The Deal

Trevor on Derick basquetebol team

Narrator's Pov

Trevor was in the living room watching TV with his father while his mother entered his room with a closet full of clean and folded clothes. Trevor's mother opened the closet doors on the right side and put some of Trevor's shorts and shirt folded in their proper places. She closed the closet door and went to the drawers where the socks and underwear were placed.

Trevor's mother opened the first drawer and was going to put the socks and underwear that had been folded when she found a sock with a pattern in brown and green. That sock caught her attention because it wasn't Trevor's.

She picked up the sock and looked at the socks that were folded inside the drawer. It crossed her mind that Derick's sock would be a sock without a spade, but that couldn't be the case. She knew her son's clothes well and that sock was a little too big for Trevor. That sock wasn't his.

Trevor's mother, holding the sock in her right hand, walked towards the bedroom door and then went downstairs. She saw her son sitting on the smaller couch watching TV while Trevor's father was lying on the larger couch.

Trevor glanced to the side and saw his mother walking towards him with Derick's sock in her hand.

"Trevor," she said, making Trevor look straight at her and prick up his ears.

"Whose sock is that?" she asked, and Trevor felt his blood run cold when he saw her with Derick's sock in her hand.

Trevor's father, who was lying on the couch, looked towards Trevor's mother and then looked at him, curious to know what was going on. Trevor felt his mouth go dry and his heart start to beat nonstop.

"Answer me, Trevor," she said, looking at him with a sideways glance.

- Think of something - said a voice in Trevor's head as he felt his mouth go dry and his heart freeze and at the same time he looked at his mother and felt her gaze pierce his soul.

- Come on, think of something - said a voice in Trevor's head and nothing came to mind and his mother looked at him and saw him with a somewhat lost look.

- Think quickly - said another voice as Trevor looked towards his father and his father was looking at him.

The room was silent for a few seconds, only the noise of the television could be heard and the atmosphere was a little tense, Trevor's heart was pounding as he tried to think of an excuse to escape that situation

- Say you're on Derick's basketball team - said a voice in Trevor's head

- What? - said another voice.

- Yeah, I'm going to say I picked up that sock by accident - said Trevor to himself as he looked at his father and mother.

- I'm on the school basketball team, I accidentally put on someone's sock - Trevor said looking at his mother without really thinking about what he was going to say.

- Wait, are you on your school's basketball team? - Trevor's father asked, standing up and sitting on the couch, not believing what he had just heard.

- Yes, I am, I must have put on that sock by accident when I was getting dressed to go back - Trevor said, thinking quickly.

- I thought you spent all day lying on that couch doing nothing - his father said looking at Trevor.

- No, I changed - Trevor said.

- I think I managed to fool them - Trevor said as he looked at his father and mother and they seemed a little happy that he was on a basketball team and not staying at home doing nothing.

Trevor took Derico's sock to school in his bag the next day, he was going to try to get on Derick's team.

He walked down the school hallway and saw Derick talking to two wolf girls.

- Little brother! - Derick said, raising his hand when he saw him. Trevor thought about talking to him another time because that didn't seem like the right time.

- Hi - Trevor said as Derick ruffled the hair on his head.

- I need to talk to you later - Trevor said

- Okay - Derick said and Trevor went to the bathroom and entered one of the partitions with his backpack on his back. He placed the backpack under the toilet with the lid down. He took Derick's sock out of the bag and took one last sniff before giving it back to Derick.

- I need to join your basketball team - Trevor said to Derick.

Derick looked at him and smiled. He thought Trevor was too short and too weak to join the team.

- You on the team? - Derick said smiling

- I'll help you find your lucky sock - Trevor said as he lowered his ears as he saw Laphin approaching.

- Derick, Frazz isn't coming today, he's with his girlfriend - Laphin said a little seriously and at the same time sad that Frazz wasn't there.

- And this is my opportunity - Trevor said and Derick was left wondering whether or not to accept him on the team.

- I'll help you find your lucky sock - Trevor said.

- Yes - Derick said making a cool gesture with his right hand.

Throw it to me - Laphin said after Derick threw the ball to Trevor.

Trevor saw a black wolf with brown hair coming towards him, the wolf was twice as big as him, Trevor thought quickly and threw the ball to Frazz who threw it to the sixth, scoring a second goal.

The black wolf with brown hair said something in the ear of a gray wolf with amber eyes while looking in Trevor's direction.

The match started again and that would be the last round, Zack threw the ball to Trevor to pass to Derick, Trevor was surrounded by two wolves much bigger than him, he managed to pass the ball to Zack who scored the last goal making Derick's team win.

The gray wolf with amber eyes threw himself at Trevor on purpose making them both fall to the ground and Trevor was crushed with the wolf being on top of him.

The wolf smiled and then got up after having crushed Trevor.