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“Come on Tobin, we’re late!” shouted Christen from the other side of the room.
She was waiting for her girlfriend to come out from their bedroom and for her to be already changed.
It was a Friday night, their friends had organized a night out to celebrate the end of the World Cup qualifiers and their astounding pass to the World Cup as first place and of course to finally start their off days before their next national team match. It was planned for all to relax, just that Christen wasn’t relaxed right now, taking her phone out for the seventh time and checking it she saw messages from her friends saying that they were just minutes away from their destination. Of course, her girlfriend would choose this night to dress slower than her. Just when she was thinking what to write to her friends, Tobin opened the door, Christen stared at her, she was wearing the same outfit as always, which consisted of black jeans and a t-shirt.
“Finally you decided to come out” she said rolling her eyes.
“Hey! I did that many years ago, thank you very much, but yes, let’s go, love” Tobin replied sending one of her traded smiles to her, knowing that her girlfriend couldn’t be mad when she heard those words. And she was correct, a smile appeared in Christen’s face where a frown once was.
“Okay, let’s go” said Christen. Trying to reach for her jacket, just to be surprised by Tobin who already had her jacket in front of her to put it on.
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They took an Uber to arrive at the bar, passing through the sea of bodies they heard a boisterous laugh knowing exactly whom it was from. They went to their group of friends who seemed that they had already started the celebration, judging by the little empty glasses that couldn’t had been filled with water.
“Look who decided to arrive” Kelley shouted, slurring her words, probably after a couple of drinks. Making the others in the table turn their heads to the direction of the couple.
“We thought you ditched us” Alex complained, or almost she sounded like she was mad.
“Well it wasn’t my fault this time, apparently my collected, calm and chill girlfriend decided to take her time” Christen told her friends, Tobin never erasing the smile from her face said
“I just wanted to look good for you babe” a chorus of ‘awws’ resonated from their table. “Do you forgive me?” She asked, Christen looking at her girlfriend´s puppy eyes, knew she couldn’t be angry at her.
“I wasn’t mad and you know that I’ll always forgive you” they smiled and stared lovingly to each other until they were interrupted by Emily.
“Well now that you forgave each other, could we continue where we left on?” she asked, passing them both two shots of tequila.
“Yeah” The couple answered. Accepting the drinks and throwing them back.
Now the celebration finally starting.
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They danced for many hours, until Tobin told her girlfriend she would get them a drink, she got two glasses of water, 'cause she knew her girlfriend would appreciate it later. She was going back to Christen, when she saw someone stepping towards her, with a face she can only describe as fuckboy, Tobin looked at him and she didn’t know how to describe what she was feeling, she wanted to punch him, which was rare because she has never been known for searching conflict just for thrill, that was only Kelley’s work.
But when she watched how the boy, because he didn’t look like a man, touched her girlfriend making her turn to raise a brow to him, she exploded, quickly she went to her girlfriend, throwing her arm around her back and staring menacingly at him, forgetting about the water she left to the bartender.
“Please beautiful, just one drink” was what she heard when she stopped next to Christen, who looked relieved to see her girlfriend.
“Hey dude why don’t you lose yourself!” Tobin shouted, she was pissed, almost Christen was astounded to hear Tobin like that, but at the same time she found it really sexy.
“And you would be?” he asked oblivious to the fact that she was now protectively in front of Christen.
“I’m her girlfriend and before you want to get your face beaten up, you should go away now!”
“You think I’m scared of you, look at you I could toss you away easily” while he was talking they didn’t notice that people had already formed around them, and their group of friends took Christen out by the arm, leaving Tobin with the dude.
Suddenly she left the rage consume her and threw the first punch right on the center of the guy’s face, he stumbled from the contact and after he recovered his balance, was ready to return the jab, Tobin was prepared for the contact standing in a fighting stance when the security staff came and took the guy away before the fight could get worse. They also told Tobin to calm down before they took her and her friends out. She nodded and went to Christen who was sitting next to her friends.
“Wow Harry! I’ve never seen you like that! what happened with being chill?”, Allie asked just as astonished as the others.
“I just, I don’t know” she sighed “I just saw him coming towards Chris and he didn’t give me any sense of safety, I knew I had to do something” Tobin replied. Before looking towards her girlfriend.
“Chris, love, are you okay?” Tobin asked, Christen finally returning from her daze turned her sight to Tobin and jumped to her grabbing her face and giving her a loving kiss.
“I feel like I should be the one asking that, he didn’t touch you, right?”
“Of course not, I’m stronger than him” she answered proudly.
“Oh please, you weigh less than 153” Ashlyn said, who was sitting along her girlfriend Ali, everyone started laughing but it was only Christen and Tobin in their own world.
“I think we should go back to our place, so I could thank you properly” Christen murmured right into Tobin’s ear.
“Right, yeah, of course” she replied, hoping the blush in her cheeks wouldn't be perceived by her teammates, “But first, let’s say goodbye to the others” said Christen, giving Tobin another kiss. They stood in front of their teammates/friends.
“Hey guys we are going back to our place, we need to rest” said Christen.
“Yeah, we have a lot of things to do for tomorrow” Tobin added.
They said goodbye to their friends promising to celebrate other day, but aching to celebrate in their own private way.
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They took a cab back to their place, just entering the house, Christen grabbed Tobin’s hand and directed her towards their bedroom.
“You know it was pretty sexy what you did at the bar” Christen said taking a piece of Tobin’s shirt and lifting it a little showing her girlfriend’s toned body, the want forming in both of their eyes.
“And I’d do it again for you” Tobin said sincerely “From now on I will take notes of every person that dares to step towards you”
Christen thought she was joking but when she turned to see her girlfriend’s brown eyes like honey, seeing only honesty and love for her with a trail of lust, she knew she was pretty serious about this.
“Chris, for you I’d go step to a dude much bigger than me and for you I would get beaten to smithereens” Tobin told Christen, who just took her girlfriend’s shirt all the way out as answer.
“I love you” she wrapped her arm around her girlfriend’s neck and whispered against her lips.
“I love you too, Chris”.
They made love knowing that they had each other’s back always.