Catching Controversy | The Legend of Ethan Woy

[Woy]

Suspended?

The locker room went from total commotion to so quiet you could hear a pin drop. My heart sunk into my stomach whenever coach yelled my name. I was stared down by my teammates, especially the seniors while walking into Coach's office. As I felt a lump in my throat, I nervously sat down on the other side of Coach's desk. He got up and slammed the door.

"What the hell do you think you were doing boy!? I expect you to be a leader of this team and what do you do? You start a fight with the biggest boy on our team!"

"I didn't start anything Coach! He started calling me out, saying I don't care about the team and such. Those seniors are the ones that don't care. They don't mind when we lose and actually find it enjoyable."

"Listen Ethan. What do you did was wrong; you could have held your anger in. Plus the Bedford Gazette caught the entire fight. What am I going to say to them? That I can't control my team? Bullshit. You're suspended for the finale."

"What!? Coach, no offense, but if I'm not playing, we aren't winning."

"Maybe we will. We'll find out."

"Coach.."

"My decision is final! You aren't playing next week. Good luck during basketball season."

I walked out of his office with my head hung low. Not looking at any of my teammates, I grabbed my stuff and walked out. I felt like I let the coaching staff down, the team down, and the community down - even though I'd only be suspended for the final game of the season. I have all of basketball season and next year to prove that I do care about my team and am not a selfish player. Hopefully once word gets out that I'm suspended, the community will embrace me with open arms when I'm back and forgive me...

[Woy]

Damn suspended.

Thanks for checking in Melo. No more Melo_Billups huh? :tongue: And nice avatar, Lawson = beast. May be the UNC homer coming out in me, but I believe he's going to be the next Chris Paul in a few years.

I've been in a writing mood lately, so maybe another update today before I go to work.

[T.Dot]

suspended?????????

[Woy]

suspended?????????

:SHOCKED:
Yeah suspended, lol. I'm working on the next update now.

[Woy]

Not The Reception I Was Looking For

Sure enough, a few days later in the Gazette, there was an article on me being suspended for the season finale. Usually stuff like that are kept hush-hush, but with the media just coming into the locker room when we were fighting, the story got out. The next day at school when I pulled up to my parking spot, I noticed something spray painted on the blacktop.

Transfer your bitch ass out of Everett. You're nothing special and we'd be much better without you.

Warm welcome back, huh? Walking into school was just as bad. I could feel everyone's stares burning a hole in my back while I was walking down the hall. And it was like this for weeks, the constant stares and gossip about me. Eventually it subsided...sorta.

"And now starting at forward, junior number 15, Ethan Woy!"

I ran out to a mixture of cheers and boos from my home crowd. Don't they remember last year at this time I won the opening game of the season with a buzzer-beater?

"You're selfish Woy! Get out of here!"

Obviously not. After an opening game loss, we continued our mediocrity and ended up going 12-12. The worst part was the play-in game for district playoffs. Despite our .500 record, we were slated to play against another county rival in the play-in game, and it was absolutely awful. I couldn't shoot, had the opposing players hitting everything in my face, and to top it off, the fans still didn't forget about the suspension and started booing me more than ever in the closing seconds.

Even though I was named All-ICC in football, basketball and track, and had some small FBS schools recruiting me, I still didn't feel wanted anymore. I didn't make any plans to transfer somewhere else - I made it a goal of mine to win the community back and have fans chanting my name again for the right reasons. But before that, I had summer to relax and forget all about the heckling...

[Woy]

Holy shit that's a short update. Oh well, it'll build into something bigger.

[Woy]

Okay, now I have the update long enough. Still could be longer though.

[G-men]

wow woy your coach seems like a dumbass. lol did he not see the other guy attack you?

[Lumpkin]

wow woy your coach seems like a dumbass. lol did he not see the other guy attack you?

lol I thought the same thing. Sounds like you got punished for finishing the fight

[G-men]

lol I thought the same thing. Sounds like you got punished for finishing the fight

that same thing happened to me before. a kid in the gym locker room tried to be tough and put me in a headlock and i threw him off me and into the lockers. i told them it was just self defense (which it was) but i still got detention for it. shit was gay.

[Woy]

You know what they say, they always catch the second person. Haha.

[Woy]

I might update today, but I work 3-11 tonight.

[G-men]

yeah seriously woy, at least you got to pop him.

[Woy]

Some updates tomorrow since I'm off.

[Woy]

Can't wait to see an update Ethan. ;)

Congrats on 1K.

I'm working on the update now. Creative juices haven't been working so well today, so it's taking way longer than expected.