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It’s been a year since John’s dad died in a car crash. It’s also been a year since everyone’s been making fun of him. “Come on you have to let me play basketball at gym. But Mom come on it’s basketball nothing could really go wrong,” said John. “Fine but I want you to be careful. You know how tall those boys are and aggressive those boys can be,” Mom replied. “Thanks Mom,” muttered John just loud enough so his mom could hear.

The very first day of school was already half over and John was playing some basketball in gym class during open campus. Then Josh came over and asked if he could play with a little grin on his face. Without thinking John agreed even though there was worse to come. When they were playing John and Josh went up …show more content…

I just want to make up for the things my friends do to you all the time,” Trey said.
“Then why do you hang out with them if you know what they’re doing is wrong, you’re just like me so why don’t they pick on you,” John replied.
“I hang out with them because I would be just like you right here in this same exact moment, and I don’t want that to happen,” mumbled Trey.
“That’s kind of sad that has to happen so you don’t get bullied like me. Man I really don’t have words for that right now,” John quietly said.
It was silent between them until the bell rang for 6th period.
Trey said, “If you need me I’ll be there just keep quiet about what I said to you.”
A week later Trey and John became friends and Trey helps John with carrying his books and John helps Trey with his math homework in exchange for what Trey is doing. They also wondered why they haven’t been friends before they both had a lot of baseball cards and loved baseball. They also had relatives play in the big leagues before. Trey’s uncle used to be the left fielder for the Blue Jays in 1989 then retired in 2003. Trey’s uncle also hit 3 long balls against John’s dad. Even though Trey’s uncle was most likely better than John’s dad John talked about all the strikeouts he had and even managed to hit a few long balls in his career but that didn’t matter because he was gone he died in a car crash a year ago. Even though John and Trey have become friends

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