Summer love

Chapter 11

Mr. Feder brought us outside to see he got a horse carriage to take us the festival tonight. My dad told me we'll be around the lake so I put on some spandex and a oversized T-shirt that reached down to my knees. When we got there, everyone that was at the lake was there running around and laughing. Greg and I got out the inflatable mattress that he brought and we started to blow it up. About 30 minutes later, we were done and started to the put the mattress in place under the floating dock. "Andre!!" I scream. "What?" He says as he runs over to me. "You're gonna test something out okay?" I said as I grabbed his arm and pulled him into the lake. "Ok get in position." I told him. "I don't know man this seems crazy." He said. "Oh come on it'll be fun, besides we spent all morning blowing this thing up." Greg told him. "You should be alright." I said. "Should be!?" Andre exclaimed as he sat down at the end of the mat. Greg and I climbed up the ladder and stood at the top. "You ready?" Greg asked once we were at our positioned. Andre looked up at us and nodded. I grabbed Greg hand. "GO!" I yelled and jumped onto the mat sending Andre into the air and down into the water. "LETS DO THAT AGAIN!" He exclaimed when he resurfaced. I started laughing as we repositioned the mat and climbed back to the top. Later, everyone else was eating watermelon while I was eating oranges since I didn't like watermelon. While we were talking, the guy from the water park approached and started talking smack. "You really wanna do this Bailey?" Mr. Feder said. "My five, against your five." Bailey said. "Oh boy look at this. I see the boys stayed in shape." Mr. Feder joked as 4 other guys walked up, "Look fellas we just wanna relax and eat some watermelon if that's alright." He said. "No that's not alright you're not gonna weasel outta this one Feder." Bailey told him, "Wiley snuck out of intensive care just to see you get your justice." He finished. "Hey Wiley how'd the field goal taste?" Mr. Feder asked. We all snickered. "Haven't heard that on. You wanna get something off the top shelf for me? Heard that one a lot." Wiley said rolling his eyes. "Seriously Dickie, let us just hang out with our families and relax." Mr. Feder said. "Yeah they're afraid of us." The one eating a hotdog said. I rolled my eyes. "Grow up would ya?" I said. They ignored me. "We're afraid you might eat the ball before we even start." Dad said bGreg and I laughed. "Same old Higgins. You can talk the talk but you can't uh I forget the rest." The cross eyed one said. "We got Robby here with the bad foot you won't be able to do it right buddy?" Mr. Feder asked. "I think if The Buzzer was here he'd want me to try. I think he'd want us all to try." Mr. Hillard. "Alright let's do this thing." Mr. Feder said and stood up. Everyone cheered, while The Fab Five went to change. I sat down in between Becky and Greg and waited. A minute later Keithie yelled, "Guys Look!" We all looked over to where he pointed and saw The Fab Five walking down to the court. Everyone started clapping and I laughed when Mr. McKenzie stepped on Mr. Hillard's hurt foot. I watched as they started to play and they scored twice. The ball soon landed in Mr. Hillards hands "Hey guys Motion 78." He said. Mr. Hillard passed the ball to my Dad and he moved the ball in a circle to confuse the guy trying to block him. He passed it to Mr. Lamonsoff who tricked the guy blocking him by making him thin he was going one way and he passed the ball the other way to Mr. McKenzie. The Ball bounced off his head. "Oh...." Everyone said in sync. Mr. Feder grabbed the ball and shot it, of course making it and everyone cheered. "Hey Y where's M C A?" My dad asked Wiley which caused people around to laugh. Curly started barking and the cross eyed guy had the ball looked around confused. "What the hell is that? It sounds like owls having sex." He said. While he was distracted Mr. Feder stole the ball and passed it to my dad, who made the shot. They continued to make shots back and forth, after a while most of them got tired. Mr. Feder looked like he had an idea. He looked at Greg and smirked. "Greggie. " Mr. Feder called.
"Me?" Greg asked pointing at himself. I pushed him up and yelled, "Let's go Greg!" Somebody fill the jug up with some boss water for the Hollywood kid." Bailey said. "It's Voss with a V." Greg told him. "You can do it darlin'!" I yelled. The Feders started out with the ball, Mr. Feder passed the ball to Greg and he passed it back to his dad. He shot and scored and I cheered for them. The game continued and the Bailey's had the ball this time. The passed the ball back and forth for a while until Dickie shot it and scored, but his foot was on the line. "Foul his foot was on the line." Mr. McKenzie and I yelled together. Mr. Feder shrugged it off and said, "Next basket wins." The Feders had the ball, Mr. Feder passed the ball to Greg and he passed it back. Mr. Feder passed it back to Greg and he turned around acting like he was going to shoot it, but he bounced it to his dad behind his back. This is it the match point, Mr. Feders looks around and shoots the bank shot but to everyones surprise he missed. I gasped, He gave them the win! He had to of, he never misses the bank shot! The Bailey's rebound and shoot and score. Bailey went around chanting "Hollywood goes down!" I watched Greg say something to his Dad and they hug. Greg walks away and Iw alked up to Mr. Feder. "I know what you did." I said. "What do you mean?" He asked. "You threw the match." I told him and he looked at me with a face of shock. "How'd you know?" He asked. "The way you looked around and the fact that you never miss a bank shot." I say smiling. He laughs and messes up my hair. I scrunch up my nose and walk over to Greg and hug him. "You did great Greg." I tell him as he hugs me back. We pull apart and I kiss his cheek.
Later on that night, the fireworks started and I sat down next to Greg. I smiled to myself and continued to watch the pretty colors blow up in the sky. I leaned against Greg more, cuddling with him when I saw my dad staggering towards Mr and Mrs. Feder. "Oh no.." I said and prepared for something stupid to happen. All of a sudden, I saw him lift up "Alright everybody! Last one to stay wins!" My dad shouts and he shoots the arrow into the sky. "RUN!!!" I scream and grab Gregs hand and started running. Everyone else started screaming and ran in every direction. A lot of people shoved people out of the way in irder to get to a safer place. My legs being to short, I couldn't run that fast so Greg picked me up bridal style and ran me the rest of the way. This was the best night ever.