Kicking & Screaming by Steve Moore

Author:Steve Moore
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2018-02-19T05:00:00+00:00

After Carlos calmed down and tossed his stuff on the couch, we explored the hotel.

It was crawling with soccer players from the top floor to the bottom floor and everywhere in between—in the elevators and the hallways and the lobby and the pool and the Jacuzzi and the wimpy flower beds.

And wherever we wandered, players from other schools were gossiping about a mysterious player on the Nike Preparatory Academy team who supposedly was the best soccer player his age in the entire universe.

(That last one was my favorite.)

Few people outside of Nike Prep knew the mysterious player’s real name, but his nickname was Thunderfoot.

I met him early the next morning at the Laurensville Garden Hotel’s delicious buffet breakfast. (Not a commercial endorsement!)

I remembered Thunderfoot from football season.

He was the kicker for Nike Prep who once booted a football barefoot out of Spiro’s stadium, over the parking lot and onto Seventh Avenue. It landed on the roof of a police cruiser a block away and almost created a SWAT incident.

And I’m not even making that up.

At breakfast, Thunderfoot was standing barefoot in line ahead of me waiting to get waffles, even though his plate already was piled high with scrambled eggs, bacon, sausage, biscuits, and hash browns.

It was early in the morning when ordinary people would be grumpy and puffy-eyed and their breath would smell like a sock that was worn way too many days in a row.

But Thunderfoot is no ordinary person. His eyes were bright and shiny. He turned around and gave me a big smile.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.