Crack, the sound of a baseball being sent right out, fills the park. A young teen ran around through the bases. He had just struck a massive home run before returning to the dugout. The entire baseball team of red and white jerseys came running and flooded the baseball field. Johnathan Middleton won their middle school's first title after the massive celebration was over. Johnathan walks over to his younger brother. "You call Mom, already?" he asks, excited to tell their grandmother what happened: "he looked up to his older brother, taken aback by his brother."
"Yeah, I just got done talking with her. She's on her way now; she's excited to hear about your home run."
"Awesome," he said, wearing a massive smile on his face hour passes as a red truck pulls up to them as Grandma Middleton speaks out to her grandchildren.
"Hey, Boys, I heard y'all won." She holds her arms open for them
They run up and kiss her on the cheek. "Hey, Grandma."
"Yeah, I hit the game-winner," he says with a giant smile on his face
"That's amazing, baby; what about you, Andre? You had a good game, too?"
Nods. "Yeah, I got to third base in the middle of the game to put us up," he said, happy to speak about his accomplishment that nobody else on the team mentioned.
"That's an amazing baby, well you boys get in, imma whip you up a big dinner," she said, getting back in and starting up the truck. Johnathan & followed behind; Johnathan sat in the front and Andre in the back right behind him as they both buckled in*
"Here we go, boys." she buckles in herself and starts to drive. The drive took about an hour or so. Both the boys had fallen asleep pretty exhausted from their game. As the car pulled into the driveway, Grandma Middleton turned around. She spoke to her grandbabies
"Boys, we are here." her voice was just loud enough to wake them up but not startle them as she unbuckled herself
Johnathan & Andre Wake up from their hour nap rubbing their eyes. As they both hop on and follow Their grandma into their house
"You guys go in and wash up before; I'll reheat dinner quick," she said as she washed her hands before getting the food heated up. Johnathan: He had gotten to the bathroom first and finished washing his hands first as he came out of the bathroom quickly, getting seated. "See Ya, the slowpoke.
"Hey!" He waited behind his brother before getting to wash up himself before rushing to the dinner table himself
"Slow down baby, the food ain't going nowhere," *Grandma Middleton says to a running Andre*
"Yes, ma'am," Andre says, getting seated and eating his dinner.
The boys finished their food before they returned to Jonathan's room to play video games before school in the morning. The two boys decided to play Road Brawler 2; they picked their characters. The two characters were the protagonist and the deuteragonist.
They were two brothers who used the same style in different ways. The two boys select the map and get to fighting; it becomes a very close match as the two fight, both getting around each other. In the final round, the fight stayed close; however, Johnathan pulled out the victory, barely beating his brother once again. Andre was downcast about trying another loss but smiled through it, not wanting to bother with something that minor.
"Night, Dre. Good game," says Johnathan, smiling as he hits the lights in his room.
"Good Night, John," Andre says as he heads back to his room for sleep. He woke up to the sound of his alarm clock going off and got ready before heading to the kitchen for breakfast
He saw Andre come in just as he finished his breakfast. "Morning, Sleepyhead. I grabbed you an umbrella; it's supposed to rain like crazy today."
Andre Smiled lightly in response. "Thanks, Grandma; thanks, John."
"Yeah, see, you tell Cody I said hey," he said as his friends picked up Johnathan early. He had student council duties to handle early
"Yeah, ok, I will, he said, finishing his breakfast and heading out to wait at the bus stop. As he waited, he saw a boy with jet black hair with white streaks in his hair and dyed paled skin boy*
Cody called out to his friend. "Yo, Dre," he said as he ran the rest of the way up, "I heard about you and Johnathan's game. Congrats, dude."
Andre looked at him with a confused face. "I appreciate it, dude," he said with a big smile. "But what's up with your hair? You get dared by someone?"
Cody gives Andre a side-eye. "I don't like what you're insinuating, but if you must know, he shrugged. "Well, I don't know. I wanted to try something new, you know.
"I think it looks nice," AnAndre says with a big smile.
Cody "I hope you're not just saying that, but I appreciate your compliment." he says with a bit of a side.
"Now I don't like what you're insinuating," Andre says, sighing a bit. Two boys continued to talk as the school bus pulled to the two.
Andre & Cody hopped up on the bus and took a seat now, discussing some new games that were going to drop*. The School bus eventually arrived at school, and crowds of students could be heard talking about Johnathan Middleton, the baseball star could be heard all around.
Andre felt a bit insecure about all the praise his brother got while he got none. "Say I'll see you after school, man; I'll ask grandma if you can come by the house later."Cody smiled and gave Andre a first bump on his shoulder. "Awesome, see you after school," he said as he headed off to class. Andre sat through class, paying enough attention to get notes and catching glances at his crush, Mia Winters.
He had been working up the courage to ask her out, and after a good game yesterday, he felt today was the day. "Please let me not mess this up."After the First period had ended, a wave of students came out of the class. Andre Called out to Mia before she headed to a class near a private place near the lockers. "Hey, uhh Mia, I was wondering if you were interested in going out with me sometime," he said with a nervous face.
Mia smiles and responds, "Oh, Andre, you are so sweet, but I have my eyes on someone else right now; but you're amazing," she says in a kind, light-hearted tone.
Andre frowns "....I see. Well, thanks. Sorry if this was awkward for you," he says, pretty bummed out by the whole interaction
"Oh, don't worry about that; I hope you find the right girl for you, though," she says, patting her shoulder and walking off after the last bell of the school day.
A pretty bummed-out Andre made his way through as he saw Mia talking to Johnathan. He walked close enough to overhear their conversation
"So, Johnathan, would you go without me?" she asked, enthralled
Johnathan replies, "Sure thing, that sounds pretty nice, honestly."
Andre was already feeling frustrated. He ran off after overhearing tears starting to well up in his eyes. He ran off, just wanting to return to his room at home, not noticing a drunk driver running the red light. Johnathan ends up seeing his running brother and chases after him as the two reach the crosswalk
"Andre!! WAIT!" *called out Johnathan with a resounding yell that came up. Andre reacted too late to notice a car had run a red light. His life flashed before his eyes as everything froze, but before the car could hit him, he seemed to fly back.
Looking back, he saw Johnathan had pushed him out of the way... As Andre hit the ground, he heard a haunting crunch.
Andre looked up to see his big brother, and as his eyes filled with tears, he let out a blood-curdling scream, "JOHNATHAN!!!!!!!"
Chapter End