The boys are in the huddle, their sweating. The scoreboard on the left
showed that U of A was down by one point with about 12 seconds left to go!
"Alright! Who here is scared!" The coach bellowed looking around at his boys. "Because if you are than you sit your ass in this bench!" When he got no reply he drew up the play. "Where gonna go with Aidan, Shawn, Julius, Carl...and Chris!"
Chris, who was sitting on the bench looked up in concern. "What?!"
"Shut the hell up, son and get your ass on the damn court!" The coach yelled. "God damn it why does those scouts keep sending me idiots!"
Chris walked up towards the court and saw Riley two feet away from him. He smiled and winked at her and she winks back before cheering with the rest of her fellow cheerleaders.
Announcer looked at the lineup puzzled. "Here we go, after the quick full time out by the coach the team is back, but is it a wise choice to play a cold Chris Parker, in this crucial 12 seconds of play?"
Julius pulled Chris to the side. "Listen, they're gonna be gunning for Aidan so if you have the rock in your hands and your open, you better shoot."
Chris nodded. That's exactly what he had plan!
Just than one of Angel Copse's players bumped Chris on purpose hoping to get him ejected.
But he kept his cool. 'What's his problem?"
"Shawn Carter is having a tough time in bounding but he manages to find Carl Smith out top. We're under 10 seconds now. Smith dumps it down to Aidan Miles, and he's quickly double teamed, but he doesn't care! He pulls the trigger for a 7-footer. It kicks off the heel of the rim! His brother Julius, though with an offensive rebound, with under 8 seconds on the clock! They have to hurry!" The Announcer exasperated.
Julius being heavily pressured by one of Angel Copse's forward was trying to pass it to his older brother but he like he predicted he was being doubled-teamed , he pump fakes and tosses it out to Chris open on the wing.
The Announcer jumped out of his seat and grabbed the mic. "Here we go U of A is gonna win or lose it right now!
The atmosphere went dead, time seemed to cease. Everybody was on their feet. The first thing that stopped the silence was the sound of the buzzer. Than it was the echo of a swiss of a basket. Followed by a thunderous roar of cheers and applauses!
"Unbelievable! The unknown basketball player from Queens has started for the first time and boy did he ever finish it!" The Announcer praised.
Julius ran over and ruffled Chris' now finally blonde hair! "Now I told you my boy had game!"
All ten players came over and practical mobbed him, while Chris just stood their accepting high fives and basking in the glory. But to the corner Aidan just looked on disappointingly and sighed. He didn't know if it was because he felt guilty that Chris didn't know about his mother or the fact that Chris' totally hot sister showed up, but he was accepting this a whole lot better than he thought he would.
Aidan walked over and gave Chris a pat on the back and smiled.
Chris and Julius are wearing their normal clothes now and are walking towards the car.
"Dude, I told you all you needed was some playing time. Now coach is gonna have to play you even if Cooper gets out of medical attention." Julius supposed.
Chris just looked down, he never thought of that, he came here to get an education not steal somebody's position on the basketball team.
When Jesse spotted them she waved. "You were awesome!" Jesse than turned to Julius and frowned a little. "Oh you were okay too."
Julius just gave her a sarcastic thumbs up.
"Hey C. Isn't that your girl?" Julius asked when he saw Riley walking with some friends.
Chris turned around quickly at the mention of her name. "Hell, yeah!"
Julius just groaned. How long was his friend gonna be under this love spell! It's been three days!
"This makes me sick."
Jesse poked him in the ribs. "Come on I think it's sweet."
"And kind of obsessive!"
Jesse smacks him upside the head. "You wouldn't know love if it hit you smack dab in the middle of your forehead!"
"Your 16 years old, what would you know about it!" Julius spurred.
"I've watched flicks!"
Julius just snorted. "There's a difference between real life, and what happens in the magical box in our living room."
