rear number ten

Chapter 9
After the match between Victor's Beckley Middle School and the Crewe Club youth team.He was stopped by Old John who came to observe Victor's game.Then told Victor a fact that Victor could not believe.

That is, Victor's own father actually came to watch his game, and he seemed to have watched the entire game.

Of course, Victor didn't believe what Old John told him. After all, in Victor's memory, almost his father had never watched his game.And although he doesn't say it, Victor seems to feel that even his father doesn't like playing football.

So, Victor packed up the jersey and sneakers he brought, and changed into ordinary clothes.After returning home alone.I saw my mother busy in the kitchen.First I greeted my mother, and then went to my attic.After taking a shower, changing clothes, putting the jersey full of sweat, grass seeds and dirt in the washing machine.

Go down the stairs and walk to the mother who is still busy in the kitchen for a minute.Opened his mouth and said:
"Mom, did you go to my game today? In the end, I helped the school football team beat the Crewe youth team."

"Navito, you are really good."

Then Victor continued to ask: "Mom, is Dad coming back for lunch?"

Victor's mother told Victor that his father would not come back to eat at noon, and brought the prepared lunch to the table.After eating a lunch with Victor, which was not very rich but tasted better than ordinary British dishes.

Looking at the mother who is clearing the plates, knives and forks.Victor was not very sure and said:
"Mom, today's game..."

"What's the matter, Vito?" Victor's mother still didn't stop working, but after hearing Victor's words.Still asked.

"Mom, today's game, that Crewe club scout, Old John," and then explained: "It's the old John who has been at our house many times and wanted me to join the Crewe club's youth training camp. He came to watch This game."

"Oh," Victor's mother heard Victor say, with a smile on her face.Because he was wearing gloves, he didn't reach out to rub Victor's curly black hair.But said,

"Then Old John should have come to observe you specially. Vito, you are a well-known football genius in the small town of Crewe."

"No, Mom," Victor interrupted his mother's performance of herself.Then, he stared at his mother.With a firm, unbelievable tone, he said:

"Mom, Old John told me one more thing." Then without waiting for his mother to answer, he continued: "Old John told me that Dad went to watch my game."

Looking at it with questioning eyes, he stopped what he was doing and looked at his mother.Victor continued,

"And Old John told me that he saw my dad after the game. He also went to say hello to my dad, but my dad didn't admit it, and then left immediately. And, Old John also said that maybe Dad still saw me The whole game of the game."

"Oh, Vito..." Hearing Victor's news, Victor's mother also felt a little surprised and couldn't believe it.And involuntarily stopped the work in his hands, looking at Victor.There was an unbelievable exclamation.

But Victor's mother's exclamation only stopped for a short time.In no time, Victor's mother recovered from the shock of the unbelievable news from Victor.Then, he said to Victor:
"Vito, you must be tired from the game in the morning. You should go up and rest for a while. And let's ask Dad about this news at dinner time."

Victor nodded.Then he went up the stairs and into his room in the attic.Close the door and lie down on your bed.He greeted the system in his mind.

"System, system, system." After calling the system three times, the voice of the system in his mind sounded,
"What's wrong, Victor?"

Then, the system first said encouragingly: "Hey, Victor, today's game was very beautiful. You did everything you can. It was really beyond my expectation. I thought the score would be 2 It's a 2-to-[-] draw."

"Thank you." Victor politely answered the system's praise.Then, the system beeps again,

"So, do you want to get into training for a while now? Or do you have something else to do?"

"Thank you, but I don't want to go into training right now. I prefer to go into training after lying in bed at night. This will allow me to sleep better at night."

"Oh, that's good." The system then asked Victor, "Then Victor, call me out. Is there anything you want to tell me?"

"Oh, yes." Victor said to his mother after lunch.That is, after the game, Old John told himself that his father had watched him for the entire game.Finally, I asked the system again,
"So, do you think this means that my father can allow me to join the youth training camp of a professional football club? Or..."

"Victor," the system didn't answer Victor's words at once.Instead, he said: "Victor, you have to know that no matter what, your father will always support your decision. Maybe he won't show support for you through words and actions like your mother. That's because He's the father."

"Okay, the system," Victor shrugged helplessly after hearing the system's ambiguous words, also expressing a silent protest against the system's "irresponsible, no answer" answer.

