《Loving a Bash Brother》Chapter Three: Working Together
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The next day, the entire team stood close to each other while Coach Bombay tied them together. (Y/n) ended up between Jesse and Charlie and in front of Dean but behind Averman. Everybody then started to complain about something when something else started to stink.
"Goldberg!" Everybody but Dean exclaimed
"It wasn't me!" Goldberg said.
"No, it was me!" Dean exclaimed before raising his hands. (Y/n) quickly shoved her face into Avermens shirt while Charlie did the same to her hair.
"What are you doing?" Averman asked.
"Your perfume is helping." (Y/n) said in a muffled voice, making everyone laugh.
"It's cologne!" Averman exclaimed before Coach Bombay stood in front of them.
"You are a team. And to win this thing you gotta work as one. Now as one skate." Coach Bombay ordered. The team then tried to skate but ended up falling and crushing poor Luis.
"Everyone goes their own way, everyone falls down. Now get up and try it again." Coach said with a smile.
"Allright, all of you move to your right. Now." Dean said.
"Who made you boss? Everyone to the left." Fulton said. Half the kids when right while the other half went left making all of them fall apart. (Y/n) sat on the ice next to Dean with a pout.
"Ow." she said. Dean chuckled at her before sitting straight.
"Cute." he said quietly enough for her to hear but no one else. (Y/n) started to blush before Dean stood up and offered her a hand.
"Thank you." (Y/n) said after Dean pulled her up.
The group started to work together and skate forwards.
"Now you're learning! Communication! That's it!" Coach exclaimed as he skated in front of the group.
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The team then kneeled on the ice as Coach held the rope in his hand.
"You guys are starting to look like hockey players. I'm proud of ya, team. You worked hard today." Coach said.
"But hockey should also be fun. Rancher Dwayne!" Coach Bombay exclaimed.
"Yes, sir!" Dwayne responded.
"Round me up some cattle there." Coach Bombay said with a smirk as he handed Dwayne the rope. Dwayne looked at everyone before smirking.
"My pleasure!" Dwayne exclaimed before everyone stood up and skated away.
(Y/n) and Avermen skated backwards as they messed around with Dwayne. Dwayne then threw the lasso and caught Avermen. (Y/n) skated away before stopping to hide behind Dean, making him laugh.
As Dwayne approached Charlie he lassoed him and sent him to the bench with Avermen. From the bench both boys smiled as they saw Dean hold (Y/n)'s hand and pull her away from Dwayne. Julie unfortunately got caught in her place.
The team then stood in lines while Dwayne showed them how to dance. (Y/n) and Avermen started being themselves and goofing around making their line laugh.
Goldberg and Julie struggled the most as they danced in their goalie uniforms.
Dwayne laughed as he watched his friends struggle. In the back the usual scowl on Fultons face was gone as he and Luis turned in a circle.
(Y/n) and Averman started making faces and adding hand gestures as they danced with Coach Bombay. The team then turned and laughed as they watched them goof off with their coach.
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"Ta-Da." Tibbles said as he revealed a poster for a cereal with the team's picture on it. The kids started to get excited as they saw their pictures. Some of the kids stood around the poster while the rest sat down and continued eating.
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"Today is a wheaties box, tomorrow it's video games, lunch boxes, the skies the limit." Tibbles said.
"Now just to make sure everyone knows who you are. Try on one of these." Tibbles added as he showed the kids their new uniform. Everyone quickly stood up to look for their jersey in the pile. The kids finished eating before going outside for school.
"Ancient Greece was the beginning of western civilization. See in Greece they didn't have professional sports or wheaties boxes. So the athletes competed for another reason. Anybody?" Ms.Mackay said to the class.
"Falafels?" Goldberg said, making the team laugh.
"Charlie?" Ms.Mackay asked.
"Pride." Charlie responded.
"That's right. The various city-states waved their flags and wore their home colors proudly." Ms.Mackay said.
"Did America always dominate?" Fulton asked, making all the kids groan.
"That's a good question." Dean said as he leaned on a canoe. (Y/n) who was sitting next to him chuckled lightly before turning to Ms.Mackay.
"No. America wasn't around back then. Don't forget that compared to other countries, America is still young, still forming its own identity. America is a teenager just like you." Ms.Mackay said.
The team skated down a path behind Coach Bombay who was in a golf cart.
