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Chapter 17
As soon as Sammy stepped one foot through the school gates, he was there, loping over like a greyhound with the sad but hopeful look upon his face.
"So? Did you think about it?" Mike asked, wiping sweaty hair from his forehead.
A glance over at the basketball court revealed he was practising with his friend. Eddy, now abandoned on the court, dropped the ball when a group of girls sauntered past.
"Come play me," Mike suggested with too much enthusiasm. "We'll be like Kuroko and Kazuma."
Sammy laughed, genuinely warmed that Mike had remembered the characters names even though he wasn't even an anime fan.
"I'm no good," Sammy said.
"So?" Mike shrugged. "I'll go easy on you."
This made Sammy smile. He'd never played basketball in school before, but he'd played with his sister plenty on the court by the park. It belonged to the middle school a
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