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Tick Tock Short Story

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Tick-tock, tick-tock. Tick-tock, tick-tock. As I turn my head to look at the clock. There is one minute left before the half-time whistle blows. Standing in the hot sun, sweat dripping down my face, feeling like whole world is watching this moment. Before I explain what that was about, let’s go a few months back.
It was our first game of the season and we just met our new coach, Stephen Appiah, a former skipper of the Ghana national team. The team, which was called Pro Stars for some odd reason, was made up of me and a few of my friends. We had played together for a long time so we were all familiar with each other’s playing style and we had great team chemistry. Fast forward to three months later and we were in fourth place in the league …show more content…

On a warm Saturday morning at four in the morning and I could hear my mother washing clothes outside. I could hear the water splashing on the ground as my mother was shouting at my sister to wake me up. As soon as I was awake, I got ready for practice because, every game day, we would wake up early so we could go jogging as a team. I met up with my teammates at our team captain’s home to wait for our coach. When he got there, he told us that we were jogging to the beach, which was a surprise to us because this was an important game for the team and he decided to take us to the beach to practice for it. While we were jogging to the beach, our captain asked him why we were going to the beach, he said “Shut up, and just do as I say.” Even though everyone was going at the same speed, a couple of the players including myself were getting tired and, every time our coach saw one of us stop, he yelled, “Start running or I won’t play you in the game.” As soon as he said that we would pick up the pace because everyone wanted to play in the game. When we got to the beach, he took out our training footballs and told us to get ready to play. Just as expected, everyone was wondering why we were about to play a game of football on the beach. But before we could ask him why, he says “No questions until the end of

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