"GOOOOOOOOOAAAAAALLLLLLL"
"That's a wonderful equalizer from the new substitute, Jason O'Brien! what a goal!"
This was heard from the comment studio of Los Angeles stadium, the match between the Angeles United and the Inter Miami and Inter Miami just equalized 1-1!
"That's a good, tremendous performance from the player off the bench", Gregor Evans, one of the commentary, said.
"Yeah, absolutely great!", Larry Jones, the other commentary commented,"and we have 3 minutes on the clock left for stoppage time. Can there be a turnaround here for the two teams?"
The 3 minutes went by. Then, on the 3rd minute....
"Mind-blowing! The tables have been turned!! Inter Miami has changed the game and it's Jason O'Brien again!!!", Larry Jones commented with excitement.
That's a real super substitute right there", Gregor Evans commented,"he has saved Inter Miami from a loss and a draw and earned them a win. From 1-0 down to 2-1 victory. What a super substitute!".
"That's right, Evans ", Larry commented finally,"and it ends here at Los Angeles stadium, Angeles United 1, Inter Miami 2!".
Then, the television switched off.
"Are you kidding me,CJ?", asked Jason,who was on the couch with a popcorn bowl on his hand.
"C'mon, Jason. You have watched this match over and over and over again. We all know that you saved your team a week ago by scoring twice. Aren't you tired of it? Now, come, we've got some homework to do ",
Chris Jones said as he dropped the TV remote on the center table and started walking up the stairs. Jason watched him go and then, reached his hand to take back the remote when he heard;
"Don't even think of it!", CJ warned.
"Fine, I'm coming ".
He dropped the bowl of popcorn and stepped towards the stairs.
Pardon me, I always forget to introduce the characters before telling their stories. The main boy in this book goes by name, Jason O'Brien, the most talented young footballer in his league team and, yes, he's 19 years of age if you ask me, and here are his best friends-his -his besties: Chris Jones, also tagged CJ by most of his friends who is a modernized computer wizard in their school. He's okay for Jason if you ask me but one thing really shudders Jason about this one friend...he likes driving a bicycles with sunglasses!
And the last person is Emily Tanvers, the best fashion stylist in their school. She's also smart but not smarter than CJ. One thing while Jason keeps Emily as his friend is that she is his motivational speaker, his encourager. She always finds a way to convince Jason into doing something like, doing his homework, going on suicide missions [well, not actually death missions], watching her sketch a drawing... even forcing him to go to the football stadium! A week ago, she sent a group of able-bodied guys to his apartment with some letterings on their chests:
GO....AND....SAVE.... YOUR.... TEAM.
Well, you should have seen Jason's face when he saw these guys at his doorsteps. Anyway, even if CJ's hobby is weird and Emily's suggestions are sometimes confusing, Jason will never let this buddies off his life...
... and there's one more thing you have [I mean, you will soon have to know about Jason O'Brien] which we will know and see in the story. So, let's go back...
7:34 am...
It was a Monday morning and Jason woke up late... again!.
"Not again !", Jason shrieked as he bounced up from the bed and ran to the bathroom. Two seconds later, he came out again and looked at the wall clock...
"Seven thirty-five?!," he yelled again,"I'm so dead".
He ran to the bathroom, brushed his teeth, took his bath and combed his hair. As he was doing all these quickly, something terrible happened. When he was combing his wet hair [again I say "quickly"] with his wet body, he mistakenly knocked his shampoo over and it hit a switch with a hairdryer plug on it and then...
Tzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz-zzzzaaapppp!!!
Jason was knocked off balance and thrown to the floor. That ends Jason's quick rush to go to class.
2 Hours Later...
"Oh, boy, what happened to me? why does my head ache so bad?"
Jason sat up, rubbing the back of his head. He looked around and saw everywhere spinning. He tried to get up but crashed on the bathtub. For a little while, he opened his eyes and seemed to remember where he was!
"I'm... I'm still in the...in the bathroom?"
Jason gasped.
Then he held the walls in support as he tried to walk to his room. He managed to dress up and comb his scattered hair due to the great fall. As he combed, he saw his injured head on the mirror and he was surprised...
"How did I get this?", He said, examining the cut. He tried to remember how he got the injury but he didn't remember anything. And actually, he didn't know what happened because he never remembered anything that happened. The only thing he remembered was that he woke up from sleep-which is on the bathroom floor after he was knocked out.
He left the apartment [which he booked or rented for himself since he studies in a university] and stopped a bus. Minutes later, the bus dropped him at the front of CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY.
"Hey, dude, your fare". The bus driver called out.
Jason lookad at him and scratched his head,"Um... do I have to pay?"
"No. You have to stand there and stare at me", the driver said, then barked,"Gimme your fare, dummo!"
Jason gave the driver his fare and the us drove away.