Kidge One Shots

Friday, April 16th-Allergies/Park

AU High School-I might be fudging on the ages and I'm going with US high school 9th-12 grade, ages 14-18 ish This one is a day late because it got well, longer than expected! Hope you enjoy! I am going to start the one for today so fingers crossed it comes together well. I'm actually proctoring the ACT for juniors now so hopefully I have the time. Please like and let me know what you think!!! I love this platform the most because people seem to be so much more interactive!

Keith is excited. Today is the day-field day. That means instead of boring classes and crabby teachers, he gets to compete. As an 11th grader he has been chosen to represent his grade's team. The grade's team that wins the most points gets bragging rights and more importantly an exemption on any two finals they choose. That is huge! Unfortunately teams were decided, in an odd way. There was a vote for a week where each person got one vote. BUT, students could make a donation to a charity to add extra votes for people. Each grade voted for typically the strongest athletes in their own grade but then other grades could vote for those they believed were weak and would be a detriment.

Keith was one of the stronger players as well as Hunk, Griffin, Kinkade, Acxa and Lance. Unfortunately, Keith wasn't what one could term a team player. So while he knew all of them and is even teammates to a few he wasn't exactly friends with any of them. Then there was Griffin who he actively hated because he liked to pick on him when they were younger. As for Lance, well he constantly talked shit to him which was annoying. The others weren't so bad.

The other grades also picked a few nerdy and un-athletic looking people including some guy Mark who he never seen, Ina who he thought may have dated Griffin freshman year and some other girl who wouldn't even speak. Then... there was Katie Holt.

Keith definitely noticed her. More and more each year. He's always had a few classes with her and since their names weren't too far apart sometimes he'd sit near her. She was genius level smart though and didn't play sports so he never really talked to her. But he couldn't help but love her sarcasm when responding to teachers stupid questions. It honestly was like she just drew him in. Not that she knew him.

Shaking his head, he wasn't quite sure how this whole thing was going to work out but his team was walking to the neighborhood park now so no sense in worrying. Griffin right away tried to act like the boss but Keith was determined not to let him get to him. He was done with losing his temper, patience yields focus. With this in mind, while walking to the park he tried to keep his distance from him.

"Ahhh-Choo!!!"

Keith glanced to his left where the pretty brunette was shaking her head and rubbing her nose.

Keith muttered, "God Bless You."

Katie looked over, "Thanks."

But when she sneezed a second later, he couldn't help but laugh. "Salud."

To which she replied instantly with "Gracias."

Suddenly Lance was next to her pulling her over, and angrily whispering, "Hey, what did we talk about?"

Keith couldn't help the frown but whatever. Lance was always trying to talk to the girls and besides he didn't need to talk to his team to win. He was used to being on his own. And while Keith's mom and dad couldn't be there his friend and mentor Shiro said he planned on attending. So whatever.

They all huddled together for lame announcements and rules. Finally, commencing the first event for his grade was a basketball game. Luckily Griffin, Lance and himself were starters of their school's varsity team and they were playing the freshman team so it should be an easy win despite the rule that everyone needed to have playing time. Keith was prepared to have to cover the weaker players however he was pleasantly surprised by Katie's ability. It seemed as though she was a pretty great point guard. She understood the game and since the freshman team was pretty short her height was not a liability. Plus she was surprisingly aggressive. She just didn't back down and he could respect that. So while Katie was not a starter, Keith liked playing on the court with her. That was, until she started sneezing and panting. He quickly moved to her side, "Hey you ok?"