The Big Game: A Short Story

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There once was a boy name Zach Lewis he played basketball and was a very good player. He loved to go to the gym everyday and play some ball with his friends. He went to the gym every Friday and Saturday the gym was called the YMCA. He had made the team his team was called Bell County Lions and he had a bestfriend but he played for another team called the Decatur Hawks and his name was Shaelin Reed and he’s really popular and was a fun and nice person and he was very smart.

The big game was coming up and Zach was ready in his last game he had scored 35 points, 10 steals, and 22 rebounds. Shaelin was ready to play against his bestfriend he had scored 45 points, 12 steals, 20 rebounds Zach and Shaelin had talk to each other before the game. Shaelin Reed was a All-Around All American and Zach was an All-Around Player that can do everything. Shaelin Reed other friend couldn’t play cuz he had a D+ in math class.
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They both got dressed and went to school they went to different schools so they split up and they both was talking to different people about were they going to the game or not. So school was over and the game was right after school so Shaelin went in the locker room and put on his jersey and went to

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