I Woke Up 100 by M.P. Arsent
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SPECIAL NOTE Here we are at chapter 100. I never thought when I started this that I would ever get this far. I want to thank all of you for hanging in this far. I don't really know how much further I have to go with this story,but as long as you keep reading, and letting me know that you are, I'll keep writing until I feel it time to wrap the whole thing up. Again thanks for reading.
I headed back to my room at a run. When I got there I booted my computer and hoped to hell that my old address book had survived. It was bound to have the coaches email if not his phone number listed.
I lucked out and everything I needed was there. Now I just had to wait to hear from the Dean if this was workable or not.
It was about an hour later when there was a knock at my door. I opened it to find the Dean there.
"Dean Evans, come in please."
"Mr Sawyer, make your call. We can have your old coach here on the same basis as a substitute teacher, if his credentials are current."
"Would you care to be here?"
"If it is not an impostion."
I grabbed my cell phone and dialed the number.
"Hello?"
"Coach Matthews this is Dennis Sawyer."
"Dennis! You're about the last person I expected to hear from. I understand congratulations are in order."
"Thank you sir. Coach I've got a problem. We have a meet next weekend and our coach has had a family emergency. I was hoping you could see your way clear to come and give us a hand. If we have to forfiet the meet that means we won't be allowed to the all states in May."
"I'd love to help you out Dennis if you're sure the school is ok with this?"
"I have the dean of men,Dean Evans, standing right here if you'd like to speak to him."
"Yes I think I had better."
I handed the phone to the Dean and stepped aside.
"Good afternoon Coach Matthews ............yes..... certainly.........I'll see to it. Yes tomorrow will be fine. Thank you sir. Hmmm? oh yes just a moment."
He handed the phone back to me.
"Ok Dennis, honest injun, how do these guys look?"
"I can't remember ever seeing a better all around squad coach. I do need you to know though that I am just an alternate,only because I wasn't really ready to try out at the beginning of the year."
"Ok Dennis. I'll be there sometime tomorrow and I'll look you up then."
"Sounds like a deal to me coach. Drive safe."
"Later young man."
"He'll be here tomorrow Dean Evans."
"You know the man Mr Sawyer. Would he prefer to stay at a residence or have a room at some hotel for the week?"
"I think the room at the hotel would be more to his liking sir. He always professed to liking living by himself."
"I'll make arrangements and let you know where and I'll arrange a temporary parking pass for him."
"Thank you sir. This should be interesting. Now I need to tell the squad,or at least Dana."
"Indeed. Good luck at the meet."
"Thank you sir."
Dean Evans left at that point and I got on my phone to Dana.
"Dana! We got this beat. My old high school coach is coming up to fill in. He'll be here sometime tomorrow. Unless I miss my guess, he'll want to get right to it. Can you get the guys together for a late afternoon practice?"
"I damn sure can. How the hell did you pull this off Dennis?"
"I simply asked him. It didn't take a whole lot of convincing."
"Damn you just saved the whole season! We can still go the all States!"
"Not only are we going,we're going to win them!"
"From your mouth to gods ears Den. Ok, I'll call it for 3pm. Figure he'll be here by then?"
"I'm betting he's here by noon. I heard last week that they forced him to retire, and I'm pretty sure he was no where near ready to go."
"Outstanding. What can you tell me about him?"
"He's no nonsense. You guys tried that Anderson stunt with him and he would have disbanded the squad and forfieted the whole damn season."
"Does he know about you?"
"Yeah the whole damn school knew and it doesn't worry him a bit."
"Good to know. Ok let me get on the phone to the guys. I don't know if they're going to praise you or bury you Dennis."
"Just so long as we get there and do our best they can do whatever to me."
I hung up and headed out to go over and tell Karl. As I passed Andys room I stopped.
"Hey Andy, just so you don't think you're having a nervous breakdown or something, Coach Matthews will be on campus starting tomorrow."
"What the hell Dennis?"
I filled him in on the situation and the remedy.
"This should be interesting I think. I might just make it a point to go to the meet."
I went on my way and went over to talk to Karl.
"It's all set up love. Coach will be here tomorrow. Which means my afternoon is likely to be taken up until who knows when."
"Then any work you need to do better get done today lover."
