Slam Dunk for Mark

"Give me the ball, Mark!"
"Good job, Mark, and good luck in tomorrow's game. With you on the team,
we'll win the cup again!"
"Is your team playing in the finals, Mark?"
"That's a good idea. Okay, I'll make that."
"I'm worried about you. I'll take you to the doctor's."
"I can't play this afternoon."
"Only my friends can sit here,"
"And you are not my friend."
"You're very important to me. And basketball is only a game."

Mark and Anthony are Bayview high school students and they take part in the basketball club. Mark is Bayview's star player. He has a old grandmother but she is not well. He decided that he took her to the hospital. But he has a final basketball game. So he refused his friends to play the game. However they did not understand that. Moreover they were very angry.
I think they should understand him. He also should tell them about his sick grandmother. And they will be able to understand why he can't play the game.

Slam Dunk for Mark
Foundations Reading Library
Written by Rob Waring and Maurice Jamall
YL=0.8-o.8
771 words

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