Sport and Sentiment

Team 18 is in the middle of a game against the Taurus team.

Jennifer: Go! Go!

Nicolas passes to Dorothy who spikes.

Rémi: Not bad for a girl, but it won't be good enough.

Justin passes the ball to Dita who jumps but a little too late
and loses the point. Team 18 loses the match.

Rémi: Thanks, Dita.

Dorothy: Forget it, Dita. He's a moron. It can happen to anyone.

Rémi: I'll be ready for you, Dorothy, in the return game.

Dorothy: Right. Bye-bye, adios, ciao, forget I exist.

The next day.

The delivery man: Are you Dorothy Nandaya?

Dorothy: Yes I am.

The delivery man: Here you are. This is for you.

Nicolas: Who could have sent them?

Jennifer: I think that's so romantic.

Alex: That's too cool.

Dorothy: "I hope we'll meet again"

Dita: And is there a name to go with it?

Dorothy: It's from Rémi.

Justin: What?

Alex: This guy is so out of it!

Justin: Nobody gives flowers any more.

Dita: Actually, I think it's quite nice to give flowers.

Nicolas: The day idiots fly, you'll be squadron leader.

Alex: He is obviously trying to use you.

Justin: You can see what he's after, can't you?

Dorothy: Yeah! And just watch what I do with his bunch of flowers!

She throws the flowers into the trash can. They go out.

Dorothy: Hey, hold on. I've left something behind in my locker. Go on ahead, I'll catch up with you.

She hurries away.

Jennifer: I have to get something, too.

Justin: Hey! Why is she going invisible for that?

Nicolas: Ah, girls are too hard to figure out!

Dorothy is picking the letter back out of the trash can when...

Jennifer: BOO.

She snatches the message and becomes visible.

Dorothy: Give it back right now!

Jennifer: I'm not curious but I want to know all about it. So tell me.

Dorothy: I don't know what to do.

Jennifer: Come on, Dorothy, a handsome blond with blue eyes to die for asks you for a date,
and you play hard to get?

Dorothy: Can you see me dating a member of the Taurus team? What are the others going to think?

Jennifer: I don't know about that. But you'd better get a move on, 'cause he's coming now.

Dorothy: You're kidding!

Rémi: Hi, guys. How are things? Dorothy, can I have a word with you?

Dorothy: No!

Jennifer: Of course you can! I had something to ask Dorothy about, but it's been taken care of.
Bye, see you later!

She goes invisible.

Dorothy: Hey, there...

Rémi: Did you get my flowers?

Dorothy: Yes I did. Thanks.

Rémi: I'd really like to get to know you better. How would you like to go to the ice-rink with me?

Dorothy: Err, to the ice-rink?

Rémi: Yes, you know, the place where you slide over the ice with funny shoes on.

She hesitates.

Dorothy: Yes, I'd like that. Oh God, pinch me, I'm dreaming. I said yes!

Rémi: Brilliant! I'll come and get you tomorrow at 7 pm.

Dorothy: Okay.

The others arrive.

Dita: Well, well, well...

Nicolas: Look who's here.

Justin: But it's our Romeo.

Rémi: Hi. It was nice seeing you.

Nicolas: What did he want?

Dorothy: Oh, nothing.

Jennifer: Come on, get off her back! He's gone, isn't he?

Alex: Yeah, he should go back to where he belongs.

At the ice-rink.

Rémi: And now watch my triple lutz jump.

He falls flat on his face, of course.

Dorothy laughing: It's more like a triple lutz crash!

She helps him to his feet again and sees the other members of the team coming in.

Dorothy: Oh no! Not them, we gotta go.

Rémi: But we've only just got here!

Dorothy: I forgot to feed my cat.

Rémi: Your cat?

Dorothy: Yes he's very old and set in his ways. Excuse us, sorry, please let us through.

She drags him away.

Nicolas: What's all this commotion about?

Alex: Hey, did you see that? Dorothy is sneaking out with Rémi.

Justin: What? So she's going out with the guy!

On the following day.

Justin: Hi! I watched "moustache blues" last night. What did you do?

