Story+Writing+Oskar

It was a cool summer’s day; everyone was outside playing a game of football. Everyone except Jack Horner. He had never liked sports. He was eating a blueberry pie and thinking about a spelling test. He then stuck out his thumb into his lunch box a got out a plum. He then thought what a lucky boy I am.

Two boys were always together playing football. They’d always battle to see who was better. The first was a boy named James Chambers and he was a striker. The second was called Sebastian Blanc and he was a goal keeper. At the age of 13, Sebastian thought that he was going to get the MVP award after an almost perfect season. He was wrong, James got the award. Sebastian was disheartened about how he didn’t get the award. He then thought that he would join the Marist club on the other side of town, he’d show those United. The next season, Sebastian’s side faced James’ team in the final. “Finally, payback time” said Sebastian. He was wrong. Marist lost 5-0 to United and James scored 4 of them. After the fifth goal, James said “you haven’t changed a bit”. This made Sebastian mad but he contained his anger the rest of the match. The next year, Sebastian didn’t play for a club; instead he worked on things with his parents such as handling and reflexes. In the local newspaper it always said how great James was and how he won them the town football shield. One day, thought Sebastian, one day I’ll show them how good I really am. That night, all Sebastian couldn’t help thinking that he’ll never be as good as James, ever since he was six, he couldn’t stop James from scoring goal after goal. It wasn’t fair, he’d put more work into football than James had and yet, James was MVP for reps now. Sebastian knew though, that he couldn’t give up now, not after years and years of training. He’d started playing at the age of five and to give up thirteen years later would be a massive waste of time and money. The next year, they met in the first match of the season and attracted a huge crowd, half of the town were watching. The first whistle blew and they were off. James took a few shots from distance but kept out by Sebastian. The score was still 0-0 at half time. Sebastian’s confidence was raising every save. It was the 90th minute and with only stoppage time to go, it was still 0-0. Then a free kick outside the box for United, James took the kick, it beat the wall but it was going to be an easy catch. Sebastian jumped but dropped it into his own net. United fans were cheering and the game ended 1-0 to United. That was the only hiccup that Sebastian faced all season and only lost one more and drew two. This meant that they’d be in the final. But they were playing United away from home so this was always going to be tough. Meanwhile, the Leeds team were looking for a few players to sign. They were especially looking at James and Sebastian. James was he one though who was getting watched though. So a Leeds scout was told that there was James and Sebastian to look out for. He was then told to watch them play on the upcoming Sunday. The whistle blew and they were off. James took the ball inside the box, he dazzled the last defender but Sebastian was quick to get the ball. James tried his luck from range but Sebastian had it covered. At Half time, it was still 0-0 James’ patience was wearing thin. That didn’t help James as he missed one by a mile. Finally, after 86 minutes, James shot one low into the right corner, only to be saved by Sebastian. Sebastian kept his side in the game with show stopping saves. The score was 0-0 at full time, and nothing happened for the first half of extra time. Then it happened. With one minute to go, James snapped, the ball was caught by Sebastian but James ran up to him and elbowed him straight in the eye. The ref saw it and gave James a red card. Sebastian recovered for the penalty shoot out. Clearly, the scout wasn’t impressed with James, but he was with Sebastian, he was already thinking of the signing and salary fee. It was penalty shoot outs. One superb save in the fourth shot Sebastian to give Marist the advantage; only they blew it with a shot that cleared the crossbar. United struck the ball but Sebastian kept it out. Now Sebastian had to shoot. He struck it low into the left corner. The keeper had no chance. Marist had won the shield. There was a wild celebration by the Marist team, it had been seven years for this team to win a shield but they’d done it now. The scout manager then took Sebastian over and offered him a four year contract. Of course he had to take it. Sebastian is still playing for Leeds as Leeds was the local club and .it would only take him 10 minutes to go to training. Sebastian still plays for Leeds as the number one goalkeeper. As for James, he never got to play for any professional club. Morals: Never give up/ Life is not a sprint, it’s a marathon.