the direction she needed to be going in. She took off and caught up with it dribbling as she looked over her shoulder to see where he had been.

"I am making this too easy? Seems to me i'm the one about to score!" She said as she bounded towards the goal and stopped about a quarter field from it. She knew that Aiden would be there any second to swipe the ball away, so she wanted to at least get a powerful kick in so the two would have to be chasing after it if it hadn't been right into the goal. She took a few steps back and used her good leg to put as much power as she could into the kick as she watched the ball soar up high. Damn, it looked to be too high to even go into the goal so she started to book it down the field. She could have made a goal closer but having Aiden right there did not make it easy for her, he never went easy on her and made her seriously play for her bragging rights if she were to win. She loved that too about him though, he treated her like just another one of his teammates when he had been on the field, most other men wouldn't considering she had been a woman, but on that field that never seemed to be a problem. She was a strong player, everyone knew that.

[aiden james wright]

Aiden's face lit up as she accepted to letting him over. They always had a good time together especially relaxing he would probably just end up crashing over there because when they got together saying goodbye was the worst part. This is why he wanted to just solve that problem and have her move in with him. He just didn't want to ruin the mood now considering they had already been fighting and finally got away from the negativity. "Sounds like a plan to me," he would have offered to watch the soccer game that was on tonight but then they would actually pay attention to the tv instead of each other which he was banking on right now. They would always end up paying attention to the movie but they would soon get distracted with each other.

"Yeah you're right I just like to show off. You know that," He smirked as he winked at her keeping his arms up for a few more moments before letting them drop to his sides. He knew they were both extremely physically attracted to each other it was the personality that they were also attracted to that sealed the deal for them. She may have had her flaws but he loved her for them. He smirked as he got away from her on the field the goal coming into sight easily. He was sure he would get this shot off until a flash passed by quickly and he soon got focused again. He had been a little off on his dribbling lately which was something that was frustrating him. So as she took it and took off he groaned loudly.

He was frustrated with himself but quickly shook it off and turned to quickly run. He was about to catch her as she launched the ball. He kept pushing himself never giving up even if the shot went in. "Nice try Davis seems you got a bit nervous?" He teased her as he finally pushed past her to the ball. He grabbed the ball and pushed it back behind him as he turned and took off going the other way. He was definitely concentrating on his dribbling this time trying to keep it in check as he soon met up with Steph in her defensive position. He faked left this time knowing she would be paying attention to that foot and crossed it quickly to the right getting past her and keeping his stride up, "Come on Davis keep up!!" He loved taunting her while they played he knew it fueled her fire even more to make her play harder.

[stephanie michelle davis]

Stephanie had a mean streak to where she would do anything in her power to come out ontop in all situations, and even running back and forth with the ball made her want to come up with ways to gain some ground on him and get ahead. He was faster then her, speed was just something he had always had on her no matter what, and he even might have had her beat on handling just a bit as well. That was alright though because what she had learnt was the men needed to be better just because their teams seemed more forceful on the field. Sure contact was not supposed to happen and yet watching one of their games men were checked practically and tripped and the whole nine yards, so of course they had to be tougher because soccer was becoming a brutal game out on the field with them. Stephanie loved it though and wished she could play with the males at least once during a game, but of course the coach frowned on that and she was stuck playing with the less hurtful women. Not that the women didn't have their times though when they were brutal, Stephanie for one thing was quite the force to be reckoned with while out on the field.

She tried to pick up speed but she just wasn't as fast as him as she could see the man had seriously been focusing right about now. She let out a groan, she knew that he had her beat today but wasn't it him that said she should slow things down a bit? That is when she had an awesome idea, he would probably holler at her for it but right now it did not matter. As she reached about the center of the field she all of a sudden let out a yelp and her hand went to her knee yelping that it had been in pain. She watched out of the corner of her eye for Aiden to come to her rescue, something that she knew he would do because he was super sweet and awesome like that, and sure enough she could see him running after her though she could not see the ball. Damnit, okay so it had not gone exactly as according to plan, she would just have to shoot at the other goal. She sure hoped he had a good sense of humor today even though it probably wasn't that brilliant for her to pull this card after their long arguement, but as he was just about near her she laughed and took off running towards the ball at full speed. Her knee did hurt a bit but it was manageable pain, not anything too bad.

She finally reached the ball having no idea where Aiden had been right now so she did not waste her time dribbling that extra little way before taking the shot on the empty goal watching the ball slam into the mesh netting in the goalies box. She grinned even though what she did had been a horrible trick, so she turned around slowly to see what his reaction was going to be. He could have either had a good heart to laugh about it or it was going to piss him off, of course she hoped the second was not the option just because going back to her room would suck if he were pissed off, and again if he were to leave they might not talk to each other for another week and Stephanie just could not handle that.

