Crenshaw high, LA 📍
October 29th 2015
Monica Wright
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"Yo I swear basketball tryouts was crazy this year, luckily the best sharpshooters made the cuts." I said to my friend messiah as we bumped hips and shared a laugh about my comment.
"No for real tho, our team sucked bad last year." Messiah spoke on a more serious note, I mean it was true too, we didn't even make it to play offs. I shook my head even thinking about it.
"That was last year it's all about taking that shit all the way this year." I spoke as we entered the locker room with the other female players.
"all right y'all, a lot of y'all familiar with how our scrimmages go and some of y'all don't so for this brief 15 minutes instead of being in the gym practicing we're gonna be focusing on y'all defensive plays on this play book here." Our head Coach Ms Smith spoke to everyone making sure her eyes connected with everyone else's as she received nods and yes maams.
"Y'all had a problem with getting down the court and stopping all kind of offensive plays from the opposing team and i wanna see a change in that." she continued.
"hell we ain't gonna go over shit if she keep talking." this white girl named Chelsea murmured earning a glare from Ms Smith.
"chels another word and you're done before the season even starts." Coach smith gave her a hard stare before turning away and continued on what she was saying.
"Yo you wanna go check out the other team? see what our comp looking like?" messiah nudged me gaining my attention.
i tooted my lips to the side because i knew she didn't wanna just go see if we had "comp" she wanted to check out the girls looks, not in a sexual way of course it was just Messiah was definitely a player and she didn't mind if the attention came from a guy or girl she just loved it all.
"yea but we gotta make it quick, coach notice we left she gonna be on our ass. probably'll bench us for the game and ian being benched for no scrim." i shook my head.
"come on then." she motioned for me to follow her, i looked up at coach who was focused on going over the plays before taking giant steps towards the door before sprinting out.
"she definitely saw me." i said straightening my step as we passed by our athletic trainer.
"shut up, no she didn't." Messiah said but soon stopped in her tracks as we saw the other team coming in.
our faces both scrunched as we viewed the cheer leading squad coming in after, cheer leaders don't come to scrimmages so we were confused.
"yo bro you see what i see?" i was too stunned to reply back, i was staring indefinitely at this one cheer leader.
we made a brief eye contact before she looked away with a smile as she laughed with her cheer friends.
"Well what do we have here young ladies?" Our head coach walked up to us shaking her head.
"this is like a every game thing with y'all, it's the same people from last year just a couple more rooks what is it that y'all are looking for?"
