Took this down earlier because I felt it was off-subject, but was encouraged to post it again. This is a sequel to Gabi’s Boxing Lesson as well as Road Rage. Very much based on the hilarious Married With Children Episode “Just Shoe It!”
2 Futbol
“Don’t get me wrong! Women’s soccer is great, and they absolutely deserve better pay,” Gabi advised the younger actress.
They were both wearing soccer uniforms with 4-inch black stretchy shorts, and tight soccer jerseys, Gabi was blue and white, the other girl was red, and shin guards.
The Jayne Mansfield blonde continued. “But the guys sell tickets and fill the seats. People want to see the sport played at the highest level and the girls just don’t offer that.”
“What the fuck do you know about it you stupid b..!” The other girl, who was actually Gia Gammon, a famous Futbol player who, at 19 years old, had just become the youngest world champion in league history, was enraged by Gabi’s comment and took an aggressive step toward the blonde with her finger pointed at the girl’s impressive chest.
At that moment Director Ed came to her rescue by stepping between them in the guise of needing to talk to Gabi.
“Barbie!” No, that is what they called her in the green room. He tried again “Er… I mean, Blondie?” Director Ed didn’t know the blonde extra’s actual name, but her bright blue eyes responded positively. For a moment those eyes did to Director Ed what they did to all men with a still-beating heart. If only he were 20 years younger and still had some hair.
“So this time you’re going to be the goalie,” he said, deciding they were going to have to do a beach scene with what’s-her-name soon. “Gia here is going to kick the ball into the goal, and you’re going to dive sideways to block the ball.”
“Wait,” said Gabi. “Do I have to actually block it? I don’t play soccer.”
“No!” said Director Ed impatiently, they are supposed to screen these girls, “You just have to make the dive, Gia is going to score, so it won’t hit you.”
Gabi remembered the incident with the football from before lunch. “She’s going to hit me?”
“No, er…” What was her name? “No, she’s going to make a goal, so the idea is to get the ball around you. Gia’s a pro, don’t worry about it.”
The pretty blonde considered things for a moment, she was being paid 500$ to wear cute outfits. She was sure that the LFL player didn’t mean to clobber her so roughly. She was just caught up in the moment, Gabi understood that.
Gabi nodded consent flashing a charming smile. “Okay! Let’s do it.”
Jen, the stunt coordinator who had helped Gabi get this gig, showed Gabi the crash mat and walked her through the stunt. Gabi tried the side dive once, it was fun! Jen advised “Make sure you have your arms and legs out like this. It looks better on camera.”
Jen told Director Ed that Gabi was ready to go. Gia Gammon’s assistant was going to serve her the ball, then the Footballer would do a flashy airborne kick as Gabi did her dive. It was going to look really cool once it was all put together.
“Action!” shouted Director Ed. Then quietly to Gia Gammon. “Okay let her have it.”
Gia’s assistant tossed the white, red striped ball into the air as Gia began her approach facing away from the goal. She leaped into the air throwing her shoulders back into a half backward somersault.
She brought up her right foot to catch the ball, expertly changing the course of the 15 oz sphere so that it spiraled at 117 feet per second towards the net to hit Gabi.
With an impact force of 10 pounds.
In the belly button.
When Director Ed watched the daily’s later that night, he left instructions to the editor to slow the footage down. He wanted to make sure the viewer would be able to see the moment when Gabi’s world changed.
As she flew through the air, arms and legs splayed Gabi was in a good mood. Even at reduced speeds, the white and red ball was merely a flash on the screen, just a few captured frames.
Fortunately, they did get the moment of impact. The ball dropped into the girl’s firm abs like Shoemaker-Levy 9 when it hit Jupiter. There was a shockwave of taut skin, and then a sudden collapse as Gabi’s diaphragm went into shock.
Her broad smile turned to confusion turned to wide-eyed surprise.
In real-time the ball bounced off of her abdominis muscle at a down angle, ricocheting on the astroturf to sail off into the rafters high above them.
“Uh!” Gabi made a brief, high, hiccup sound and flopped belly down on the crash mat, with her shapely calves popped up. She was silent for a few beats as the pain in her slowly came to a boil. Then she turned onto her back and emitted a deep anguished moan.
Jen was at her side first. “Oh, baby are you okay?”
Gabi said nothing but nodded her head. She had had worse, Jen had given her worse. Gabi pumped her legs instinctively trying to relax her breathing mechanisms.
“Can you stand up?” Jen asked.
Gabi shook her head. Nope, that wasn’t happening for a while.
“Alright!” Director Ed “We only have Gia for one day, thank you so much, Gia, let’s set up for the next one.”
#bellypunching #bp #catfight #coercion #embarassment #soccer
Impressive sentence, spirited and detailed. I need to try something like that one day. I know it’s not a best practice, but once in a blue moon, and they can really shine.
I guess it’s funny because already I can guess what might happen.
haha… called it!
Thanks, I worked on the sentence more than anything else. I write down everything I want to happen, then turn those into paragraphs. Then see what can be changed to create more dialog. You’re right though I wouldn’t recommend using run-on sentences like that, they are tiring to the reader.
These flash fiction stories have been a good practice in gaslighting. So I’ve listed it under Blackmail/ Coercion, Games, and Agreements.