"Thanks, but no," said Lucas with his head held high as he looked at Jimenez.
Jimenez's dark brown eyes, slightly shaded by his blue baseball cap, went wide, as Lucas had never seen a pair of eyes go wide before.
"W-what did you say?" Jimenez asked after a few seconds in silence.
Lucas didn't back down. "I don't want to go to A-Team."
At that moment, Coach Eddie abruptly turned Lucas' chair, who was sitting next to him. Eddie looked at him seriously and said:
"Lucas, what are you doing? This isn't a time for jokes. It's your future we're talking about." Eddie was worried, and it was the first time he had shown anything like this.
Lucas looked reassuringly at him with his eyes. "I know, Eddie."
When Lucas turned to look at Jimenez again, his chin was still down, his mouth ajar and his brow furrowed. Then Jimenez raised his eyebrows and shook his head a little, as if he still didn't understand.
