Girl Fights Back (Go No Sen) (Emily Kane Adventures) by Antoine Jacques

Author:Antoine, Jacques [Antoine, Jacques]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Amaterasu Press
Published: 2011-07-12T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13: The Big Game

Well, maybe it wasn’t the “big” game. To be precise, it was really just another game, an away game, down in New Castle, against the Craig County High School Rockets. But Wayne wanted to go see it, and Emily thought it would be good to see her friends in action. She’d never been to a football game before. Of course, Wayne went to all the home games. He was especially looking forward to explaining the game to her. When Billy heard she was coming he got her a Chargers football shirt. It was bright orange. Emily wondered what she could wear with it. This was all new to her, not just the football game, but also wondering how to match clothes in an outfit. In the end, she decided just to wear it under her new UVA hoodie with some old cargo pants. In other words, back to her old style camo. Except for all the orange.

Emily picked up Wayne around ten. Because of the long weekend, the game was held a little earlier than usual, at noon. The ride to New Castle took about an hour and a half. They drove on winding mountain roads through the Jefferson National Forest. The trees were losing their autumn colors, but it was still a glorious landscape. She knew the roads back here well, the trails less so.

She had explored much of this area with her father the previous summer. They hiked back here for weeks. It was one of their more rigorous “survivalist” trips. They brought no food or water with them. Just sleeping bags, some empty bottles, the usual camp tools and a sling shot. Emily had wanted to bring a bow, but her father said no. He claimed it would require a special license and he didn’t want to take the trouble. Of course, she knew that wasn’t the real reason. He had a Sportsman’s License already. He always had one no matter what. She also thought it was extremely unlikely a Ranger would ever find them back in the woods. He just wanted to make her learn how to use the slings. And she got to be pretty good with both kinds, though she preferred a sling to the sling shot. She didn’t manage to bring down any game with either one, but she got good enough to hit a stationary target from fifty feet even with the sling. One side effect of this training: she noticed little round rocks on the ground. When she checked her pockets at the end of a day, she often found one or two, even if she couldn’t recall picking them up. The best, she thought, were about the size of a peach pit, though rocks about the size of a chicken egg would go further in the sling.

Wayne rambled on about the rules of football the whole way down. Apparently, each team is really composed of two separate teams that take turns wrestling their opponents for control of the ball.

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