Chapter 11 (1/1)

“She told us not to be late, but it’s already 3.15 and she’s still not here yet” Song MinHo whined. The 10 grown-up men were sitting on the audience seats waiting for the arrival of their coach but there were no signs of her. “Hey, should we make her do suicides, since she’s late” He joked.“That’s not funny hyung. She had injured her leg, she’s probably rushing here now. Just give her a break” JooHyuk spoke up for her.“Seriously joohyuk, are you in love with her or something. From the first day, you have been helping her. Give her a break? has she ever given us one” Chanyeol riled up at Joohyuk trying to speak up for Roo.“I just thought that maybe, maybe our team has finally found someone that won’t give up on us. Giving her all for us. Someone that can finally save us from falling in the last place of the tournaments. I just thought she was worth it. I can see that even if it’s only the 2nd week of her trainings, we are all improving, slowly but surely. You can’t deny that your stamina are getting better. We got along better. We all listens to her well even when we are complaining. Do you know what this means? It meant that in every one of us, there is a little part that held our respect for her, that we are trying to persuade ourselves that we’ve found someone we could trust, it’s just that we didn’t want to acknowledge that fact.” He was speaking from experience. Richmond was given up by many coach that thought they couldn’t teach a bunch of losers. They left within a month after they join. The school even thought of closing down the team if not for their rebellious acts that they had put up to stop them.“You are too naïve joohyuk, who knows that she won’t dump us when she realise we are a bunch of losers? Look around you, where is she now? Who knows she might already be running away from us. Don’t be a fool”“I promise I won’t just leave you guys. This is my promise to all 10 of you here” Roo walked in with her crutches, She had overheard what Chanyeol had said, even when she didn’t know what’s going on, she just replied. “you can trust me on that. I am betting the whole of my basketball passion this time round. I have faith in all of you” “What are we going to trust you with?” Yugyeom asked.“I might not be the best coach out here, but I will soon make you all realise that, you all can trust me on this” She said. “and I am sorry I was late. What do you guys want me to do? Since I’ve always punished you all, this is your chance” She said nonchalantly.“Why are you late?” Kim Woo Bin questioned.“Well, you don’t have to know. We don’t have much time, punishment?” She scanned her eyes through all the present players making sure that there’s full attendance. “You were always reasonable, that’s the least we could do. We hear your reason before we decide whether to give you punishment”“Alright? I had a medical appointment at 1.30pm, I was supposedly to be able to reach by 3pm but it got delayed.” They all perked up at the phrase, medical appointment. Was this what she wanted to tell me earlier? Bogum thought. “Did your leg got worse?” JongHyun who had that game with her, sounded very concerned. Probably because he saw how much she had endured through the game. “It was just to check if I had to undergo a second operation” She clarify. “It was no big deal, I assume you all doesn’t want to give me any punishment, then let’s start the training. “Firstly, I have something to address before I forget, Remember the captain vote? Well, all of you agreed on him, so we will go with this. Well, congratulations, Kim WooBin” He’s head turned so fast from the surprise, “you will be the new captain for this season.” He smiled meekly. “ and I would like to have Hong Jong Hyun as the vice-captain.”“Me?!” JongHyun was bewildered. Roo just nodded. “Well, alongside with Kim WooBin, I am sure you guys will achieve more.”“Thank you? I guess” WooBin scratched his head out of embarrassment. “Don’t thank them too early, you have a hell load of responsibility to carry on your shoulder,” Roo joked dryly. “Second thing, I did mention that we need to have a new team name. the prelims start in 3 months’ time and registration is next month. Any one has any suggestions?” “10losers?” Minho was once again trying to be a bitch. “Don’t be lame Minho. Anyone else?”“Wolves?” Kim Woo Bin suggested“Wolves? Why?” Roo was amused.“Wolves are the only animals that dares to stare directly into the eyes of their opponent. Even at disadvantage, they don’t back down until their last breath. And I hope that will be us from now on” Roo nodded. “I have something in mind actually. SansPeur. Which means no fear. That was what I want you guys to be.” “That’s a great name”“I actually quite like that. It sounds cool” With several acknowledgements, they decided to go according to Roo’s decision.“To conclude this, in the near future, I want to see Team SansPeur with 10 undefeatable wolves on court. She boldly declared. Determination in her eyes, and hopes in her player’s eyes.