Soccer Buddies (Dustin)

[Beck Grenier]

It was a sunny afternoon, only a few clouds in sight. So it was a perfect day for soccer practice. Beck was happy to get out of the school and onto a field. He was much better juggling a ball in-between his feet than a book in his hands. Out on the field he could forget about about all the extra lessons he had to take in the summer to catch up to his grade level.

Beck was just walking out into the grass after changing to a t-shirt and gym shorts. He joined the small crowd of other soccer players. The coach was telling them to work on aiming where they kick, it doesn't help when the ball flies off randomly. Of course that was important, they were reminded of it every year. After a jog around the field the team was going to practice kicking.

Ready to get running, Beck went to the edge of the field to do the perimeter. He stopped next to a kid he didn't recognize from earlier seasons. "Hey. Are you new here?"

[Dustin Henderson]

It was his first soccer practice here, Dustin was so happy to get out on the field again and to finally meet his whole team to see who he would work with and compete against for spots on the field if there were any matches.

Wearing his t-shirt and his gym shorts, he was so pumped and ready to start when they were told to start jog around the field. He had been going outside for a run every day since he got here, sitting still too much in his room just got him irritable and restless, so he had made sure to do something about it.

He looked at the guy who had spoken to him, he gave him a nod “Yeah, got here like a week ago, it’s my first practice here.” He started on his jog around the field, glancing a bit back at the other guy to see if he would keep up and keep talking or if he was done and satisfied now that he had answered the question.

Dustin was a bit unsure about what to say or do next, he didn’t want to come across as some stupid lame kid to the cool older guys on the team, so he tried his best to act like this was whatever to him, he didn’t want to show that he wanted to talk and get to know people.