Right now, I am driving Zane to the basketball court. We were both excited and couldn't wait to see the other getting their butt kicked.

Once we arrived, I realized Em was right! Almost everyone in our grade was there! I started laughing and could not wait.

I parked the car and we made our way to the basketball court. I looked at my watch and it was time to start the game.

"Okay, lets do this thing!" I yelled. I saw Nick in the crowd and grinned at him. He winked and mouthed good luck.

Zane and I walked to the center of the court. Nick threw me the ball and I spun it skillfully on my finger. "Ready?"

"You know it!" Someone blew a whistle from the sidelines.

And just like that, the game started. It was a flurry of movements going back and forth on the court. We were pretty evenly matched but every once in a while one of us would get a step in front of another.

We were both so focused, I jumped at halftime when I heard people yelling and rooting for either one of us. We agreed that we would have five minutes for halftime to catch our breath and get a drink of water.

Nick immediately appeared at my side once I walked over to the side of the court. He gave me a high-five and grinned at me.

"How am I doing?"

"Excellent!" He responded. I took another gulp of my water.

"Hey you want to go get some pizza with the whole gang afterwards?" He suddenly asked. "I'm buying."

"Yeah, sounds great! Do you mind if Em comes? She got a ride here with someone else, but I have to drive her home."

"Cool, if she's okay with that," He said. Suddenly Em was at my side.

"I heard my name, what's going on?"

"Is it okay if you go out to eat pizza with us after the game?"

"Sure!" She said excitedly. Em and me have barely hung out since Zane moved in. She must have been thinking the same thing because she glanced at me with a look that said it all.

All of a sudden there was a hand on my shoulder and I turned around to see Zane smirking at me. "Ready to get your butt kicked?"

"Whoa there, last time I checked, I was two points ahead of you Zane." I teased.

"You're not going to be able to say that for long!" He responded. I stuck my tongue out at him. Hey, I never said I was mature!

We walked back to the court and got ready to continue the game. Someone blew a whistle and I stole the ball and started dribbling it through my legs. Right when he reached for the ball I faked left and sprinted toward the basket. I threw the basketball up with all my might but it hit the backboard and bounced off the rim. He caught the rebound and started to fake me out but then I realized what he was doing and got the ball. I started dribbling to soon have it stolen from me.

I paused for a moment and remembered that there is people watching the game and were yelling and screaming at us. I normally block this out when I am playing. I heard Nick screaming for me and realized that I was just standing there frozen in place.

I immediately launched into action, but luckily for me I was just in time to block Zane from getting a basket.

We only had two minutes left, and right now we were tied. We were both sweating, and you could tell we were slowing down.

Before I knew it, there was twenty seconds in the game, we both had gained a point on each other, and are still tied. I heard people in the crowd starting to count down the seconds.

We both were hit by a sudden wave of energy and were sprinting back and forth from basket to basket.

"5!" I heard the crowd count. I grabbed the ball and dribbled it through my legs and toward the basket.

"4!" He stole the ball from me and attempted to dribble toward his basket.

"3!" I blocked his basket and took the ball. I ran across to my basket.

"2!" I thrust the basketball toward the basket.

"1!" I heard the ball flying through the air and it got closer, closer, and…

It bounced off the rim.

"0!" Since I am so graceful and everything, I tripped and fell right as everyone shouted for the game to be over.

A hand burst out of nowhere and helped me up. I saw it was Nick.

"Good job!" I looked at the scoreboard. It was tied. I groaned. This is just like in dumb movies when there are the two main characters both won because the stupid director cannot come up with something more creative.

"Where is Zane?" I asked. I wanted to see whether he was willing to admit that he was not better than me at basketball.

"Um I think somewhere over there," He said and pointed to the fence. Zane was talking to James right in front of the fence. He was looking down and muttering something. I walked over to them and snuck up behind them. I put my hands over his eyes.

"Guess who you just didn't win to?" I laughed.

I took my hands off his eyes and he turned around. "You didn't win either!"

"But this means you're not better than me!"

"That may be true, but I will totally dominate tomorrow when we have a wrestling match!"

I laughed. "Yeah right! You wish you could believe that! And I would have won completely if I didn't go easy on you…"

He rolled his eyes. "Sure, whatever. So when are we driving home?"

"Me and Em are going to go out to eat pizza with Nick and the guys. You coming?"

"Sure," he responded.

"Well come on then!"

"Em! We're leaving now!" I yelled across the court.

"Coming!" She yelled back. She joined us and we started walking toward the car when I saw something stuck in one of the seats on the bleachers.

It was a piece of paper, similar to the two others I have seen earlier. Y. It was a the letter Y. This is really strange… I thought to myself. I shoved it down my pocket and ran to catch up with Em and Zane.

What are all these mysterious pieced of paper? Keep reading!