Football Star: Noah (Open)

[Noah Conway]

Noah nodded. "Yeah, I should probably do that," he said feeling a little awkward still. "If you guys want to hang out for a few minutes I can find out what's going on and let you know," he offered before he headed inside the locker room.

Inside there were more congrats to him as he made his way over to his locker and pulled off his jersey and football pads, chatting with the guys about their plans. It seemed like there were a few different ideas going around, but the most popular one seemed to be the idea of driving down to the beach, setting up a bonfire and drinking some beers.

Noah liked this idea as well. Sure it would be a bit of a party, but it seemed like it would be more chill which was what Noah preferred. He headed into the showers and was in and out in a matter of minutes not really worrying about things like washing his hair or anything like that, mostly just wanting to wash the sweat and grime off from the game.

He easily changed into the solid light blue T-shirt and jeans he'd worn to school that day, throwing on his football letter jacket on over that. While the days were still relatively warm the nights still got chilly in California and he knew that the breeze coming from the beach would be especially cool.

When he headed outside of the locker room maybe 15 minutes or so later he was half supervised to still see Casper and Reagan hanging out although it seemed like a few other guys from the team were not mulling about outside the locker room as well. "Oh, hey," he said to them. "Looks like people heading over to do a beach bonfire," he said, nodding as he stuck his hand in the pockets of his coat. "I guess I'll check it out at least for a little bit. What do you think you guys are going to do?" he asked not really sure how to go about it. He wasn't exactly friends with Reagan or Casper but he wasn't opposed to making friends either. Still, he wasn't sure how that whole plan making thing worked given this situation.

[Reagan Doyle]

Reagan watched as Noah disappeared behind the door of the football teams locker room. There had been some banter between the two boys that was interesting enough, nothing harmful though and now here she was alone with Casper. Not that he was a bad guy she just wasn't really the big conversationalist and this was an awkward situation for her given any person was standing where he was minus family or Greenlee.

Reagan was about to ask him where he was from and how he had come to be here of all places until her phone rang with an urgent stutter of vibration and music from her pocket. " Excuse me for a moment," she told him as she stepped a few feet in the direction away from anyone and answered it.

Of course it was her mother. Informing her that she had some things to do and plans for the evening to take care of her brother. The brother that had already left of course with a friend and his parents so that was easily taken care of. Reagan wanted to scream at her that she knew what she was truly doing and all about her affair but this wasn't the place or the time. Instead she frustrated and angrily agreed also making sure to add that her plans weren't in place yet and not to wait up for her if she wasn't home. Shutting the phone and shoving it rather roughly back into her pocket she took a deep breath before turning around to return to where she had left Casper standing alone.

" Sorry about that. " she said just in time to see Noah bantering out from the locker room to inform them there was a bonfire in the process of being planned out as they waited. Looking between the two she tossed her options back and forth in her head. She wasn't really into that scene, and if it had been at someone's house she would have been three times more likely to concede to her inner loner. It was a beautiful night though and the beach sounded like it would be better then going home to dwell off in her pissedness, she would just have to make a quick change first.

" I guess the beach could be fun. " she shrugged her shoulders wondering if she would know ANYONE there at all. Worse case scenario she would make a quick break and go home. " I just need directions I guess so I know where I am going." she had a American Eagle sweatshirt in her car if it got too cold so she changed her mind about the trip home to change. It would be a waste of time.

[Noah Conway]

Noah smiled when the girl agreed to go. Before he could find out what Casper was up to, one of the other guys came out of the locker room, seemingly a good friend of Casper's they started chatting so Noah just shrugged it off and turned back to Reagan. "Yeah, it should be fun," he said, "or who knows it might be lame," he admitted, "a bunch of guys probably going over highlights of the game...but there will be beer," he said with a shrug.

Noah did drink but he was by no means a big drinker. He usually drank at football parties along with his teammates but he never really had gone out of his way to acquire alcohol. "I really don't know about directions though," he admitted, "I'm still learning my way around LA. I was told its at Dockwieler Beach in Playa del Rey...if you know were that is," he said giving her the best information he could.

"I should probably take off and find my sister, see if she wants to tag along and then find a ride," he said. "My dad's the coach so I just drove with him today," Noah admitted. He had a car but there wasn't much reason to drive it on game days. Plus, his dad preferred he didn't drive to the parties. The coach knew very well that the boys drank at parties. And as long as they didn't get themselves into any unnecessary trouble, he saw no reason why the boys shouldn't let off some steam this way. But drinking and driving way considered unnecessary trouble, so on his father's request, Noah never drove himself to parties, even if he probably drank less than a lot of the other guys.

"That is unless, you don't mind giving me a lift. I know we don't really know one another but I don't really know anyone here very well yet. Plus, you did return my mouth guard so I'm pretty sure I can trust you," he grinned, attempting to make a joke. Everyone seemed to be meeting up in groups to carpool and head to the beach. Now all Noah needed was to find Sophie and he could head out.

As if on cue, the girl was messy blonde hair came bolting toward him. "Good game! You might have even made football tolerable today," she quipped as she threw her arms around Noah.

"Really?" Noah asked giving her a look.

"No, not really, I was totally bored. Mom yelled at me for trying to read," she said and Noah laughed. With one arm draped over Sophie's shoulders, Noah nodded over toward Reagan, "This is my sister, Sophie," he said, "Sophie, this is Reagan--a bunch of us were going to head to the beach for a bonfire--you wanna come?"

"Yeah," Sophie said, "I love fire, its so cool! Nice to meet you Reagan," she smiled, eying the girl. She didn't look like a cheerleader so she passed for now anyway.

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