The big game was finally here. All of Kadic's Soccer team players were nervous about facing Grindly in the finals, but none of them were as nervous as Jim. It had become a widely spread rumour that Jim and the coach of the Grindly Soccer team had been enemies since they had been at school together. Kadic's Soccer team was the only ones who truly knew what it meant to Jim to win this game. And they were determined to win; not only for Jim, but for themselves as well.
"Ok guys I'm counting on you to win that cup in Kadic's honour, in my honour, in your honour. I'm going to remind you that Grindly have never been beaten so let's show them that they can be beaten and that they will be beaten. So go out there, and do just as we practised. Whenever in doubt of your own skills pass the ball to Ulrich. You got that, kid?" Jim asked his favourite player
Ulrich nodded whilst stretching.
A whistle blew which everyone knew to mean that Grindly were marching out into the field from their changing rooms. A second blew was sounded and the Kadic players stepped out into the field looking at their opponents.
All of their players were butch and it could be easily seen that they worked out and could easily squash half of Kadic's players.
"Captains shake hands!" Mr Delmas shouted.
A butch blonde guy stepped out from his team and looked on the Kadic team daring the captain to make himself present.
Ulrich stepped out and glared daggers at his opponent.
"Captains will shake hands" Mr Delmas reminded the two teenagers who looked like they were about to kill one another.
The blonde-haired guy thrust his hand in Ulrich's direction. Ulrich looked down at it and warily placed his hand next to his until they were shaking hands.
However that is what you could only see if you were an onlooker but on closer view you could see that the Grindly's captain was attempting to break Ulrich's hand.
"Ready to go down?" he asked roughly.
Ulrich looked up at him, still trying to escape his grasp.
Ulrich smirked.
"No, but that's for only one reason. We aren't."
Ulrich took advantage of his shock to escape his tight grasp.
The Soccer players took their positions on the pitch. A whistle blew and the game started.
As the half time whistle blew the score was tie; two to two. The game had been a dirty one. The Grindly team had been making tackles to the Kadic team. This had resulted in Kadic losing two players but also Grindly losing two players.
The remaining Kadic team players could be seen having a prep talk from Jim.
"Guys, you're doing great but we all know now that Grindly is playing dirty. They will have observed now that Ulrich is our best striker. We need to protect Ulrich before Grindly attempts to take out Ulrich like he has with Alex and Nathan"
With both game strategies re-planned; the game continued.
As the cup was being handed over to Ulrich, a fight broke out.
The Grindly captain threw a punch at Ulrich which caused a fight between the two teams.
If you were a spectator and were looking on at the pitch below all you would see was complete chaos.
Teachers attempting to break students apart and then more teachers trying to split Jim and the Grindly coach apart, the scene could either be very amusing or very disturbing.
LATER THAT NIGHT
Yumi, Jeremie, Aelita, Odd and Sam sneaked into the infirmary to see Ulrich who had been made to stay in the infirmary against his wishes. To be fair he only had a few cuts and bruises but he had hit his head off a metal pole thanks to the Grindly captain.
Ulrich looked up as the door opened and when seeing who it was, smiled.
"How you coping buddy?" Odd asked
"Oh you know bored to death" Ulrich said sitting up. "Anything interesting happened since I blanked out 2 hours ago?" Ulrich asked.
"No, not unless you count the principal telling everyone off for the fighting" Odd answered looking out the window.
Ulrich leaned his head back on the metal hospital headboard and closed his eyes.
Ulrich felt someone watching him so he opened his eyes and looked around. He found the source. He smiled at Yumi who smiled back.
"You ok?" He asked her.
She nodded her head half-heartily in reply. Ulrich looked at her questioningly. She shook her head.
He patted the bed beside him for her to sit down. She took his offer and sat down. He pulled her to him so she was leaning on him.
"I don't want to hurt you" Yumi hesitated starting to lean up.
Ulrich, however, pushed her back down. "I'm fine, honestly, you're not hurting me"
"How's your head?" Aelita asked him taking a seat beside the bed.
"Banging" Ulrich replied. "It's sort of expected means I got stuck fighting the biggest one"
Odd turned around from looking outside.
"Guys, do you think the principal would go mad if he found us here?" he asked.
"Yeah I do Odd." Sam replied rolling her eyes.
"Then we'd better run" Odd simply hypothesised.
Sam, Odd, Jeremie and Aelita ran out the room saying a rushed "goodnight" and "get well soon" to Ulrich. Ulrich turned to Yumi who hadn't moved.
"Aren't you going to get in trouble if the principal comes in here?" Ulrich asked
Yumi shrugged. "I don't care"
They waited in silence for ten minutes for the principal to come into the room but however it didn't happen.
Yumi lay fully on the bed.
Ulrich wrapped his arms around her.
"What was wrong with you earlier?" he asked.
She didn't answer him simply stared off to space.
"Ok, what is wrong with you?"
"My parents, they told me this morning that they're getting a divorce"