"Magical box in our living room? Well it seems your vocabulary hasn't change much over the past 11 years." Jesse said self-righteously.
"You know what? Now I remember you, your that four year old carrot top that sicked Chris' mom at me!" Julius accused.
Jesse gasped before look fiercely at him. "Well maybe if you hadn't wrote, 'All girls have cooties on my favorite backpack!"
"Guys!" Chris yelled as he had heard enough of their bickering. "Y'all need to check yourself in public, it's embarrassing!"
"She started it." Julius murmured getting into the car with Jesse.
Chris got into the driver's seat and started up the engine. "I swear, it's like you guys like each other, or something!" He than drove away.
"Be careful with that?!" Jesse screamed in horror. They boys were unloading all of her stuff from the car into the house.
Julius slammed the big heavy box onto the bed. "Was that your weight set?"
"No."
"Than what was it!?!" Julius barked as he looked at the side labeled 'shoes.' He than got up grumbling curse words as he sat himself off the corner.
Chris walked in with three boxes in his arms. "Okay, you know the arrangement right, mom said you can live here, until the end of the school year, than it's back to Miami."
"Of course, beside I have the sun, cute boys, and peace of mind. I'm not giving that up for you!" Jesse giggled when Chris' smile faltered.
There was a soft knock on the door and Aidan popped out from behind the door frame. "Hey."
Chris groaned. "What do you want, man? If it's about tonight forget it you weren't open, I made the shot so get over it you big baby!"
"Actually, I came here to apologies for what I said the other day." Aidan alleged.
"Oh, well that's okay." Chris said confused.
As Aidan left Julius just looked up baffled. "It just me or did he turn into a total wuss every since yesterday?"
"Yeah he does, what do you think change?"
After a few minutes of hard thinking Julius than started to nod off to Jesse, who wasn't paying attention. Chris turned to his sister and than back at Julius, horrified. He gets it.
"JESSE!" Chris screeched.
"What?!" She asked annoyed.
"Stay the hell away from, Aidan. I mean it!" Chris yelled protectively.
Back at U of A one of Angel Copse's players are still there in the locker room, it was the one who bumped Chris earlier. He gets up and paces before throwing his empty soda can at a mirror causing it to break. It wasn't fair, he had the victory in the palm of his hands, he had scored 26 points! Those steroids had been working perfectly for him, his movement was quicker and his strength was more superior than before, but he still lost because of that damn Parker kid!
"Oh come now Paul, it wasn't that bad!" A cruel laughter soon followed after.
Paul sunk to the ground in fear and looked around in panic. "Leave me alone! Whoever you are please just leave me alone!"
"I can feel your anger Paul. I can help you, just.....let me in."
At first Paul looks panicked he back away from the locker sweating like crazy. Than he stopped and looked down to recover his breath, shaking the entire way. Than his shaking ceased and his breaths returned to normal. But when he looked up he had this wicked smirk on his face, his eyes were dilated just than a sinister, yet it would be familiar to Peter Parker, laugh filled the air.
A young woman barely 17 was outside of a her balcony screaming for help. She didn't know how it started but her whole apartment was consumed in a scorching inferno! The firemen were about trying to find a way to enter the building but the flames had reached the ground floor, making it almost impossible for entrance.
"Ah!" The young woman screamed when the balcony's foundation crumbled and splintered causing her to fall off the building!
"She's not gonna make it!" The Chief yelled.
Shooting a string of web to a close by skyscraper Chris swung across the city and make a daring catch to get the woman to safety three feet before she hit the ground.
"Woo Hoo!" The crowd cheered.
The woman smiled at him, happily. "Thank you!"
Landing spider-man dropped her off. "No problem, but who started that fire?"
"I don't know all I saw was a figure in green flying off in a metal hover board." She than looked at her watch. "It's 2:30 and I'm late for a doctor's appointment!"
Chris looked at her horrified. "2:30! I'm late for practice!" He jumped up a building and crawled up to the top before diving to the next construction.