"Before you say or do anything I just want to say i'm sorry, I thought it would be funny and there was no way in hell I was going to catch up to you that last time." She tried to defend herself as she stepped closer to where he had been waiting for whatever was about to come, god she hoped he wasn't mad just now. She took a deep breathe as she looked up from the ground to focus her gaze on his, apologetic wide eyes hoping he'd at least found her cute enough to forgive.

[aiden james wright]

There was a grin on his face a mile wide. He knew he had her beat there was no way she was gonna catch up. He was gradually pulling away from her knowing he would get this goal and grab victory. Though as he was slowing up to tap the shot in he heard a yelp and his heart stopped for a moment. This whole time he had forgotten about her knee because he had been having a great time playing with her but it all came back to him as he looked back to see her on the ground. He stopped everything he had been doing immediately forgetting the ball completely as he turned and sprinted over towards her, "Steph? Steph you okay?!" He hollered out between breaths as he pushed himself to get there quicker.

As he saw her laugh and push herself up off the ground he put his hands on his hips and watched her. His mouth slightly agape as he was stunned that she had just pulled that on him. After everything they had just done. He didn't find it funny at first though then again that was also because he had just lost to top it all off. As she turned and looked at him and began apologizing to him he crossed his hands over his chest and gave her a stern look to possibly scare her at first. "Really Steph? After everything we just went through and talked about? You go and pull some crap like that?" He wanted to make her feel bad for pulling a stunt that like even if it had been cruel it was clever.

As he saw her start to feel bad he smirked and laughed, "That's my girl." She was close enough for him to just pick up and twirl her around. He would let her have her fun for now. He didn't want to get into another argument with her. They were going to go back to her place and relax and he didn't want to be in a bad mood doing so. "I totally had you beat though sorry I don't have to cheat to win." He smirked giving her a wink. He had cheated before grabbing her and placing her behind him as he took the ball from her though today he had played a clean game. Though he had an advantage of a completely healthy body and he had been on top of his game lately.

[stephanie michelle davis]

Okay so that had to be the worst thing that she could do to him at this time, and yet she still had felt damn proud that she had gotten that goal. Yes she had cheated but right about now there had been no way she could win against him. Maybe if she took a hammer to his knee she could stand a chance, but since obviously she would never do something like that she had to resort to lying and cheating. He seemed mad too as she turned back towards him and he seemed in that serious stance, of course that making Stephanie feel even worse about what she had done. She kept mouthing 'i'm sorry, i'm sorry' to him not wanting him to get mad and rip into her once more like he had in the car about the knee in the first place. "I know, it was lame but it was all I could come up with on the spot like that. I'm on meds you know, maybe they make me do crazy things like this." When in doubt blame the meds, though she knew those wouldn't be the cause of that. She had thought it had been a good idea.

His next comment had her gasping as she watched that grin go to his face. "Oh you are such an ass you know that?" She asked looking at him shaking her head as she crossed her arms infront of her. Here she had thought he had seriously been mad for what she had just done and yet he was just joking around with her, giving her a taste of her own medicine it seemed. She had to admit though, it was pretty funny and he had been a good actor because he had her going for that little amount of time before he had let her know it was just a joke. She could feel herself being lifted from the ground and twirled some and she just laughed wrapping her arms around his neck so she wouldn't slip and fall, but she wasn't too worried considering Aiden always had her and would never let her fall, she hoped.

"Hey you told me not to push myself so I made things easier," she said with a grin not feeling bad at all anymore for just doing that. He had her going, she was truly very sorry for what she had done before she found out he was joking. Now she did not care at all, if anything she thought about it and couldn't help but laugh once more. "You should have seen your face, you were so worried about me. You have to remember I am able to still run and play, I have been putting up with this for a while, so I suggest next time you make sure i'm hurt before you come running to my rescue." She gave him a small word of advice, but it still was very cute to see him do that for her. "So now what?" She asked him curiously as she looked towards where the ball had been. She was not ready to go back to her dorms, she wanted to havea good time with him out here but obviously one-on-one wasn't working out because Stephanie kept falling behind, and she hated that more than anything.

[aiden james wright]

Aiden burst out laughing as she finally realized he was kidding. He had done pretty well on being convincing, "You love my ass don't diss it." He joked with a playful grin on his lips. "And now I would like thank the academy for this award, my family, and to all those who supported me I thank you," he joked knowing he had her truly believing that he was pissed. He figured it just wasn't worth it to get upset with her over something like that. Sure it hadn't been right but he didn't want to fight with her anymore he was tired of not seeing her for a week. He was already enjoying himself so much more with her around he knew it was going to be like that though. She was his other half and he never felt quite right without her around.

