My Battle For Equality

Chapter 5

This is a picture of Thomas.

"Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become."

-Steve Jobs
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It was a soccer ball. One of the guys kicked it in the wrong direction.

I jumped in front of Thomas, caught the ball with my hands and fell on the ground. I looked at the boys to see if they were okay.

"That was a nice catch." The guy who kicked the ball to me said. He was looking surprised. I saw that the other boys also looked surprised except for my brothers they looked proud at me.

I really don't understand when people say 'you throw like a girl' or 'you catch like a girl'.

Let me show them what this girl can do.

I kicked the ball right in his stomach.

The poor boy fell on the ground.

"You almost hit a 4 year old, you idiot." All the guys and even the kids began to laugh.

Ayoub came to me to give me a high five, he couldn't even walk straight, because he was laughing to hard.

"That's my sister." I heard Souf saying to everyone.

"Alright I think I deserved that. My name is Ilias. And you're Christiano Ronaldo?" The guy said with a smile. He was tall with almost black curls. And was wearing a white shirt with some gray sweat shorts.

"No, I wish." I returned his smile.

"Do you want to play?" He asked.

"She is on my team because she is my sister. Together we will beat all of you guys." Soufiane said.

I was hesitating because I didn't want to leave the kids alone. I've watched to many movies where the kid gets kidnapped by some really scary and creepy people. Like Taken, Split, Kidnap,...

"Can we please play? Mohammed asked me while they were looking at me with puppy eyes.

Nobody can resist puppy eyes.

"Can they play too?"

"Yes, why not."

It was actually really fun. The guys were hilarious and actually gave us the ball a lot of times. Not like those boys at my school where they would never give the ball to a girl.

They were very nice to the kids. The guys would let them score and carried them on their shoulders.

After my team won twice we sat on the ground.

"How does it feel to be beaten by a girl and two kids." Ayoub asked to Ilias. Ilias is the guy from before, to whom I kicked the ball in the stomach.

"Oh come on the only reason you won is because those boys would jump on me when you wanted to score." He said.

"I'll buy you guys ice cream if you will be on my team the next time." James promised the kids. They were both nodding their heads.

Traitors.

They are so easy to bribe.

Kids these days don't even know what loyalty is.

James was another guy who we played with. He had the looks of a typical American boy with brown eyes and blond hair. He was wearing some jean shorts and a black shirt.

"Thomas Robert Smith why are you sitting next to that terrorist over there?" I heard a high voice yelling.

It was his sister, the girl he pointed at earlier. All her friends were standing behind her like they were the freaking Power Rangers.

I stood up.

"I turn my head for one second and you were already making friends with Aladdin over there"

Is she stupid?

Couldn't she came up with a better insult? Or at least compare me with someone with the same gender?

"Do you know that I have been watching your brother for more than one hour? Because his own sister was to busy talking to some guys. How could you be so careless?" I said to her.

"I don't need advice of a girl whose parents are now probably bombing a place." She said to me while here minions were laughing fake.

"Oh, you want to see a bomb? Let me show you one. Give me one second to grab my bag." I grabbed my back and when I turned around I saw all the girls running as fast as they could.

They fell for it every time.

I looked at Ayoub and we bursted in laughter and everybody followed. We didn't stop until our jaws were starting to hurt.

"Dounia, you were joking, right?" Thomas asked me with a scared face.

"Yes of course, buddy." I took my bag and pulled out what was inside of it. There was a book that Leila bought for me, my phone, my wallet and a bag of Skittles.

I gave everyone a handful of Skittles.

"Oh Dounia, that was the funniest thing that I've ever seen. I'm so happy that I know you because this is going to be a very interesting year." Ilias said with a big smile.

"That was Samantha Smith. The most popular girl in school and the biggest brat. You've just committed social suicide." James said.

Amazing.

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Author's note

I can't believe my book has been read for 100 times.

Can someone pinch me.

For some people it doesn't seem a lot but I just see a place filled with 100 people.

Please comment as much as you want.

Thanks for reading.

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