My Brother's Best Friend

3--Ally

Ally's POV

I had never known that James was so great at football! Of course, it would have been surprising if I HAD known. This was the first time I had ever come to practice.
The practice went on, and I basically watched James the entire time. Several times, I thought I had seem him looking back at me, but I must have just been imagining it, again. James could never like me for REAL. That was like, so impossible. He was an incredibly good-looking junior while I was just done lowly sophomore.
As I thought about James more, time snuck by. When I looked up, I realized that practice had ended. With that, I slowly rose from the bleachers and made my way out into the field to meet up with Mitch.
I felt many of the players' glances on me, but I didn't meet any of their gazes. I just kept walking until I came up to Mitch and James, whom were talking.
"Oh, hey Al," Mitch said with barely any emotion in his voice. James slowly turned to me, and I smiled. His bright green eyes met mine, and I suddenly felt like fainting. Thank God that didn't end up happening.
"Hey, nice job out there!" I said to James, sounding surprisingly confident. "Thanks Ally," he smiled, showing all of his perfect white teeth, and I felt even fainter.
Mitch cleared his throat, sounding a little annoyed with me. "Well Ally, I guess you'd better be getting home now." I sighed, looked down, and nodded. The thing was...I really didn't WANT to go home yet....
James looked at Mitch as if he were going to say something, but no words escaped his beautiful lips.
"Whoa, whoa, Mitch!" a voice called from behind the guys. All three of us turned to see who was talking.
The guy was really, really tall, and he had a husky, deep voice. "Don't just shoo her off like that." he smiled at me flirtatiously.
"Um...I'm sorry," I began, raising an eyebrow at him. "But do I know you?"
The guy returned his gaze to me, and I blushed. "I'm Tyler," he said, reaching out to shake my hand. I awkwardly shook his hand. "Oh, hi. I'm....Ally."
"Well, Ally," Tyler smirked, not taking his gaze off of me, "would you like to join us for pizza?"
"I don't think that would be a very good idea, Tyler," Mitch mumbled darkly. I was getting very irritated by my brother, by now, and decided to accept Tyler's invitation, just to get back at Mitch. Plus, this gave me another chance to hang with James.
"I'd LOVE to come," I smiled, staring right at Mitch as I said it. He glared darkly at me, while Tyler beamed. "Excellent! We are leaving for the Pizza Factory right after we change. Do you need a ride?"
Not two seconds after Tyler had offered, James had surprised us all with his jumping-in. "I could take her." Mitch looked right over at James as if he had betrayed him.
But before I could accept James' invite, Mitch jumped in to answer for me. "I will take her, she is MY sister."
The others seemed to back off, and I sighed with disappointment. I had sincerely hoped that James would take me.
"Whatever, man. I'll see you there, Ally," Tyler said, flashing one last smile at me before running off to the locker rooms.
James looked at me, then went to follow Tyler. After James had turned away, my heart practically stopped.
"We need to talk on the way there. Meet me at my car," Mitch said darkly, and I gulped and modded. Something told me that this talk I was going to have with my brother was not going to be the most pleasant experience.