4 Sweet Akua

One day after school the kids around and I started a football game. Desmond the geekiest person accidentally tackled Steve and Steve was nice in every sport. Everyone laughed at him and he was pissed. I was the quarterback so my skills came into play. Every time I threw the ball they would catch it. Shawn started to have money signs in his eyes and I got scared.

He asks me if I wanted to play for his team and I said no right away. I ran away from him and accidentally tripped and fell face-first into a puddle of mud. I experienced mud tasting for the first time, so I immediately ran home to take a shower. The person I didn't want to see-saw me right when I opened the door to the house, Opal busted out laughing causing me to be more embarrassed.

When I was done showing I headed to bed tired. Nothing really happened for the rest of the months till the end of November when tryouts for the middle school basketball team. I was so excited and met a lot of people there. During tryouts they made us run suicides to see if we can last long on the court during games which with my endurance skill it was a walk in the park for me.

Then they tested us on our passes which I was ok in it since I played the point in my previous life and was more of a passer than a scorer. Next was shooting which I dominated since I couldn't miss a single shot even when I tried to miss. After training my strength these past weeks I was able to shoot from almost everywhere. Everyone, there was shocked a middle schooler could score like that. Coach automatically told me I'm starting for him as a point guard and I told him I'll play shooting guard or play for a different team.

He got scared and said, \"that's ok you can play any position you want\". He asked me if I wanted to be the captain and I said no thank you. I don't need that stress of setting up plays because all I want to do is shoot the ball. We finished the try out successfully and I went home to tell my family the good news. My sister Opal didn't care much and my mother just smiled and said a good job.

It seemed like they still didn't take me all that serious which I didn't mind time will tell when I prove them wrong. I wish I had a system so I could get it to do my homework because I had a lot to do that night. The next day after school we had our first team practice. The coach was called K, the point guard was Darrel, me at the shooting guard, Tom was small forward, Hack was a power forward and Momba was our center.

Our team was called Bob Cats which I thought was pretty lame but what can I do about it. We had a bench but I honestly couldn't remember their names so I called them by numbers 1 for pg, 2 for sg and so on hopefully you get the point. Coach K had us play a game against the bench to see how well we play together. We started the game with momba winning the jump ball and passing it to Darrel to run the point.

Tom gets the inbound and passes to me instead of Darrel because of the dumb play he had just made. I dribble to the half court and just take the shot from there because no one was near me and I make it. The whole gym got shocked even Coach K was smiling like SpongeBob at this point. I tell Darrel to pass it to me next time I ask for it or when I'm open and he simply said: \"yes sir\".

After telling Darrel off we start to get into a smooth rotation of score and defend. Momba was good at defending and scoring in the post due to his height sitting at 6'4 the tallest person I've seen since coming back to this time. #2 started defending me hard even from the half-court line because I made a couple more shots from there.

We won the game by a landslide thanks to my shots and the bench team didn't even look down but got excited at the thought of being on the same team as me and winning the cup for the season. Coach K called me over after the game and asked me if I wanted to replace anyone from the starting line up with the bench and I told him lets have our first game and see first how the starters will do before making that decision and told him to get ready for this season because all we gonna do is win-win-win.

When I got home from practice I went to do my homework and eat and then went to hang out with John. As I'm walking to John's house a girl called Akua comes out of her house. I was in love with this girl from West Africa. Even now as a ten-year-old she was still a beauty. She is totally a ten out of ten from my previous life and always wanted to get with her. I immediately stop to have a quick chat with her.

\"Hi Akua you looking mighty fine today in your skirt\", she gets surprised because I've never been this bold around her so she says \"oh you are not going to run off today after seeing me\". I laugh it off because the former me was shy and would always run as fast as I can when I saw her.

I responded back \"no I'm not the same person from yesterday\" I teased with a smile causing her to immediately bust out laughing saying \"how cute but I don't date boys around my age\" I immediately cut her off saying \"you date ??? but your only ten who could you be dating\". She then says \"the great and sexiest man to walk this Earth Jesus of the Christ\".

My face sinks and I laugh and say\" I guess I still have a chance since he's no longer on this Earth and isn't he a little too old for you unless you like sugar daddy's like that\". She laughs and says \"she will see me later\" and I leave happy because I was able to impress her today, unlike my old self that was a loser to her even until high school.

When I got to John's place we played some Dreamcast and left for the court to play some ball. When we got there it was crowed with some grown men playing games. We asked for a game to play and they said they just started so we can split up and join them. We started playing and they didn't want to pass it to me since they thought I couldn't play so the person watching me just left me alone most of the time outside the 3pt line.

After going back and forth they finally decided to pass it to me and I made the shot and they thought I got lucky but when they did it the second time and I made it win the game they all cheered as they couldn't believe a ten year could make such an outside shot. One old guy said I should join their league and I told him I'm part of my middle school team already and then one of them said he has a granddaughter if I'm interested I almost choked and said dude I don't even have hair down there yet.

He laughed and said \"just saying you might end up in the NBA and I miss my chance to join your family for a free meal\", I shook my head and left them to go home. After a few weeks of practicing with the team, we have a practice match with a nearby school the sharks who have a key player Kon who is a center. We start the game Kon wins the jump ball and passes to their pg.

Kon gets in the post and gets the ball back and quickly makes work and tricks Momba into jumping and steps to the sides to make a layup. Darrel starts the run on our site and quickly gives it to me and I see it in Momba's eyes that he wants revenge so I pass it to him in the post and he quickly jerks and does a step back and makes the mid-range shot to tie it up.

By half time they were up by 4 points. It's practically Momba vs Kon because they keep going back and forth with each other in points. Bill is annoyed by this point and asks me when I'm going to actually score some points. I tell him in the final minutes as an icing on the cake. The score was 56 to 62 with 2 minutes left of the game we were losing so I told Darrel to give me the ball from now on because Momba and the others were tired and out of breath.

I quickly receive the ball and take a step back three to bring us behind by 3. The sharks were a little shocked because they didn't see me score the whole game and the first shot I took went in. The coach immediately told the team to double me. There was only a minute left and they had the ball but lucky for me they were all tired so they weren't paying attention and the pg tried to pass it to Kon but I read it and intercepted it and ran off and stopped at the three-point line and made the shot to tie it up with 20 seconds left.

They quickly made a run and Kon made a dunk over Momba to get the lead up by two they started to celebrate because there were only 2 seconds left I told momba to inbound the ball to me and let me take the shot. They didn't even bother playing defense because I was on the other side of the court so as soon as I got the ball I turned around and threw the ball as hard as I could.

The bell sounded for the game over and the sharks started hugging each other until they heard the net making noise and the scoreboard changed. The place erupted with cheers and everyone came running to me because I made that shot to win the game for us. The sharks were feeling all kinds of emotions at this point and some were even crying, I laughed at this scene and shook my head.