Volleyball Journey - Part 6

The next morning Alex prepares herself for her day as normal and heads off from her room, as she walks the hallway, she sees a crutch make it way out the door down the hallway and closely in tow is Kaitlyn gracefully manoeuvring herself out the door way before closing her door. 

 

Alex greets Kaitlyn as she approaches, “Hi Kaitlyn, how is the ankle feeling today?” 

“Oh hey Alex, its actually not feeling too bad which is good, not as painful as it was last night, but those pills you have me worked a treat. Thanks again for helping me out last night. You and Andrew make a super cute couple!!”

 

“Aww Thanks Kaitlyn, more than happy to help, maybe we should catch up again tonight or on the weekend?” Alex Asks

 

“Sounds Great” Kaitlyn responds. The ladies move off down the hallway and off to their classes for the day. They both study very different things with Alex doing a Bachelor in Business and Kaitlyn doing an Psychology degree and during the day their paths rarely cross. 

 

Andrew has practical assessments this week, so he is hunkered down catching up on some last minute study for his assessments. During the day him and Alex exchange some messages, but Alex knows he has a lot on today and tomorrow before the weekend arrives so she gives him his space. 

 

Saturday morning Alex decides to reach out to Kaitlyn to see if she wants to go get some lunch. She gets herself ready and then heads down the hallway toward Kaitlyn’s room. She knocks on the door gently and patiently waits.

 

A few moments later and Kaitlyn answers the door, “Oh Hi Alex, how are you?” She asks. 

 

Alex responds, “I’m great, I thought I would pop down and see if you wanted to go to lunch, I’m sure you are sick of sitting around by now” 

 

Kaitlyn instantly smiles, “Oh that would be so kind of you” Jumping at the opportunity to get out for a while. The girls head off and Alex drives them into a local diner where they engage in some further conversation about their hometown and enjoy a light lunch. 

 

As the conversation goes on Alex starts to notice Kaitlyn grimace a little. “Are you ok Kaitlyn” Alex asks. “Oh yeah its just getting a bit painful having It down” 

 

Alex, Calls for the waitress straight away, “Hi, could we get a bag of ice for my friend please” The waitress obliges and scurries off to fetch some ice. Alex stands her self up from her side of the booth and moves over to Kaitlyn’s side. “Slide back and put your foot up and we will get some ice on there for you. Kaitlyn uses her hands and slides her bottom toward the wall and then rotates her right leg up as Alex takes a seat she rests her ankle in Alex’s lap. “Oh gee it looks like your ankle has swollen up a bit” Alex says as she looks down at Kaitlyn’s ankle wrapped in an ace bandage, but her toes and end of her foot looks very puffy. 

 

“let me get this off for a bit” Alex says. 

 

“You are so kind Alex, I can see why Andrew likes you so much”

 

Alex smiles as she slowly starts to unwrap Kaitlyn’s ankle. The waitress returns with a bag of ice, perfect size for the job as Alex unwraps the last few layers. The bandage is removed, and her ankle exposed, which is now showing quite a bit more swelling than the night before. Kaitlyn leans forward to take a look herself, moments before Alex places the ice pack down gently on her ankle. 

 

“Ahhh that feels better already” Says Kaitlyn. The girls continue to chat with the conversation going from schooling to boyfriends, to injuries. Kaitlyn goes on to tell Alex about her long history of ankle sprains to both ankles, this most recent one appearing to the worst so far. 

 

Alex shares her stories as well including her most recent sprain which was her worst one as well, and then the girls break into laughter as Kaitlyn cracks a joke, “well you will have to wait until I’m healed before you injury yourself so I can help take care of you, maybe we can trade crutches and ankle braces ahahhaa” Alex laughs, “Maybe we should sell crutches and ankle braces between the two of us we have enjoy inventory to start a store”

 

“HAHHAHAHAHAHA”

 

After the laughter settles, Alex removes the bag of ice which is not more a bag of cold water from Kaitlyn’s ankle. The two girls take a quick look and it appears the elevation and ice has done wonders for the welling almost instantly. Alex grabs the ace wrap and starts to gently bandage Kaitlyn’s ankle for her leaving her toes and heel exposed and ensuring its not to tight, before they get the cheque and head back to the dorms. 

 

As they rear the corner and approach Kaitlyn’s room, Kaitlyn stops and thanks Alex, “Thank you for getting me out today, I really appreciate it” 

 

“Not at all Kaitlyn, I know what it’s like to be stuck inside for days!!” as they part ways for the evening.

