#pleaseeeeee i want to see them play with the national team!!

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Kagehina time skip! 🖤

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A Leopard Can Change Its Spots - Part 1 (Christen Press x reader)

Anon request: Could you do another one with reader being someone who doesn't really expresses what shes feeling. As Far as the team knows she only ever had hookups ans no relationship. An Chris has a huge Crush in her.

A/N: So I got lost writing this fic so i decided to split it into two parts - see part 2 here

Post matches were always fun when you were playing with the national team. After every game you would do a lap of the pitch, saying thank you to the fans, sign autographs and take pictures.

Each time was different. Sometimes you would have loads of young kids telling you how much they want to be like you, other times you have women trying their shot at impressing you. 

You didn’t think you were a player or a womaniser. When you slept with someone you would make sure you were honest with them, you wasn’t interested in a relationship. Your night together would be just that, one night.

Of the years the rest of the team would tease you for the effect you have on the female fans. You heard the comments they made when they thought your werent listening but you know that you weren’t doing anything wrong.

“Hi Y/N. Oh my god, your even prettier in person” one of the fans say to you.

Thank you. You are quite beautiful yourself” The woman blushes at your compliment.

This is one the things that the team tells you shouldn’t do but if you found someone beautiful you would tell them. The way they smile afterwards made the hassle you got worth it.

“Would you like me to sign anything or maybe take a photo?” You ask her.

“I would love a photo, that is if you don’t mind” You had made the woman flustered which made you smirk cockily.

“Not at all” You take the woman’s phone and take a selfie.

As you pass the phone back to her, she hands you a small piece of paper. Another woman has given you her number.

You smile at the woman and thank her for her support before going to the locker room. You go to your locker and throw the pieces of paper on the seat.

“Damn Y/N, how many numbers did you ask for this time?” Kristie asks.

And so it starts.

“I didn’t ask for any, I don’t have to” You tell her as you take your shirt off tossing it in the basket.

Christen is staring as you talk to Sonny, still not wearing a shirt.

“Careful Pressy, you’re staring” Kelley says making her jump.

“What” Christen panics “I wasn’t” 

“Calm down, we all check Y/N out from time to time” Kelley admits.

You overhear the defender and the forward talking and you can’t help but tease.

“See anything you like Christen?” You say playfully.

“Shut up” she says throw a towel at you.

You decide to tease her a little bit more so you take the towel she threw at you and use to to wipe the sweat off your torso.

After showering you all leave the stadium and go back to the bus. When you arrive back to the hotel some of the players suggest a game of truth or dare. You sigh at their suggestion at first, this game only ended one way and that was you being the subject of an interrogation.

“Come on Y/N, I thought you loved playing games” Christen says playfully but you can’t help but feel a little bit hurt by her accusation.

Your hurt expression doesn’t go unnoticed by Christen and you can tell that she feels a little bit bad.

“Pleaseeeeee?” She asks as she takes a step closer to you.

You lean in so that you so that your next words are only heard by her.

“I don’t play games. You would know that if you actually got to know me instead of jumping to the same conclusions as everyone else” You whisper in her ear.

You turn and walk away as Christen just standing there still processing what you said. She hadn’t seen this side of you.

“You coming?” You say as you walk down the hall followed by laughing as you hear Christen’s footsteps speed up letting you know that she is running to catch up to you.

Truth is you really liked Christen, she wasn’t like the rest of the team. There was something about her which made you want to get to know her, made you want to spend as much time with her as you can. But unfortunately she had already made her mind up about you, or so that it what you thought.

The last minute game night was being held in Ash and Ali’s room. Some of the team has gone out to get some beer as you were all allowed to have a drink to celebrate the win. Luckily for you, you could handle your alcohol unlike some of the other players.

The team had sat in a makeshift circle, some of the beds, some on the floor and the rest on chairs which some players has brought from their rooms. 

You were the last player to be asked.

“So Y/N, truth or dare?” Crystal asks you.

“Let’s make this interesting, I choose dare” you reply.

You were the first person to say dare which wasn’t surprising. The team’s dares sometimes got extreme.

You wait as you can tell Crystal is trying to think of a good dare, not wanting to waste her opportunity. You watch as Kelley whispers in her ear.

“I’m sure that’s cheating” You tell the pair.

“We will allow it” Ali says.

You finish the last of your beer before getting up to get another one. Your ask the rest of the team is they want one, of course Sonny and Kelley say yes.

The team talk amongst themselves whilst Kelley and Crystal finalise their dare.

“Ok, Ok. We have a dare” Crystal tells you.

“Y/N. When we go out you say that you can get any woman if you really wanted” you roll your eyes.

“Go on” You tell them.

“Our dare is that you have to charm someone in this room. You have to get them to blush, if you you fail and you have to do a forfeit” 

“Do I get to choose the player?” You ask.

Kelley and Crystal don’t have the chance to respond before getting interrupted.

“Do me” Christen says confidently and her choice of words cause a few of the player to choke on their drink.

“I don’t think your ready that” you say mirroring her confidence.

You look towards Kelley and Crystal to see if they have a problem with Christen.

“Ok, your dare is to charm Christen and make her blush” 

Normally you hated this game but this time it could actually work in your favour. Now was the perfect time to tell Christen how you felt about her.

Christen was sat on one of the chairs across the room so you get up off the bed and ask her to stand so that you were eye level.

You look her up and down before bitting your lower lip. This woman was breathtaking and she made you nervous as hell.

You push a piece of hair behind her ear before leaning in, moving towards her lips before moving direction towards her ear so that only she can hear you.

“Hi” you pause “God, you make me so nervous” you take a deep breath “You know when I first met you the first thing I saw well heard was your laugh, then I saw your smile. Sometimes I will be having a tough day and I see your smile, it lights up my entire world. You have this affect on me which is so foreign, I have built my walls up so high but here you come with your sledgehammer and you knock them down without even trying”

You pull away and go to the other side.

“I think you are the most beautiful woman that I have every met” You feel her cheek heat up against yours “I would like to take you out sometime. It doesn’t have to be on date, it can just be as friends. Either way, give me one chance to show you the real me. Get to know me, I dare you”

This time you pull away, taking a step back. Looking at christen you see that her cheeks are pink and you smile at the affect you on her.

You both stay silent, taking in what you said, forgetting that you are not alone in the room.

“Well Y/N you completed your dare. What did you say?” Kelley asks.

“That is between me and Christen” you say sending a wink to the woman opposite you.

You all play another round of truth or dare before calling it a night. You kept glancing over to Christen to see that she was already looking at you.

Everyone gets up to leave Ash and Ali’s room.

You are about to enter your room when you feel someone grab your hand.

“I accept your dare. Are you going back to LA tomorrow?” She asks and you nod your head.

“Me too. I look forward to getting to know the real Y/N Y/L/N” 

The NWSL had finished and you had almost a month before the next national camp. That meant you had just under 4 weeks to let Christen get to know you and for you to get to know her.