The Final Game

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The Final Game

It was November 1st and it was the day of my last volleyball game. I ran into my friend Eri and we started talking about the game later that day. It was against Tunkhannock. They were the best volleyball team from our area, and wouldn’t you know it on our senior night we had to play against them. Senior night was the one night where the seniors were recognized, whether they were good or not. The whole day the team was joking about how much we would lose by against our rival team. In a game to fifteen we thought we would end up owing them points.

“Hey, Eri, are you excited about the game tonight?” I asked.

“Well, I’m more sad than anything,” she replied. “I’m going to miss all of the freshman that we taught how to play.”

“I know, but don’t you think that it’s going to be a funny game tonight?”

“Oh yeah! We’re going to get killed,” she added. “Don’t you think it was wrong for them to schedule our senior night with that game?”

“Yeah, I do think it was a little unfair,” I replied. “But at least we know we are going to get killed and don’t really have to worry about it.”

Everyone knew that this game was going to be impossible to win, so we all sort of shrugged it off. The last practice before this game consisted of reminiscing more than drills. Even our coach knew we were going to get killed, but for some reason everyone had in the back of their minds ‘what if…’

“Don’t you think it would be funny if we actually did win this game?” I asked.

“What? Are you nuts! They haven’t lost a game yet,” Jen replied.

“No, seriously. Don’t you think that they are thinking the same thing we are?” I added. “That they could win, no problem. And maybe their coach will put in the not so good people for that reason?

“Dana, they don’t have any ‘not so good’ people on their team,” Jen said while giggling.

“I don’t know. I think that we could give them a run for their money.”

“Finally it was seventh period and school was almost over. I could feel the butterflies growing in my stomach. It was 2:35, five more minutes to go and I was counting down until I could run to the gym to start practicing for the big game.

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