Twisted

Chapter 5- Basketball match

Jeff~

He needed to ask her out soon to get close to her. He worried about that for a while. Genevieve hated him and that made it difficult for him to get close to her. Which was making him very stressed.

"Hey! Earth to Jeff!" Isaac - Jeff's bestie said.

"Uh, supp?" Jeff replied.

"We are playing basketball. Ya joinin'?" Isaac asked," My team. Dude, please!"

"Why not?" Jeff replied and shrugged his shoulders. He was not paying attention.

"Earth to Jeff !!!" Isaac yelled. Jeff looked at him.

"Wa?" Jeff muttered.

"BASKETBALL!!!" Isaac yelled. He was kind of loud for a short guy.

"Oh." Jeff said," Come on bro. Let's go kick some butts." He grabbed his best buddy and gave him a bro hug.

He was cool, until he saw his opponent.

Oh shit. He thought.

It was Ron and his friend.

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Genevieve~

She strolled along the school. Trying to adapt quickly. Apparently, she felt good. just then she heard a commotion, everyone was heading to the basketball court.

"Hey, there's a match there."

"So interesting."

"There's Jeff! Oh my! And Ron! So exciting!"

Genevieve was interested. She loved sports. And watching sports no doubt. Apparently she heard someone say the magic word 'basketball' and her face lit up. As she moved through the crowd.

"Excuse me! Sorry! Please move." Genevieve moved through the crowd of girls. They didn't even notice her. She somehow managed to get to the front. She looked at the match going on. The score was 2-2. Jeff's team had the ball. Jeff passed to someone. Isaac. She thought to herself. There were only two people in the team. While the other team had 5 people.

"Not fair!" She muttered. And was shushed by some other girls watching.

Isaac did a overhead pass to Jeff. The opponent missed grabbing the ball by an inch. Jeff passed the ball back again using a underpass and ran forward to get the ball.There was only one minute left in the game.

"Ahhhhhh!!" The girls shouted when the ball was tackled by Ron.

Oh shit. She knew how to win. But should she help Jeff or Ron? Jeff. Her mind told her. She shrugged. Fine, no biggie. It should make the match more interesting.

"Confront him and let Jeff steal the ball from behind." Genevieve whispered to Isaac when he ran past her. He looked at her in surprise, but nodded.

Isaac signaled to Jeff, who sneaked up to Ron. The other opponents were too busy 'celebrating' victory to notice their player in trouble.

Isaac 'tried' to grabbed the ball from in front. Ron placed the ball behind his back. Jeff stole it swiftly.

"Thank you!" He yelled to the surprised Ron. Genevieve smiled. Her method did work.

10 seconds left.

Jeff was 50 meters apart from the net. He hesitated.

5 seconds...

"Jeff!!! You can do this!" The girls cheered. Genevieve eyed the distance between Jeff and the post.

"JUST SHOOT YOU IDIOT!!!" Genevieve screamed loudly. The girls looked at her disbelievingly.

Jeff jumped and threw the ball.

Genevieve stared wide eyed. The ball bounced out of the net.

3 seconds left...

Jeff dashed there and caught the ball.

2 seconds left...

Jeff dunked the ball into the net recklessly.

1 second left ...

A buzzer beater.

"SCORE!" The girls cried. They cheered for Jeff. And started hugging each other. Then, went up to Jeff and Isaac to congratulate them.

Genevieve smiled. She was impressed and felt a surge of pride.

Time to go. She thought.

Genevieve slipped up of the crowd and somehow disappeared.

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Jeff~

"Hey dude!" Isaac called to Jeff. " Thanks to mystery person we won." He smiled triumphantly.

"Mystery person?" He remembered the voice of the person calling him an idiot and asking him to shoot. That gave him the idea which gave them their victory. "Oh yea."

"The same mystery person asked me to do back front tackle thing." Isaac said." Never could have thought of it myself."

"Who is it?" Jeff asked.

"A girl... I think she is the new one. The one who was slapped by Cheré today." Isaac said.

Jeff smiled.

Genevieve.

He turned left and right to try to spot her. But she was gone.

"Thank her later man. We got fans now!" Isaac said and gave him a pat on the back.

Jeff sighed. He was disappointed. But at the memory, he smiled. She helped him.

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