"three out of the four we've played properly." Emmett laughed a little. "My team's good this year. A few younger ones who're unmanageable as anything, but that's what you get with Year 10s and 11s, sometimes. Hard to believe I was that age not all that long ago, but..it was different then." Pause. "Well, probably it wasn't and I annoyed someone just as much at home."
In different ways though, he was pretty sure.
And the chuckling there had him grinning. "Honestly, Father says it's the not informing him bit that's the problem. It's not about the fight but the 'lying', though I still don't quite see how I LIED so much as didn't tell him something. But...he gets protective. Not so bad as he's BEEN, guess I did push it a little far. But I'd love knowing from someone much better at it."