Chapter 14: Wrestling Try Outs Part 1
Mike walks in on Sarah and Mark M making out.
"Ew, gross." Mike said as he saw them.
Mark M picks up a pillow and throws it at him.
"You can't throw stuff at me." Mike told him.
Mark M and Sarah stop making out.
"Mike, go away." Sarah told him.
Mike leaves the room.
"What just happened?" Mark M asked her.
"We were just making out." Sarah replied.
"I have to go." Mark M told her as he got up from the couch and left.
Mike then walks back into the living room.
"Told ya, you like Mark." Mike told her.
"Mike if you value your life you'll leave me alone right now." Sarah warned him.
Sarah gets up from the couch and goes to her room. Tom and Jake get home from the hospital.
"How's Max?" Kate asked them.
"He has a broken leg." Tom replied.
"That's terrible." Kate said to him.
Jake goes up to his room. The next day at school they're flyers everywhere for feshmens who wanted to try out for the Wrestling team. Jake takes one and decides to see what's going on. He watched pro wrestling all his life and he knows it fake. 'How hard could it be?' Jake thought to himself. He gets to the gym and there are thirty freshmen there trying out for the wrestling team. Mr. Bombay walks into the gym.
"What are you doing here?" Jake asked him.
"I'm the wrestling coach." Mr. Bombay replied.
"You coach wrestling?" Jake then asked him.
"Yeah. In high school I was on the Wrestling team for four years and won my weight class every year and my senior year I was the state champion. I recieved a wrestling scholarship to the University of Michigan. My senior year at Michigan I won the NCAA Wrestling Championship." Mr. Bombay explained to him.
"Why didn't you go pro?" Jake then asked him.
"I didn't want to mess up my knees like my Uncle Don. He had like six or seven surgeries on his left knee alone." Mr. Bombay told him.
"How many did he have on his right knee?" Jake then asked him.
"Five." Mr. Bombay replied.
"I thought wrestling was fake." Jake then said to him.
"Pro wrestling is. The wrestling that I coach isn't." Mr. Bombay said to him.
Mr. Bombay blows his whistle. All the freshmen gather around him.
"Listen up boys, I'm Coach Marshall Bombay. You can call me Coach or Coach Bombay. And today you are trying out for the wrestling team. I know what you're thinking. 'How hard could it be? It's all fake.' etc., etc. but, amateur wrestling isn't fake. I only have ten spots opened for fresh men on this team. Twenty of you aren't going to make it. Give it your best and if you don't make it better luck next year. Now, lets see what you boys got." Mr. Bombay told them.
Mr. Bombay blows his whistle. After three hours of try outs it finally ends. During this try out Mr. Bombay taught them how to do all the moves escapes, reversals and other amateur wrestling moves.
"Tomorrow I will post the names of the final twenty. If your name is on that list be here tomorrow morning at 9 am sharp. If you are late I will cut you from the team. I don't care if you were the best today, lateness will not be accepted. Go home and get some sleep because tomorrow I'll be seperating the men from the boys." Mr. Bombay told them.
In the locker room Jake is beat. He lies down on a bench.
"It was only the first day Baker." Frank said to him.
"A very difficult first day." Jake replied.
"Imagine what tomorrow will be like." Frank told him.
"How do you know if we even made the team?" Jake asked him.
"Coach Bombay put the list up all ready." Frank told him.
"That was quick." Jake said to him.
Jake gets up from the bench and looks at the list. He sees his name and Franks name on the list. When Jake gets home he plops on the couch and doesn't move for two hours.
"Rough day?" Sarah asked him.
"It was horrible. First of all there were thirty freshmen there trying out for ten spaces. Everytime someone did something wrong Mr. Bombay blew that whistle of his and it was annoying." Jake explained.
"How did you do?" Sarah then asked him.
"I made the twenty freshmen list. And tomorrow he's narrowing it down to the ten freshmen that made the team." Jake told her.
"That's great. Good for you." Sarah said to him.
"Where's Mike?" Jake asked her.
"In his room. Why?" Sarah replied.
"I need to apologize to him. And tell him that amateur wrestling isn't fake but, pro wrestling is." Jake told her as he went upstairs to Mikes room.
"Hi Jake." Mike said as he walked in.
"Hey Mike." Jake said as he crashed on Mike's bed.
"You're room is the next room over on the left." Mike told him.
"Mike, I'm lucky I even got up the stairs I'm so beat." jake told him.
"What happened?" Mike asked him.
"I tried out for the Wrestling team today." Jake told him.
"Cool. They have a Wrestling team at your school. Who did you hit in the head with a steel chair?" Mike asked him.
"It's not that kind of wrestling. It was olympic style wrestling." Jake told him.
"What's the difference?" Mike then asked him.
"Amateur wrestling is real and pro wrestling is fake." Jake told him.
Sarah walks into the room.
"How's your new boyfriend?" Mike asked her with a snicker.
"Mark is fine. He's trying out for the boys JV Basketball next week. I thought I would try out for the girls JV Basketball." Sarah told them.
"Aww. You two are going to make a great couple." Mike said to her sarcastically.
"Shut up Mike." Sarah told him.
Jake is asleep on Mike's bed.
"Hey!" Mike yelled at Jake who wasn't moving from Mike's bed.
"Mike let him sleep." Sarah told him.
"But that's my bed." Mike whined to her.
"And he has a bigger bed then you." Sarah said to him.
Mike thinks about it and nods his head in agreement.
"Did you know that they have a girls Varsity and JV Lacrosse team at Fairfield?" Sarah asked Mike.
"No." Mike replied.
"And Mark also plays lacrosse." Sarah told him.
"I didn't know that." Mike said to her.
"He does and he's pretty good." Sarah said to him.
"You two were made for each other." Mike told her.
"It's weird. All that time we were fighting when we could of been friends." Sarah said to him.
"That's great and all but, Friday Night Smackdown is starting in five minutes and I don't want to miss the beginning." Mike told her.
Sarah leaves Mikes room. Mike puts on his TV and watches Friday Night Smackdown.