More from the book: "Back to school" by Tim Flener

Tim Flener   pg.30

The score was still tied in the fourth quarter. The players on both teams, could now see the reasoning for the conditioning during the two a day practices, before the season began. Uniforms were dirty and their minds were clear.
   “Okay, play action with Miller faking up the middle. Johnson you go down and out. Anderson, run a post. We'll see who's open.”
    Paul's heart started beating fast. Until this time in all the games, he had been used as a blocking tight end. They were looking for something different, sending him out on a post pattern.
    “Ready. Set! Hut Hut! The players leaped into action colliding on the line. The plan for play action worked as he pretended to carry the ball and ran into a wall of defense, including the fooled linebackers. leaving Paul with a one on one with the opposing safety. Paul acted as if he was going on a fly route and cut into an angled path towards middle field. The safety had continued a step or two down field realizing to late he had been duped!
    When Paul looked up as he cut, The ball was already in the air. It was the prettiest spiral he had ever seen. He felt no negativity. The play was working perfectly. The ball landed in his cradled arms as if the quarterback had handed it to him. Catching in stride he ran untouched running into the end zone.
The fans had already been standing while the ball was in the air. When Paul crossed the goal line you could hear the cheers and shouts, all the way back to Paul's neighborhood. But most of them were at the game
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Tim Flener    pg.31

    “TOUCHDOWN!” Shouted the referee as he raised his hands in the air. The band played the school song and confetti flew in the air covering the students and family in the bleachers.  The team met Paul and the quarterback as they ran to the sideline. John ran out and gave Paul a high five.  “Way to go man! Pretty good for a straight A student!”
     To the relief of their team the score remained the same and they had won again.
John, Jojo, Rachael, Jasmine and Paul headed to Paul's house to meet Mike and his girlfriend, Becky. The Anderson's, who invited some other players and their parents, were getting pizza. They were all arriving about the same time. Jasmine and Paul were the last ones to walk up to the door, when she jerked his hand he turned and she kissed him.
   JoJo yelled to them through the screen door  “C'mon sausage and mushroom. There's nothing better then sausage and mushroom. Pastor Will's going to pray for the food!”
   Paul turned to Jasmine and said: “Your kiss was better than sausage and mushroom."
“I bet you say that, to all the girls.”

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from the quick and easy read meant to help in a Jr.Sr. high school student's spiritual maturity and the glory of God.   Amazon.com