10. DARK HORSE

It was in history and everyone went in and we all settled down and everything like usual. Then Mr. Dinham told us our exam results to the displeasure of most people. Because we had just finished our exams and stuff we didn't have to do any work so while some kids were talking to Mr. Dinham and everyone else was just chatting, I went to watch these boys arm wrestling. They were Mustafa, Ashley and Nerson. They were doing this for a while and anyway after a while this boy Mustafa asked if I would arm wrestle him. At first I said 'No' because I didn't have any confidence that I could beat. Mustafa is about my size but pretty muscular, he has really good stomach muscles and arm muscles. He's one of those really athletic kind of people. At first I said I wouldn't play but finally I agreed to play him with my left hand since it's my strongest and, literally, like half-a-second after he said go he was down. I actually thought he had let me win. Anyway, all these boys were watching were really surprised because I was meant to be the quite, weak one but I played him again with my left and my right and I beat him both times in the same way, he went down straight away. Then I said, "Oh, I'm really not that strong, he's letting me win." Then I played this boy Nierson, who was quite a bit stronger, and I played him with my left arm and then my right and battered him as well in the same way. I said the same thing again because I couldn't really believe I was winning, especially with Mustafa so I said, "I'm not really that strong, you're letting me win." But then this boy, Ashley wanted to play me and he really is big - he's very big - and I wasn't really optimistic that I could beat him. But we played in the same way, starting with my left arm and straight away I got him almost completely down but then he kind of locked his arm and I couldn't get him down and we stayed in that position for a minute, maybe more, until I got him down and I won. Then I beat him with my right arm straight away. Then I said the same thing again but this time it was a kind of a joke because I knew they wouldn't all let me win. Everyone else was going mad about this but Ashley was really cool about it, he just said, "Oh, yeah, yeah, safe. You win." I was really impressed at how he took it so well especially as I've never seen him beaten before. But the others were like, "Oh my gosh, man. You got beaten by that white boy!" and they were really amazed. At the end of the lesson Nierson said, "Oh yeah, you beat me but you wouldn't be able to take me in a fight." so I said, "Oh yeah, I know, I'm terrible at fighting."