Falling from Grace
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A/N: So this was originally called Falling Too Far From the Tree, but after some revising, I thought this was better. Enjoy. Please Review!
"My daughter Ally," he started, then holding a hand up as he collected his thoughts and himself. "My daughter Ally loved basketball, and she loved life. Basketball was a major part of Ally's life as it was mine. Many of you can say she was born with a basketball in her hands," Nathan stopped and looked out over the crowd of mourners and supporters seated on the floor before him. He looked over at his wife Haley and son James who was now almost 20. "Many of you might not have known this but before Ally was born, my wife Haley and I were going through a rough patch in our marriage; Ally saved our marriage and helped to bring our family back together."
"Ally must have been almost 2 when she toddled into the living room with my old basketball in her chubby little hands;" Nathan continued smiling as he remembered. "I was watching Saturday morning cartoons with my son Jamie; she looked at me with her big blue eyes and said, Dada what this do? I looked over at Jamie and grinned as I lifted her into my lap and told her, this Allison Peyton Scott is a basketball, it makes Daddy happy, as do you and Jamie, and Mommy. She looked up at me and hugged that basketball as she gave me the biggest grin I had ever seen. After that, you rarely saw her without a basketball. When Ally was getting ready to start high school; my brother Lucas and I along with Skills Taylor decided to start a girls' basketball team at Tree Hill High, our alma mater and where we currently are the head coaches of the Ravens' basketball teams. Ally and her friends proved that they could be just as good as the varsity boys team if not better. Ally had dreams to play for UNC then to get picked up by the WNBA…" Nathan wet his lips and took a drink from the water bottle next to the podium. "When we found out that Ally had an advanced case of a rare terminal illness, our worlds were torn apart. She loved the game so much that she played through the pain and never let on that she was hurting. When we found out that our daughter and baby girl would not live to see her sixteenth birthday, we as a family sat down together and asked her what she wanted to do; Ally said she wanted to play basketball. The Allison Scott Basketball fund is a charity that will give youth who want to play the game, the opportunity and chance to do so and to excel."
He held his hand out to his wife needing her support and strength, Haley and Jamie joined his at his sides.
"So little sister, here is one of your dreams coming true…" Jamie said casting his eyes to his sister's portrait on the stage where they stood, the raven-haired teen forever smiling in the picture.
Ally awoke with a start gasping for breath.
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