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Warnings (for the entire story): Angst, Fluff, implied guy x guy, maybe a suicide attempt.
FOOTBALL TRY-OUTS: Tuesday 3:00-6:00" said a forgotten flyer blowing in the wind at silent school. A harsh sounding bell rings. High school students come pouring out of all the classes, some rushing off to places unknown most forming groups and chattering with their friends. The discarded flyer lays forgotten and trampled on the ground having served its purpose.
The High school's normally empty football field is now currently being occupied by all the retuning players and all of the hope-full's for both the football team and the cheerleading squad. There are at least three times as many hopefuls this year, coincidence? or are the students testing out the new football coach?
Mr. Scott retired last year after 15 years of coaching the football team. Nobody knows much about this new guy, but try-outs run pretty smoothly anyway. The Regulars participated even though everyone knew they would make the team. By the end of try-outs all the hopefuls left either more confident then ever or completely crushed. The Regulars stayed after to have their first meeting with the new coach.
The new coach a man of 22 by the name of Jim Wilson, or Coach Wilson as he told the team to call him, read off a list of the names of all of the Regular's names. Mitch the team captain was standing next to Coach Wilson ready and waiting to give a short bio on each of the council members.
"Mitchel Levvet" Coach Wilson read off. Mitch raised his tanned hand "That would be me, I'm a senior and the team Captain. Most people call me Mitch. I'm the quarter back on the varsity team." Coach Wilson nodded and shook hands with Mitch before reading the next name "Reed Marasti"
The red headed guy three rows up jumped up and shouted "Reed to the rescue" and began to run around on the bleachers flapping his arms up and down like he was trying to fly. Coach Wilson raised an eyebrow as Mitch began to talk. "That would be Reed he is a junior and one of the two best half backs on the team. He is a jokester usually but he can focus when it's important." Coach Wilson raised an eyebrow as if not believing that last piece of info but moved on to the next name.
"Kevin Torrez" he read off looking back up to see Kevin, the brown haired guy who had been sitting next to Reed leap up and say "Never fear Kevin-man is here!" He began chasing Reed around and they began a mock super hero battle. Coach Wilson looked at Mitch. Mitch smiled and said "Well that would be Kevin-man, he is also a junior and is the second of the two best half backs, no one knows which one of them is better. There both pretty bad separately but together they are scary good." Coach Wilson watched Reed and Kevin as they fake battled for a few seconds before returning to the list of names.
"Elric Winslow" he looked up when he heard someone respond casually with nothing more then "yo." The person Coach Wilson was looking at was a girl he had passed off as one of the Regulars' girlfriends. She had short golden red hair and could quite possibly be passed of as a soft faced guy in a football uniform, but she wasn't in a football uniform now and it was quite obvious she was a girl. Coach Wilson was rather annoyed never before had he heard of a girl on a football team and aside from that Elric was tiny and not built for football and he found the casual way she had responded disrespectful. Mitch stepped in quickly.
"That's Elric she is a sophomore but she has a very short temper. Her parents made her try out for a sport because they thought it would make it so she would get in less fights. She has no work ethic, a bad temper and no school spirit but she is the best player on the team if anything can actually convince her to play. She is an amazing running back." What the hell did I get myself into? Coach Wilson thought to himself. This is the craziest team in the world. There is a GIRL on the team. That's when Coach Wilson noticed one last name on the list.
"James Zimple?" he said looking at the bleachers. The Blonde guy sitting next to Elric raised his hand but didn't say anything. Mitch started explaining again "That's James for you, he is a Sophomore too, he doesn't talk to anyone really. Elric is the only one that can ever get him to join in a conversation. The most the rest of us ever get is the shortest answer he can possibly give and he only gives answers when you ask a direct question directed at him. He is the varsity center, but I think the best thing he is doing for the team right now is being a tranquilizer for Elric." Mitch looked up into the stands, Reed to the rescue! and Kevin-man had stopped their supper hero thing and were now racing each other up and down the stairs. He wished they had all been a bit more serious about this but it was to late now.
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"Hey you guys want to go get some pizza?" Reed says. They are walking through the student parking lot after the council meeting. Reed and Kevin are walking a bit more close to each other then two guys usually do, but then again since when did Kevin and Reed do anything most guys did. Mitch shook his head, "I have to study for the test tomorrow." He climbed into his car only to be stopped by Reed holding the door open and refusing to let him shut it. Kevin said "But Mitch you're ALWAYS studying this or doing some other form of scholarly work, I thought football players where supposed to be stupid."
Mitch sighed, in truth he was jealous of Reed and Kevin they were both so naturally good at everything they didn't study at all and always managed to get better grades on things that Mitch spent hours studying. Even though Kevin and Reed messed around a lot and never seemed to do any school work at all they both somehow had straight A's. They had gotten so good at doing this that they made it look easy. Mitch looked at Kevin. "I have a final tomorrow, not everyone is blessed with you two's Mojo." Mitch had straight A's too but only because he studied twice as much as he needed to.
"Fine then, you guys are coming right Ellie?" Reed said receiving a glare from Elric as he let Mitch shut the door. "I hate being called that." She said as she continued walking. Jay followed her, as always. Kevin circled around them so he was blocking her way "So your coming right?" he said. Elric sighed and said "Only if you guys are paying" She moved around Kevin and began walking again. Reed moved in front of her and blocked her way. "Deal we can even take my car."