Another Friday had come by; we won another football game and felt like we were on cloud nine. After a few games due to the football team not winning too many games in the past, the coach was happy with these continuous wins and wanted to continue using me as a quarterback, among other things.
I know that I would have to put a stop to it soon since the basketball season was coming up soon. After the game, we were celebrating at a restaurant when I took my phone to check the time and noticed I had gotten a text from LeBron, so I quickly checked the message.
It said that tomorrow they were having a festival over at Akron, Ohio. I got excited when I saw this text and quickly left the team, saying that I had things to do. They were surprised by this, but let me go since I had helped them quite a bit with these past games.
When I got home, I told the whole family about it and asked if anybody wants to go with me that way, I can book the plane tickets to see if we can get a flight out there tonight. Flo declined to go after hearing Ivy say that she wanted to go. Rasta also refused to go, which surprised me because he usually wanted to go everywhere with me, but I didn't say anything. I had security details going with me, so I didn't mind.
Opal, Ivy, and Isabella were the lucky three that were going with me along with my security guard. Isabella was excited after she found out she was going to get on the plane again. Going on the plane always excited her. That night I found a flight that was going out to Ohio around 4 am, so we quickly got ready.
We got to the airport and boarded the flight later on in the night. The airport was quite quiet at this time of the night; there were still a few people that were boarding in the planes. We found our seats, and that's when I relaxed a little bit after seeing that we made it.
The trip was long, but short we reached Ohio in a few hours, and after coming off the plane, I had notified LeBron when we had gotten to the airport. LeBron sent a car to come to pick us up, and when we got to the airport, a strange guy was holding a sign with my name on it.
The guy had a basketball on his head, which made me laugh quite hard when I saw this. I was wondering why Lebron had set this guy up like this. The guy noticed this and said that this weekend was a basketball festival, so everybody was in the festive mode when it came to basketball.
Isabella was excited about the festival after seeing the man's hat. We got on the vehicle and left for Lebron's home. We went through a couple of security checks before we got to his house; it seemed like he had reached the place renovated from the last time I was there, which shocked me.
Lebron was outside waiting for us, so welcome us, as soon as we got out the car he came and snatched up Isabella while grinning at me. I asked him what was wrong with him, and he told me that he was having a basketball tournament with a cash prize of $100,000. It was going to be a one-on-one tournament, and no NBA players were allowed.
After hearing that, I also got excited about this festival, and I told him to sign me up. After having breakfast we left for the festival which was in downtown Akron, the place was full of basketball activities, and there was a vast Court in the center of it which I assumed was going to be where the basketball tournament was taking place.
They had many games, and even some arcade games were located there when I was a kid in my previous life. I used to love video games, so I decided to try some of the games with Isabella. We tried some of the portable basketball games. A guy that was working with the hardest portable basket was ripping off people with his basketball games.
People were in the Line struggling to make their shots to win the oversized stuffed animals. When it was finally my turn, I asked Isabella which animal she wanted, and she told me she wanted the black panther, so I told the guy to get the Black panther ready for me, but he didn't take me seriously and took my money and prepared me to take the shot.
The basket was pretty far for people who didn't play basketball, so it was no wonder that most people couldn't shoot it and to win that black panther that was as big as a grown man I had to make at least five baskets in order.
I shot the ball first and made it; the guy said it was a lucky shot, so I continue to make the shots. The guy started to grow nervous, thinking if i was some kind of NBA superstar. I finally made all five winning the prize. The guy didn't look too happy about it, and the crowd was cheering because most of the people there got ripped off by him.
Some people even started to take the opportunity to pay me to get them some of the supersize dolls for them, which I didn't mind since the guy was such a dick to me in the first place. I started shooting for everybody when they paid for me. The guy was so pissed off because he was losing all his prized possessions.
The crowd was cheering for me as I made basket after basket, and a considerable group had even appeared behind me at this point. LeBron had gotten word that I was causing trouble in one of the game stalls. He came to take a look and was laughing when he found out what exactly happened.
The guy that worked the stall was hated for ripping off so many people, but he had finally met his match, which was me. After I emptied all his super-sized prizes, that's when I decided to leave, he was not happy at all after being cleared out and was even thinking of ways to get me back.
LeBron saw that glare in his eyes and warned him not to try anything, putting him back in his place, remembering that he was just a vendor. LeBron's event went by, and people started to sign up for the one-on-one tournament.