Kid Blink School Story

Chapter 4

I had gym next with Anthony, Patrick, JoJo, and Nick. I could finally get my goggles back from Nick. I caught up with Patrick and JoJo in the hall and we walked and talked on the way there. "Are you two wearing your eyepatches during gym? You don't have to since it's gym class and I want you guys to be able to see normally and not get hurt."

"Nope! We'll take them off for gym. The group decided that." JoJo informed me.

"Ah, good!" I replied. I didn't want anyone to get hurt.

When we got to the gym, we all changed in the locker room and I met up with Nick who had my goggles on and was being silly. That's one of the reasons I love him.

"Hey. Gimme back my hamster!" I told Nick, as I was quoting a TikTok audio.

"Haha, here you go, babe!' Nick said as he handed my goggles back to me. "Do ya know what today's gym activity is?"

"Nope! But I hope it's something fun, and not football. You know what happened last time we played football." Last time we played football, Nick accidentally threw the ball right in my face and my nose started bleeding.

I changed out my cloth eyepatch for a disposable one. I don't like when my cloth eyepatches get all sweaty, so I wear disposable ones for gym. To help you visualize the story better, It's like one of those eyepatches that you see in anime.

"Hey Blink and Mush! Come on!" Anthony called to us as we all left the locker room. Me and Nick were talking up a storm when we saw that we had a substitute gym teacher. We were a little sad that Ms. Len, our usual teacher, was out. She was the best, and she always let Anthony DJ. He has the greatest music taste.

"SETTLE DOWN, CLASS!" He yelled. He was a muscular guy, and he had the worst hairline known to man. He was sort of bald, like he shaved his hair off. His hair kind of looked like Jack Manifold. "BOYS AND GIRLS, GET INTO THE MIDDLE CIRCLE SO I CAN TAKE ATTENDANCE!" He sure was loud. "I'm Mr. Mason, and I'm your sub for today." We made eye contact. "Hey, eyepatch."

"Me?"

"Who else do ya see wearing an eyepatch? Yes, you."

"What is it?"
"Go take it off. You can't play gym wearing that."

"I can't take it off; medical reasons."

"Then go sit out."

"But, my doctor said-"
"Sit out, eyepatch."

I went to sit down. That jerk didn't even let me explain myself! I was furious! The doctor said that since I can see out of my right eye, that I can participate in physical activities such as gym, after school sports, and theater. He took attendance, and Anthony went up to the teacher. "Why does Louis have to sit out?"

"Because he can't play gym with the eyepatch on. Especially kickball."

"Oh. I guess you just lost your star kicker."

"Yeah, Mr. Mason. He's got a REAL powerful foot!" Patrick added.

"Fine. Eyepatch, you're back in." Mr. Mason said.

I was so happy to be back in! Patrick wasn't lying about my powerful foot. Every time we played kickball in gym, arguments popped up over who wanted me on the kickball team since elementary school. We picked teams and the captains were Anthony and another kid named Kyle. Kyle was super nice to everyone, and he always checked on other people when they got hurt. Anthony put JoJo and Patrick on his team. When it was down to me and another kid named Hailey, they started arguing. Oh boy.

"But with Louis on my team, him and Charlotte would be a great duo!"
"Yeah, but you can't separate Hailey and Sofia. They're like peanut butter and pickles!"
"Don't you mean jelly?"
"No, I mean pickles. It's a delicious combo." Anthony will defend peanut butter and pickles with his life.

"Oh. That's... actually disgusting. Anyways, Louis would look really good on a base near JoJo!"

"Oh, looks are not as important as kicks!"

"Ok, I'm just gonna go be with Sofia." Hailey said as she walked over to Kyle's team.

"Haha! I get the Blind Diamond!" Anthony said excitedly. They call me The Blind Diamond in gym class.

"Ok, teams! Time to-"

"Can we get team names?" Anthony asked, interrupting the sub.

"Fine. Kyle, what's your team's name?"

"The Pirates!"

"But you don't have the eyepatch kid." This teacher didn't like me, huh. Ableist.

"So? Who says pirates need eyepatches? Also Louis is the farthest from a pirate."

"Fine. Anthony, what's yours?"

"We are... " Uh oh. He couldn't think of a name. I guess he wanted to do team names but he had nothing in mind.

"The Nyan Cats!" JoJo chimed in. He loves cats.

"No! Not the Nyan Cats! We're the Penguins!" Race told the sub.

"Ok, Penguins and Pirates. Penguins will kick first." The teacher said.

We all played kickball, and I got a home run every time I kicked. I almost hit Hailey in the face, and I ran over to apologize. She was ok and we went on with the game. We changed back into our outfits and I almost couldn't find the hole where my head went. I eventually found my way out of my black and red striped shirt. The bell rang as I was adjusting my goggles on my head.