Armeet NaNoWriMo

5 years ago

Ace was 10 when he discovered volleyball, He had gotten hold of the tv remote; and was clicking through the channels on the small screen. Light brown eyes glued on the colors going over the screen.

It was then that he stumbled across some sort of sports game. There were no more than six players on each side of the court, separated by only a net. The brightly coloured jerseys zooming across the screen. They were jumping left from right, smacking a ball into the other court. It looked like the ball would have hit the floor but no. Number 7 got down low and made sure that the ball was in the air.

The thing that Ace found odd about number 7 was that his jersey had a different color the the rest of the team. He had a green one with red stripes on the sleeves, as the others had red with green stripes. Ace wanted to learn. He wanted to know what they were doing, and how. He wanted to know the rules of the game. He looked behind him at the couch, as he was on the floor. "Mom, what sport is this?" he asked his mother. She looked up at the screen "looks to be volleyball sweet heart. Do you want to play it?" she could see the joy and enthusiasm in his eyes.

Ace nodded. Volleyball... He wanted to play volleyball.

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Present day

-wosh- the sound of Ace's jacket flapping behind him as he rushed in the halls. He bumped into quite a few people as he ran, he didn't care though. He was more then happy to care. Ace was one giant leap closer to his goal.

First his request to make a volleyball team was approved over summer, now four other people where interested in joining the team! Thanks to the posters he made over summer. Now most of them got taken down due to ignorant students, or janitors that didn't like the way they looked. There were a few still standing!

Now there wasn't enough people to play in any games just yet. That was why he was on the way to one of the offices. The sports one to be exact. Lost in thoughts he almost ran past it. Stopping her looked at the sign on the door. Fitness & sports office. With a deep breath he pushed open the door. "hello sir. I'm Ace Pillar, here for the volleyball announcement?" he introduced himself to the secretary sitting behind the desk.

A tall man with glasses, And brown hair tat seemed to fall perfectly over his head. "Ah yes Ace! Good to meet you, I'm Oliver McGraph. Your here to make an announcement right? My husband told me you would" he smiled. Ace nodded, recognizing the last name as the principals. "yes I'm here to make the announcement." Speaking much more formal then he would normally.

Mr. McGraph went to a black box of sorts that had a microphone, and messed with a few of the buttons. "Whenever your ready, just talk into the microphone. Hit the red button when your finished" his words were calming in a way. Ace nodded, and walked around the desk so he was closer to the box, "Hello everyone, I'm Ace Pillar if you are even the slightest bit interested in playing a sport called volleyball please come meet me after school in the gym. I'm starting a school team, you don't need to have any experience in the sort or know what it is. Only a will to learn. Umm thanks?"

He hit the red button. Hopefully that was good. He wanted at least six or so people, including the ones that already showed up. With a thanks to the secretary Ace was off to his first class of the day.

The rest of the day had gone by smoothly but oh so slow. Per usual math was a pain, Andrew his friend helped him through it. By help he gave him his paper and let him copy the answers down. Andrew was one of Aces best friends, he had black hair and blue eyes. Just about every girl in the school thought he was cute. To bad for them as Andrews looks were not on par with his hyperactive personality.

Ace would always tease him on this, in return Andrew teased him about his freckles witch covered a majority of his body. As soon as the final bell rung Ace went straight to the gym; waiting for someone to show up. Two minutes later someone walked through the gym doors. He was tall, edging 6'0" very promising. "hello! Are you here for the volleyball team?" Ace asked eyes full of wonder.

The boy nodded. "I'm Monty, freshman. I heard your Announcement this morning. Volleyball seams pretty fun. Afraid I don't know the rules, or really anything about it. But I do want to learn if you can teach me. If not that cool to. Sorry. I've been talking a bit haven't I?" Monty ranted.

Stunned for a moment as he was trying to process what Monty said. Snapping out of his daze "oh! Yeah no you don't need to know anything right now. I'm definitely going to help you learn. If you have any questions just let me know! Right now were just waiting for some more people to arrive. Four people showed interest before hand. So..." He looked at the doors. Hoping and begging that they would walk in.

Soon he and Monty herd some racket from the outside. A deeper kind of voice that belonged to an adult, and what sounded like at least 3 different kids. Booth of the kids in the gym looked at each other. Once more the doors opened. Mr. McGraph walked in, the sports secretary came in. Accompanied by Andrew and two people he didn't realize.

"hope we're not late!!" Andrew smiled wrapping his arm around Ace. Confused Ace asked why he was there along With Mr. McGraph. "well~ I'm here to play volleyball! I looked it up and it seems like a fun game!! Mr. Oli over here offered to be our coach!"

Ace was happy. His best friend was going to play on his team. And the nice secretary would be there coach! He could cry. But no! Not yet. He had a lot of questions for everyone, more for Andrew and Mr. McGraph then the others. But he was sure that they had more questions. "umm ok. How bout we start with introducing ourselves? Say your name, grade, and what got you interested in joining." Ace would get this started right away. If more people showed up he would catch them up to the rest of them. If necessary.

Ace looked around the room, as Mr. McGraph stood next to him. All of the people who showed up had some good height on them. “Ill go first, I’m Ace Pillar freshman I turned 15 a couple days ago. Ive wanted to play volleyball since I was 10 when I saw a game on my family’s tv”. He finished. “Who’s next?” Ace looked around the room.

Mr McGraph did the same, “I believe I should probably go as well.” he said with a smile. “My name is Oliver McGraph. But you all can call me Oliver the whole McGraph thing is weird to me. I’m the secretary for the sports office but I’m also going to be your coach.” he paused to breathe.

“I played volleyball in my youth so I’m going to help you all learn, and get some games when we’re ready for them” Oliver fished. Andrew raised his hand. “Me next!! I’m Andrew Grace!! Freshman as well. I’m in volleyball because it looks fun” he told the group, he talked in a loud voice like he when your happy and see something you love. Ace loved that about him. He gave a smile to Andrew. The boy named Monty spoke next. “Monty.. Monty Monroe.” his voice was shy, and quite. “im a sophomore, and I’m joining because I need to get out and do more things” Ace nodded at him, it was a solid reason to join.

There were two more people left to introduce themselves, both had a medium build. One looked to be a bit taller then the other by only and inch or two, they had light brown hair and the faces looked identical. They had to be twins! No other explanation needed. “im Jake and this is my twin Logan, he doesn’t really like talking. As you can probably tell we’re twins, both in our senior year. We wanted to join a sports of sorts so we chose volleyball” the taller twin spoke.