Last night I didn't sleep well. Today is the game against last year's state champions. I know my team can beat them, I just don't know if we can pull together and show everyone else that. So I stayed up, nervous and nauseous, until I fell asleep sometime after 1 AM.
Of course, sleep was no solace. Hereafter follows my nightmare.
I was playing my position quite well against my opponent. She was completely useless. (That part wasn't the bad part; that's more like a fantasy section.) Then, during a quarter break, I saw the other coach telling the girl I was guarding to "take me out," like in some cheesy sports movie. During the next play, the girl swung around and punched me in the eye.
My dream-self stayed cool. I couldn't get kicked out, not at such a crucial point in the game. I recalled the bobcat, and her attack during a similar incident. I didn't want to let my team down like that. So I didn't hit the girl back, despite how much I sincerely wanted to.
Shortly after that point, I was removed from the game. I was bleeding excessively, and it was suspected that I needed stitches. The referee had not seen the girl slug me, so she was home free. But I was not allowed to play at all, even though I had kept my temper under control. The lifeguards would not let me put on butterfly bandages and get back in the pool: they made me leave.
So not only did I not get to play, but the other girl didn't get caught and I didn't get to hit the girl back. THAT is the second worst nightmare I've ever had, and the first involved watching aliens cut my mom into 1-inch cubes. Not so happy.
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i sympathize. not that i've had that dream, or am likely to, but i have nightmares equally as traumatizing. my trauma is just different.
I'm sorry... I'd hate that. How did the game actually turn out?
We lost. And a different girl on my team got hit in the face, though it wasn't a closed-fist punch. Even sadder, we only had one ref, and he didn't see the foe's attack, but our girl lost her temper and started dunking her opponent. So we lost our faster swimmer and one of our top scorers part-way through the game.
If we had taken the first quarter out of the game, we would have taken it into overtime, at least. But we'll get 'em in the state tournament this week.
Ouch... Sorry. :( But it looks like you've done well in the tournament!
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