On the basketball court, the streetlights provided steady illumination, but my gaze flickered. I didn't want to face Yang Sisi, who was staring straight at me, nor did I want to look at the red and white basketball in her hand. I just wanted to lock myself away and study how this inescapable loneliness came about.
Yang Sisi then said to me, "Do you really want me to disappear from this basketball court?"
"Hurry up, the faster the better."
"That's what I was thinking too... Do you know how to play basketball? If so, let's have a game. Whoever wins gets to use this basketball court... The loser has to stay at least 100 meters away from this basketball court from now on."
"I can't play, but I just want to occupy this basketball court..."
"You're such a big guy but you're too scared to play basketball with a woman like me!"
"Don't try to provoke me. My rent includes the property management fee, so why shouldn't I have the right to use the community's public facilities?"
"But I just can't stand the sight of you. This basketball court is either you or me, or me or you."
I dusted myself off and stood up. Although Yang Sisi was tall enough, she was still no match for me, a man, so she was already half a head lower in terms of presence. I pointed at her and said, "You want to play a game, right... You'll regret this... Give me the basketball."
Yang Sisi shielded the ball with her hand and said, "I'm a girl, so I have priority and I'll serve first."
"I'll say it to you one more time, so you won't regret it."
"I really regret knowing a bastard like you... but I don't regret this."
As Yang Sisi spoke, she dribbled the basketball with her hand, showing absolutely no basketball etiquette. According to the rules, she should have passed the ball to me first, and then I should have passed it back to her, which would have been a sign of respect for the opponent. Instead, she directly took the ball and looked like she was going to attack me.
That being said, she never respected me at all, not only in basketball, but also in many other things she viewed me with hostility.
Yang Sisi glanced at me and then tentatively dribbled the ball toward me. She really didn't dodge, or perhaps she underestimated me, but I didn't hold back. I seized an opening in her dribbling and snatched the ball from her hand.
Just as I had control of the ball, Yang Sisi yelled at me, "Foul, foul...you committed a hand foul."
What did I do to you?
You hit my hand.
"You have the nerve to call such a clean shot a foul?"
"If I say you fouled, then you fouled."
As Yang Sisi spoke, she forcefully snatched the basketball back from my hands. In all my years of playing basketball, this was the first time I had ever seen such poor sportsmanship. It completely refreshed my understanding of the rules and regulations of modern basketball.
Yang Sisi started attacking again, but she was noticeably more cautious than last time. She observed me while shielding the ball with her body to the side... But she clearly underestimated the length of my arms. When my body pressed against hers, her fingers had already touched the basketball, and the ball slipped out of her hands once again... It was still a clean move.
Yang Sisi yelled again, "Foul! Foul!"
"I didn't even touch a hair on your head, how did that constitute a foul?"
Yang Sisi argued forcefully: "When you reached out, your body made a downward movement, which is a foul."
That's the legendary "hairline" foul, isn't it... Stop talking nonsense, it's my turn to attack.
I didn't give Yang Sisi another chance to protect the ball. I blocked her with my body while keeping the basketball firmly in my hands. Yang Sisi pouted and looked at me, clearly extremely dissatisfied with the result.
As I dribbled the ball sideways, I looked at her physique and said, "I won't bully you. I won't drive to the basket; I'll just shoot from outside the paint and beat you to a pulp."
Yang Sisi retorted defiantly, "As long as the rules allow it, you can fight however you want. I won't take advantage of you!"
"Oh, so you're suddenly all high and mighty now... Where did that spirit go when you accused me of a foul by accusing me of body hair?"
"Stop spouting trash."
"Trash talk is part of basketball..."
"Hehe, I don't feel any pressure from you at all. It's like crossing the street at dawn, it couldn't be easier!"
Yang Sisi's presumptuous words had already enraged me. Holding the basketball, I swung it in a wide arc, then slammed the ball to the ground and followed up with a crossover step to dribble past her, disrupting her footwork before driving towards the basket.
Yang Sisi didn't need to stop me, as it would be like a mantis trying to stop a chariot, but she seemed to be filled with resentment and was determined to block my way no matter what.
This was the first time in my life I had played basketball one-on-one with a woman, and I didn't know what the appropriate force was, but I swear, when she blocked me from the side, I tried my best to reduce the force of my forward momentum, but the inertia was too great, and it was impossible to completely reduce it. So the moment my body collided with her, she flew out of the air.
Saying she flew is no exaggeration, because when she fell, her feet were already off the ground, and her whole body was in the air. I couldn't even pull her back.
The root of the trouble was that I never expected that after I had already passed her, she would still dare to force her way up and try to block me... Even if the other person was a man, he wouldn't make such a dangerous choice unless it was a formal competition, a fight to the death.
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