Enjoy this chapter! Oh and I promise, from now on the updates will be longer The reason why they've been soo short is because I needed to break the story into small parts to emphasize the character's POVs, which is critical for the fic. Anyway, I hope you guys like it. Don't forget to leave a review!
They say that everybody's good at something. Take me for instance, basketball is my life. To me it is an art form. When I get ready to shoot a basket, I select the perfect shooting angle so as to make sure that the ball goes through the hoop. Swish! Nothing but net! Its kind of like a painter and how he has to choose the perfect hues of orange to create a painting of the sunset. Each time I make the winning basket during a game, the crowd roars, the cheerleaders shriek and it feels like my whole world is on fire. Seeing the ball go through the hoop in the nick of time gives me a sensational feeling, one that I wouldn't give up for the world.
To me basketball meant everything, it was my escape. Escape from my controlling father, my non-existent mother, and hell, even my so-called friends who only cared about popularity. To the outside world, I was living the life that people would only dream of. I had god gifted talent, a nice LARGE trust fund and drop dead gorgeous looks. What more could a guy ask for right? Wrong. Honestly, I would give it all away if someone could promise me true happiness in return. If people ever took the time to look carefully, they would have noticed that it was all a lie. They would have known that I was drowning, drowning into a dismal abyss.
When I was young, I cried. I always asked God, why should everyone else be happy when I'm not? He never answered. When I grew older, I became rebellious. I figured if I couldn't be happy, then neither should anyone else. Yeah I know its kind of selfish of me but I couldn't help it. By the time I became a teenager, all the sadness and anger had dissipated. All I felt was numbness. I built a mental wall around myself. If no one could break through this wall, then no one could cause me pain. That is what I started believing and over the years, that is who I had become. I had forgotten how it felt to be happy. That is, until the day that Haley came into my life...