As he flew into the air he couldn't help but wonder what the woman had told him. 'A green figure on a hover board? Either there's a new nut in a costume running around or Static Shock got himself a new costume!' Chris thought before landing at U of A.
"Your late!" The coach bellowed. "Normally I wouldn't care but now that your actually worth something, your gonna hit the weight room four times a week now!" He whistled and motioned him to sit on the bench, next to Julius.
Chris sat down and turned to his friend. "Listen-
Julius put his hand in his face. "Don't have to explain, I'll probably see it on the 6 o clock news anyway."
Chris chuckled. "Listen, there was a fire and a woman I saved told me a some nutcase wearing green and flying a hover board is behind it!"
"Either it's Johnny Quest or the Blob." Julius recommended. "But seriously you can't flake out on the team any more, especially since your a starter now."
Chris just exhaled. "So I gotta pick between letting down my teammates and letting down the city? Man, just once I would love the hardest decision I have to make is whether to eat Cocoa Puffs or Corn Flakes!"
"Corn Flakes is good for your health, but Cocoa Puffs make you go cuckoo!"
"So is your brother still trying to get with my sister?" Chris asked curiously.
Julius shrugged. "Why don't you see it for yourself." Julius said pointing on the court.
Aidan went up for a lay-up but it got blocked by the center, that was funny usually he would do something acrobatic to get it inside the rim in situations like that.
'That's it! I'm taking my tennis shoes off!' Chris thought still fuming.
In a the gym of Angel Copse, Paul is running up and down the court grabbing boards, boxing people out, banging the paint for his lay-ups, and not even thinking twice before pulling the trigger.
"Alright come on now Paul, pass the ball you have four other people on the court with you!" His coach yelled.
Paul jumped on of his opponents backs to fight him for the rebound. "I don't need them!"
The coach blew his whistle. "That's a foul, Paul you can't do that."
"No I'm sick of you! Your too soft to train this team! We would have won at U of A if it wasn't for you!" Angered Paul walked away. 'That's right, he's just like everybody else. He's trying to hold you back, but you don't need them!' The voice in his head hissed.
Chris was currently drawing a picture of a lady that he often drew from time to time. He didn't know why but when he caught the artistic bug, he always drew her. Her face was hidden behind a partial black mask, which matched the rest of her outfit. A skintight black number lined with white fur around the hem of her gloves and white boots, and lining the very deep V-neckline that exposed tan skin all the way to just above her navel.
Julius walked over to him quietly and looked over his shoulder. "Who's the hot chick, in tights!"
Chris was shocked and broke his pencil. "Look what you made me do!"
"Hey, I was just asking!" Julius than he repeated his question. "Who's the hot chick, in tights!"
"I don't know, but I like to draw her." He than looked at his pencil. "Oh man, now I can't finish it!"
"Don't worry Aidan has like fifty of them in his room." Julius suggested.
So Chris stood up and walked down the hallway he opened the room and noticed nobody was in so he opened one of the draws and grabbed a pencil, but not before he noticed a letter addressed 'Chris Parker.'
He took and read the address. "I thought the postal people lost my letter! Why did Aidan take it!?!"
Just than Aidan walked in and looked sad when he saw Chris with the letter. "Trust me, man that letter is nothing but bad news."
Turning around Chris looked at him angrily. "I had a right to privacy, you know!"
"Fine go ahead read it, its been eating at me anyway." Aidan persuaded.
Chris read the letter quickly before dropping it in shock.
"Hey, Yo C! Did you find the pencil?" Julius walked in and noticed Chris' face. "What's the matter, buddy?"
Next time:
For Chris it's getting over the fact that the woman he thought was a great mother was really a lying stranger, for Jesse it's about dealing with the truth that her father was unfaithful to her mother. But elsewhere Paul has finally broken the concrete wall between his sanity and his true powers! Can Riley snap Chris back into reality before innocent people get hurt?
