Going Rogue (At Hebrew School) by Casey Breton

Author:Casey Breton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: JUVENILE FICTION / Historical / General
Publisher: Green Bean Books
Published: 2020-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER

15

Tuesday Afternoon, Football Practice

I’m not sure how long I can wait until I get to use the lightsaber again. Like for real, not just lifting it up and putting it back down. I mean, that was okay, but I would hardly call it Jedi training.

Real Jedi training would be way more cool than that. I would need to be placed in a clan and taught political strategy, galactic law, language, and the sciences—yes, please, and thank you very much! I’d be taught the ways of The Force and all the proper forms of lightsaber combat. I’d have my own training lightsaber until I was sent to the caves of Ilum where I would find my kyber crystal and craft my own. There would be grueling graduation tests. I would be paired with a Master for one-on-one training.

See what I mean?

So this business of picking up the lightsaber and putting it back down seems a little rinky-dink, if you ask me.

“You seem quiet, Avery,” Mom says on our way to football practice, interrupting my visions of traveling through space with my Master on a Council-appointed Jedi training mission. “What are you thinking about?”

“Nothing,” I say, because I don’t think she understands Council-appointed Jedi missions, and I don’t have it in me to explain it again right now.

“Excited about football practice?” she asks.

“I guess.”

We pull into the parking lot. She turns to me and raises her eyebrows. “You guess?”

“I was just thinking about the stuff me and Rabbi Bob were working on,” I tell her as I scan the field. No sign of Rabbi Bob and his dogs spying on me yet. Just a bunch of players running laps. I see Damon at the head of the pack. “But I’m ready for practice. It’ll be good. We need it. Our first two games didn’t go very well.”

“Chin up, kid. I’ll pick you up at Gideon’s house after practice,” she reminds me as I get out of the car.

I jog over to the field and Gideon sprints in his ploddy Gideon way to catch up to me.

“Hey, Avery,” he says, out of breath, smiling.

As usual, Damon comes up from behind, about to lap us. “Oh, look,” he says, “it’s gill weed and his little friend.”

“Hey, Damon,” Gideon says with a friendly wave, like nothing between them has happened.

“If I were you, gill weed, I’d keep your distance,” he spits out, which makes zero sense. He’s the one who came up to us. “You’re lucky I don’t smash your face in for stinking so bad at football. If it weren’t for you, we might actually have a chance of winning,” he sneers and races ahead.

“Seriously, Gideon, why are you nice to that guy?” I whisper as we circle up with the team.

“Because I get the feeling no one else is,” he whispers back.

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