Chapter 2: Football

A week earlier… "Push up Jack," yelled Mr Hineman, "Don't stand their pissing about, get your arse moving you pillock." Jack groaned, he hated football he wanted to play Rugby or cricket not poofy football. But Jack started running down the pitch all the same, he didn't want to be at the end of one of Hineman's if he could help it, Hineman would make you do 10 laps round the field then 50 press-ups and if you didn't manage to score two tries, runs etc by the end of the match, he would then put you in a lunchtime detention cleaning the toilets or something horrible like that. "Here Will, one two!" Andy yelled across the pitch to Will McGowan, Jacks best friend. Will completely ignored Andy and passes to Jack, he groaned again. "This really is not my day," he muttered but started running with the ball anyway. He passed across to George Hulm the best player in the class but George just passed it back to him. "Jesus Christ," Jack muttered. So he started running up the pitch again, he got right outside the penalty area, he was about to take a shot and then he saw him and his blood ran cold. It was the man him and his family had been trying to avoid for 7 years, the reason why Jack and his family had moved so many times, but now it seemed that his dead fathers past had caught up with them. He stopped running then immediately wished that he hadn't as he felt an immediate rush of the defenders on to him and a pain as stud connected to leg. "Foul!" the rest of his team yelled out. "Foul!" yelled Hineman, "Penalty to 9M,"

"Jack you take, it," George said.

"No, I think I'll pass thanks," Jack replied.

"But no one else wants to take it and to be honest, you have an amazing shot," Chris said.

"Fine then," Jack said as he came up to the penalty spot, feeling like he was about to be shot down if he missed. He looked at the goalkeeper, then looked at the top right hand corner as though he was going to shoot their he took the shot and put it away in the top left hand corner. Everyone cheered, even Hineman. "Cracking shot Jack, amazing!" But Jack did not feel like joining in the celebrations, he was looking for the man. However the man was nowhere to be seen…