 

Over the coming days Alex and Kaitlyn build an inseparable friendship. They start to talk on a regular basis and by Sunday it is as if they had known each other for years. They spend time together, Alex offering her help and Kaitlyn being super appreciative of the assistance. 

 

Sunday lunch time and the girls are in Alex’s room just relaxing on the sofa watching some Netflix, Kaitlyn has her ankle bandaged and resting on a pillow on the coffee table as they binge watch a tv show. 

Alex gets a message from Andrew, around 1pm after he has awoken from a big night partying with some friends after finishing their first round of practical assessments for the year. 

 

“Hi what you up to Alex? “it reads

“Not a lot just watching some TV come over.” She replies. Andrew quickly replies with a thumbs up emoji.

 

10 minutes later and there is a knock at the door…

“Come in”, Alex calls out from the sofa. Andrew enters the room and closes the door behind him as he makes his way to the sofa he notices Kaitlyn is there also. They girls are sharing in a comic moment in the TV show. 

 

“Oh hi Kaitlyn, How are you?” Andrew comments when sees them both. 

“I’m good thanks Andrew” She responds. 

 

Andrew makes his way to the sofa and leans in for a quick little kiss with Alex.

“How was your night?” Alex asks. Andrew starts to tell the story of the day before, and the miss adventures of a bunch of guys getting drunk, while Alex moves over a bit so that Andrew can sit next to her. 

 

Andrews attention is once again distracted as he glances at Kaitlyn’s bandaged ankle resting gently on the pillow her perfect little toes poking directly upwards. 

 

They continue to watch the tv show and Alex and Andrew hold hands on the sofa, Alex shares what the two girls have been up to just making some general chit chat. 

 

The afternoon goes quickly as they continue to binge watch Netflix, until dinner time arrives, and Andrew is feeling somewhat under the weather still decides to call it an early night. “Let me walk you out” Alex says. 

 

Andrew says goodbye to Kaitlyn and Alex walks him to the door, before he leaves, they exchange a long passionate kiss and Alex teases him through his shorts for a brief moment before Andrew leaves with a smile on his face. 

 

The ensuing days return to some normality for the trio, with all returning to classes as normal. Alex hits the court every afternoon working on rebuilding her game fitness and putting her ankle through its paces in preparation for returning to the court in the coming week. 

 

Wednesday night arrives, game night and all the players are at the stadium warming up. Alex participates in the warmup as Andrew and Sam monitor her progress from the bench. Kaitlyn is in the bleachers in support of the team as well, still on crutches but feeling some what better. The game kicks off, and the girls are off to a great start, winning the first set in rapid succession. They stop for a break and Alex is eager to get back on the court. She talks to the coach about getting her in for a few minutes. The coach calls over Sam for a brief chat, and they decide to allow Alex to play a couple points to see how she feels. 

Alex is so excited to be back on the court she can barely hold it in. She strips off to her game clothes and does a few stretches to limber up. The calls the game back into play and the teams take the courts. The next 4 points go flawlessly, the team feeling a new sense of energy. Alex bounces around the court without a worry and participates in all the points. On point 5, they away team returns a fast ball over the next, Alex dives to keep the ball alive, and the other girls slam it over the net. As the opposing team goes for the block one girls takes the ball right in her face and goes crumbling to the floor as the point is lost. The ref calls a stoppage to allow treatment, and both teams take a short breather as the trainers attend to the injured player. 

 

Alex goes to the sideline and the coach asks her how she is going. “I’m doing good, I feel really good” Sam is nearby and listens to the conversation and looks at the coach and gives him the thumbs up. “Ok I’ll let you play out this set and then rest you for the last set”

The smile on Alex’s face goes from ear to ear. 

 

She jumps back into action and starts to rally the team. They finish the set strong taking out 2 sets straight. They rest between sets, and Alex takes a seat on the benches and Andrew comes over to see how she is feeling. “How does the ankle feel Alex?” Andrew asks somewhat concerned it was too much too soon. “It feels great, not pain or issues at all” 

“That’s great to here” Andrew replies. 

 

After a few minutes the ref calls the game in play and the teams return to the courts for the last set of the evening. Alex decides to make her way up to the bleachers to sit with Kaitlyn as they watch the last set. Kaitlyn asks how her ankle is feeling as they exchange in some brief chat as the game kicks off. 

 

The team takes out the 3^rd set and wins the game very easily. They all make their way to the bench including Kaitlyn and Alex to celebrate the win and for the coach to address the team. 

After the match they all hang around and watch the juniors play before turning in for the night. 

 

Friday evening arrives and Alex is in her room after a long mental day. She hears a knock on the door, and thinking its Andrew she heads straight over. As she opens the door Kaitlyn is standing there, no crutches her ankle bandaged and wearing ballet flats.

