Tomlinson²

Chapter 1 (Louis)

Life is great, especially when you have someone to do everything with. You all might be wondering who I’m talking about, right. Well I’m talking about my clone, literally. My identical twin brother, Harry. Since day one, we’ve been inseparable; we’ve always done everything and gone everywhere together.

I’m lying here on my bed in my room throwing a mini football up in the air and catching it, waiting, just waiting for Haz to finish up in the shower and get dressed since we have a football match to practice for, which is tonight. I’m really looking forward to it, it’s the finals and whichever team wins this championship game will get a big trophy and I think, more people to sponsor the winning team. Our team the Middle Mount Panthers will win, we usually always win, and we’ve won the championship games the last five years, so I hope we make it the sixth. We’re playing against the Doncaster West Rovers, I’ll admit now that they’re all good players, but I don’t think they’re as good as us. I’m not trying to sound cocky or anything, I’m just saying. I’ve seen them play and all, but you haven’t seen our team play, like come on, we’ve won five championship games in a row and tonight we might make it six.

As I get out of those thoughts, and mindset I focus on the match ahead. As I’m deep in thought about the match that will be happening in a few hours there’s a knock on my door.

“Lou? I’m ready to go whenever you are” Harry states as he opens the door to my room.

“Yeah Haz I’m coming now” I state as I set the ball I was throwing on my bed, getting up and grabbing my duffle bag with all my football gear in it and slinging it over my shoulder. I quickly throw on a pair of old worn-out joggers and follow Harry down the stairs.

“Mum! We’re going to practice now for the big game tonight”

“Mum! We’re going to practice now for the big game tonight” Harry and I both call at the same time. We look at each other and chuckle since we said the same thing as we look away and at out mother, who is also laughing.

“Alright boys, I’ll see you two tonight for the game. Have fun and don’t get hurt before the final game of the season.” she says as she embraces us in a quick hug, giving each of us a quick kiss on the cheek.

“We won’t!”

“We won’t!” Harry and I again say at the same time. Our mum laughs as we make our way towards the door to leave.

“Whose care we gonna take? Mine or yours?” I question Harry once we get outside.

“We’ll take mine” he says, I nod in response as we head for his car.

Harry unlocks his car, we throw or bags on the backseat and hop into the car. We put on our seat belts and Harry carefully reverses out of the drive way. Soon we’re on our way to our school Middle Mount College, we have a big stadium on the grounds that we use for football, athletics and anything else. Its where tonight’s game will be held.

I reach over to the radio in Harry’s cars and turn it on to a random radio station. The drive to school is relatively quiet, the only sounds are our quiet humming or singing to song that come onto the radio.

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Soon after we are pulling onto the school parking lot, Harry parks his car in his usual spot and kills the engine. We get out of the car and grab out bags from the back seat and head over to the change rooms to get changed into our practice gear.

As we enter the change rooms I can hear the roar of our fellow teammates, Harry and I walk over to our lockers, greeting some of the guys as we go. We open our lockers, grab our practice gear out of our duffle bags and put them in our locker. We strip down, throw out clothes and shoes that we were wearing into our lockers and close the door. We quickly change into our practice gear, lacing up our shoes and heading out onto the field to meet the coach, ready for last minute practice.