Dorothy: Nothing. I studied.

Nicolas: Come off it! We saw you and Rémi at the ice-rink.

Dita: But, so you weren't watching "moustache blues" then?

Justin: Oh, Dita! You'll drive me to distraction!

Alex: Tell the truth!

Dorothy: All right, that's enough. Yes, we're dating. But it's not the end of the world, is it?

Alex: You do realise his team are our rivals AND we're soon going to play against them, don't you?
Have you lost your mind?

Dorothy: Thanks so much for reminding me, but I'll go out with whomever I like! Bye!

On the day of the game.

Mr Savax: To catch them off-guard, Dorothy will block Rémi with her sonic wall, okay?

Nicolas: Well, I'd rather do it myself...

Dorothy: I'm perfectly capable of doing it!

Jennifer: Come on, guys, cheer up! We're going to win!

Rémi: May the best man win!

Dorothy: Why the best man? Sexist pig.

Team 18 scores a few points. Jennifer passes to Dorothy but Rémi keeps her from spiking.

Justin: I knew this was going to happen. Stop passing the ball to Dorothy, okay?

Dorothy: What the..., you could have passed that to me!

Alex: I couldn't. He was already about to spike.

Mr Savax: Time out. But what's up today? Why haven't you made any passes to Dorothy?

Nicolas: You can see she's not exactly in shape for the Olympics.

Dorothy: Well, there's no doubt that if you keep acting like I'm not there, I can't help you any!

Alex: You can't stop Rémi's shots.

Dorothy: And you, Mr Perfect, I suppose you never mess up?

Mr Savax: Take it easy, and tell me what's going on. I'm lost here.

Justin: Dorothy is going out with Rémi and you saw how he stopped her ball.

Mr Savax: I get it now. Dorothy, how did Rémi manage to block you?

Dorothy: It was just dumb luck. Anyway, we're always studying the way others play.

Mr Savax: That's absolutely true! You should trust her. Besides, Dorothy is smart enough
to date whom she wants.

Dorothy: I can quit the game, if that's what you want.

Mr Savax: Not even an option. But listen, if you want to win you should get your team spirit back,
and fast.

Dorothy: Right, well I'm going back in there.

Dita: What do we do?

Jennifer: We give her a second chance.

Nicolas: Okay.

The game resumes.

Mr Savax: Yeah, that's the idea! Keep it up! Great point. Time out.

Jennifer: We're listening.

Mr Savax: They're not expecting attacks from Dorothy, so give them some sonic spikes.

Dorothy: Okay, I'll give it everything I've got.

Dita: In we go, then!

Alex: Team 18 all together.

Dorothy: You won't be sorry.

Dorothy scores over and over again with her sonic spikes. Team 18 wins the game.

Mr Savax: When you play like a real team, nothing can get in your way.

Nicolas: Hey, sorry for having doubts about you.

Alex: Yeah, we got that one all wrong.

Dorothy takes a deep breath and puts her hands on her hips.
They all expect her to yell at them, and they deserve it. They exchange furtive glances.
All of a sudden, she blows all the extra air from her lungs and says

Dorothy: If only you could see your faces, you'd die laughing.
Thanks for having faith in me.

Jennifer: Our team is finally back together.

Rémi: Congratulations.

Dorothy: You put up a good fight.

Nicolas: To apologize, I'll give you some free passes to the ice-rink.

Dita: Great!

Justin: No, Dita, they're not for you. They're for Doro and Rémi.

Dita: No harm in trying!

She winks playfully at Dorothy.

Dorothy: Thanks. Do you want to go, Rémi?

Rémi: Ok, but please don't tell my team. They'd kill me.

Dorothy: You can come with us.

Alex: OK.

Rémi: I want to show you my super lutz.

Dorothy: Oh yes, it's really worth seeing, believe me.

They burst out laughing.

Next episode: Nicolas Rebels

copyright Jean-François Schwaiger

Translation: Karine Debarge and JF Schwaiger
Proofreading-Editing: Eileen Harris

"Any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental
and unintentional."

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