Chapter 4: Payback

It has been about 1 month since André and Jade started dating, and everyone is happy for them, mostly Angelo, but the time is for concentration. The interschool championship in just a weekend away and the tryouts for the team freshmen is underway. Angelo, Mateus and Jade are training the Alcântara rookies against mainly the José Bonifacio students, while André and Kaio are training the soccer team. After the tryouts, Angelo, Mateus and Jade managed to form a team of twelve, the maximum allowed, and André and Kaio could barely make the minimum necessary for girls, as soccer is seen as exclusive for men.

For make things worse for them, one of the girls wasn't able to take on the rigorous training and had a concusion on the kneel. As André and Jade are the two which most pass the time together, Angelo, Kaio and coach Salgado suggest that André trains Jade on how to play soccer, as she is the best option with the time they have. All of them are getting nervous, because of the Alcântara sports record. The school haven't able to won an county championship since 1991, and never had won a state one and not only this. Since 2001, the school had the worst record on the state. So, their objective is simple: won until they get to the finals and then bring to the school a state trophy. Even that all leaders are grat players, the coach know that Angelo and André are far best than the others.

Is now Friday, the day for the first game. The soccer team started first, and the players had put their jerseys. It was red with black stripes with white letters and numbers, which was a motivation of pride for Angelo and André, since their favorite soccer team, Flamengo, bears the same colors. After the introduction of the line ups, who are André, Kaio and a bunch of the players they had trained.

The first half went bad for Alcântara, as André and Kaio was making the maximum of their efforts just to make one goal. When the soccer game ended, Alcântara lost the game by 2x0.

On the locker, where Angelo and Mateus were waiting for their game, all the boys were talking on how to come back.

"Okay, we're off to a bad start here." André said.

"How bad was?" Angelo asks.

"2x0 for them" Answers Kaio.

"Darn it…" says Mateus.

"Come on, we can't give up now! There is still some teams to go." Angelo says, in a effort to raise the boys's morale.

"Yeah! Let's go!" the other boys yells.

Then the next soccer team, the girl's, with Jade on the lead, was the next to play and the first to show results, managing to make a hard, but promising 1x0 for Alcântara. With the two dodgeball teams under his command now, Angelo instructs the female team, as Alcântara girls are more agile than the boys and are a match for Angelo's agility, to go next to test José Bonafacio's players. The girls barely won, mainly because of a José Bonafacio student, who after the girls describe it to Angelo, he identifies as Luisa herself. Then, his suspicions where correct: Luisa and her brother are here, and they want to finish Angelo's pride. He then head for the game.

The players starts now to play as one, with Angelo on the lead, to take on the current the rival's best player, which is Luisa's brother. Mateus manage to take on two of Luisa's brother's escorts and Angelo defends his reputation by taking of four of them, at cost of three Alcântara players. The crowd then becames wild with Angelo's skills as he gets one and Mateus also get one. Then only Luisa's brother remains for José Bonifacio and only three players remain for Alcântara: Angelo, Mateus and a rookie. The Alcântara crowd began to scream Angelo's new nickname, "Ace! Ace!" as then just him and Luisa's brother remains. As both are surrounded at both sides by the defeated Alcântara and José Bonifacio players, Angelo and its rival began to maneuver like mads, making the crowd go nuts. Then, Luisa's brother loses his balance for a moment when the ball almost hits him. Angelo knowing that this is his chance, position himself and gets the winning shot.

All Alcântara students then go the first time since 1991, Alcântara High School had won a county championship dispute against another college. But for Angelo, the biggest victory is see his ex-girlfriend Luisa leave angry with her brother. Then he changes his view to André, who is receiving a hug and a victory kiss from Jade. Then everyone turns their attentions to Angelo, who is receiving praise from everybody, giving a great help against his depression.

Having defeated their greatest rival, the rest of the state championship was played a whole lot easier, ending with Alcântara High School winning the state trophy.

This is the end of the chapter. The next one will be setted more ahead in time, dealing with the characters' adulthood and their meeting with Naruto characters