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“Dad…is this good for your heart?” I said through my clenched teeth

“I will be goalie,” he stated

“No, exercise is good for him” Eli smirked “I’ll play All I have to do is catch the ball with the stick and put it in the goal, right?”

They laughed andhim the black one

He caught it, rolling it in his hands for a moment

“Eli, they play dirty”

“Hey! So do you!” Malik pointed at me

“I have no idea what you are talking about” I stretched, raising the stick above my head, and then down to the side “It’s not my fault you all run into the end of my stick”

“See there? It's The Terror rising froround to the sky

“All right then, we must pick teams” My mother came forward

“Whatever the teams, Eli and Gwen can’t be on the same side” Jeremy pointed at us both

“Why?”

“It’s a new fa forward “Your mother and I will be captains City Slicker, you're with my wife Try not to embarrass her too badly Gwen, you are with me Malik, you are with the misses, Roy with me, and Jeremy—”

“Doggonit I know I’ There'd better be a round two I want a turn laying the grass”

We all knehat hethe stick in his hands “Laying the grass?” He finally looked up to ask me