Julies POV
As we pulled up to the dorm building, I smiled. The quad was empty, it was weird. I stepped out of the car and mom handed me my suitcase. "Ready honey?" she asked me, taking my hockey bag from the trunk of the car.
"Yeah, I hope so." I replied. "Let's go."
A smiling, waving face stared at me from a higher window; I caught sight of it and waved back. She looked down momentarily, then back at me. In my back pocket and cell buzzed, I put my suitcase on the pavement and looked at it.
From: Connie
Wait there, I'm going to tell the others that you're here :D
Xoxox C
I smiled and turned to mom, "Con is coming to get me." She smiled.
"You two have always been close; I guess its good with hockey being such a rough sport. You've got another girl looking after you." She didn't like me playing hockey at the beginning, especially when I went up for goalie try outs. But when she met my peewee team back in Maine, she realised how protective they are over me. If someone started on me, they would lamp in, even back then. And the ducks are even better than that. And now I have someone to girl-chat with.
I went back to the car to grab my almost-forgotten stick and when I got back Connie was in a hug with mom. When Connie's mom died a couple of years ago, we kinda adopted her into the family. Because she lives in Minnesota, we don't get to see each other very often, but we text and email and are still close. Her dad works a lot, so she's like a second daughter to mom. She opened her eyes from mom's shoulder, and they widened when they saw me. She smiled at mom, "Thank you." She whispered into her ear. I screamed and ran towards her; she ran the rest of the way, after a couple of minutes in a close embrace a caught sight of a couple of the boys standing behind us. The laughed and walked over, waved to mom the stood in front of us. "Aww." Goldberg said.
We broke from the hug and I beckoned the boys with my finger, grinning. They hugged me one by one and grinned. Goldberg was the last. "There's my goalie." I laughed and gave him an extra squeeze.
As they headed over to my suitcase and bag I was in a high speed catch up session with Connie. Seriously, when we haven't seen each other for 4 weeks, we can talk fast, like light speed fast.
"Honey?" mom called me, "I have to go, something has come up at the studio." Mom designs dresses for a shop called Selfridges in England.
"Its okay, we can have lunch when you come back at the end of summer." I hugged her and kissed her on the cheek.
"Love you, have a good time at camp." She got back into the car and gave instructions to the driver before calling out the window.
"And don't push your knee too much." I smiled at the mumsie-ness and waved.
"No promises!" I grinned and blew a kiss to the moving car.