It's Not just a Game

Chapter 6: Tryouts

Above is a picture of what Matt would look like, but with a little bit of a different hair style.

A shout out to my best friend for helping me with ideas and making my book cover for me Kylie_Crotteau .

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So, apparently shooting your sister in the face with a paintball gun can get you grounded for a whole month because that is what my mom believes is the time her face will be healed. But, at least she didn't find out I shot Rebecca in the face, twice. During my grounding the guys can come over, but they can't spend the night and I can't go out with them until November 30th. Ugh, this was going to be a long month, but hey basketball tryouts are Friday and I can't wait for this season.

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Now it's Friday and I am so excited for basketball tryouts. I watched the second hand go around the clock, until it hit 12 and the bell rang. I quickly grabbed my backpack and ran to the locker room and threw on my black basketball shorts and blue,"Got Game?" shirt. I slipped on my new blue air Jordan's and ran out of the locker room prepared for this years tryouts.

Everyone started to file out of the locker room and I saw all the new freshy faces and the old senior, juniors and sophomore faces. One stuck out to me that I didn't notice and she wasn't no freshy either. She had really long dirty blond hair that even in a ponytail it was below her shoulder blades. She was taller than me by a couple of inches and a little bit more huskier. I have never seen her be for but she seemed familiar.

"Carter Gray, come over here," Coach Matthews yelled from the other side of the gym.

Oh that is her name, Gray, Gray it sounds familiar, but I still can't remember where it is from.

"E , get over here,"Coach Matthews yelled and I knew why, so we could talk about captains this year, but I didn't know why Carter was over there.

I ran over to coach ready to hear what he wanted to lecture  me on today even on the first practice the season.

"E, this is Carter Gray, she moved here from Bottom prep and will be a captain with you this year," Coach Matthews explained.

Wait whoa she moved here from Bottom prep, why? And she's a captain already, huh she must be good.

"Hi, I'm Carter I'm a junior this year," Carter said.

"Hi, I'm Ehzamai, but people call me E, and if you moved here from Bottom prep didn't we play you last year why haven't I seen you before," I questioned.

"Well, my mom married Marty Heart, so I went to that school after you guys played Bottom prep, but I hated that school, so I transferred over to here," she explained.

"Ok, makes sense and you made the right choice, so welcome to the team," I said as I patted her on the back before running to the center of the gym.

"Hey listen up, all the freshman on the north end wall, sophomores south end, juniors east side, and seniors west side," I said as I watched everyone run to a wall," Carter you get to the wall too, you are only assistant captain, hustle."

After Carter made it to the east side wall I started to talk,"Seniors, juniors and sophomores you all know who I am, but freshman and newbies I am Ehzamai Reed, but you can call me E," I said as I looked at everyones faces," I want to explain that today is learning day so don't worry if you screw anything up, but beware tomorrow starts tryouts and a mistake could cost you," I said to get inside there heads.

"Anyways I am your team captain and I am in charge of practices, my assistant captain is Carter Gray and the varsity Coach is Matthews and jv is Coach Smith," I said while getting a basketball and dribbling between my legs, behind my back, crossover and a bunch of other things," ok did you guys watch what I just did, so you get a basketball and do it yourself, Got it?"