Chapter 2: Raven's material
"I should have gotten a student to do this" Whitey cursed to himself while he was trying to put up posters that said their would be basketball tryout's at the gym after school. When a poster yet again flew out of his hands, he was about to start a cursing frenzy when something caught his attention on the parking lot.
When he directed his full attention at the parking lot, he saw a black Mercedes had just parked. "If that's Dan Scott again complaining about Nathan's playing time I'm going to strangle him", he couldn't help but smile at the thought of him strangling Dan. He was surprised to see a 6.10 tall young man get out of the car. He checked five times if his door was locked before walking towards where Whitey was standing.
"Excuse me young man" Whitey said, "Are you new to the school?" The young man shyly nodded yes. "Well my name's Coach Durham and I'm of coach the basketball team here." He was glad to see the young man's face lighten up when he mentioned basketball. "Have you ever played basketball son?" Whitey asked. "Yes sir, I've played most of my life, but not in America, I'm an exchange student" replied the young man politely. "Where are you from?" Whitey asked intrigued. "I'm from Holland, sir".
"First off all stop with the sir crap, everybody call's me Whitey or if they want something coach Durham, what position did you play and what where your numbers?" "I've always played center, averaged about 17 points, 13 rebounds and 3 blocks, sir, I mean Whitey." "I'm having tryouts for the team after school, if you're interested you should stop by." As Whitey gave him one of his poster's.
"I will, thanks Whitey" the young man turned away and started walking down the hallway while he was looking at the poster.
His attention from the poster stopped when he felt something bump against him. As he looked away he saw that he had bumped against a girl causing for her to drop all of her stuff on the ground.
"Oh, I'm so sorry!" As he helped the girl pick up everything of the floor. When he had grabbed some stuff together he looked up, only to look straight in the girls sparkling green eyes. For a moment his mind stopped, his heart stopped, every muscle in his body was paralyzed. He awoke from his trance when the girl started talking to him. "That's all right, everything's still intact. So are you new to the school? I've never seen you around here." He had to think about what he was going to say, he had never been good talking with girls especially when they where as beautiful as she was. "Uhm, yeah. Actually I'm new to the country." She looked at him with a puzzled look. "I'm an exchange student. I'm Dutch."
When he looked better at her he just got more nervous, even thought she was just wearing a leather jacket, a pair of jeans and a shirt of some band he didn't knew, to him she was just the most beautiful girl he had ever seen. "Well if you're new here you need to get to know some people, I'm Peyton." she said joyfully as she put her hand out. "Bart, nice to meet you Peyton." As he shook her hand and felt his face turn red. Peyton saw this and thought to herself how a guy his size could be so shy.
"So are you trying out for the basketball team" Peyton said pointing at the poster in his hand. "Yes I am, I used to play back home and thought it would be fun to play here too." Bart replied as he felt that he was starting to get his nerves under control. "Great, then we are going to see a lot of each other, I'm a cheerleader, but anyway I've got to go, I have a class in three minutes, it was nice meeting you and I'll see you at the gym, bye Bart!" "Uhm bye Peyton!"
As he just stood there watching Peyton walk away, he realized that he had to be at the principal's office 5 minutes ago.
