Breakthrough by A. L. Priest

Author:A. L. Priest
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group

7/FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20—GAME DAY: TROJANS VS. CARROLL COMETS

You couldn’t go anywhere in Troy, Ohio, without encountering a Troy Central High football schedule plastered on a shop window or a pocket version on a shopkeeper’s counter. Efram estimated that seventy-five percent of the cars he saw had Trojan bumper stickers. Some folks even sported red-and-white auto-window flags on game days. The sword-bearing Trojan mascot was everywhere, grinning fiercely from T-shirts, caps, posters, and even from more surprising sources.

“Efram! Get in here!” his mother called from the kitchen. She was cooking Efram a game-day breakfast and watching the small television on the counter.

“What?”

“Holy cow,” she said. “This town is officially football crazy.”

On the television screen, one of the local reporters wore a Trojan jersey and a red-plumed helmet.

Efram laughed nervously. The reporter stood on Troy High’s home field, the same field that Efram practiced on every day after school.

“…Tonight, our Trojans face the number-three ranked Carroll Comets. It’s early in the season, but they’re looking strong.” The camera pulled back to show Coach Zachary. The reporter jammed the microphone into his face. “What can we expect from the Trojans tonight, Coach Zachary?”

Zachary gave a big, white-toothed smile to the camera and said, “Well, Steve, I can’t predict the future. We had a lot of great players graduate last spring, and a couple games in, we’ve still got some kinks to work out. But once we get these kids working together, I think they’ll be unstoppable.”

Suddenly, Efram was overwhelmed by the weight of what was going to happen in the next few hours. The whole town would be watching.

“You okay, honey?” his mother asked. “You look a little pale.”

“I’m fine,” Efram said. He went back to his room to finish getting ready for school.

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