Best intentions will never compete with your rival’s car for a high school cheerleader’s affection
Lame Ball
Valentines week
THE REFEREE WHISTLED and took the ball from Biff. Secretly, in his mind where no one could see, Todd executed the most perfect fist pump in the history of fist pumps. At last, his moment had come. That whistle signaled Biff’s sixth foul. He was out of the game. With Tim injured and Chris already fouled out, only Todd remained on the bench to take his place.
Todd had waited all season for this moment. The moment he’d step onto the court and prove to the world, and Bethany, that he was a real man, a star like Biff, a boy worth dating, a man worth dating. Best of all, his moment came on Valentine’s Day. The day for men to declare their love.
That Todd only made it onto the squad when Ben Duffer caught mono and wouldn’t return for the rest of the season, didn’t enter the equation. Todd knew, deep down, that he had the right stuff, even though no-one else could see it.
Five minutes remained in the game, and Todd needed to find his opportunity in those five minutes. An opportunity that eluded him for the next four minutes and fifty seconds as both the opponents and his teammates kept the ball from him. But the Jaguars scored a lay-up with ten…
