The coach stands up, rubbing his hands together before making his final speech. "Five minutes left in the game. This is it. Everything you've worked for all this season comes together now. So what if we're not a travel team? So what if we haven't won ever-bloody-game we ever played? We're in the finals now, guys. And I know we can do it."
There is complete silence.
"C'mon, all of you. Hands in." A small hand makes its way into the circle, its possessor in smiles but the voice in slight tears. "We're going to win, and all of you know it. None of us are going to play for this team again. We have to show all those people out there our love for the game. So-"
The whistle blows, and everyone is suddenly shaken out of their trance. "Out on the field now, all of yeh! Enough o' break time now."
"Hey! I'm not done talking here." Lily shouts back, stamping her left foot stubbornly. She turns around, a grin on her face and the ghost of a twinkle in her eye. "Let's get out there and win."
And win they do.
Instead of playing soccer and rising to a respectable level in society, she becomes an Auror and dies.
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Summer is finally here! And therefore I have a lot of time on my hands. Except at 5:30 in the morning, where I have to get up for swim practice. And then when I have to go for tennis at 9:00 AM until 4:30 PM.
Anyway, I have a swim meet coming up, so wish me luck! And please, review! Hope you've enjoyed this so far :D