INTRO

One day at the ice rink, Jude had specially kept the place open just for us guys so we could play a little ice hockey. Robbie and Diego joined us giving us an even six players. Joensy and Wyatt played as goalies and Robbie and Diego played on their own team against me and Jude.

Jude had the puck and skated towards Jonesy's goal net; When Robbie snuck up from behind and skidded under Jude's legs taking the puck with him. "Hey!" shouted Jude and then he slipped and fell.

I chased after Robbie, but he passed the puck to Diego, and then back again. I stole it back and made my way to center ice, and made a long shot towards the goal, but Jonesy caught it. "Yeah, baby! Who's D'man?" he hollered and passed the puck out to his brothers. They managed to evade me and Jude and head straight for Wyatt, who nervously shivered at his post. Diego slap-shot the puck hard and Wyatt ducked out of the way in panic letting it hit the back of the net.

The brothers rejoiced for yet another easy goal, but Jude and I slapped our heads in disgrace. "Dude… what was that?" snapped Jude.

"What? It was coming right at me." cried Wyatt.

"Um, kind of the point…" I said "The puck comes to you, and you stop it."

It was pretty obvious to us all that Wyatt was not goalie material. So he switched places with Jude. Jude did a much better job blocking the shots, and Wyatt was an okay skater, but he just couldn't seem to get the hang of skating and playing at the same time. "Whoa… you totally stink at hockey." Robbie teased. Even though that wasn't nice, every one of us agreed, even Wyatt did. "At least Serena doesn't have to know about this." he groaned.

We all decided to take a rest and head over to the lemon where Caitlin and Jen were sitting, and we talked about our gameplay, but it exceedingly difficult not to mention any of Wyatt's bumbling. He just pretended not to listen. "Just ignore them." Jen said "I'm sure with practice you'll get it."

Caitlin agreed "This one guy I know, he tried out for the hockey team, and he didn't do so well at the start."

"So what happened?" asked Wyatt.

"The team manager gave him a job as the water boy, and now he's the regional manager of all water boys."

Wyatt didn't think that was very enlightening.

Still, Jude loved his ice rink, and was glad to be in charge of it since he first lost his job. We all loved it, and were glad it was in the mall.

"Ahh, our mall…" sighed Jonesy "You can find practically anything in it."

"Amen to that." Wyatt agreed as his sipped his well brewed coffee. "I'm not sure where I've ever tasted better caffeine than this."

"All the cool sales and shopping." cried Caitlin.

"I can't picture any other place like it." added Jen.

"Well you may have to soon." Nikki said as she came up to the table with a sour look on her face. "What do you mean?" I asked. There was no easy way for Nikki to say what she had found out so she just up and blurted "…They might be selling the mall!"

Each of gasped, choked on our drinks or our own breaths, and Caitlin's heart skipped two beats!

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Author's notes:

I don't know much about hockey, but I'll do what I can. So just work with me.