 

“Oh look at you, off your crutches” Alex says..

 

“Yes it’s so nice to be up and walking again” Kaitlyn replies. Alex invites her in, and they move to the sofa. Kaitlyn walks slowly but steadily, with a medium limp. They take a seat and Alex asks what the trainers said and when she will be back playing. “Well the good news is its not as bad as they first expected and believe it’s a grade 2 sprain and there is no concern for an major tearing. They said depending on how my rehab goes I should be back in a few weeks to light training and then back into game play.”

“Oh that’s great news Kaitlyn, the whole team will be happy to have you back”

“All except Jasmine, I mean I shouldn’t have said that” Kaitlyn tries to brush her comments away. 

 

Alex curious can’t help but ask, “What do you mean?”

 

Kaitlyn feels a bit awkward at first but slowly starts to open up. “Well I hate talking about other people, and I’m not the kind of person that does that behind peoples backs but I overheard some of the girls after the game on Wednesday saying it’s so much better not having Kaitlyn in the team”

 

Alex looks at Kaitlyn and Says, “Don’t warry about her Kaitlyn, she is just jealous because he is not as good as you, and she will find her self on the bench again!! hahaha” they have a little laugh and brush it off. 

 

Moments later Andrew arrives, knocking at the door and Alex calls out inviting him in. 

 

He greets the girls sitting on the sofa, and then pops dinner down on the coffee table. Kaitlyn goes to stand up and says, “Oh sorry guys I should let you have dinner”

 

Alex reaches out and grabs her hand, “No stay, Andrew got enough for us all” Andrew looks up and smiles, I sure did I hope you like Chinese food.” Kaitlyn smiles, “Oh thank you that’s so nice, and I would be lying if I said I didn’t like it hahaha”

 

They all sit and enjoy some food over a general chat, and after dinner is done, Alex cleans up all the plates and gets rid of the rubbish before sitting down. 

 

As they watch some tv Andrew engages with Kaitlyn, “So how are the rehab exercises going Kaitlyn?” Knowing that he had spent some time with her that day in the trainers room running over some exercise. 

 

“Not too bad, I tried some before and it was pretty difficult still and just hoping that I’m doing it all right” 

 

Alex pipes up and says, “Why don’t you help her now Andrew” 

 

Andrew looks at Alex not totally sure if he knows the correct answer to the question..

“Go on, I’m sure Kaitlyn would be appreciative of some extra PT” Alex says. 

 

“Ok more than happy to help” Andrew says. 

 

He repositions himself so that he is on the floor at the Kaitlyn’s feet. He starts by removing her ballet flat and then the bandage from her ankle. He takes a brief moment to look over Kaitlyn’s ankle which is now much less swollen probably only 20-30% what it was a week ago, there is bruising on the outer side of her ankle above and below and a small amount of bruising on the inner side of her ankle too just below the ankle bone. 

 

‘Ok lets start with the basics, ankle rotations” Andrew guides Kaitlyn as she gently moves her ankle around in circles, then progressing into more specific isometric movements up and down and side to side. Alex watches and can tell that Andrew is getting rather turned on by this… 

 

“Ok lets try the alphabet now” Kaitlyn changes her movements and starts to write the alphabet with her toes in the air. “Ok next is heel raises”, Kaitlyn positions her foot flat on the floor with her knee at 90 degrees whilst she is seated and starts to slowly and controllable lift up her heel. “Ahh that’s still a bit tough doing that” She exhales. 

 

Andrew goes into support her heel a little as she continues to raise her heel up. “That’s expected Kaitlyn, it will take a few days and you should start to see some dramatic improvements. They continue on for another 10 minutes alternating the 3 exercises several times and already her ankle is showing signs of small improvement. 

 

Andrew gets up to fetch some ice from the freezer, whilst Kaitlyn raises her foot and places it on a pillow on the coffee table. Alex springs to action and follows Andrew to the kitchen. Once out of sight he comes up behind him and with her right hand reaches around his waste to his crutch, playing her hand on the front of his pants. She can feel how hard he is already. Andrew goes to move her hand, thinking she will be unhappy with his arousal, but Alex whispers in his ear, “Its ok Andrew I know sprained ankles turn you on”

 

Andrew closes the freezer door and stands there, not totally sure what to say. “umm well….”

She turns him around and looks him in the eyes as her hand continues to gently caress his rock-hard penis in his pants. “it’s ok Andrew, as long as my ankle is Number 1”

 

Andrew both shy and somewhat feeling embarrassed, is lost for words. But soon he relaxes a little, “Oh Alex you will always be my number 1” he replies. Alex leans in for a long sensual kiss as she continues to gently caress him.