"Uh huh is that what they called cheating now? Making things easier?" He knew he would have won that game so he put up a tally in the air with his pointer finger, "I'm gonna have to rule that a Wright win putting as at about Wright twenty Davis five. Good luck next time kid." He winked at her jokingly as he kept her close to him. He set her back down easily as he took a step back and placed his arms across his chest looking at her with an amused smile on his face. He laughed as she was taking pride now for being so clever as to think of something like that. It had had him worried for sure he was just glad she was okay now. Having to report something like that to coach would not have been fun to him. To tell him his star player was not gonna be able to play would have pissed him off like no other.

"Oh my bad for being worried about you. Next time i'll get the goal before turning to come tend to you." He joked again laughing lightly, "Uhmmm you wanna work on your shots? After seeing that one go high right you might want to consider it." He said with a quick wink offering to go and sit in the goal for her and have her take some shots. He wanted her to get used to kicking with that brace on so it didn't raise any questions if her shot was off. He was gonna help her cope with this brace knowing it could throw off a players game because it did restrict the knee from doing certain things. He had played with a brace before and never liked it it suffocated your knee practically. Plus it hurt like a bitch to pull off because it would push into the skin at certain places and rub it raw.

[stephanie michelle davis]

Stephanie rolled her eyes crossing her arms infront of her chest tapping her foot on the ground as she watched him go through his thanks for that imaginary award he had just won for faking emotion. "You are such a ham, are you just about done?" She asked with a grin laughing as he kept the joke going, his sense of humor had been so cute because he had that childish side that Stephanie just loved. To see how focused and passionate he could be about soccer had been one thing, but when he was off the field and could relax and just be himself that is when he truly got a chance to shine. All of his friends and Stephanie were lucky to get to witness that.

She groaned some when he talked about the cheating, "I had my reasons for doing that, and I at least got the shot off. You were so cute running right to my rescue though. So dedicated, it's the stuff like this that make me love you, even though you're an ass!" She said after she had watched him do the tallies in the air. She ran to him and jumped up grabbing ahold of both hands to make them drop to his sides, her arms wrapping around his neck as she pushed him backwards some. "Twenty to five? Pulling those numbers out of that cute ass of yours?" She asked bringing back the joke he had done earlier. "How about if I do some of this" She brought her lips up to his and kissed him softly. She pulled away afterwards and looked at him with those big bright eyes of hers. "How is that? Those numbers change any?" She grinned looking at him puckering her lips out just to be funny.

She nodded as she looked over towards the goal that she had missed terribly. "My shot is a little off isn't it?" She shook her head as she quickly brought her lips to his once again whispering "I won," against his lips before she laughed and jogged off towards the ball that had been in the net. "You sure you're not going to laugh if my shots suck?" She had hated that her dominant leg had been the one with the brace on it, and since it had the most power she took most of her shots with it, so most of the time they were not heading right to where she had planned. The brace sure had been a pain in the ass, she wished there was something easier. "Want me to dribble in or stand still?" She ran towards the net and reached down to get the ball that had been entangled in there, and soon she jogged out back towards him. She didn't care which way he wanted her to do this, he was a good coach and she would listen to him.[/b]

She set the ball on the ground for a moment so she could bend down to make sure it had not moved from place. The brace had been tight to her knee but there were certain times when she had twisted to the side it would somewhat shift out of place. "I am going to have the nastiest knee when I take this damn thing off tonight, there are going to be all these crazy ass lines in my skin and there's going to be this stupid little bubble right about here-" She rolled her eyes as she pointed to the part of the knee where there had been nothing, nothing more than a hole. "Maybe you shouldn't come over, I don't want to give you nightmares or anything." She teased giving him a grin as she stretched her arms out to the sides.[/size]

[aiden james wright]

"Wait wait wait there is one person I forgot to mention," he held up his hand as if to silence the crowd, "I'd like to thank my lovely girlfriend for believing in me and to the fans!" He smirked over at her as he finally finished. He loved cheesing it up because he had so much fun with her. He only acted this way around his closest friends so mainly his soccer team and the woman's soccer team got to see this side of him. "Cheating is still cheating Steph no matter how you justify it," he smirked proudly as she tried to back up her reason for pulling that kind of a stunt. He laughed as she talked about how cute he had been running to her rescue, "I gotta make sure my baby girl is okay," he said in a teasing tone though he had been serious.