"Alright! Who here is scared!" The coach bellowed looking around at his boys. "Because if you are than you sit your ass in this bench!" When he got no reply he drew up the play. "Where gonna go with Aidan, Shawn, Julius, Carl...and Chris!"
Chris, who was sitting on the bench looked up in concern. "What?!"
"Shut the hell up, son and get your ass on the damn court!" The coach yelled. "God damn it why does those scouts keep sending me idiots!"
Chris walked up towards the court and saw Riley two feet away from him. He smiled and winked at her and she winks back before cheering with the rest of her fellow cheerleaders.
Announcer looked at the lineup puzzled. "Here we go, after the quick full time out by the coach the team is back, but is it a wise choice to play a cold Chris Parker, in this crucial 12 seconds of play?"
Julius pulled Chris to the side. "Listen, they're gonna be gunning for Aidan so if you have the rock in your hands and your open, you better shoot."
Chris nodded. That's exactly what he had plan!
Just than one of Angel Copse's players bumped Chris on purpose hoping to get him ejected.
But he kept his cool. 'What's his problem?"
"Shawn Carter is having a tough time in bounding but he manages to find Carl Smith out top. We're under 10 seconds now. Smith dumps it down to Aidan Miles, and he's quickly double teamed, but he doesn't care! He pulls the trigger for a 7-footer. It kicks off the heel of the rim! His brother Julius, though with an offensive rebound, with under 8 seconds on the clock! They have to hurry!" The Announcer exasperated.
Julius being heavily pressured by one of Angel Copse's forward was trying to pass it to his older brother but he like he predicted he was being doubled-teamed , he pump fakes and tosses it out to Chris open on the wing.
The Announcer jumped out of his seat and grabbed the mic. "Here we go U of A is gonna win or lose it right now!
The atmosphere went dead, time seemed to cease. Everybody was on their feet. The first thing that stopped the silence was the sound of the buzzer. Than it was the echo of a swiss of a basket. Followed by a thunderous roar of cheers and applauses!
"Unbelievable! The unknown basketball player from Queens has started for the first time and boy did he ever finish it!" The Announcer praised.
Julius ran over and ruffled Chris' now finally blonde hair! "Now I told you my boy had game!"
All ten players came over and practical mobbed him, while Chris just stood their accepting high fives and basking in the glory. But to the corner Aidan just looked on disappointingly and sighed. He didn't know if it was because he felt guilty that Chris didn't know about his mother or the fact that Chris' totally hot sister showed up, but he was accepting this a whole lot better than he thought he would.
Aidan walked over and gave Chris a pat on the back and smiled.
Chris and Julius are wearing their normal clothes now and are walking towards the car.
"Dude, I told you all you needed was some playing time. Now coach is gonna have to play you even if Cooper gets out of medical attention." Julius supposed.
Chris just looked down, he never thought of that, he came here to get an education not steal somebody's position on the basketball team.
When Jesse spotted them she waved. "You were awesome!" Jesse than turned to Julius and frowned a little. "Oh you were okay too."
Julius just gave her a sarcastic thumbs up.
"Hey C. Isn't that your girl?" Julius asked when he saw Riley walking with some friends.
Chris turned around quickly at the mention of her name. "Hell, yeah!"
Julius just groaned. How long was his friend gonna be under this love spell! It's been three days!
"This makes me sick."
Jesse poked him in the ribs. "Come on I think it's sweet."
"And kind of obsessive!"
Jesse smacks him upside the head. "You wouldn't know love if it hit you smack dab in the middle of your forehead!"
"Your 16 years old, what would you know about it!" Julius spurred.
"I've watched flicks!"
Julius just snorted. "There's a difference between real life, and what happens in the magical box in our living room."
"Magical box in our living room? Well it seems your vocabulary hasn't change much over the past 11 years." Jesse said self-righteously.
