After being cleared by my podiatrist, I returned to gym with a brace on my weak ankle.

Coach Lin decided for us to play volleyball again. Awesome, just in time for my plan of revenge. And Xinyi just so conveniently happened to be on the opposing team. Even Coach Lin was rooting for me - I was pretty sure he wasn’t, but I just liked to think that way.

I was the first to serve. Time to show off my athletic skills, which I had no chance to demonstrate last time because of a certain someone.

Standing on the back right corner of the court, I slammed the ball onto the ground and caught it as it bounced back up. I repeated that motion three times, until I became familiar with the firmness and velocity of that particular ball. Balancing the ball on my left palm, I held the respective arm out and moved my right foot back.

SLAP! BAM! I slapped the volleyball with my right hand two times before tossing it in the air and spiking it across the net. The ball landed in the center of the court.

First serve, success.

I continued to serve ten more times until the our team missed a spike from the opposing team. After a few rotations, I stood tall on the front row. On the other side of the net was none other than the notorious Chen Xinyi.

I arrogantly smirked at her. Normally, I wouldn’t do that, but, of course, she was Chen Xinyi; hence, I just had to.

Her team served the ball. One of my teammates who wa