"ocean blue eyes lookin in mine"
-gorgeous taylor swift
3rd person :
paris had been begging her dad, ray, to let her go to a rwe tournament with him for ages. ever since the first tournament both paris' older and younger brother were allowed to go but she wasn't.
"please dad! you always let cam go and and he's 8. why can he go and i can't?" paris questioned her dad for the 3rd time that week.
there was an rwe game game that weekend in chicago and ray, being cam's camera man, was obviously going.
"paris we've been over this so many times i can't let you go." ray argued with his daughter.
"but why? i can bring my camera and get some action shots of the players like i do for siah's games so i'm not doing nothing! she suggested.
"i mean that's not a bad idea but do you know how big the crowds are? i know damn well you don't do well in crowds." he brought up.
"if the crowds are the only issue then i'll be fine. during the games they aren't on the court or on the bench. at the start end of games it's only a few minutes max where the crowd is everywhere." paris told him.
ray stopped and thought for a second. it was only one weekend. 3 days. then she would stop begging every time he would go.
"fine. but only this one time" ray told his daughter.
"thank you!!!" paris cheered.
all that begging had finally payed off.
time skip
the end of that week rolled around real quick as paris prepared for the trip. she made sure she had everything packed the day before the flight to chicago and made sure she did everything her parents asked to guarantee her chance of going.
the first thing they were doing in chicago was the tryouts so when they arrived in the city they headed straight there. they were going to meet up with cam and 2 other players who were in previous rwe teams.
paris was very familiar with cam and basically considered him a second older brother but when it came to the players she didn't know anything about them besides from their names.
when the father daughter duo arrived at the gym where the tryouts were being held they immediately saw cam and went up to him
"hey cam!" paris greeted giving him a hug
"france i didn't know you were coming!" paris rolled her eyes at the nickname that cam had been calling her ever since they met. "whats the camera for?" cam questioned.
"dad said since i've been taking photos of siah and cam's games, that i should do the same for the tryouts, practices and games for the rwe instagram. i mean if that's ok with you." paris explained.
"of course that's ok with me." cam smiled down at the girl.
just then a very tall man with dread locks came up to the three and dapped up cam and ray.
"what's up lavar?" the two said.
the group of four then went to enter the gym. at the entrance a boy with blond curly hair and a pink hoodie on greeted the 3 men of the group. he looked a lot younger than the rest of them probably around paris' age.
"hey, i'm nelson. your ray's daughter right? it's nice to finally meet you," he greeted the her after he had done the same to the rest of the group.
"yeah, i'm paris. it's nice to meet you as well." she smiled.
cam then went on to talk to nelson about the tryouts. as the group walked in paris looked around and saw a lot more people than she thought she would. ray told her that she can get her camera set up and can start taking photos whenever she's ready as he filmed for cam.
"if you need anything just come up to me ok?" ray told paris.
"okay" she responded heading over to one of the benches.
she took her camera bag and backpack off her shoulders and pulled out everything she needed.
during the tryouts she was taking pictures of the different situations that were happening in the gym such as lavar's 1v1 with some kid in dress shoes, the huddles around cam as he spoke to the kids and most importantly action shots of the people trying out.
when paris sat down for a break while cam talked to the next age group of kids nelson came up and sat down beside her.
"how are the photos looking?" he asked trying to spark up a conversation between the two.
"i mean they look ok right now but i'll have to edit them before i can post any." she responded taking a sip of her water.
"do you have any photos of me?" he questioned with a smirk on his face.
paris just nodded in response. "can i see them?" nelson asked causing paris to bring her camera up and scroll through the photos she had taken to find a good one of him.
the series of photos she had shown him were of him when he was doing a 3 man weave with lavar and some other kid. he had jumped and moved the ball in between his legs before lobbing it up for lavar to dunk.
"damn i look so good in that." he cockily commented.
paris just playfully rolled her eyes trying to hold in her laugh as she took her camera back trying to find a few more photos to show him.
"wait i-i didn't mean it like that.." nelson stuttered retracting his comment. "i just meant the photos are very good"
on the other side of the gym there stood ray and cam. cam had spotted at the 2 teenagers on the bench together looking over paris' photos.
"they got along real quick." he commented making ray look over.
he looked at his daughter and smiled.
paris wasn't the type of person to make friends quick. she would normally take a long time to get comfortable around people so her making friends with nelson so quick made ray proud her.
"well i better get back to taking photos." paris commented standing back up with her camera in hand.
"see you around?" she asked nelson.
"oh, yeah for sure!" nelson replied.
time skip
the tryouts were now over, rwe had picked up a total of 7 extra kids to add to the team. as they walked out of the stadium ray started asking his daughter about nelson.
"i saw you talking to nelson." he commented.
"yeah?" paris asked wondering why her dad was bringing this up.
ray then looked at his daughter in a way that said "do you like him?". paris rolled her eyes at her dad's look.
"dad stop!" she laughed "can people not be friends anymore?"
"they can." he responded opening the uber door for the girl. "you two just got on really well."
the ride back to the airbnb was quiet. it was an overwhelming day for paris to say the least. it was her first time experiencing that type on energy but she could only imagine about what the games would be like if this was only the tryouts.
time skip
the next day the rwe team were having a pre tournament practice to get everyone comfortable with playing with each other and get them to understand how everyone else plays.
paris was getting some shots of the drills they were running until nelson shot the ball clearly trying to miss.
"baseline." cam dryly instructed the boys.
"nelson!" they all groaned making paris laugh to herself.
"they ain't serious bro i didn't come here to fuck around," cam said to the camera as the boys lined up on the baseline.
as cam was interrogating the group paris moved from the sideline onto the court so she could get some photos of everyone although she had completely forgotten that the reason the team was even on the baseline was to run.
paris tried to get up quickly but failed and just stayed in her crouched position.
"oh my god paris just got trampled" cam laughed as the camera pointed at the girl. "SORRY PARIS" he yelled to her making her laugh and reply with an "it's ok!"
as all the players ran another drill, cam called over the teenage girl.
"so if you guys didn't know this is paris. shes ray's daughter and she is now the official photographer for rwe" cam spoke to the camera resting his elbow on her shoulder.
paris just smiled at the camera as she listened to cam.
"tell them about yourself." cam told her giving her the floor.
"uhm yeah i'm paris, i just turned 14, ray is my dad and i am the team photographer for this tournament so if the photos turn out horrible... then my bad" paris giggled looking up at cam as he nodded along to her words.
"this is your first tournament yeah?" cam asked her.
"yep i've been begging to come to one since-" she got cut off as a ball came at them.
cam caught it as the duo both looked around to see who threw it.
"sorry!" nelson yelled running across the court to retrieve the ball.
"nelson can you see we're busy?" cam joked.
"may bad, my bad." the boy laughed as he took the ball off cam.
as nelson ran back to continue the drill cam was getting the team to run paris' eyes were locked on him
"as you were saying before we got rudely interrupted," cam singled the girl to continue.
she diverted her attention back to the "interview" but not before sending another glance nelson's way.
tay speaks:
new story 😝
i haven't seen anyone do this idea b4, i've seen a lot of cam's cousin or sister but never ray's daughter so we'll see how it goes!
cam is coming to australia in less than a week so i'm VERY excited even tho ik i won't be able to see him 😓
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