"I don't know what I've been told." Coach Bombay exclaimed.
"I don't know what I've been told." the team repeated.
"Team U.S.A's gonna win the gold." Coach said.
"U.S.A's Gonna win the gold." The Team repeated again.
"Listen up and listen good." Coach said.
"Listen up and listen good." the team said. The team then reached a hill where they passed their coach in speed.
"We're all heading to hollywood." the coach said.
"We're all heading to hollywood." the team repeated. The team continued before heading back home to pack.
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2/17 NOTICE: I'm putting this on hiatus, possibly permanently. I didn't want to spam with an "update chapter", so hopefully here and in the story blurb will get enough eyeballs. There are a couple reasons for ending SSA for now. 1) I wrote the next chapter but wasn't happy with it. I've been less and less satisfied with SSA's quality the more I thought about it. Part of the reason is... 2) I am seriously thinking about trying to publish some novels to help pay the bills, since I don't have my other source of income anymore. I have never asked for anything from SSA readers, no money, not even a review or rating. SSA is written for fun to amuse myself, primarily, and I would kind of feel bad actually charging someone money for something as unserious as that. I don't think it is good enough to ask anything in return. To use an analogy from music, SSA is more like a jam session with a bunch of friends. You're just chiling and having fun playing some music. I mean, if you are Mozart or even Eminem, your jam session is good enough to sell, but for an amateur beginner like myself, haha, no. If I want to publish something, I feel like I need to go the proper route of practice and rehearsals, which might be more similar to a classical concert performance. With SSA, I work from worldbuilding notes and a loose outline, but what you are essentially getting is the first draft with lots of so-called pantsing. Pushing out a web novel like this also means it is very difficult to go back and improve things without breaking everything else downstream. I wanted to try this "jamming" approach, as it was a good way to teach me about another aspect of writing, but to move forward, I think I need to hone my "classical" techniques, which emphasize rewriting, or at least, revising outlines. 3) While I intend to try to make $$$, my actual current goal is to "get gud". I've spent a lot of time recently trying to understand the self-publishing industry, and I'm pretty sure I can make some money by using short-term strategies with my current amateur skill level. But I've seen too many authors come and go/burnout, and really, the only way that I think I can enjoy writing and still make money on a long-term basis is to become a better writer. And the next step for me, which I haven't done much before, is to spend more time on rewriting and outlines. That is pretty much antithetical to the way SSA is developing. I've always been kind of 20/80 plotting/pantsing, but I want to spend a lot more time outlining before I even start writing. SSA jam sessions don't really fit my goal anymore. If you're curious about what's next, read on... Among other regrets, I regret not finishing SSA. It's the first story I've dropped, but then again, it's the first web novel I've attempted, so I suppose that's not a surprise. I don't think traditional web novel formats suit me that well. The whole SSA story I had loosely planned (beyond a first book or major arc) is way too large as well. Big story = good for neverending webnovel with Patreons, bad for penniless and fickle writer like me. I am currently outlining a complete trilogy to another story in great detail. I want the story to end concisely, and I also want the chance to really spend a lot of time on the full outline to spot pacing problems, character issues, lost themes, and so on. I'll still share this story on RR. What I intend to do is finish book 1, flash-publish the whole thing here for a few weeks, then publish on the big Zon. Repeat for books 2 and 3. The upcoming story will be about crafting heroes. The backdrop is an isekai-like setting, where elves will summon humans to their world as heroes, but the whole hero crafting business is still in its infancy. The elven mage researchers are figuring out how to imbue heroes with power, while the heroes are trying to figure out how to use the powers that they gain. Humans are the best hero templates because they are blank and have no intrinsic magic. Or at least that what the elves thought. The human MC has his own secrets... There will be some similarities with litrpgs, but I would call it more a progression fantasy or gamelit story. For example, the stats are very low, at least initially. Say we have a stat called Str. Going from Str = 1 to Str = 2 is a huge deal. Also, going from Dex = 0 to Dex = 1 is an even bigger deal. I guess you could call it a "low-stat litrpg", haha. Also, the heroes won't be gaining stats simply by killing things or leveling up. You can't increase stats arbitrarily, either. There will be rules to how stats can increase, and how they work with each other. The elven mages will be figuring out these rules in order to craft stronger and stronger heroes. 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