Last match

JASON'S POV:

It was finally our last match, and it was the final that we were going to play again East Tigers.

They were ahead of us in point table so if anything happened today it will not only stop us from taking the cup back to school, but me from having Alice and my scholarship as well.

Alice reminded me of the time when dad had called me and had ordered me to give my phone to his manager.

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"Handover your phone to Mr. Jackson." he ordered in a nonchalant voice in the phone.

"But dad, I need it," I tried to explain. But he cut me off in a simple voice without any emotion in his words.

"You might get it back when you win the tournament, otherwise consider your chance with that girl done."

I started again, "Dad," but he had already hung up.

"You might want to give it to me now, " Mr. Jackson said his face devoid of any emotion. 

I reluctantly placed my phone in his out-stretched hand.

"Uh, What's dad up to now?" I asked him as I saw him putting my phone in his pants pocket.

"He is currently busy with his meeting in California, I had to take care of few matters back here, " he explained to me.

"I wanted to ask, do you know when will he return the phone back?" I consciously asked him as I stood in the school's parking lot and boys were loading their stuff in the bus.

"Maybe after your matches, he wants you to have the admission in yale for national football team, you know that better than me. Anyways, I must be off now you'll have it back when he thinks its best." He said it as a statement in a robotic tone.

I saw him turning around and going to his black car that was parked just in front of the school building.

I rolled my eyes at him.

"Such a great start," I mumbled.

"Hey, let's go Jason. We are all ready to leave now." I heard Blake calling me from the bus as I turned to move to the bus myself.

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I sighed again at my Helplessness I wanted to talk to her when I won the first match. I again wanted to talk to her after we won the third one. I even tried calling her from Blake's phone but my stupid ass did not remember her number accurately.

For the first time the number did not even exist. Then I ended up calling a

Chirologist.

"You will be having something big coming your way," he had said in hilarious kind of voice, when I had tried asking him if he had Alice's phone.

But I figured he did not. I wonder if she is waiting for a call.

"You guys ready?" I asked standing up from the bench I was sitting on in the lockers room.

"Of course, ready to win." Sam said our left tackler and everyone cheered in.

I nodded with determination and switched to my captains mode.

"They are ahead of us by one point but this match will change that. I need you guys on your best today. Understood?" I asked in a high commanding voice of mine.

They all said, 'Yeah' in unison with determination and excitement.

I moved forward and put my hand out for an oath as we always do before our match starts.

Everyone followed the suit and placed their palms over each other,

"We play to win," we all yelled as we let go our palms in air now.

"Let's kill this guys," I said waving my hand in the direction of ground. They all nodded and started to move out as the announcer called out for our team.

"Somerville Falcons here," he screamed in the mick as the crowd went crazy with cheers. It feels amazing to know that people are rooting for you.

Deep down I wished Alice was here. I had asked her to root for me. And I know she will be.

All the players started taking their positions as the opponent team came to stand in their respective spots as well.

The whistle blew and the quarterback of Tiger's took hold of the ball. He hurriedly started marching to the net for the goal.

I saw him moving from right defense to the left. So I started running to him. I could see Blake preparing to take the ball from him. But he again deviated the path he was going to.

I ran to him and took the ball from him with a swift kick and started to run in the opposite direction.

I could see their defenses were strong, so I used his same technique and moved to the opposite lane to take advantage of their less knowledge about my change.

Their quarterback again came my way now trying to take football from me. I saw Jake nodding to me.

I gave him a curt nod and pushed ball towards him just as the quarterback started to come closer to me.

Jake took charge of football and ran to their net. I started running closer to him trying to provide him the defense he needed he was about to kick again when one of their players took ball from him.

He started to turn again to the opposite direction, but Blake came just in time to hit the ball back to me without any notice. I took the ball and hit it to the net.

The goalkeeper jumped to catch the ball, the time for first half started to tick in the final seconds, I stood there with frowned brows.

"I need that goal," I mumbled as I saw the football moving in slow motion into the net.

The bell rung and the football hit the net just a second before that.

"Yes!" I first bumped in air.

"That was a great kick bro," I heard Sam say with a huge grin on his face.

The crowd was yelling our name as the football had hit the net.

We had a lead now so all we need to do is to maintain that lead now.

The whistle blew again after 10 minutes everyone took the positions again.

The game continued and we finally won the game with 2-0, that was a huge win for us.

As the final whistle blew all the players ran to each other in joy celebrating our victory.

"We did it," Blake said bumping his fist with mine.

I gave him a huge grin in return and did our little victory dance as all of us gathered in a circle and did a small rotation in joy.

After receiving the cup I was finally relieved. I was about to move to the

locker room to freshen up when I saw two men coming to me in their coaching attire.

"Mr. Marks?" One of them inquired. I looked at them for a second and it was then when I realized who it was. I could not believe my fate at that moment. But I kept myself from showing my poker face at that moment.

"Yes that would be me." I said offering my hand to them one by one.

"Congratulations on the victory, it was a great game." He said mentioning our game.

I gave him a small grin and nodded.

"Well, we are from Yale as you might have guessed by now, it was great to see you play today and we wish to see you soon with us in our grounds. I hope you will be receiving the acceptance letter soon," he explained with a determine voice.

"That will be a pleasure," I said taking his outstretched hand in me.

They went back to their way after saying their greetings.

I saw their retreating backs and turned to go in the lockers room when I felt slender arms wrapping themselves around my torso.

"That was a good game," a girl's sickly sweet voice said as her breath moved on my neck.

"Fuc*", I muttered under my breath.