Matt Deveraux

Chapter 9: First Night Part 1

First Night Part 1

At 3 o'clock that night, the two brothers were still up, playing video games like hard on gamers. The brothers had themselves a night of fun with Matt's PlayStation to look forward to. Matt, seemingly the one with most practice, had won most battles versus his brother, but Sean had warned his brother not to cave too soon. It was a game of football. It was 75 minutes into a 90-minute match and Matt lead by one to nil and was full of confidence. The 75 minutes were basically Matt pressing high up the pitch and finding chances while Sean sat back and defended, a tactic called ''parking the bus''. Now the last 15 minutes had come, and it was time to do something about the score line for Sean. At the 85th minute, the ball was in Matt's box, between Sean's player's feet. He took the shot the best he could, earning a praising expression on Matt's face, but the ball did not end up in the net, instead, it ended up in the goalie's hands. Matt, less confident felt lucky that Sean had missed that, because a decade of bragging would have followed. Then the whistle blew, Matt's face changed from relief to disbelief, a penalty had been awarded to Sean. ''86th minute penalty'' Matt said, surprised and quiet. Sean could only laugh, his chance had finally come and it was one of the easier routes to leveling the match. Hand covering his mouth, Matt looked at Sean, secretly hoping he would somehow miss the penalty. However, during his laugh, Sean suddenly stopped, as if he remembered something, and said ''I flash to sleep. I fla- I have to sleep.'' He walked out with eyes so focused and in such passion to what he is about to do that he ignored Matt's question, ''Sean, what is it?'' In addition, not for the first time that day, Matt uttered the words ''what the fuck''. Sean left.