Soccer had been one of the things the nuns at the convent had actually let them do, because it kept them from going into town to see the boys. Marina had never really been interested in doing that anyway, but she'd quickly found that she was actually pretty good at soccer. She could have been a lot better, if she'd ever been allowed to use her abilities.
But the second any of them stood out, the mobs would find them and killed them so she'd purposely played badly sometimes so that nobody thought she was too good.
"I liked playing with you too," she smiled, looking up at him timidly. And not just because it was nice (albeit novel) to actually have a friend her age, but because she really, really found him attractive. Part of her had wanted to run her hands over the obvious muscles of his body. Aaaand that thought made her drop the knife she was using, and sliced it into her finger.
"Ow!" It wasn't that bad, but it was annoying that she couldn't heal it with him here. She turned to the sink and held her finger as she ran water over it.