The game

Jabril Gushiniere
Per.8
10-14-2009


The Game

First day of school
Try Outs
My name is Ronny Mulik; I play for uplift high school in Chicago, Illinois. I was born and raised in Louisiana and I moved to Chicago when I was 7. I’ve been playing basketball for as long as I remember. I’m going into my senior season at uplift and last year I averaged 37.5pts 6 assist and 7rebounds. People say I’m destined for greatness, But they really don’t know how my life is, they really don’t know me. Well in this story I’m going to give them a chance to know me.
Today is the first day of school; I’m excited but nervous at the same time. I’m driving my new 2009 Dodge Magnum to school but first I got to pick up my girl Michelle, I’ve been with her since my freshman year…But she’s been acting strange lately. She’s been acting like she’s up to something or she thinks im up to something, Either way im going to get to the bottom of it, Because we been together to long to keep secrets. She got in the car and I said to her
“Wusup?”
“Nothing”
“Why you always saying that, do you still want to be my girl? Because lately you been ignoring me like I did something.”
“It aint that, It’s just…”
“It’s just what?”
“You’re leaving me after this year, to go to college.”
“Do you really believe that im going to leave you, just forget about you? Is that the type of guy u think that I am? I thought I told you how much I love you and that I would never hurt you, why don’t you believe me?”
“I do believe you baby I just needed you to tell me that again.”
“So you are going to stop acting funny right. Cause I wanted to spend the night with you.”
“Yeah boo I’m straight.”
We had arrived at the school, as I was going in everybody was asking me what college I was going to and if I was going to go pro, I kept telling them I don’t know and I don’t know. I got to my first period class and I was excited. I loved school and couldn’t wait for the season to start.
Try outs are always funny to me. Everybody wants to be a basketball player even the guys who can’t ball. So when you get a group of guys who can’t play and scrimmage them it looks really funny. It was time for my team to go on and we were playing against this new guy’s team I never seen before. He didn’t intimidate me, nobody did, it’s just that I know everybody and seeing a new guy on my court was different to. So we get on the court and this new cat immediately begins talking crap, he says “you know you overrated right?’’ I already knew after he said that that he was just another hater, and I was going to kill him on the court. I’m 6’6; the only guy taller is my best friend Dwayne, and he’s on my team. So I’m going up for the dunk and I feel this kid pulling on my shoulder, It’s well known that I had surgery on my shoulder a couple of years back, So it angered me that he would grab my arm on purpose. I said to him
“What you grab me for? I had a wide open dunk”
“I was playing d; if you can’t handle it get off the court.”
“Nigga I’ll put you in the basket, we can go one on one right now for my spot. You win you get my starting 2 guard spot, I win you leave this gym.”
“You overrated and I’m going to expose you.”
I get this a lot; dudes come in the gym and try to prove themselves by playing me. They only end up getting embarrassed like this cat was about to be. I said to him
“What’ game partna?”
“24 by 2s.
“You not gone touch this ball.”
“Yeah we’ll see.”
We played to 24 and I won 24 to 0. I have to give it to him, I did miss one shoot so he did get the ball, but he tried to go to the hole and I put his shot off glass.
After tryouts I had to drop Dwayne off at home, but I was planning on going to see Michelle so I was in a rush.
“Ay Weezy, who you going to prom with?’’
“I don’t know, I was thinking about taking your girl.”
“You wish.”
“Ha-ha but I’m thinking about taking Jessica.”
“Aw ok man well get the hell out of my car I got to go see my girl.”

I went to Michelle’s house and called her to open the door. We was going to have a long night, And I was going to have a long season. But with my girl and my skills I should breeze through it.