 

They break away from their kiss in the kitchen and both return to the sofa, Andrew applies the ice pack to Kaitlyn’s ankle and then takes a seat next to Alex to try and hide his inner excitement. Kaitlyn looks over and says, “Thank you Andrew, and Alex you have an amazing man”

 

Alex smiles, “thank you Kaitlyn, he is pretty special!!”

 

The night draws to a close with Andrew applying a bandage to Kaitlyn’s ankle, before she makes her way back to her room. Alex returns to the sofa after walking Kaitlyn out and straight away goes in for a kiss, before untying Andrews pants and sliding them off to reveal his rock-hard penis. Alex drops her pants to the floor and then climbs on top of Andrew, squatting on his lap. She can feel his rock-hard penis against her moist pussy. She teases him whilst they kiss passionately, she can feel the head of his penis rubbing on her clit getter her more and more excited. 

 

She gets up and kneels Infront of Andrew and starts to give him a blowjob, slowly working his penis deep into her mouth. Andrew can barely last 2 minutes and before they know it he is exploding all over her tongue. Andrew lays back in absolute ecstasy as he explodes from deep within feeling every single pulse through his body. Alex jumps up and sits on the sofa next to Andrew and looks over, “your turn” 

Andrew obliges and kneels down Infront of Alex putting his tongue to work on her tight wet pussy. His tongue gently and precisely caresses her clit, whilst Alex squirms in enjoyment on the sofa, she brings her knees to her chest as Andrew goes faster and faster, within only a couple brief moments, Alex lets out a deep satisfying moan as she orgasms feeling tingles run through her insides. Andrew gets up and goes in for a long passionate kiss while Alex relaxes into the sofa. 

 

They lay on the sofa together and Andrew hugs Alex tightly from behind as they both start to drift to sleep. A few hours later Alex awakens to the TV sounds and stirs and then Andrew awakens as well. “what time is it” Andrew Asks. Alex looks at her phone and sees that its 11:30pm, “its 11:30” Alex says, she ponders for a moment, “would you like to stay for the night Andrew” she asks as she gazes into his eyes. 

 

“Yes, I would” Andrew replies. They both get up and head to the bedroom and make themselves comfortable in bed, and within minutes they are both fast asleep. 

 

The following 4 weeks fly by, Andrew and Alex are getting closer than ever before, Alex and Kaitlyn’s friendship continues to blossom. Kaitlyn’s right starts to recover in leaps and bounds and only a short 3 weeks later she finds herself ready for her first game. 

 

This week they have an away game and the team, loads into the bus mid-afternoon for the one-hour journey to the home team’s stadium. During the bus ride the coach gives the team a pep talk to get the girls fired up for the game. Kaitlyn and Alex share a seat together and the rest of the team is spread out throughout the bus. 

 

The coach goes on to call the team for the night’s game, and surprisingly he calls Kaitlyn to the starting rotation. Kaitlyn can’t help but be super excited by this and starts to prepare herself for her first full game back from injury. 

 

Jasmine who is sitting at the back of the bus is fuming, once again relegated to the bench, she lets out some comments under her breath as the coach continues to call the team for the night. “I’m so much better than her and her weak ankles, I should be on the starting team!” If humans could breathe fire she would have scorched the whole bus!!

 

They arrive at the stadium and everyone gets off the bus, and heads into the courts in preparation. The team warms up on the court guided through some drills by the coach. Andrew and Sam set up their trainers station and attend to any pre-game niggles in the team, offering up some massages to loosen muscles and sports tapping for any players that need it. 

 

The ref calls the game start, and the starting squad takes the court. Jasmine sits patiently on the sidelines as she watches the team get off to a flying start. The first set goes in favour of the away team. They all return to the sidelines for a brief drink break and the coach talks them through some plays for the next set. Sam comes in to check on Kaitlyn to see hwo her ankle is going, and she has only positive news to report. “It feels good that, strapping is holding it very steady.”

 

Sam is happy to hear she is doing well. They take the court for the second set and once again get off to a flying start. Mid way through the set Alex and Kristin find themselves at the next launching into a block move. Kristin drives high and bats the ball down at the net as the home team darts in to try and recover the point. Kristin goes to land but as she has jumped, she has drifted sideways a little, as she lands her right knee crumbles under sidewards movement, causing her knee to twist inwards as she collapses to the court. 

 

They take the point, but its soon revealed that Kristin is not ok. As she lies on the court, clutching at her right knee. Alex goes to her aid immediately sensing that something is wrong. “Kristin are you ok” she asks as she kneels next to her. 

