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  Well, whatever, the important thing is that I'm on the team and I get to show Jordan that I’m totally the kind of girl he should be going for! My first game with the team is on Wednesday, so by Thursday he should pretty much be falling in love with me, right? Okay, maybe it won’t work that fast. But it sounded like a good plan when Beth and Corra and I came up with it on our end of the year sleepover a few months ago. Sitting there telling it all to Taylor, however, made me worry I made a bad decision.

  “So, he’s not here now?” Taylor glanced over to Ross and his friends who were laughing and joking in the deep end of the in ground pool.

  “No, he’s still on vacation,” I explained easily. “His family should be getting home soon, though. I think I heard Ross say their plane lands at 5.”

  “Is he stopping by the party then?” Corra asked after glancing at her phone and seeing it was already almost 4.

  “I don’t think so,” I shrugged.

  “That’s okay, though,” Beth offered. “This means he gets to see you for the first time tomorrow! And hopefully you can let him know you're on the team!”

  “Yeah,” Corra nodded. “And if he doesn't find out tomorrow, he will totally see your socks on Wednesday.”

  “Your socks?” Taylor asked, once again out of the loop.

  As Beth and Corra filled her in on our soccer teams’ traditions, I tried to judge Taylor’s facial expressions. Did she think I was crazy for my plan to get Jordan to notice me? Taylor mentioned she has an older sister, and I got the feeling she thought our plan with Jordan was a little childish. Sure, it was a little crazy, but it was what all my hopes and dreams were set on right now.

  The rest of the evening was pretty uneventful, and we managed to talk about school more, instead of Jordan. Taylor was going to be in a few of my classes, and thankfully I also had at least one class with both Beth and Corra, so we chatted about teachers and lunch tables, and everything tomorrow would bring. Talking about it made me excited to get to school and get started. Not because I actually wanted summer to be over, but rather because I wanted to finally see Jordan and get him to fall in love with me already.

  When everyone finally left around seven o’clock, I headed to my room to get ready for tomorrow, and also write all of this down. I have my school uniform ironed, hung up and ready to go, and even picked out a cute new pair of earrings I got in Italy that would possibly catch Jordan’s eye. So now I need to get some sleep so I can get up in time to make my hair cooperate and hopefully start impressing Jordan as soon we pick him up in the morning. Hopefully tomorrow will be the start of my future with Jordan!