Aiden burst out laughing as his arms were being pulled down with all her force. "No, I came up with those numbers in a scientific fashion a-," he was cut off as she began talking and then kissed him. "Well, it might be a bit more even likeeee," his eyes shifting up to the air as if he was recalculating the numbers in his head, "I would say about a solid 5-5 seems we're tied Davis. Well played." He joked with a grin as he wrapped his arms around her waist pulling her closer to him.

He nodded as she talked about her shot. He couldn't lie to her it was obvious the shot was off. He wanted to help her though so she wouldn't have to keep lying to her teammates and the coach. If she played fine with the brace on they would have no reason to ask her to go into further detail than what she would provide. "I promise I won't laugh at you I didn't earlier did I?" He smiled over at her as he let go of her waist and backed up to go back towards the goal. He leaned down taking a defensive stance in front of the goal. He was pretty good at any spot on the field and he wasn't going to go easy on her and he knew she knew that.

"Come at me like you would any shot. Whichever is more comfortable for you." He said putting his coaching face on for her. His body got lower to the ground as he watched her feet and the ball his eyes not breaking concentration. He was hoping in his head that she would get this down and he wouldn't be able to block too many shots. He didn't want her to get discouraged or anything. "Your knee isn't going to keep me away nice try though," he joked with a quick wink and a grin over to her. "Alright let's do this Davis," he called out to her signaling that he was ready for her to take her shot.

[stephanie michelle davis]

Stephanie just kept shaking her head and pretending not to listen to him as he kept his joking going on, and as he made sure she knew there was no justifying cheating she just kept shaking that head of hers, this time trying to act as though she had been two and holding her hands over her ears mouthing silent 'la la la la la's in his direction as though not listening at all. She could of course hear him and as he said baby girl her nose scrunched up the slightest feeling that had been a rather weird name for her, obviously in a sense it had been true considering she had been his and all, "Does that mean I get to call you my boo?" She asked laughing hysterically as she mouthed another boo in his direction before giving him a wink, something all of a sudden had tickled her funny bone because she just could not stop laughing, maybe it was her way of trying to forget that she had just had to cheat in order to beat him. That about sucked and was not good for confidence. After the change of number too she just grinned and took a bow, "Damn well played, I knew that already though." she teased as she finally caught ahold of her laughter and stopped, well for the moment anyway.

When she watched him get into goal and set himself up for the shot she couldn't help but grin, he was sure cute when he changed from player to coach. He had the most serious expression on his face as he talked to her, and with that she just nodded. She scratched just underneath the top of the brace, with her sweating and moving the damn thing was starting to get more scratchy by the minute, but that was probably just because she had not been used to wearing them and it had been somewhat foreign to her. She walked to where the ball had been and leant down touching her hands to the ground to strain her leg muscle, she had already warmed up but the extra stretch was quick and it made her feel good before practicing, and as she brought her hands back up from the ground she grabbed the ball and held it in her arms. Of course she knew that handling the ball had been illegal in a game, but for what she was doing she didn't see harm. That is unless if coach Aiden had and then she would hear about it, but it wouldn't be too long that she held on.

"Get ready," She said as she took and put the ball in just one arm as she leaned it back and threw the ball as high up into the air as she could in the opposite direction from the goal. she took off running and when she saw that she had been underneath where it was falling she stopped and waited, her bad knee coming up to strike the ball to bounce it in the direction she wanted it to go (this being something she did just to test pain factor), and so far so good because she was not in too much pain at all. She started to dribble the ball making sure to move it from foot to foot, she would never dribble with one foot too much longer than the other because the opponent would know the best time to steal, so she did keep changing it up. She could see that she was getting closer to Aiden and the goal and just when she had reached damn near the penalty box she went and turned her body just slightly to strike the ball in with the side of her foot hoping it would reach in the top corner. "Damnit!" She was pissed as she had messed up her shot as she watched it hit the top of the goal and bounce down right beside Aiden, obviously him having saved it considering it wouldn't even have went in if he hadn't been there. "Let me try that again," She said more determined as she motioned for him to kick it so she could chase.

Her face became all the more serious as she watched the ball soar way above her and she took off in the other direction digging up some of the dirt as she turned. She raced to get the ball and reached it as it bounced and rolled off further from her. She stopped it with her heel turning quick and blasting off in the other direction with it at her feet, dribbling back and forth once more. She watched Aiden as he moved in the goal, a good goalie would never stand still and would make sure he knew each corner of that goal, and as she was reaching a bit farther then the penalty box she looked for a small opening, the man having played the goal great, so the only thing she could see was going for the top left corner. She belted a kick as she watched the ball leave the ground and soar in the air, Stephanie stopped dead in her tracks to watch Aiden and the ball.