Reaching the small town that hung in the mountain, Vanessa ran up to Andres' side. He noticed a group of young teenage boys staring at him. One little wave from Andres and they were all shouting.
"Let me see what these boys are up to," smiled Andres.
Vanessa could tell they didn't care for her. In fact, they probably had no clue who she was. Instead, the boys kept asking if they could meet the rest of the El Chales Team.
Whereas most of them were positive in simply questioning Andres as the two girls did her, one kid Bruce and another named Brad were getting on her nerves. The two refused to respect the fact that women played the game as well. They insisted on degrading her as well as other female players as oppose to worrying about themselves and learning how to play the game.
A part of Vanessa wanted to beat them up at the same time. They were both fit and muscular. Quite possibly football players. It would teach them some respect as well as send a message to the others. Unfortunately, she remembered that this was a non-fighting party. It left her with nothing else to do except ignore them.
"Careful now," said Teddy, "Those girls will beat the crap out of you".
"No way!" shouted Bruce, "I ain't never losing to a girl, period"!
Another fit kid spat on the ground, "I remember playing back in December. I was with this all girl team and they were actually kicking ass".
Brad nodded his head, "I was with El Chales in December with some fat black kid from Carol City. Ay, remember Teddy"?
Teddy was confused, "I have no clue who the hell you are".
All the boys were laughing hysterically at Brad's embarrassment until Bruce asked if they can head out to the after party.
Teddy was more confused than before, "Aren't you kids in like elementary school or something"?
The kid who kept spitting answered, "Most of us are in the seventh grade. Some are in the eigth".
Teddy pointed at a little kid, "What about him"?
The kid brushed back his long blonde hair, "My name is Mykal. I'm in the fifth. I'm just chillin with my peeps and -".
"Yeah, I didn't ask all of that," said Teddy, "Anyways, ya'll are too young for all of that anyways. Chill out. Logan is going to have air races later".
Vanessa turned towards Teddy, ignoring the boys' boos, "Really. I didn't know know he was going to have racing".
Teddy smiled, looking around, "Oops. Yeah, he's going to have each of us race in small airships with a different player of our picking".
Mike walked up, "Damn Teddy, you can't let the girl get surprised. You over here exposing Logan's plans".
Teddy grinned, "You hear these kids over here? Talking about an after party and who they can respect to play this game".
Mike rubbed his biceps, "Shiiit, I did the same thing when I was their age. Except I used to actually play, make money, get hazed. All in a day's work".
"Really?" asked Vanessa, "That sounds terrible".
Teddy rubbed his balled head, "Fuck that. Parker was the worst one. He was always after me".
Mike smirked, leaning back, "I mean, it was bad. But one thing I can say is that I never pissed myself. Scouts honor".
Vanessa's brows shot up.
"You were never a scout," said Teddy.
"Shut up!" Said Mike.
"Where is Logan?" asked Vanessa.
Mike pointed over towards Andres who happened to be talking to a small crowd of boys. There stood Logan right next to him. The two were laughing. Vanessa could already hear Logan mocking the boys, claiming they will cry and leave the game on their first eventful day.
Vanessa crept behind Logan and smacked his face cheeks lightly to stop his insulting.
Andres laughed, "Hey, don't mess with these two. They'll both kill you".
Vanessa smack the back of her palm, "Starting with that bridge! Logan"!
The fat black kid named Keith laughed, "Yeah, I hated that bridge. I was like what the hell is this. They're trying to give me a heart attack with some high blood pressure in the first minute of coming in hear".
Logan grinned, "Overcoming that fear made you stronger".
"No it didn't," said Keith, "It reaffirmed a fear of heights that I didn't quite have before".
Logan smirked, "So you're wea-".
Vanessa pinched his cheeks, "Stop bullying and fix the bridges"!
"Tell him girl," said Keith.
Andres was laughing, "They're always like that too. Especially Logan. He's always trying to bully people out of the stadium".
Logan performed a reality check to turn the wooden bridges into stone ones, "Most players are casuals anyways. As long as they help us build up the stadium or me to make money, I don't care".
Mykal walked up, smiling, "Hey guys".
"Like this kid," said Logan, holding his hand at Mykal.
Vanessa smiled with him, listening to Mykal talk about everything under the sun from what video games and animes he likes to his family. He seemed to be a pretty overly delightful kid. It almost reminded Vanessa of Logan with the way he was carefree. The only thing that appeared to bother the kid any was when he mentioned his older brother, in the seventh grade, who happened to be mean and down right evil in Mykal's eyes.
"Wow this kid never shuts up," said Logan, rolling his eyes, "To make it worse another one is coming".
Vanessa peaked over her shoulder, gazing at a tall, slender brunette with a cheeky smile and a overly flowing purple dress walking over.
"Nobody wants your Onlyfans!" shouted Logan.
The cheeky smile from her face fainted away, "You know, I cosplay too and have many artistic talents".
Mykal spoke before Vanessa, "That's cool. What kind of talents"?
The girl tried to smile, "Well my name is Pixiecat on both Instagram, Twitter, and Onlyfans. And-".
Logan was serious more than ever, "Flashing your tits among other crap isn't cosplay, nor artistic, by any means. It's fucking disgusting and tasteless. Nor does it belong in our stadium".
"Logan!" shouted Vanessa.
He performed a reality check to ban both from the party, "Both her and this kid needs to leave".
Vanessa yanked on his shoulder, "No. They is fine. Is fine. She seems really nice".
"No!" said Logan, "She's fucking disgusting and needs to go. If only the stadium would let me ban players like her, this would be easy. That's okay though, all of these casuals are a bunch of whiners that never put out and stick anything out around here".
Vanessa got in Logan's face, "There is nothing wrong with skimpy cosplay. I don't do it, but there's nothing bad about it".
After banning Pixiecat and Mykal from the party, Logan made clear that he was npt trying to have another Belle Delphine wannabe prance around his stadium. Vanessa watched Pixiecat and Mykal, who was comparing Logan to his older brother, both cry their way to the exit. It boiled her blood that Logan would be so evil.
"Logan! They did nothing wrong. She cosplays and".
"She a whore!" shouted Logan, "We don't need the stadium filled with whores that promotes their twats on the daily. If she wants, she can go to Downtown, South Beach, or one of the many other places here in Miami where girls do just that".
Andres budded in, "Yeah, she does cosplay a little, but she's mostly a eromodel".
Vanessa gulped, "Is not bad".
"It's terrible!" shouted Logan.
After some thought, Vanessa conceded, "So why Mykal. He was just nice and talking".
Logan pouted a bit, "He was annoying and wouldn't shut up".
Andres smiled towards a laughing Keith, "You hear this boy? Now that's just him being himself".
Before Logan could argue with Andres, he felt a push come to his hip that nearly knocked him over.