So I just had to go for lectures nevertheless. I was about to enter the class when the Lecturer stopped me.
'Young lady, why are you coming to class late.... would you like to give me an explanation?'
I was shocked with the whole outcome, now everyone's eyes were now on me, paying attention waiting for what I would say.
'I had something urgent I needed to attend to' I replied, feeling tensed.
'What's with these teenagers and unnecessary priorities!?' I was speechless
She was about to face the board again until when she realized I was still standing there.
'You can come in, have a seat and open your text to page 346-7'
'Thanks ma'am' I replied.
All seats at the back were filled because obviously no one likes sitting at the front seat, on the second row there was a girl sitting alone, so I had to join her, checked my phone and it was only remaining 18 minutes to end the the class, great!, now I'm backwards.
~Adams' Pov~
My department had no lectures this morning and Coach already informed us earlier that we were going to have practice this morning.
Heading to the field my gang met me and they joined 'Hey, Adams' said Jayden, 'Hey, bro, finally resumed school' I laughed, giving him our bro-hand shake.
'Hey, I'm only 2 days late', Jayden replied, 'You' I scoff and continued 'You who was planning to spend for vacation for extra 2 weeks' I said as I laughed and others joined in.
'Come on, you know, I couldn't miss the Freshers' initiation' he blurted out
'Bro, stop, what if someone hears you' I reacted and whispered
'oh, sorry, the welcoming party for the Freshers'
'Geez!' I cooled off
'Yeah, I know, I know you can't miss some of the fresh meat, the party's gonna be lit' I said a I laughed they all joined in.
Scott came out of nowhere and approached me 'Adams, you have to talk to Coach, he kicked me out of playing for this season and for the whole 1st semester at that' he said with a worried face
'Well, did he tell you why he decided to take you out or bench you' I asked.
Scott avoided the question 'That's not the problem right now, I just need you to plead with coach for me to take me out of the bench' he said
'Okay, no problem, I'll talk to him' we arrived at the field and I the captain of their team 'The Auburn Dogs' went straight to Coach.
He blew his whistle and the team all ran to the spot were he stood.
'Okay, listen up everyone, this is a new season, a new year and a new semester, now I assume everyone of you have resumed, so we are officially going to start our soccer practice today, we are going to be having a lot of matches this season so get prepared!' and then he blew the whistle and assigned us to our different positions.
'Coach, I want to talk to you', I started, 'Concerning what?' he demanded, 'Scott came to me to tell me you pulled him out of the matches for the season, you benched him, why is that?'
'Because Scott, your friend had a failed grade last year and the committee noticed, Adams, he has been failing more than one class and it's not just for a semester, but for the 2 semesters last year, so he has to be benched, you know the rules Adams, you can't play on the team if you can't cope with having good grades..... and if he keeps it up with not studying, he'll be out of the team completely' I had nothing to say, Scott never told me he was failing classes, we were a team, he was supposed to tell me, no wonder he was avoiding my question, he has to move his grades up if he still wants to be a part of the Auburn Dogs, guess the decision is already made.
I went back to practice while going I heard the Coach say 'Teenagers and priorities' I was mad at what he said, this is the beginning of the year so new take ins were on the field, giving in their best to be on the team.
I, the captain was in charge of selecting who should be on the team.
While practicing I signaled to my guys that there would be a meeting after practice, a totally different meeting.