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Nymphadoraliz 
"It's hard not to." he replies with a wry grin. Peeking at her through his fingers, he wanted to laugh because of how serious she sounded, but knew that would show that he wasn't serious and he was.
Hearing Nia's voice, he felt guilty, he remembered their talk on the way to the hospital wing, but it just still didn't make him understand that. Until they won a game, (without him), he wouldn't be able to prove his point.
He may be a good flier, but it wasn't enough to win a game, he needed the deftness...and more confidence really.
"I know I tried out...but it might be in the best interest of the team, if I just back out now..." he says quietly to Nia.
Okay, looks like she was going to be staying here to try and get JD's confidence back up. She couldn't understand how he'd got so down again after that last tryout session, he'd even scored upside down. She refrained from rolling her eyes.
She sighed. "Well, I wouldn't worry too much about backing out..." she said with a solemn face. Of course she hadn't finalised the team yet, and even if she had she couldn't reveal anything...but JD didn't know that. Maybe if she made him see how much he'd miss it, how much he loved being in the air, flying upside down, he'd change his mind. She swallowed slowly, keeping up the act. "I just can't afford to have..." she drifted off, knowing exactly what she was going to say when he questioned her as to what she was 'originally going to say'.
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HaRoHeGiNeLu Ellie could of smacked him. She didn't, though. Obviously she didn't know him like that.
"Don't say that!" she exclaimed, instead, "If you make it on the team, which I feel you will, I hope you will..." Now, this was sounding awkward with Nia right there, "We will win. And with you on it. You don't realize how amazing you are." she said. She thought, now, that maybe it was his lack of confidence that was troubling their games...
Ellie was right of course. And now she and Nia were essentially doing the good cop, bad cop thing. Just kinda different. Nia sent her a knowing wink, hoping she'd play along and trust what Nia was doing. It seemed the young 'Claw had already cottoned on to JD's confidence issues...