"Guess so. See you in a bit for supper or just go now?"
"In a bit. I've got this bit I need to finish while I've got it all in my head."
"Call me when you're ready."
"You got it."
I headed back to my dorm and did some reading that I needed to complete for Monday.
I also thought to check the sign up sheet for the buses and by the time I worked through the emails I had over 170 people. It looked like another 3 bus trip.
Pete came into the room at some point and I gave him the same message I gave Andy.
"Yeah if you hadn't told me I would have damn sure thought I was going round the bend."
A bit later my phone went off and it was Karl.
"Meet you downstairs love."
"Be right down."
I went quickly downstairs and hooked up with Karl and we got our food. A few of the guys from the squad came over to thank me for stepping up. I told them to wait until after the practice tomorrow before they did that. I knew just how exacting Coach Matthews could be.
Supper quickly eaten and Karl and I took our nightly walk and had our kiss and I was back to my room to finish up what I could. 11 came and so did Karls text and mine went back to him.
5:45 and it was out for jogging and Aiden even manage the 5 full laps today. It was into to shower and a little reading to try and get a bit ahead while I waited for a call from Coach Matthews.
Just a little after 12 there was a knock on my door. I expected it to be Karl for lunch, but when I opened the door it was the Coach standing there.
Coach looked like he was ready to compete himself. He was about 6ft and you could clearly see he was still in shape.
"Coach Matthews! I didn't expect you until later."
"There wasn't a lot of traffic and I left very early. Well, let me take a look at you. Well you don't seem any the worse for wear. Well,let's get down to it. When can I meet the squad?"
"We've got a 3 pm practice scheduled. Like I said I didn't expect you until a bit later and wanted to give a little leeway."
"Gives us time to grab a little lunch."
"On or off campus?"
"What are the choices on campus?"
"Student union or the cafeteria. Off campus,just about anything you'd like, except a good seafood place."
"Something plain and simple."
"I know just the place."
I was reaching for my phone to call Karl when I saw him coming down the hall.
"Coach, you remember Karl I hope?"
"Ahh yes Mr ...Holtz. Good to see you two are still together."
"Good to see you coach. I know this means a lot to Dennis to have you here."
"I'm pleased he even thought to ask. I'm surprised though that the college doesn't at least have an assistant coach."
"From what I understand they don't have any specialty coaches for the football team either. The budget is pretty tight I guess."
"We're headed to Rons for lunch."
"Your car then I guess,unless you want to drive coach?"
"Perfectly happy to let you drive Dennis, afterall you know where you're going."
We all got down to my car and I checked it over before I let anybody get in. Coach gave me a bit of a look.
"Coach, I'm sure you remember Larry Brown."
"Yes, shame what happened."
"Well long story short, I was on his shit list and just before he died he told me he wasn't done with me yet. Call me paranoid, but I'm not taking any chances."
"I well remember his reputation and I can't say as I blame you one bit."
We got in and were out to Rons in short order. By the time we got there the "brunch" crowd had already been and gone for the most part.
We were quickly in and served and lunch was soon over with and we were on our way back to campus.
By the time we got back we still had about an hour to go before the practice. Coach still wanted to go over to the rec center and check things out there. I left him checking out the practice hall while I went in and changed up. Dana came in just about the time I was ready to hit the floor.
"Change up and come out and meet the coach."
"I hope to hell this works out Dennis."
"However it turns out it's better than forfieting the whole season."
"That's for damn sure."
I went out to the floor and Dana was only a couple of minutes behind me.
"Coach Matthews, this is out team captain Dana Cosgrove."
"Mr Cosgrove,nice to meet you."
"Thank you sir and thank you for coming out to help us on such short notice."
"More than happy to. I was getting bored at home. Well everything looks to be in order here. I know this was short notice for your squad as well. Is everbody going to be able to make it?"
"Yes sir. Nobody wants to forfiet the season."
Guys started drifting in and everybody but Dwayne was there by 2:45.
"We're just missing one guy Coach Matthews, should we start stretching out?"
"Might just as well Mr Cosgrove."
So we all started to stretch out. I didn't have any doubt that Dwayne would show up before 3.
Sure enough about 5 minutes to 3 Dwayne came charging out to join us.
"Sorry to be so late ......Uncle Max?"
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL!