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.
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"We're now in the final minutes of the game, the final Five minutes. The Middle Mount Panthers are on Fifteen points, and the Wolverhampton Eagles still have no points on the board." The announcer says taking a short break before continuing.
"By now I think we all know who's going to win the Championships, the final game of the football season until the next year. Will the Wolverhampton Eagles be able to score Fifteen or more points in the remaining Four minutes, or will the Middle Mount Panthers take all and win their sixth Championship game." The announcer says.
I concentrate on getting the ball down the field, passing the ball to other players, when a player from the opposing team comes at me, I trick them using my fancy footwork or I pass the ball to another player. In this case I pass the ball to another player and soon the ball gets passed back to me and I score another goal making it Sixteen to nothing.
I run back to my position, getting few high fives on the way back. The other team now have possession of the ball, the referee blows the whistle. The player on the opposing team started to dribble the ball down the field towards us, I ran for the player using fancy moves to get the ball out of his possession all the while making sure I pass the ball to one of my team mates. Clifford, Michael Clifford catches the ball as I kick it away from the opposing player. I encourage Clifford to dribble the ball down the field and score a goal. We mange to score another Two goals making it Zero to the Eagles and Eighteen to us.
The final minutes pass by very quickly and I hear the siren sounding, signalling the end of the game. The whole team runs towards the coach celebrating out sixth championship win.
"What a game that was tonight, the Middle Mount Panthers smashed the Wolverhampton Eagles." The announce says.
The coach gives us a congratulations before we're going back onto the field to shake hands with the opposing players saying 'good game' after every shake.
Finally after the ritual of shakes and everything else, we have the trophy and medal ceremony where there's a trophy and medals awarded to the winners and medals awarded to, not trying to put it in a bad way, but, the losers. Our team graciously accepts the medals and soon the announcer and award givers are calling for the captain of our team.
I look towards my brother, my twin, and he nods back as he walks over to me and together we go up and accept the trophy before saying a few choice words of our own. Lou says his speech first.
"WHAT AN INCREDIBLE YEAR AND NIGHT THIS HAS BEEN!" Louis hollers into the microphone as the crowd erupts into loud cheers, the loudest being our family and our dearest family friend Sarah from Sarah's Diner. Lou hands he microphone over to me as that's all he had to say, I accept the mic, parting my brother and co-captain on he back before speaking.
"I haven't prepared this long, boring speech tonight and all I have to say is thank you. Thank you to all our families and friends, for supporting us in all of this. Thank you to all our fans, for supporting us as well as being at every single one of our games because without you we would have won six Championship games in a row. I know I said I didn't prepare this long speech and now it may be getting a bit boring and I'm sorry for that but there's one more super important person I want to thank. Coach can you come here for a sec." I pause motioning our coach to come stand with me, once he's beside me I sling my arm around his shoulder and with what I was saying.
"Without this man here this whole team wouldn't be who we are today. So I just want to say a massive thank you to our amazing and incredible coach. Thank you for everything you have done for us, you have helped every single one of us with anything we needed help with. I'm sure the other boys would agree with me here on this one, you are our father figure and all of us have pitched in to get you a special gift to say 'thank you for helping us get to six championship games'. Lou can you bring the gift forward." I say motioning Louis to bring the small bag forward.
I grab the bag off of him and hand it to the coach, he pulls it out and sees his own jersey we bough for him, exactly like out own. When he turns it around and seen the 'DADDY' as his name he chuckles and then he looks to where the '#1 COACH' is written, I see tears in his eyes. I hold the mic out for him and he takes it, a few tears falling from his eyes.
"Boys, this is amazing, thank you. Now I'm not usually one to get easily upset," he pauses for a little moment as the crowd chuckles, then he continues on.
"But this gift just made me shed a few tears. These boys right here" he pauses and motions to all of us then continues on.
"These boys are like my own sons, and them winning tonight makes me the proudest daddy, as my jersey says on the back," he holds the back of the jersey up to the crowd then finishes off.
"Thank you to my boys as well as everyone here tonight." The crowd erupts into cheers and applause. The coach hands the microphone back to the announcer as coach an I walk back to our team.
"What a night this has been folks, congratulation to the Middle Mount Panthers and also congratulations to the Wolverhampton Eagles for making it to their first Championship game. That is all for tonight folks, have a good evening." The announcer says as everyone begins to disperse from the bleachers, families coming onto the field and going over to their children.
Lou and I are walking together towards the locker rooms to shower, when we see our younger sisters and brother running toward us. When they get to us they all give us a big group hug, shortly followed by our parents. We give our parents a hug and then we lean down to give each of our siblings an individual hug. When I get to Lotte she try's to hug me from a distance but I don't take it like that, I pull her into me and lift her of the ground.
"You stink," she says loud enough for everyone else to hear as the other erupt in a chorus of laughter, Lou and I laughing as well. I put Lottie back down and say to here.
"Well Lou and I were heading towards the showers but you and the other decides to run and give us a hug. Couldn't it have waited little Miss Charlotte?" I question in a joking manner, she looks down shyly then looks back up.
"Yeah it could have, sorry." She says blushing and looking down again. I get down to her level, grabbing her chin to look at me.
"It's alright baby girl. No need to be sad about it, it's fine." I say letting go of her, getting back to my height and looking to Louis and then to our family.
"Right, as Lottie said 'I stink' so I guess Lou an I should go shower, so guys if you could excuse us." I say as everyone nods and signals for us to go shower. I sling my arm over my twinny and together we head for the showers. What a night it has been so far, and the night has only just started.
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