"You know what? Now I remember you, your that four year old carrot top that sicked Chris' mom at me!" Julius accused.
Jesse gasped before look fiercely at him. "Well maybe if you hadn't wrote, 'All girls have cooties on my favorite backpack!"
"Guys!" Chris yelled as he had heard enough of their bickering. "Y'all need to check yourself in public, it's embarrassing!"
"She started it." Julius murmured getting into the car with Jesse.
Chris got into the driver's seat and started up the engine. "I swear, it's like you guys like each other, or something!" He than drove away.
"Be careful with that?!" Jesse screamed in horror. They boys were unloading all of her stuff from the car into the house.
Julius slammed the big heavy box onto the bed. "Was that your weight set?"
"No."
"Than what was it!?!" Julius barked as he looked at the side labeled 'shoes.' He than got up grumbling curse words as he sat himself off the corner.
Chris walked in with three boxes in his arms. "Okay, you know the arrangement right, mom said you can live here, until the end of the school year, than it's back to Miami."
"Of course, beside I have the sun, cute boys, and peace of mind. I'm not giving that up for you!" Jesse giggled when Chris' smile faltered.
There was a soft knock on the door and Aidan popped out from behind the door frame. "Hey."
Chris groaned. "What do you want, man? If it's about tonight forget it you weren't open, I made the shot so get over it you big baby!"
"Actually, I came here to apologies for what I said the other day." Aidan alleged.
"Oh, well that's okay." Chris said confused.
As Aidan left Julius just looked up baffled. "It just me or did he turn into a total wuss every since yesterday?"
"Yeah he does, what do you think change?"
After a few minutes of hard thinking Julius than started to nod off to Jesse, who wasn't paying attention. Chris turned to his sister and than back at Julius, horrified. He gets it.
"JESSE!" Chris screeched.
"What?!" She asked annoyed.
"Stay the hell away from, Aidan. I mean it!" Chris yelled protectively.
Back at U of A one of Angel Copse's players are still there in the locker room, it was the one who bumped Chris earlier. He gets up and paces before throwing his empty soda can at a mirror causing it to break. It wasn't fair, he had the victory in the palm of his hands, he had scored 26 points! Those steroids had been working perfectly for him, his movement was quicker and his strength was more superior than before, but he still lost because of that damn Parker kid!
"Oh come now Paul, it wasn't that bad!" A cruel laughter soon followed after.
Paul sunk to the ground in fear and looked around in panic. "Leave me alone! Whoever you are please just leave me alone!"
"I can feel your anger Paul. I can help you, just.....let me in."
At first Paul looks panicked he back away from the locker sweating like crazy. Than he stopped and looked down to recover his breath, shaking the entire way. Than his shaking ceased and his breaths returned to normal. But when he looked up he had this wicked smirk on his face, his eyes were dilated just than a sinister, yet it would be familiar to Peter Parker, laugh filled the air.
A young woman barely 17 was outside of a her balcony screaming for help. She didn't know how it started but her whole apartment was consumed in a scorching inferno! The firemen were about trying to find a way to enter the building but the flames had reached the ground floor, making it almost impossible for entrance.
"Ah!" The young woman screamed when the balcony's foundation crumbled and splintered causing her to fall off the building!
"She's not gonna make it!" The Chief yelled.
Shooting a string of web to a close by skyscraper Chris swung across the city and make a daring catch to get the woman to safety three feet before she hit the ground.
"Woo Hoo!" The crowd cheered.
The woman smiled at him, happily. "Thank you!"
Landing spider-man dropped her off. "No problem, but who started that fire?"
"I don't know all I saw was a figure in green flying off in a metal hover board." She than looked at her watch. "It's 2:30 and I'm late for a doctor's appointment!"
Chris looked at her horrified. "2:30! I'm late for practice!" He jumped up a building and crawled up to the top before diving to the next construction.
