Duplicate Custodians

Chapter 2

Later that day, I went to meet Lucas. He welcomed me with a cool mango shake and we started to play basketball.

"It's tiring. Can we have a water break, please? We have been playing for the last 70 minutes." Lucas shouted.

"Yeah, yeah, okay," I said and the whole bunch of us drank water. Lucas sat beside me on the bench.

"The Jeff-High school team is a year senior from us. They challenged us and we have just time to tell next week. We are in no condition to fight them with balls. They throw balls like bombs or like pistol's firing bullets, plus, they dodge ball like the ball is their pet". Lucas commented. His dark brown eyes were worried and lazy. I laughed helplessly.

"Dude, every one of us is working hard and the mentor said we have improved. We doubled our scores than the last time. And we still have a whole week. Take it easy. We all here know techniques and high jumps the other team doesn't. Plus, my mastermind had planned something. We'll discuss it after our mentor leaves. Everything is going to be fine." I showed some condolence and tried to bring a reassuring smile on my face. Lucas smiled too and then gulped down the one-liter water bottle.