Then, he asked:

"So the system, do you think if I asked my dad at dinner tonight if he went to my game and I told him I wanted to be a professional football player, would he say yes?"

"Ah, Victor, I'm not sure about this," the voice of the system changed its emotions, and replied to Victor with a slight meaning of thinking about the memory he had stored.

"You have to know that human beings are creatures with very complex thinking and emotions. And whether you can become a professional football player in the future. It doesn't actually depend on your father."

"Who does that depend on?" Victor interrupted the system, and then asked the system with a smile, "Is it on me?"

"Yes, Victor." The system affirmed Victor's own answer, and then told Victor with certainty, saying,
"It's up to you. Whether you can become a professional footballer depends on your own decision, determination, hard work, and courage."

"Okay, okay." It can be said that there is no answer from the system to get the answer I want.Victor told himself to go back.Then, he didn't lie on the bed either.He got up and sat at the desk by the window, picked up a book and started to read.

It was dinner time, after the family of three finished dinner.Victor said:
"Dad, in this morning's game, I scored two goals and helped my teammates score one goal, beating Crewe's youth team." Then, after hearing my father's flat but encouraging words.continued,
"Dad, I was stopped by the old John of the Crewe Club who had been observing the game, the old John who you rejected many times and wanted me to join the Crewe Club youth training camp." And when Victor's father ordered Nodding, indicating that he had remembered who Victor was talking about.Victor continued,
"Old John told me that he seems to have seen you go to my game? And he also said hello to you. It's just that you didn't respond to him..."

"There is no such thing," Victor's father directly interrupted Victor's narration, but Victor's father's eyes seemed a little scattered.Then he hesitated for a while, and then said,

"This old John must have admitted the wrong person. Why would I go to your game?" Then he felt that talking to his son in this way was a bit too strong, so he immediately changed his words,
"Victor, you have to know that the business in the supermarket is very busy. Besides, it's the morning, so of course I don't have much time to watch your game. And, over the years, since the business in the supermarket has been getting better and better, Victor, you also Remember, Dad doesn't seem to have been to your game once."

"But dad..." Victor didn't believe his dad's excuse.Besides, I keep saying that I have no time because of the supermarket business, and I keep explaining.This is obviously a bit involuntarily to avoid suspicion.So Victor went on to say,

"But Dad, Old John said he couldn't have mistaken you. And after Old John greeted you, you didn't admit that it was you."

"Okay Victor," Victor's father interrupted Victor again without looking at his wife looking at him.Then the topic was changed, and Victor's father said in a slightly harsh tone:

"Okay Victor, don't dwell on this topic. Next, you should go to your attic, read a book, or even watch TV. You should leave the dinner table. And don't forget to go to bed early tonight, presumably for the football game in the morning It took a lot of your energy."

"Okay Dad." I heard my dad talking to myself in such an imperative tone.Although Victor wanted to say something else.But he could only reply sarcastically,

"Okay then, Dad." Then he stood up from his seat.Then he said, "Then I'm going upstairs. Good night, Mom and Dad."

After getting the answer from his parents, Victor went to his attic.Although I turned on the TV and tuned to a channel at random.But Victor doesn't feel any emotion about watching TV.Then he lay down on his bed again.Put your hands behind your head.Staring at the posters hanging on the ceiling.

But after about half an hour, maybe an hour.Victor heard someone knocking on his door.Then, Victor's mother opened the door.Seeing Victor sitting up from the bed and looking at him.Victor's mother smiled and sat next to Victor.Then he reached out and stroked Victor's hair.Then said,

"Vito, don't be disgusted by your father's answer. After all, he is a father."

"I don't, Mom." Victor resisted his mother touching his hair again.Shaking his head, trying to avoid his mother's outstretched hand.At the same time, he said with some impatience.

"Okay, Vito." Victor's mother smiled and saw her son.Then he stood up from Victor's bed and walked towards the door of the attic.After walking out of Victor's room door, he stood at the door, holding the handle of Victor's room door in his hand.Looking back at Victor, he continued to say to Victor with a smile on his face:
"Vito, pack your clothes before going to bed tonight or when you get up tomorrow morning." Then he looked at Victor with an unbelievable and joyful expression on his face.continued,
"I've already told Dad that tomorrow we'll fly to your grandmother's house outside Lisbon. We'll have a great holiday."

(End of this chapter)