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Peter sat on the plastic chairs as he flicked with his hands. It was the championship match and to be honest, he never felt this nervous before. He tried to listen the coach but he couldn't think straight.
"Peter? You better have heard it. I explained a new set to get out of press."
Peter raised his head and nodded.
"Y-yes coach."
"Good. Now go warmup, i will explain it again later on."
Peter got up with all his friends and mumbled to himself as he walkes thro. A hand reached for his back and Peter flinched.
"Hey, you cool bud?"
Scott asked as he adjusted his glasses, he insisted on wearing glasses so they got him a goggle called sports frame. Peter found it cool as shit bu he wouldn't admit it. No way.
"Yeah yeah- just a little nervous you know. "
"Yeah i get it."
Moment they stepped in court, the clapping sounds took over the area. All of the team put their water bottles on the bench and ran to the halfcourt. The team leader countted to 3 and they all yelled out their schools name. The clapping sound continued but it wasn't for them anymore, it was for the rivalary school. Peter blurred out some curse words looking at how tall they were. That man was over 2 meters dude! Alex shook him from his shoulders.
"Don't worry, they don't stand a chance against Colossus! Look at how tall my dude is!"
Peter watched as he miss a dunk.
"Well, uh. We still got Scott."
Peter panned at Alex and his failed attempt at reassuring him. Scott is tall, but not as tall as those guys are. A ranging sound echoed across the court and they all ran to the bench to listen the coach. He explained the same stuff he told in locker room as a reminder, but it was actually not a reminder for Peter, as he hadn't listened.
The starting five was; Scott, Peter, Remy, Colossus and Kurt. Scott was small forward, Peter was point guard, Remy was power forward, Colossus was center and Kurt was shooting guard. What could go wrong? Expect it all went down hill quickly. Colossus got blocked multiple times, Kurt's shoots didn't went in and most importantly Remy got injured at the first quarter. Seriously, what was going on?
Colossus got the rebound of the other team and passed Peter. He went slowly and set the team up to play a game. Kurt took his shoot from 3rd pointer and it went in with a swoosh sound. Score was 42-41 and there were 2 minutes left for the 2nd quarter to end, Peter got changed with Logan. He was panting and cursing underneath his breath.
He looked up at the tribune that was in other side of the bench. He wasn't expecting to see his father on the tribune, watching the match. He rubbed his eyes to see better, now his vision was blured. Great. He told him to not come but he is here, just awesome. Wendy was sitting next to Erik and trying to talk on the phone, she got up and left while scream talking to his boyfriend.
Loud whistles and screams of the coaches filled the court. Scott postered a guy and screams grew even louder. Peter rubbed his temple as the sounds blurred, a headache formed as he heard a buzzing sound go off. Warren shook him out of it and carried him away to the locker room. While Whispering some stuff which Peter couldn't understand. He ignored everyone and went straight to bathroom to wash his face. Sounds grew clear as the cool water splashed in his face.
"Somebody get Peter, we gonna need him in this one."
Peter got out of the toilet and sat next to Hank, whom didn't know how to play basketball. There were an open in staff so he just went in to do some sports, you know have some fun and get your head off of lessons.
"Hey, you cool?"
Hank asked, whispering.
"Yeah, it's just a headache."
Hank turned his attention back to the coach. He yelled at the team about their shitty game play. This day couldn't get any worse. Another buzzing sound went off and the team ran to the court. The starting five, minus Remy plus Warren, got in the court as the game begin.
Things were going smoothly, they took the lead by 2 with Peter's layup in the fastbreak. Coach made some changes but kept Peter in game. Another buzz and the 3rd quarter was over with the score being 66-69, Peter's team on lead.
The starting to 4th quarter was the team without Peter. It gave him a chance to breath, but not for a long time. After Logan made a mistake, coach got mad and dragged Peter on the game unaware of Peter being about to throwup.
Peter made a crossover and get past the defense. He was about to go in for a layup when he felt a headache, his defense pushed him from the back and Peter went straight to the ground. He laid face first on the ground, his hands hiding his face despite no one being able to see his frown on the first place. Referee called a unsportsmanlike foul to the guy who pushed Peter, when he objected the referee he got a technical foul which made him got exported from the game.
Kurt went to his side first when he realised Peter wasn't getting up. Then all of his teammate formed a circle around him. The bench also got up and chaos formed, Logan started throwing hands with the other team while Scott tried to stop him. Peter was still laying down, his headache growing hard. Kurt carried him by putting one arm underneath the boys shoulder and the other hand to under the boys knees. He laid him down to the bench as doctors waiting beside came rushing to look at him. Peter disbanded all of them and said that he was fine and could continue the game. Erik was about to jump off of the tribune to check out his son.
The game was continued by refeeres. Peter was laying down as Logan took his place in the game. There were only 1 minute left for the game to end, coach gave him the keys to the locker room and told him to take a break. Hank checked his tempature, suspecting that it was not just an injury that made him feel this way. He was right, Peter was burning up.
"You should take a break, you're burning up."
Hank said as he helpes Peter get up. Peter checked the score, they were one point back from the other team. Logan took his shot and it didn't went in, fortuneatly Colossus got the rebound and finished with ease. 15 seconds, 1 point ahead. Peter leaned against Hank as he watched the game. The other team took a shot in the last second which went in. They lost. Peter burried his face in his hands as he walked out, grabbing Hank's jersey. He took all his stuff and went out of the locker room before anybody can come in...