Waking up at 7 AM, Abdi felt tired as always, he hated the mornings of every school day because he never wanted to wake up from his cosy warm bed and walk out around the cold house.
Getting up he went to the back of his door as he took off his pyjamas getting ready, putting on his school uniform with closed eyes he felt sleepy.
After a struggle to stay awake he put on his clip tie as he made his towards the bathroom to brush his teeth.
After brushing his teeth, he went to the kitchen as he made breakfast, sitting down he watched som KSI on YouTube as he waited for him mother to pick him up.
After and hour and 20 minutes his mum called.
*RING* *RING*
Picking up he heard his mum say she was outside, walking outside he grabbed his school bag along the way.
After getting inside the car he greeted his mum as he put on earphones, listing to some Juce Wrld, he looked outside the car window as he thought of playing basketball.
Getting to school at 8:45 he walked through the gate as he greeted his teachers.
"Hey miss Clark", "hello Abdi, you came early today", miss Clark smiled, laughing Abdi just scratched his head.
Walking towards the playground, he met up with his friends, greeting them, "yooo", "yo Abdi, last night we got a win after like 2 hours".
"Yeahh, nah Kevin you clutched up bro, that was hard not gonna lie", Abdi then greeted his other friends as they all then walked towards their first lesson which was music.
"You man, today imma try out basketball", hearing Abdi say that they all turned to him, "damn about time" a boy called Wesley said.
"Yeah bro you 5'10 even though your sick at football, i feel like basketball suits you more just because you tall".
"I'm just seeing if I enjoy bro, I might not even play after today".
As they continued talking, the bell rang indicating them to hurry to their classes. Running to the door, Abdi slowed down as he entered calmly.
"Hello Abdi, take a seat, today the class will take turns show the others how far they've come in their individual piano lessons".
Clapping her hands together, the first kid played 'chainsmokers closer', she had a nice tempo as she hit every note on time making it sound identical to the original song.
After and hour of everyone playing, it was Abdi's turn, he decided to play 'shape of you' by Ed Sheeran.
Getting his fingers warmed up, he calmed down his nerves as he slowly started playing, extremely focused he played every note to a T, coming to the end of the song he breathed a heavy sigh of relief.
"We'll done Abdi!, you really practiced", "thank you miss", Abdi said with a light smile.
After his lesson ended, he went to English. The day continued until it came to lunch. Walking out of geography he made his way to the cafeteria.
Walking in, it was loud as kids ranging from year 7 to year 11s chatted laughed and played around.
Walking to the line he squeezed in as he made his way to his friends that were standing near the front. "Yo, I cheated the line" Abdi laughed as he dabbed up his friends with them laughing.
After buying his food he walked out of the cafeteria as he made his way to the playground, he walked up to the year 10s playing basketball as he watched on the side eating his tuna sandwich.
After he finished it, he walked on to the concrete court as he said "yo, you man lemme run a game with y'all", the year 10s then looked at him as they asked "do you even know how to play?".
Abdi lying said "yeah, I play it sometimes", "Aight wait after this game there's only a point left". Abdi nodding stood on the side as he watched a black kid do a in between the legs as he hesi'd the ball making the other kid fall for the bait.
"Ohhhh, he cooked you shit!" Abdi said at the side, he then watched the kid blast past the defender as he layed up the ball. "That's game" Abdi said is he walked on.
"What were you man playing anyway?" Abdi asked as he picked up the basketball dribbling it, "it's king of the court, who ever scores 3 points states on and the loser gets off", the black kid replied.
"Oh say nothing let's play" Abdi then threw the ball at him as he defended pretty clumsily, the black kid seeing this dribbled the ball between his legs twice hitting a crossover which sent Abdi the wrong way.
Leaving him in the dust the black kid layed the ball up, "1-0", Abdi then picked up the basketball as he threw it back defending once more. The boy backing up on him pushed him towards the basket as he quickly hit a fadeaway on him.
"Ahh" Abdi caught off gaurd jumped late, the shot went in regardless of his defending. "2-0", "not gonna lie, your ass", the black kid said.
"I know, basketball isn't my sport football is" Abdi determined to not get 3-0 he defended straight away after giving the ball. The boy pump faked but Abdi didn't fall for anything as pushed against the kid preventing him from going towards the basket.
The kid seeing his unsuccessful attempt, he shimmied as he threw a sky hook but was off as it hit the rim. Grabbing the rebound Abdi went outside the circle and came back in.
Dribbling through his legs he looked the defense of the kid which was solid. Knowing he wasn't that great at basketball he decided to use his height, backing up pushing the kid away due to his power.
After getting to the basket, he turned as he jumped rolling the ball off his fingers hitting the net, "2-1" the kid on the side said. Giving the ball to the kid Abdi got in position.
Receiving the ball Abdi put it through his legs again as he decided to do a crossover this time, he successfully pulled it off as he created some space.
"Shit" the black kid caught off guard bit on the move, seeing an open space Abdi ran there as he decided to pull up from there shooting a jumpshot, the kid was too late but he still put his hand up, although meaningless.
*Clanck*
Hitting the back of the rim, Abdi kissed his teeth as the kid grabbed the rebound running to the outside, Abdi ran back as he defended but the kid shot a three pointer, hitting it.
"That's game", the kid on the sideline said as he grabbed the ball walking on the court. Abdi shaking his head moved out of the court as he watched them play. Getting bored he decided to meet up with his friends so he searched for them finding them.
"So Abdi, how was basketball?, Dayron asked, "ngl it was ok, but I got my ass beat so idk if I still wanna continue playing" Abdi replied.
"Nah bro just try it out on more time, we got P.E again today and we're playing basketball".
"Ok then let's see how it goes", they all then walked around and chatted for the remainder of the hour lunch break.
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