Chapter 27: Chapter 27

The whole thing culminated in the football

game on Friday and the homecoming dance the day after. Mason

attended the game, eagerly anticipating a comfortable victory. The

Jackson High Volcanoes were consistently bottom of the league.

All was going to plan. The Falcon’s were

fourteen points ahead, when in the middle of the second quarter,

Henry, the first string quarterback, got sacked. He lay on the

ground and didn’t look as though he was getting up any time soon.

Mason knew Henry was a close bud of Parker’s, and sure enough,

Parker was one of the first to kneel down next to the prostrate

football player.

An ambulance was called. The paramedics

examined Henry before placing him on a stretcher and carrying him

off the field. The second-string quarterback did his best, but it

was obvious there wasn’t the same chemistry between the new guy and

the rest of the players. The lead that the Falcons had built up was