MR Day 7 - Feeling good

You feel great. You'd like to lie in your bed in the cabin for a while and think about the amazing time you had with Michelle last night... but no. You can't.

The chilly, but peaceful quiet in the dark only lasts until Tiff marches into the cabin, full of energy, literally banging two pots together. She keeps banging them even after everyone is awake and covering their ears.

She finally stops.

"Get dressed and get to the dining hall," she says. "Eat light, then go to yoga room 5 for warmup."

"What kind of drills today?" you ask. It can't be anything difficult because you have that practice game this afternoon.

"No drills," Tiff says, and the girls all murmur to each other in confusion. No drills?

"I'm not allowed to tell you. You'll see. You're on TV now, remember? You knew it was going to be crazy. They warned you. Quit acting surprised. Remember what I said. Eat light."

"Do we know who we play later?" Lara asks, raising her hand.

Tiff grimaces.

"Blue Team," says.

That's Adella's team.

You feel sudden apprehension. And then you feel relief. Playing against Blue Team today means you will NOT play against them in Friday's much more important game.

You all get dressed and eat a small breakfast, where the Blue Team watches you, and you watch them. There is very little interaction between the teams at the dining hall, and even less as you all go to different yoga rooms at the gym.

Tiff doesn't do yoga. She leads you through quick stretches, and then you have to change into your... uniforms? The uniform is not a soccer uniform. It's more like what olympic runners wear: like skimpy bicycle shorts and an extremely tight crop top. Confused, you and the others all put them on. It's not very modest for the girls like you, but everyone is too nervous about the day to be distracted by some bulges. You wish you weren't too scared to enjoy the view...

You wave at some of the cameras as all the girls in the camp walk out to the path into the woods, where half the teams split off and take another path. You wonder where they are going.

Your team arrives at the beginning of an elaborate obstacle course. It's long, with a LOT of obstacles. You can tell by looking at the map that it will be totally exhausting. So you will all be tired and sore for this afternoon's match.

"Cheer up, it'll be fun," you tell some of the girls who are complaining. Other captains are doing the same thing with their teams.

It's as long and difficult as you fear, but you are good at this. You are an athlete, even if some of the obstacles require a lot of upper body strength, which is not your strong suit. You still do well! You are fast and have good balance...

...until you get to the final obstacle. You are at the lake, and you have to cross a lot of spinning logs to get to the other side, but there's like this fog out there...

Someone hands you a staff with pads on the ends.

"What's this for?" you ask.

"For balance," she replies.

Oh no... You carefully go out, balancing... until you see that there is someone else in the fog up ahead, coming toward you.

So THAT is what this is about. That is why they split up the teams... part of this course is getting past this other player.

You see that it is... a cute, American blonde with short hair. You have met Sherry before, but you don't really know her. She's on the Red Team.

She is cute! Especially in this little uniform that shows off her tight body, but no mercy!

You knock her into the water and triumphantly rejoin your team.

That was cool, but it's time to think about this game against Blue Team. You are focused in the shower, and not distracted by your naked teammates.

At lunch, you talk to your defenders. They seem to understand what they are up against, but Max and Rebecca seem worried. You quietly speak to Elena about her positioning to support them.

After that you get to put on your new uniforms: cute pink ones with sleeveless tops. Then you take a team picture. You are really starting to enjoy this camp, but soon enough it's time for the match.

You and Lara take on Adella and Hana as boldly as you can, challenging her every chance you get.

Adella still powers through and scores early, but you get a lucky goal in return when Elena kicks it halfway across the field to Aki, who gets it in with a pinpoint shot to the corner.

You stay tied until the half, but then things get nasty. Lara has to knock Ingrid down, but then misses the shot. A few minutes later, Adella almost runs Rebecca over and scores... luckily it seems like Rebecca is OK, but shaken up.

Sun steps up and helps you score while Lara and Aki keep Beth and Duni off you before Adella can arrive to knock you down. 2-2.

There are two more close calls at your goal before you get another chance, and you and Lara go straight in. All the Blue defenders are there, but you pass it back and forth, fighting through them, but Julieta is too quick. She darts in and steals it, kicking it to Beth, but Aki is there, and she nails another sick sniper shot. You are up by 1!

But there's still a whole minute left. You and Lara fall back, but leave Aki at the front because she's on fire. You want to feint defensive, then get the ball up and run down the clock... but Adella isn't having it. She blatantly crashes into Sam, which pisses you off because Sam doesn't deserve that kind of treatment... Adella gets a yellow, but she's still in, and she gets the ball back and gets in.

Sheva challenges her even though she just saw what happened to Sam, then she steals the ball and kicks it up to Aki. She just took it from Adella with pure skill! It was beautiful!

The game ends before Aki can do anything, but that was great!