Me or Basketball - Danea (miss read books TXT) 📗

Ok mama are we done. Yes. Thankyou. I had just got undone packing my stuff cuzz i just moved to this town. I slipped on my shirt and basketball shorts and walked outside. I grabbed my basketball and strated walking. They had a park so i walked to it. I saw a whole bunch of people there. I saw a hoop that was empty so i walked over to it and started shooting the ball towards the hoop. Then a group of boys came up to me.
John: umm this is our hoop.
Me: oh well im here today and i dont see no names on it so
James: well we always play at this hoop so cane you move
Me: i can but i wont
Luke: you a smart ass
Me: thankyou
James: are you new cuzz we aint seen you around here
Me: yeah
Eddie: well welcome
John: eddie shut yo lame but up
James: well can you move
Me: yeah but can i play
James: no
Me: why you scared a girl gone beat you
James: no
Me: ok than you go first i passed him the ball.
James: john you one my team and eddie and luke yawl on hers.
Me: but yawl only got two players it wont be fair
John: we gone win so it doesnt matter
Me: ok whateves
we started playing and i made every shot. Pass the ball they yelled. I took control of the game and made every hoop. Then the game was over and the score was 15 to 10 and i made all 15 shots.
John: dang gurl you got skills.
James: she cheated
Me: no you just mad cuzz you lost with a girl
James: no im not
Me: are you getting mad
James: no but you are
Me: im perfectly fine
James: look just dont show up on our court again
Me: and if i do
James: something gone happen
Me: i pushed him then he pushed me hard and i fell on the concrete and my knee was scratched up.
Eddie: dang james all she did was push you a little bit
Me: i got up and ran i didnt care if they laughed at me, at the end of the day i may play like a boy but imma girl and a boy aint suppose to put they hands on no girl. I walked to my house.
Mom: oh baby what happened.
Me: i just ran upstaires and closed the door.

I walked down the steps to get a bowl of cereal. Then the door bell rung. I looked out the peep hole. It was James and a lady. i opened the door.
Me: can i help you
Lady: no but james can
James: umm i wanna say im sorry for pushing you it was just i never had anybody beat me especially a girl.
Me: apology excepted
Lad: well thankyou oh and im james mom
Me: oh hi i said
James: well see ya
Me: yeah i said as i closed the door.
I walked back to my cereal and started to eat it. The my mom came downstaries.
Mom: hey who was at the door.
Me: umm it was james and his mom.
Mom: the boy who pushed you and scratched up your preety legs.
Me: mama stop acting wired and go upstaires cuzz imma bout to leave.
Mom: and go were
Me: for a walk
Mom: ok but i dont want you to talk with that james kid hes up to no good.
Me: mom shutup i threw a pillow at her and she walked upstaires.
i grabbed my basketball and was out the door. Then i walked to the court i saw james, luke, john and eddie just sitting on the bench. They called me over. I walked up to them. Umm what yawl want
Them: you wanna play with us
Me: nawl not really
John: well ok he passed the ball to james.
Jame: is you still mad about me pushing you
ME: no its just i dont wanna play
Eddie: why not
Me: cuzz i dont want to and i dont have to i started to walk
Eddie: well me john and luke fonna leave
James: why
Eddie: cuzz i gotta do chores and john and luke wanna eat you comming
James: nawl
They left. i was bouncing the ball up and down until james snatched it away from me. Give it back i said.
James: ok sorry
Me: look i dont mean to yell but me and you right now are not on good terms if you know what i mean
James: yeah but a girl so pretty like you i wish we could get alone
Me: i blushed and took the ball back
James: can we start over
Me: i wish we could
James: what do you mean
Me: i mean if there was a rewind button we could forget what happened but this is reality and in the real life you make a mistake you have to learn from it not just do a rewind and act like aint nothing happened.
James:Yeah you right.
Me: im always right remeber that i said
James: i will try
Me: i gave him a look and started to walk out the court
James: were you going
Me: im going for a walk
James: can i come with you
Me: if you want
We both started to walk and i saw this grassland it was huge. I walked towards it. Wow i said
James: whats so great about a stupid land of grass
Me: its not stupid i said
James: well it is to me
Me: do i care what you think
James: no not really
Me: i laughed.
James: well i dont know about you but im fonna sit down
He sat in the grass and i sat next to him. The wind wiped past my face like a wind storm.
James: so what made you like basketball
Me: well when i was eight my dad died of cancer and the one thing he left me was a basketball, it was so special to me. then one day i decided to shoot it in the hoop and i saw i had a talent.
James: well sorry to here about your dad but yeah you are pretty good but not better than me.
Me: i gave him a look
James: ok you are better than me but you only won cuzz i went easy on you now you remeber that.
Me: i laughed ill try i said.
He shoved me and i fell on the grass. then i pushed him down with me and we tumbled on top of each other until we landed on the other side of the grass. I got up. We both laughed. Then a man came out and yelled get off my lawn you stupid kids. We laughed and ran. We stoped at the end of the street.
James: that was scary
Me: yeah it sure was but the man was all like get off my lawn you stupid kids.
We both kept laughing
Me: i cant breathe i said
James: me either
We started to walk.
James: so you wanna come to my house
Me: no imma bout to go home
James: well before you leave remeber this
He kissed me. i kissed him back and we kept kissing. then i let go of him and walked home. My first kiss i thought.

I woke up at the sound of my mom yelling. I ran down the steps. Mom are you ok.
Mom: oh yeah i was just praticing for my date tonight when he suprises me.
Me: mom your dateing
Mom: oh umm honey you should sit down
Me: no i yelled your just trying to replace dad
Mom: no im not
I ran out the house. I saw luke,john,eddie and james.
James: hey kelly i got some good new
I kept ryunning i didnt have time to talk. I just kept running. Then i saw a sign on the court it said basketball try outs and i took the sign and sat on the bench and read it. Wow i could actually play i thought. I took the sign and ran home. Mom mom i yelled.
Mom: what is it
Me: i just found this sign and you know how much i love basketball and now i can play. look. i handed her the sign
Mom: wait you not mad anymore
Me: no but can i try out please please
Mom; ok steetle down but yes
Me: yes i shouted
I ran outside and jumped for joy until james and his crew walked up to me.
James; what you so exctied about just a mintue ago you was crying water
Me: well im trying out for basketball
James: wow thats good but
Me: but what
James: you cant
Me: why not
James: look you can be my cheerleader
Me: but i dont want to be a cheerleader i wanna ply ball
Eddie: i think you shoulpd your good at it
Me: thanks i walked away.
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It had been 2 weeks and today i was meeting up for the people who tried out for basketball. I went to the Millwalk school and to the gym. I saw all hole bunch of boys and no girls. I walked up to the coach. Hey coach im here.
Coach: oh yes today kelly you play defense
Me: ok i said i was good at defense
Coach:Now everybody take your possesions
I took my posseison. one of the boys through the ball and i ran after it. i took the ball and drippled it to the hoop. score
Coach: whoa stop stop kelly come here
Me: did i do something wrong coach
Coach: no its just your a better defense than jmaes and hes been on this team for years
I smiled.
Then pratice was over. I saw james i walked up to him. hey i kissed him. he moved away. umm james is there something wrong.
James: yeah i dont want you playing basketball