I Cant Miss !!!

Start of Isabella POV

I was turning 5 this year and daddy had signed me up for basketball little league. I really enjoyed watching daddy play basketball so I wanted to do the same thing as I started practice in Daddy's gym. I noticed that whenever I shot the ball I made it so I started taking more shots and kept making it, surprisingly I wasn't missing any shots so I continued to practice shooting every day in order to get ready for the little league.

Aunty Opal had seen me practicing one day and was surprised to see me make a lot of shots as she quickly came and cheered me on. I stopped because I was a little shocked and surprised that somebody was watching me but she quickly encourages me to keep shooting and that I would start practicing with the little league team soon. After Aunty Opal saw that I hadn't missed a single shot even though I wasn't too far from the basket not a lot of people could shoot from that distance and make it several times in a row so she started to encourage me more to keep practicing every day.

I kept shooting every day until The basketball little league started. I joined their practice after school as the coach had us practice dribbling 1st which I was pretty terrible at. I dribbled around the cones as I was learning little by little how to dribble the ball after a while coach had us stop. The coach's name was Coach Gabby, she was the gym teacher of our private school.

She had decided to take up more hours in order to make more money so by encouraging all parents to sign their kids up for this girl's little league she had made quite enough due to the number of girls that came to play. After the dribbling session, we moved on to shooting at close range. She told us to aim for the backboard to start things off as we were a few inches away from the basketball hoop.

Coach Gabby wanted us to learn how to aim for the square on the backboard before learning how to lay it up so we started shooting. Most of the girls kept missing their shots as they were learning how to play basketball for the 1st time, but me it was an easy thing as I made shot after shot. When Coach Gabby saw that I was making everything she had stars in her eyes as she thought this was going to be her Ace player for the matches coming up.

The practice continued as we kept shooting the ball until two hours later practice was over. My mommy came to pick me up with the security guards. I greeted them politely and hugged and kissed my mother. She asked me how my day was as I told her everything that happened, she was surprised that I had not missed any of my shots and thought of my father who barely missed any of his shots.

My little legs could not handle that workout any longer as I told her I needed a break. She simply laughed at me and told me "no problem you have plenty of time to be a basketball superstar" when she said that it motivated me to work even harder. During practice, I was the hardest worker as all the other girls started to get jealous of me, but I didn't notice it until Coach Gabby separated us to run a practice match among ourselves to see who would be starting and who won't. 

I had made one friend she was the tallest out of everybody that came to the little league and due to that, all the other girls made fun of her as they thought that she was a freak but I had quickly friended her due to other girls not wanting to talk to me because I was so good at basketball and they all just played for fun and didn't take it seriously.

This friend of mine ended up becoming the center of our team and her name was Bianca. Bianca and I had become best friends since nobody else was talking to us we decided to talk with each other so Bianca and I had teamed up as whenever she got into the post I passed her the ball. Due to the other kids not being able to block her she kept getting points until they started double team her so I had to stop passing her the ball and pass it to someone else.

At this point, we were winning by 3 points the other team was struggling to get points in but they had one girl who was extremely fast and was able to get past me. I wasn't too fast as I spent hours working on my shoot as most of the time she was able to blow past me and Bianca and quickly score the points.

She seemed like she had been playing basketball all her life compared to me and Bianca who had just started playing. Her name was Susan and we were nothing compared to her but as soon as I got an open shot I took it and made it. At this point, I was able to shoot from the free-throw line with all my strength even after doing that I was beyond tired and couldn't take too many shots from there, but that was the place I was most open at.