LOVE SICK : The Chaotic Lives of Blue Shorts Guys

SPECIAL CHAPTER: SHINING BRIGHTLY

“Green Team, fighting!”

“Blue Team, let’s go!”

“Green Team, yeah!”

“Come on, Blue Team!”

Loud cheers and encouraging shouts filled the basketball court as the final round of the tug-o-war was about to begin. There were many small boys wearing different colored shirts all around the court. Some were cheering for their team, some were cheering for their own friends. No one was backing down.

Since this was an important match–being the final and all–the two teams chose the oldest kids for this age bracket, the 3rd graders, to fill up more than half of their total team members.

“We’re ready! We’re ready!” A tall boy at the end of the line shouted to the one in the front in a blue shirt. As expected, all the stronger kids were in the back and the intimidating-looking ones were in the front. It seemed that Blue Team had chosen all the teachers’ most favorite students (or just from the entire 3rd graders) to be in the front. The Green Team, on the other hand, still hadn’t figured out their lineup yet.

Over a minute had gone by and it seemed the Green Team was finally able to make up their mind. They grouped up and yelled a cheer before each of them walked to their designated position. As predicted, the bigger boys were in the back. There was a Chinese-looking boy with round eyes and a red nose, as though he had a cold, in the front of the line.

A neat looking boy was leading the Blue Team. He kept staring at the boy with the big round eyes opposite of him. The referee blew the whistle and started off this fierce competition.

All the boys around the court were cheering them on. The female teachers were having fun watching this match too, because it seemed neither of the teams were losing any strengths as proven by the red cloth that was tied in the middle of the rope. It was still in the same spot as when the competition began. Both teams were giving it their all.

“Green Team, fighting!”

“Blue Team, fighting!”

“Green Team, fighting!”

“Blue Team, fighting!”

It wasn’t just the teams competing that weren’t losing any strength, but the same was for the boys that were cheering them on too. The boy in the front of the Blue Team wiped the sweat on his forehead with his arm. The sun was getting to him. On the other hand, the boy with a light skin from the Green Team seemed perfectly fine. But then, something seemed wrong. Something was happening to him.

“Ah…ah…ah…ah…”

The boy in the blue shirt noticed that something was happening to his competitor. His dark eyes were staring at the boy whose thin eyebrows were slowly moving closer. That boy’s red nose was twitching as though he wasn’t paying any attention to the competition when he was supposed to.

“Ah…ah…ah…ah…”

The boy’s half-closed round eyes began moving closer. His red lips were frowning. The boy in blue lost his focus for a moment as he watched what was taking place in front of him.

“Achoo!”

A loud sneeze came out of those red lips and nose. He let go of the rope. Everyone else was so startled by this that they also let go and fell over in a messy pile.

“Ow!”

All of the boys, big and small, were crying out in pain. The boy who started all of this got the worst of it as he had scraped his light-skinned knees. The referee and the teachers all rushed in to check on everyone.