NOW & FOREVER
Chapter Three

As they all stood in a big group, waiting for their gym teacher, Rose couldn't help but giggle! She alone knew what Jack was going to do, and it was a doozy!

The doors opened. In walked the tallest man any of them had ever seen! He had to at least be six foot ten. He hardly fit through the door!

"Um...Jack, are you sure that you want to do this?"

"Yep. The bigger they are, the harder they fall."

"We are going to do basketball this term. Get with a partner and practice your chest passes. Now!" They all jumped up and grabbed a ball.

"Rose, you have to come with me. All right?"

"Okay. I hope you're better at basketball than I am."

"Perfect! You’re...um...not that good at basketball, so I want you to be talking to the sub over there, but you have to be in the proper spot, okay? Stand just to the left of the key, but so that you can see me, and have the sub standing right in the middle of the key. All right?"

"Right."

"Okay! Let's do it!" Rose cautiously approached the sub and asked him about the chest pass. She stood exactly where Jack had told her to. Jack was doing perfect chest passes at the wall, and he got closer and closer, when he all of a sudden took out a knife and cut the cord that was attached to the basketball net. Immediately, it swung down and neatly caught the sub around the shoulders, and he swung with the net back and forth until the net stopped. Meanwhile, Jack had come around to make it look like he was coming to get Rose to practice. The entire class was doubled over in laughter. Hearing the commotion, the vice-principal had come down from the office and immediately freed the sub.

"Jack, that was the funniest thing I've ever seen! How on earth did you think of that?"

"Let's just say that it was compliments from the Chippewa Falls Dawsons."

The lunch bell rang, and the class changed out of their gym clothes, so eager were they to tell the rest of the school what had happened to the sub.

"Jack, I want to come sit with you at lunch. I can tell you the places we're going to visit this afternoon."

"All right."

They left the gym on their way to lunch, talking excitedly about Jack's tour of Thunder Bay.

"Well, you must see Hillcrest Park, Boulevard Lake, Current River, Centennial Park, and the last place we'll go is the marina."

"Why the marina?"

"Well, that's the lakefront, and, of course, our sailboat is down there, but we'll get there early so we can walk down the boardwalk. And we must go to the train station."

"Okay. Okay. I see we're going to have to leave early with so many places to go. I'll pick you up right after school."

"Oh, you needn't worry about that. My chauffeur will drive us."

"Oh. All right, I guess."

"All right. I'll see you later, then."

Chapter Four
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