Okay so some of you may have noticed I royally screwed up. I accidently uploadedthe wrong chapter and didn't notice like at all. I fixed it and I'm really really sorry for the confusion.
Finally it was the first game. East High against Sumner. It was one of the three biggest games of the season. The other two being West High and North West, but they weren't going against them for a while. For now they just needed to concentrate on Sumner.
"We need to figure out the best plan of action against these two." Jack had said a week earlier, pacing back and forth in his office. Larissa and Kiki sat on the floor in front of his desk, watching a tape of past games and Jimmie was leaning against a wall, chewing his lip as he watched. After the videos the four had gotten together, Kiki outlining who was best at what and Jimmie countering it with who did what best on their own team. It had been just about perfect, until Jimmie made some stupid comment and Kiki went off on him.
They had spent their week working on play especially for the Sumner team and got them down to just about perfection.
On the day of the game, which was at Sumner, Everyone packed onto the bus and got settled in for the hour-long ride. It wasn't long before Donny was beat boxing and Jimmie was standing up and rapping.
"Yo my name is Rocket man, I'm the man with the plan, Watch it on the court cause I'm gonna slam, your face, into, the wall, Now I send it to my man Matt like I pass the ball." Matt stood up as Jimmie sat down and got to the beat before opening his mouth.
"It's M to the A to the double T. Ya'll better know not to mess with me. I got game and I got class, on the court I'm gonna, bust, your, ask me who comes next? Well give me a sec, yeah let's see, I'm sending it over to… Kiki." They all looked at Kiki who had been watching with Larissa. She stood up and smirked.
"K-I-K-I that's Ki Squared, on the court you better beware, She shoots she scores that's all I hear, I'm the 'Little Princess' you gotta fear. Fake left pass right I'm the best, I'm the one with genes that read XX. Passing The rhyme like I pass the ball, sending it over to… McCall." Kyle McCall stood up and took on the rhyme. By the time they were at the school everyone had done a rap, Jack and Larissa included, and they were dogging each other's beat.
As they got off the bus Kiki was pulling her hair into a ponytail and they were led down to the girl's locker room, which served as the guest locker room during games.
"Okay team, first game of the year. We have the plays down, we've managed to avoid serious bodily injury," He glanced at Kiki and Jimmie who smiled, "now we just need to beat these guys. "Get Ready,"
"Game on!" The team yelled, running out there. Someone from Sumner threw them two balls to practice with until the game started but everything stopped when one of the Sumner players shouted,
"Wait, that's a girl!"
"Son of a…" Kiki muttered under her breath as everyone stopped to look where he pointed, which of course, was at Kiki.
"Very good Tomlinson, you know the difference between a boy and a girl. You get a cookie." Jimmie rolled his eyes.
"I'm not playing against a girl." Tomlinson shook his head. The Sumner coach looked Kiki up and down and looked at Jack. Jack sighed and walked over to conference with the coach and the Ref.
"A girl Jack? Really?"
"Hank, Kiki is good and she doesn't have a problem playing like any of the guys." Jack insisted.
"Can she really play like any of the guys, no special treatment?" The Ref asked.
"She's tough. Tougher than some of the guys I've seen play."
"Jack, look at her, she's like a stick. Some of my guys could snap her with one finger."
"Then she better have great insurance. I say she's in. Let's go." The ref called, blowing his whistle before Hank could argue, temporarily deafening Hank and Jack as they walked back to their teams, who were waiting for the verdict.
"You're in Evans." Jack clapped her on the shoulder.
"Yes!" Kiki cheered, unzipping her jacket. The starters pulled off their sweats and ran out to the court. Kiki went to stand across from their guy and looked at him. He had at least six inches on her, but she had her pretty little trick. She looked as the ref started to lower the ball to throw it. "Hey," She asked, getting the other player's attention. "What's the square root of Pi?" He paused, confused by the question just in time for the ref to throw the ball and Kiki to jump while he was distracted.
"Hey!" He called as Kiki ran off to play. Jimmie got the ball and passed it to Donny who made it down the court, passing it to Matt who kept it away until Jimmie got down the court. Matt passed to Jimmie who shot the ball and scored.
This went on for a quarter and the Sumner team was complaining that they couldn't do anything when Kiki got the ball. They were gentlemen after all. Yeah right. Kiki grabbed Jimmie's arm and pulled him and Matt to the side, having a mini conference. Jack watched, slightly concerned until they walked back, all smiling.
"Let's go." The ref blew the whistle and Kiki took her place.
"Out of curiosity, when I stand like this, can you see down my shirt?" She asked. Of course he looked and she jumped, getting the ball again. The play was McCall would get the ball and pass it to Gavin Sanders who would pass back and forth with Donny as they ran and then to Jimmie who would shoot it.
What ended up happening was McCall got the ball, passed it to Gavin, who passed it back and forth with Donny, who passed it to Jimmie, who passed it to Kiki. As she went to shoot it Matt came out of nowhere and knocked her out. Kiki hissed in pain as Matt helped her up.
"A little over zealous man." She said, rubbing her side. He grinned and shrugged, running off. Kiki rolled her eyes and ran after him as they went to get the ball Sumner had taken.
McCall got the ball and passed it to Gavin, who passed back to McCall, McCall ran down to the other side and passed it to Kiki, who was taken out by Jimmie. She glared at him as he helped her up.
"Okay, you two are really having too much fun with this." She decided as she looked at a burn on her leg. They ran over to Jack as he called a time out.
"What the heck are you three doing?" he shouted.
"Showing Sumner that Little Princess can take a hit." Jimmie answered.
"And enjoying it." Matt added as Larissa took a look at the floor burn on Kiki's leg.
"That's going to hurt worse in a few hours." The girl commented.
"Oh good, because it feels just freaking peachy now." Kiki said through gritted teeth.
"You're the one that said no Mercy." Jimmie shrugged.
"I think Sumner got the idea, no more attacks on your team mate." Jack ordered. They all looked at Sumner, who were looking at them.
"Let's do it then." Jimmie grinned as they ran back out on the court. After seeing her team mates knock her around and her getting up without crying or complaining the Sumner team was convinced she was actually a guy with long hair and out of place boobs and gave themselves permission to really play.
It was too late though. East High won by seven points.
On the bus ride home Larissa had Kiki's now bleeding leg and was trying to get it to stop throbbing. Jimmie walked over and rested his chin on her head.
"Sorry Keek's, you gonna be okay?" He asked.
"After I rip off your arm? I'll be fine." Kiki smiled at him. "Ow!" She yipped as Larissa poked the burn. Jimmie laughed and pulled the hair tie from Kiki's hair letting the blonde locks fall free. He went back to his seat with Donny who was looking over at the girls.
"She's cute isn't she?" He asked.
"Who Kiki?" Jimmie looked at his friend, half amused half horrified.
"What? No! Larissa." The Amusement turned to more horror.
"Really? Really?" Jimmie cocked his head to the side.
"Yeah. I think I'm going to ask her out."
"Good luck with that man." Jimmie held his hands up. Larissa and Donny? Now that was going to be interesting.
