you are all star

Chapter 2 Christmas Presents
When Neil bragged about the dream he had that night to his friends, they all ridiculed Neil, and said something like this to hurt Neil, who had just turned three years old: "Neil, just like you, you still want to To be a basketball star in the future, but to be an All-Star, MVP in the regular season, MVP in the finals, you have it, now let’s not talk about whether you can become a basketball superstar in the future, you must at least have a basketball now!"

He didn't expect that this dream had just reached the ears of his friends, and instead of trusting him, he was attacked and hurt. This made the three-year-old Neil heartbroken by them. After hearing what his friends said, Turn around and leave.

The little friends stared at his leaving back, and sneered: "Hey... say that he is not happy, let's go, let's not play, let's play by ourselves."

Hearing what his friends said, Neil felt a dull pain in his heart at the age of three, but at the same time he had made up his mind silently in his heart. When I have a basketball, I will definitely blow you up and impress you. Now I am Don't care what you guys say, I just want to earn twenty dollars and take my mom to the hospital for checkups.But I don't have a basketball, and they don't play it for them. How can I have a basketball, then develop my skills, beat them, and dominate the streets of Alexandria?

Neil, who is a big kid, thinks in his mind, how can I have the desire to run home with a basketball, when he walks on the dirty, messy streets, dilapidated streets, and many crumbling houses on the streets of slums, from time to time he is melancholy, from time to time When he entertains himself and is depressed, he thinks that his mother and father have suffered here. When he entertains himself, he thinks of the future, and thinks that the family of three has a very spacious house in the center of Alexandria, and he will also have a flowery house. Accompanied by the jade-like angel, and then lived happily together. In his free time, he rode a domineering motorcycle, took a basketball, and took the girl in his heart to play together. Like him, every time he scores a goal, she applauds.

When he got home, he looked at the calendar on the wall, it was more than two months until Christmas, and my mother's old problem has always been like this, and she didn't have twenty dollars to check it out, and asked them to buy me a $25 basketball , wouldn't that make things worse?No, I have to find other ways to get my beloved basketball through other means.

He stared at the calendar and thought for a while, then turned around and closed the door again. As he ran downstairs, he thought to himself, I can pick up beer bottles and soda cans and go to the supermarket to exchange money. Although each is only two cents, it is very Save more with less.

After he made up his mind, he began to search for beer bottles and cans in every corner of the slums. Although he was three years old, he was stronger than his peers, and he was the tallest, dark Skin, curly hair, round smiling face, and he is also the earliest talker among his peers. Now at the age of three, he can already understand and speak a lot of words, and he is especially good at observing words and expressions.

This time passed day by day. He searched almost the entire area around the slums. He has been searching for more than a month. The total money for beer bottles and cans is only eight dollars, and there are only more than 20 days until Christmas. Now, he wondered if he could have a fancy basketball on Christmas Day.

One night, he came home very sullen, and when he came back, he was beaten up by his mother because he was so small, running around, and coming home so late, Louis and Nuana were everywhere. I went to find him for dinner, but there was no one there. The neighbors told Luis and Nuana that the child had gone out since you just left the house, and I didn’t know what to do. Every day, when you just went out, the child ran away.

Neil, who was beaten up, felt miserable and had no choice but to accept it. After all, I did worry my mother and father.

He thought that after getting a beating, the matter was over, but who would have thought that Louis, who had listened to the neighbors in the neighborhood, would get up early the next morning and make breakfast, and after the family sat together and finished eating, they would stare at Neil. Seriously and solemnly said: "Neil, you are only three years old, and you only know how to fool around on the street for a day, what will happen in the future, besides, you are still so young, what if you fall, get hurt, or get replaced? Your mother and I are so sad, so, Dad discussed with your mother in bed last night, you can no longer leave you alone at home, you and your mother go shopping for daily necessities, and Dad continues to work on the construction site Do some work."

When his father finished speaking, the stubborn Neil only wanted to have a basketball, and then PK with his friends, and if they won, they would give each of them five cents, and make up enough twenty dollars to check his mother's condition, so he stared at it. Seeing his father objecting: "Why?"

"Did I not explain the reason clearly enough?" Father stared at him compulsively.

Neil saw that the matter had come to an end and he was powerless to recover, but he still didn't want to give up the last chance to pick up beer bottles and cans, so he turned his head and shook Nuana who was sitting at the dining table with his small dark hand and said, "Mom, Father is so disgusting!"

"Son, dad is also doing this for your own good. If something happens to you, how will your dad and I live, so you have to be obedient, obedient, and then you will have Christmas gifts."

Hearing his mother talking about Christmas presents, Neil immediately thought of basketball, but he thought of his poor family, and even his mother’s chronic illnesses for so many years that he had no money for a check-up, so he took it back when it came to his mouth.

He heard his mother, who was always gentle and considerate, and had never been aggressive towards him, said so, so he had no choice but to reluctantly agree.

When he and Nuana passed a basketball store with a shopping trolley, they suddenly didn’t leave, their eyes stared at each other, and they didn’t move. Nuana was surprised when he saw him stop suddenly. , just looked in the direction of his gaze, he was staring at an NBA basketball, Nuana was taken aback, it turned out that he likes basketball, she touched the purse, only a few dollars, there was no other way, she had to be happy Can't bear to shout to Neil: "Neil, let's go!"

Neil turned his head and glanced at Nuana, and then ran closer to look at the price of this basketball. When he saw 35 dollars, he immediately returned it in fright, and then continued to push the cart and went to sell things with his mother.

Neil's reaction that day was deeply imprinted in his mother's heart.

When I got home that night, Neil fell asleep. Nuana told Louis about Neil's reaction. Looking at Neil, who was sleeping next to them, he hugged Nuana and fell asleep tiredly.

In a blink of an eye, more than 20 days passed, and the biting cold wind swept across the surface, making everything tremble and curl up.

The annual Christmas also comes quietly. Neil and his mother returned home after selling things, hugging the pillow where he hid the money in a daze. Another year passed like this, but I don’t know when I will get my basketball. When will my mother's illness be cured?

Nuana cooked the meal, and she made a very rich table that day, Neil seemed a little hungry, and wanted to grab something to eat, but his mother stopped him and said, "We have to wait for Dad, and then we can eat together. "

Neil stopped, but stared at the sumptuous dinner on the table, drooling.

After waiting for about half an hour, Louis came back with something round in his hand, packed in a black cloth bag.

"You're back, hurry up and eat!" Nuana glanced at Louis from the corner of her eye and said.

Louis smiled at her, then nodded.

Then he looked at Neil who was standing by the table, which was higher than the table, and said, "Little devil, this is a Christmas present for you, I hope you will take good care of it."

As soon as the words fell, he threw the black cloth bag in his hands towards Neil. Neil caught it with his hands in surprise, then opened it, and saw that it was a basketball. His face was filled with a smile, and he thanked his parents and said: " Mom, Dad, thank you, I love you!"

"we love you too!"

Neil never expected that his father would give him such a special basketball as a Christmas gift, and it was the $35 basketball with the NBA logo that he saw in a basketball store with his mother that day.

　In fact, any gift, no matter how big or small, has a seed of love living in it.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)