The Hair Fairy

It wasn't so much a soccer field as a sea of brown dirt with little
green islands scattered around the edges. The two goals at either end
were missing their nets and the posts were rusting through. It was a
very sickly soccer field, but nobody seemed to care. It was all they had
and soccer had to be played.

Scott stood in line with the rest of the kids, looking anxiously between
Jason and Greg as they chose up sides. Scott was chosen fifth, because
he could run really fast and always knew which goal to kick the ball
into. Once the teams were chosen (ten to a side), they lined up in a big
circle in the middle of the field and when Loud Mouth Sarah yelled,
"Bang!" they all took off running towards the slightly deflated soccer
ball in the center.

Jason reached it first and gave a dirty shove that sent Greg flying
backwards. Scott jumped over his fallen teammate and chased after Jason,
closing in on him quickly. Halfway to the goal, Scott pulled alongside
and stuck his foot in to knock the ball away, but ended up getting
tangled in Jason's legs. The boys fell to the ground and threw up a
large cloud of field dust.