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The Game At 3 O ' Clock

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The game was supposed to start at 3 o’clock, but it never started right on time anyway. I asked my dad to look at his phone to see what time it was, 2:55 right on the dot. I got out of the pool and put on a towel to run inside. I sat right in front of the TV on the couch. My parents walked in after me. “Honey don’t sit on the couch or else you’ll get it wet”, said my mom, I really wasn’t listening, “AVERY, get off the couch now!”
I moved down to the floor and took the remote looking through the channels to find the game. I found it right when the announcers were still talking about the starting players. They had just said my favorite player, Alex Morgan, was on the starting line up. My mom brought over a bowl of popcorn to eat, even though I wasn’t supposed to eat it because of my braces, but no one would know. The game started and I sat up on my knees so intrigued with the game in the first four seconds. Within a few minutes the US had scored and I was going crazy.
I screamed right in my dad’s face, “The third minute. They scored in the third minute. Did you see Lloyd coming in there Japan? NO you didn’t, no you didn’t!” “Oh this is going to be a very interesting game, isn’t it!”, my dad said calmly looking at my mom, who had been sitting on the floor.
I was on the ground again trying not to get the couch wet, because that would be frowned upon by my mother. I was now sitting criss- crossed applesauce when the US got back down to Japan’s side of the field. I stood up

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