 

‘it’s my knee” she says through a few short breaths. By this stage Sam and Andrew have arrived and take over the situation. They Spend about 5 minutes with her on the court, and then they get her up to her feet. With one either side for support they help her gingerly off the court. As she makes her way off she applies some pressure on her leg and although walking slowly and gingerly she is weight bearing which is a good sign. 

 

As they disappear to the trainer’s station, Jasmine finally gets her chance to get on the court. 

 

Jasmine springs into action and joins the remainder of the squad on the court to continue the game. The next few points go seamlessly with the away team getting the upper advantage. Jasmine starts to take the game in her own hands and start to force her way into every point, dashing to the net out of position when not needed, then back to centres to keep the ball alive. 

 

Set 2 goes to the away squad again and they all take a moment to rest and catch a breath while the coach talks to the team. He starts to pinpoint out Jasmine telling her that she needs to hold her position and it’s a team sport not an individual sport. Jasmine doesn’t take the criticism to well and gets more wound up by it all. As they hear the ref call the game back on, they all take the court again. 

 

Jasmine can’t help herself and want to continue to try and be involved in every point, it gets to a stage where they are now starting to lose easy points because of it. Alex has a few words with her between points, “Jasmine, you need to settle down you are causing us to lose points, it’s just silly”

Jasmine doesn’t even blink an eye and looks Alex down and says, “You just worry about you and your girlfriend Kaitlyn, I’ll do my own thing” And then turns away. 

 

Alex turns and thinks, seriously WTF has gotten into her. 

 

They return to their positions and the game goes on, fighting for every point into a tie breaker, and fortunately they are able to secure the 3^rd and final set with a victory. 

 

As the girls make their way off the court, Alex still can’t believe the poor attitude of Jasmine. They all have a moment to rest and refresh before heading back onto the bus showered and cleaned for the trip home. 

As they sit on the bus on the way home, Alex thinks to herself whether she should talk to the coach or not, she is a senior player in the team, and wants what’s best for the whole team. She ponders her thoughts for a bit and decides that she will see how things go. 

 

Unfortunately, the weeks go by and jasmine is on the starting side as Kristin heals from a medial ligament tear to her knee. Now sporting a long knee brace it’s unlikely she will return for the season, with only 4 games until regional finals. 

 

Alex can’t help but talk to Andrew about what Jasmine had said previously, and Andrew agrees she was all over place in that game, but also said that hopefully she will settle down now, so Alex decides to keep it to herself for the moment and doesn’t want to make things worse by going to the coach. 

 

The next two weeks, jasmines attitude stinks. At training she is trying to be the centre of attention all the time. During game nights she continues to overreach and cost the team valuable points. 

 

2 weeks before regionals and they are once again preparing to load into the bus for an away game. Just like many times before they head off mid-afternoon for the bus ride with the whole team and support staff. They arrive and prepare as normal, with the team doing some light warmups and drills in preparation for the game. 

 

Tonight, they are taking on their arch rivals and potentially their strongest opens in the whole league. The game gets off to a shaky start, as they just can’t seem to get things together. The points start to stack against them and soon they find themselves down one set against the home team. 

 

At half time the coach rips into them, “What was that crap” he says with a stern voice. “What happened to all the plays and sets we have been working on all year”

 

Alex listens to the coach and can feel his disgust in the whole team, and she decides she needs to step up and try to motivate the team. They head back out as the ref blows the whistle to get the game started and take position. 

 

Alex turns to the team and starts to try and motivate every, “let’s go ladies, we can do this, we are better than them”. They get off to a flying start racking up a few quick points in consecutive order. 

 

Between points Alex calls in Kaitlyn and Riley, “Ok girls we need to listen to the coach, lets setup for….” As she goes on to call the play. Jasmine overhears and tries to include herself, as the girls break away and position themselves. 

 

The home team serves and riley takes a dig to keep the ball alive, Jasmine knowing what the move is going to be tries to push her way into the front line to be involved. Alex sets the ball for Kaitlyn, who positions herself about 1 meter from the net, she starts to move and build some pace and then lunges into the air to strike the ball. Jasmine can’t help herself but try to also strike the ball and lunges into the air. Jasmines fingers just contacts the ball as she lunges into the air right on top of Kaitlyn. Her fingers barely touch the ball but it’s enough to divert its direction away from Kaitlyn, as Kaitlyn strikes her target off position her fingers barely brush the ball, and the ball goes screaming over the sideline. Jasmin and Kaitlyn connect with each other mid-air and it forces Kaitlyn off balance and sideways.