Tomlinson²

Chapter 2 (Harry)

It's an hour or so before the match, Lou and I had a quick dinner before rushing out of the door to get to school and be ready for our match tonight against Wolverhampton's Eagles.

All of the team has just finished changing into their uniform for the match tonight. We are all doing our own little things to get our minds focused for the game ahead. I hear the door of the change rooms open, echoing footsteps and then coach's voice soon follows suit.

"Alright boys, this is it. The game is only half an hour away, let's get ready to get out there." He pauses and looks at all of us before continuing.

"Now, I won't bore you boys like I usually do with my long speeches and all that jazz." He receives a few chuckles, and then continues on, "But whatever happens tonight, I just want to say that I'm proud of you boys. Now I'll hand it over to your captain or captains, however you want to say it. Tomlinson." I glance over to Louis and he gives me the go ahead to step up and give the usual captains speech that we say together or take turns in saying.

"Alright lads," I clap my hands together and then continue on with what I was saying. "Tonight's the last game of the season. As coach said before, no matter what happens out there tonight we will always be proud of your efforts in the game. Even if we lose, there'll still be the annual banquet and we'll still have a celebration no matter what happens. I'm not going to talk for much longer but guys, just remember this, do your best as that's all that matters tonight. Lou, wanna say a few things?" I question as I look at my brother as he steps up next to me.

"I think Harry here has covered it all. Just do your best tonight lads, that's all that needs to be done!" Louis says with an enthusiastic tone as he looks around, cheers and applause erupt from the coach and all the lads on the team, including myself. I give Louis a pat on the back to tell him good job as he does the same back.

"Alright boys" coach looks down at his watch and back up at us.

"It's show time! Let's get going" he says as Louis, coach and I lead the team out of the change room.

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"In tonight's game we have the champs of five years in a row! Lets welcome out our home team, the Middle Mount Panthers!" We hear the announcer announce as we all slowly jog out onto the field. Our supporters in the crowd roars as our team comes out into the stadium.

"This is the first time this team has ever been in the championships. Please welcome the visiting team, the Wolverhampton Eagles!" The announcer says as we're doing some quick warm up stretches as the supporters of their team in the crowd roars for them.

Soon after the Eagles come out, they do their stretches and then the referee call on the captains of both of the teams; I glance at Louis since we're both the captains as coach thought it'd be good to have two captains. Louis gives me the look saying he'll go for the coin toss, I nod to tell him to go. I watch as Lou goes up to the centre where the referee and the captain of the other team are waiting. The referee tosses the coin and Lou and the Eagles captain call out heads or tails. The coin lands back in the ref's hands and he flips it onto his arm, and then points to Louis. They have a short discussion of who gets the ball and then Lou is jogging back over to us.

"Right lads, we've got possession of the ball. Lets get this game started!" Lou says as he joins us again and we have a quick team huddle before going to our respective positions.

The referee blows the whistle and I'm off dribbling the ball down the field, an opposing player is coming my way, I quickly pass it over to Louis on my right. He dribbles it the rest of the way down the field and scores us our first goal of the night. We all give him high fives and pats on the back. The other team now has possession of the ball; Liam Payne on our team quickly snatches the ball off of him and dribbles it down the field, passing the ball over to Zayn Malik. Zayn dribbles the ball the rest of the way down the field using his fancy footwork to fool the opposing team when they run at him, scoring the second goal for our team. We give him pats on the back and high fives, our supporters in the crowd cheer for our two goals that have us in the lead.