HOME OF THE SPARTANS PART 1

I sat at the bleachers, as the coach walked with his large muscular frame, from the locker room at the start of the class, holding on to what we would be doing for today. As I had introduced myself as he looked at me weird trying to figure out if I was in the right class, as I confirmed it. 

He quickly warned that this will be the only time I will have to dress-down. And saying I better be ready for the next class. 

"Well, you peaked in college" I thought returning to the bleachers. 

Blowing on his whistle the coach pushed a cart of basketball in one hand, and lightly kicked a couple of volleyballs over to the nets. 

"All right kids, for the next few days we will be playing basketball and volleyball. Boys will start with basketball, girls will play  volleyball, then we will switch activities in a few day's. Now let's get started" as the coach gestured to one of the boys to grab the cart and move it over to the sideline.

I watched Angela with her skinny body and some of the other girls play while listening to music, as I looked at the awkwardness within some of the girls playing. 

I watched as they jumped up and down, trying to call plays but missed their marks due to lack of communication. But they ended up scraping by as the other team hit the ball past the line ending up in their win. 

I also watched  the boy's on the other end of the gym as a lot of them were bad but some of them have a little talent, as I saw a two-toned boy steal the ball and dunk on the other end of the court. Causing some of the boy's to cheer, and holler in amazement.

After getting some water and having a little break, Angela walked over saying, standing at the bottom bleacher. 

"How are you? How do you like class so far?" she said. Looking at me sitting on the 3rd row of the bleacher. 

"Entertaining, I think it's funny how you and your group are trying to communicate, it's like a cluster of birds scattering after a ball drops near them." I said, smirking. 

"Wow, we do look like that don't we?" she said, laughing at my joke. Looking back at the court watching the boys play their game. 

"Well you're better than they are, most of them play like kids using abused flashlights."  I said, as Angela took a sip of her water. But quickly spitting it out. 

She laughed for the next minute before calming herself, as others looked in our direction, wondering what happened. 

"AIDEN, that rude" she said, but still giggled at the joke. 

Angela and I talked a little bit more before a girl from her team called her over as they were up next to play again. Aiden went back to watching., but a ball came his way, almost hitting him but with quick reflexes he caught it, dropping it in the bleachers below him. 

He notices that some of the boys didn't like this and wanted to see him get hit, as one of the boys with complete disdain for what happened walked over.

"Hey can we have the ball back" he demanded, holding out his hand.

Aiden picked up the ball from the bleachers and walked down to the court. As he really didn't like high drama, but when someone challenged him for anything he always had to do so. 

"If you throw a ball at someone's face, you really fuckin need to say sorry to that person, huh." I said, getting irritated. 

"What are you talking about man, nothing hit you, there was no accident, you caught it. He said back with average height, golden brown skin, dark brown eyes, and of Asian descent, he was not intimidating anybody. 

As the other boy's stood looking at me as if I didn't belong. This whole time I was trying to be low key, as I didn't want to get into it with anybody on my first day. But shit like this just fucks me up. But I quickly had an idea. 

"Oh, so I'm lying, right?"

"Yeah, you are"

"Ok, would you like to play for it?" I said.

"What?" he said, clearly confused.

"Would you like to play for it? If I am lying I will say sorry, but if I win, the latter "I said, with a little smile. 

The boy paused for a second, unsure of what to do as he looked back at his teammates. "You can even have the wonder squad help you, too" I said, clearly trying to  instigate the whole thing. 

"Connor, Tyler," the short boy looked back. As the other two guys nodded, walking up. 

"Ight, Bet" I said, taking my jacket off, as this will be a fun game.