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emjay Ethan had a contemplating look on his face. So Minnie had been playing since she was little.. that would make her an expert. But he could not let her show him up.. or at least not be destroyed by her. "Yes.. one day. If we practice enough, we'll be good enough to beat her," he said confidently.. even though he really wasn't. This was her territory, after all. He didn't know much about Muggle games and she certainly had a leg up on him. He chuckled at the younger dude. "Nah.. I'll keep my height, I think." Him short and Minnie tall? He didn't think so.. "It's better for boys to be taller than girls anyway."
He grinned somewhat at DJ as he seemed as pleased as he was about how close he had come. "Thanks," he said. "Maybe I'm starting to get the hang of it." Or not really, but it was a nice thought. Ethan smiled patiently as DJ stuttered a bit, then he raised an eyebrow. "Competition? You think?" Ethan was mildly impressed by this. Even though the boy was several years younger than him, he seemed quite a bit better at the game especially having more experience.
The boy watched as DJ took another turn. Was it going in?? Aww! So close! Ethan walked back to his ball and set up the shot, but before he hit it, he noticed DJ do something curious. "Oh, is that what you do when your ball is close to the hole?" He didn't remember anything about blowing on the ball being in the rules, but he had only skimmed the list and DJ had more experience. He took his swing and watched as the ball went straight for the hole, then skimmed around the edge of it before veering off. "Did you see that?" Ethan exclaimed indignantly. "I was robbed!"
Dylan nodded in agreement "
Yes and beat her we do!" he kinda wanted to just have fun over beating her at the game but he wouldnt mind if he would beat her. Dylan frowned a little "
It is?.. but.. Minnie is a girl.. and I am shorter than her. So.. thats not the better part" so his height went against what Ethan had just said, so he was short but was that a bad thing? There were other boys that were shorter than Minnie.. and there were girls too! So what did that mean? what did Ethan mean? he was talking in riddles! He had no idea what Ethan was on about.
Dylan grinned and nodded "
I think you are getting the hang of the game" see they were learning together, they would tell each other when they had done a good shot and also maybe teach each other tricks on how to get better at the game. He nodded "
Yeah I do.. I mean before you had no ball near mine and now you do! So thats progress.. so soon you could be giving me some competition" and that would be fun to see, Ethan beating him and having a go at beating Minnie. He looked at Ethan, mm he was actually having fun with people that were older than him? first Minnie and now Ethan. He wondered why he knew many people that were older than him rather than people his own age.
He was not impressed that the ball had just stopped short of going in, and he had tried to put it in. Just then Ethan asked him a question, drat!! he had been caught blowing on the ball! Well he couldn't say it wasn't now what you did cause then he might be accused of cheating in the game, so he quickly thought up an answer to get him out of getting into trouble for blowing on his ball "
Oh.. well I do that for...good luck." yeah thats why he was blowing on his ball to give him some luck on his next shot or something, he hoped that Ethan would buy it though he looked like he would but Dylan could be reading him wrong. He then watched as Ethan took a swing at his ball and watched in excitement as the ball headed for the hole "
Its gonna go in! Its gonna go... out? What....?" even Dylan was confused he was so sure it was in when suddenly it was out. He looked at Ethan "
Yeah I did! I did!! You WERE robbed! Call someone from the MLE.. we have a thief here .. and its that hole right there!" he chuckled as he went over to Ethan's ball "
Bad ball.. you are a very bad ball. You aren't supposed to be scared of that hole! Its just a short drop and then Ethan would get you out.. honest!" he chuckled some more as he patted the ball and walked over to his to take his shot. He took a couple of practice swings before he gave it a light TAP! and watched as it went in. He retrieved his ball and smiled at Ethan, it was his turn now and Dylan was sure that he would get the ball in this time.. he just had to.. Dylan had talked to the ball so hopefully the ball would listen and go in instead of running away from it.