Dark Cheetahs Narrative

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"Tobin, get up. Time for you first day of school," mom said excitedly as she shook me to try to get me up. "Your in sixth grade." I pretended to still be asleep, and I faked it pretty well. I tried not to smile. "I don't want to go to school," I mumbled from under my cotton covers. "Come on Tobin. It's going to be fun," mom claimed while starting to put away my clothes into my wooden drawers. "No mom, no it's not," I said with a tone. "Get up mom," mom said with a loud voice. "Why? you already ruined my life having me move here," I snapped. I wanted to go back to Tallahassee, Florida. "Great, then I can ruin it more by having you go to school. Now get up," she said threateningly. She ripped the warm cotton sheets off me. It was cold …show more content…
"What if I don't make the team. I was searching them up last night and they are the #1 ranked team in the district. Like seriously what if I completely fail," I said worriedly. Soccer was my life. I thought back to the time when I was captain of the Springmage Dark Cheetahs. Believe it or not we were actually the number 1 ranked team in the district. It was pretty cool. I still couldn't believe I Tobin Krubb had led them to victory. My dream is to become a U.S. Women's national soccer …show more content…
What if I don't make the team? "What if I make a fool out of myself," I asked Penny as we were walking up to school? "Ohhh don't worry you will." "I hate you." "Back at you." Me and my sister had a love hate relationship. She was in fifth grade and was as tiny as a munchkin. Not exactly what I wanted to hear while walking up to school, but that's just the way she is. My sister went right to find her class while I went to the office to figure out where my class was. I was walking there when a soccer ball went flying at me. The one boy yelled "heads." As soon as I saw it I chested the ball and kicked it right back into their hands. Everyone's mouth dropped. " Hey I'm Kerwin and this is tucker," he exclaimed while walking up to me. "Nice kick by the way," Kerwin claimed. "Thanks I'm Tobin. Do you think you could tell me where the office is," I asked? "Yeah down the hall and to the left," the boys said right on cue with each other. "Thanks," I said. On my way walking to the office I was thinking about how cute Kerwin was. I was practically drooling. I needed to get my act together. I got stopped again walking out of the office by two girls on the soccer team. They were staring at

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