High School Football Short Story

All it took was one push for me to have 31 and ¾ of a tooth instead of 32. I had just finished my snack at afterschool, apples and peanut butter to be exact, and had decided to go play football on the blacktop until my parents arrived. I was in fifth grade, and all of the other kids playing were in 6th grade and way bigger than me. I would have probably been the last one picked for a team but my friends was one of the captains so he picked me second to last. I played through almost the whole game without touching the ball once. Eventually the other team stopped even covering me so my teammates were forced to throw to me. The first one I dropped but it wasn’t my fault. If you are just standing around for thirty minutes your mind sometimes goes to other thoughts, like what you’re going to have for dinner that night. The next ball thrown at me I made sure to catch though. I turned around to run towards the end zone and there was no one there. I moved my little legs as …show more content…
I rolled around on the ground holding my mouth. It felt like I had just been chewing glass. After what seemed like forever the afterschool counselors ran over to me. They brought me to the bathroom and told me to open my mouth to wash out all of the blood and the gravel. As soon as i opened my mouth a waterfall of blood began to pour out. By the time I had finished my mom had came to pick me up. Before I could even say a word my mom already had her fingers in my mouth, inspecting the damage. “You chipped your tooth!?!?”, were the first words out of her mouth. I had not even noticed. When I got home I opened my mouth in the mirror and saw it. My left front tooth, or as the dentists say the upper left central, was chipped. The moment I saw it I knew there was no way I was going to school the next day, but my mother had other plans. Despite continuous pleads my mother still forced me to go to school the next