Andrea stood in the football field joggling a ball. Jensen slowly approach from behind with Jenna.
"He's here early." Jenna said as she kicked a ball to Jensen.
"Yeah." Jensen said.
He joggled the ball a couple of times before shooting it at Andrea.
It knocked the other ball from his leg but he controlled the shot from Jensen.
"What a way to greet a friend." Andrea said as he shot the ball at Jenna.
She controlled the ball with her chest before letting it drop at her feet.
The two looked at her with surprise and shock.
"You perv. Why do you want to see my boobs jiggle?" Jenna said jokingly.
Andrea bent his head down. "Sorry!"
"I was just joking." She said awkwardly. "Plus I know you respect women, especially those of your friends."
She turned to look at Jensen. He sighed and flicked her on her forehead.
"Ouch!!" She said rubbing her head.
He bent down and kissed the spot. "I didn't know you could play."
"Oh it's not much. Just little. But I'm better is basketball." She said as she shot the ball at the goal.
It rocketed and hit the crossbar before landing at the net with a rustling noise.
Others began to arrive along side coach Tom. Jenna smiled at them and waved.
"Toddles Love. Toddles Andy." She said walking to the bleachers.
"Are girls necessary to be here?" Jensen asked as they began passing drills.
"Yup. It's mandatory for every team to have their cheerleading squad and support girls or something like that. The government wants girls to have equal participation." Andrea said.
Coach Tom blew the whistle drawing the attention of the player.
"Let's do some shooting drills to help our goalies." He said. "Rosewood, Fernandez get to your positions."
Two tall looking boys walked to the goal post. One Jensen recognized as the keeper of his team and the second as the keeper of Marcus' team.
"Rosewood, you're first." Tom said.
The keeper Jensen was familiar with walked to the post. He stood on the line waiting for the player to take the ball.
"Maru!" Tom called out to Marcus. "To the spot."
Marcus walked up to the spot kicking a ball as he went.
He got to the spot and dropped the ball. He took three steps back before waiting for the whistle.
Tom blew the whistle and Marcus began his run up.
Marcus had taken the ball to the middle while Michael had made his way to his right.
"Ugh!" Michael said to himself.
Before he was fully out of the position, he used his boot to flick the ball.
The ball hit the crossbar before falling out and back to Marcus' feet.
Michael pumped his fist as his fist as he left the goal line.
Fernandez walked to the line and awaited his opponent.
"Fisher." Tom called.
"Yes coach." Andrea replied.
"Play ball." Tom said.
Andrea exchanged positions with Marcus. He took two steps back and waited for Tom to blow.
As Tom blew the whistle, Andrea ran up with a going for a shot.
Fernandez had predicated he'd take a shot at the top right.
Andrea placed the ball at the bottom right while Fernandez went with his earlier thought.
The ball rolled slowly and nestled at the back of the net.
All the while, Tom was taking notes.
Ben went next and scored against Michael. Kobi went against Fernandez but was blocked. Nick went against Michael but was blocked, Grice and Fernandez ending with a goal. Daniel went against Michael and missed. Bond went up against Fernandez and got the goal.
"Jensen." Tom called.
Jensen turned to look at him from where he was exchanging sign languages with Jenna.
"Take the spot." Tom said.
Jensen got up slowly and took his position. Unlike the others, he took a stance favouring his left leg.
He took three steps back. "I'm taking it right." He said to Michael.
Everyone looked at him with confusion. Why would he tell the goalie where he was taking the ball.
As Tom blew the whistle, Jensen walked up slowly to the ball. Getting close enough, he took a small ground ball to the right.
Michael followed the ball with a dive. The ball went straight towards the right bar.
It narrowly grazed it before rolling into the post. Michael couldn't get his hand to it and almost crashed head first into the bar.
Everyone was shocked including Tom. Not only had Jensen played the ball where he said, but he had made it so difficult to reach that even world class goalies could struggle to get.
Jensen turned to leave as Fernandez made his way to the line.
"Jensen." Tom said. "Take this shot too."
Jensen sighed looking at the Coach. "Are you sure coach?"
"Go and take it boy." He said.
Jensen gritted his teeth as he heard 'boy' slip from coach Tom's mouth.
Jensen turned back to look at the already set ball and Fernandez.
"Top left." Jensen said taking three steps back.
As coach Tom blew the whistle, Jensen ran up to the ball slowly before blasting it at his said spot.
Fernandez remained rooted in his spot as the ball shot cleanly into the top left corner.
The shot itself had scared him from moving out of his position.
"What kind of shot power is that?" A girl said from the sidelines as they were practicing their choreography.
"Was that meant to kill someone?"
"That's insane."
Comments flooded the pitch as Jensen made his way back to his previous spot to continue talking to Jenna.
"What the hell? That kid's a genius." Tom said to himself.
He blew his whistle drawing everyone's attention to him.
"Boys short game. Teams of eleven. Jensen, Andrea different teams." He said walking off.
Jensen looked over at Andrea who smiled knowingly at him.
******
The practice match ended in a draw of 3-3. Andrea scoring a brace and an assist, Kobi scoring the last goal and one assist.
Jensen scoring three goals and receiving two assists from Marcus and one from Baker from the substitutes.