As he flew into the air he couldn't help but wonder what the woman had told him. 'A green figure on a hover board? Either there's a new nut in a costume running around or Static Shock got himself a new costume!' Chris thought before landing at U of A.
"Your late!" The coach bellowed. "Normally I wouldn't care but now that your actually worth something, your gonna hit the weight room four times a week now!" He whistled and motioned him to sit on the bench, next to Julius.
Chris sat down and turned to his friend. "Listen-
Julius put his hand in his face. "Don't have to explain, I'll probably see it on the 6 o clock news anyway."
Chris chuckled. "Listen, there was a fire and a woman I saved told me a some nutcase wearing green and flying a hover board is behind it!"
"Either it's Johnny Quest or the Blob." Julius recommended. "But seriously you can't flake out on the team any more, especially since your a starter now."
Chris just exhaled. "So I gotta pick between letting down my teammates and letting down the city? Man, just once I would love the hardest decision I have to make is whether to eat Cocoa Puffs or Corn Flakes!"
"Corn Flakes is good for your health, but Cocoa Puffs make you go cuckoo!"
"So is your brother still trying to get with my sister?" Chris asked curiously.
Julius shrugged. "Why don't you see it for yourself." Julius said pointing on the court.
Aidan went up for a lay-up but it got blocked by the center, that was funny usually he would do something acrobatic to get it inside the rim in situations like that.
'That's it! I'm taking my tennis shoes off!' Chris thought still fuming.
In a the gym of Angel Copse, Paul is running up and down the court grabbing boards, boxing people out, banging the paint for his lay-ups, and not even thinking twice before pulling the trigger.
"Alright come on now Paul, pass the ball you have four other people on the court with you!" His coach yelled.
Paul jumped on of his opponents backs to fight him for the rebound. "I don't need them!"
The coach blew his whistle. "That's a foul, Paul you can't do that."
"No I'm sick of you! Your too soft to train this team! We would have won at U of A if it wasn't for you!" Angered Paul walked away. 'That's right, he's just like everybody else. He's trying to hold you back, but you don't need them!' The voice in his head hissed.
Chris was currently drawing a picture of a lady that he often drew from time to time. He didn't know why but when he caught the artistic bug, he always drew her. Her face was hidden behind a partial black mask, which matched the rest of her outfit. A skintight black number lined with white fur around the hem of her gloves and white boots, and lining the very deep V-neckline that exposed tan skin all the way to just above her navel.
Julius walked over to him quietly and looked over his shoulder. "Who's the hot chick, in tights!"
Chris was shocked and broke his pencil. "Look what you made me do!"
"Hey, I was just asking!" Julius than he repeated his question. "Who's the hot chick, in tights!"
"I don't know, but I like to draw her." He than looked at his pencil. "Oh man, now I can't finish it!"
"Don't worry Aidan has like fifty of them in his room." Julius suggested.
So Chris stood up and walked down the hallway he opened the room and noticed nobody was in so he opened one of the draws and grabbed a pencil, but not before he noticed a letter addressed 'Chris Parker.'
He took and read the address. "I thought the postal people lost my letter! Why did Aidan take it!?!"
Just than Aidan walked in and looked sad when he saw Chris with the letter. "Trust me, man that letter is nothing but bad news."
Turning around Chris looked at him angrily. "I had a right to privacy, you know!"
"Fine go ahead read it, its been eating at me anyway." Aidan persuaded.
Chris read the letter quickly before dropping it in shock.
"Hey, Yo C! Did you find the pencil?" Julius walked in and noticed Chris' face. "What's the matter, buddy?"
Next time:
For Chris it's getting over the fact that the woman he thought was a great mother was really a lying stranger, for Jesse it's about dealing with the truth that her father was unfaithful to her mother. But elsewhere Paul has finally broken the concrete wall between his sanity and his true powers! Can Riley snap Chris back into reality before innocent people get hurt?