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AN: Sorry it took so long to put this up! I went away over vacation and I just got back last night! I tried really hard to get it up before I left, only to reread it the night before and realizing how much it sucked. But I finally have it up now! It was supposed to be longer but while writing the last part I came up with a really good idea for the story. So this is basically the first part of my chapter. The second part will be up Wednesday and it's sorta the second half of the very long chapter, but it seemed sorta weird to put it in here so thats why I decided to make it part two. Anyways, thanks so much for reviewing and I hope you like the new chapter :)
Chapter 9
Mid September, 1979
The bar was crowded and the night was still young. College students from the U all flocked to P.J Kellehers before party hopping later that night. The guys were all away playing a game in the next city over and were expected to come back within the hour. Annie sweet talked the boss into reserving them all a table, but he was very reluctant about it. She really wanted two separate tables because of the friction between some of the guys, AKA Mac and OC. But after the truce Mac and Annie made two weeks earlier the team started talking more in the locker room, and sometimes Rizzo or Jimmy would hang out with the Minnesotans at their table in the bar.
"Here's your check. I hope you come again," Annie smiled to the people at the table she was serving, saying the overused good bye, that her boss makes all the waitresses say.
The guy at the table put his money on the table and then threw an extra dollar on the table.
"Here, go buy yourself some makeup," the guy said as he was putting on his coat.
"I think you need to give her more money for that," the girl he was with laughed.
The two customers then left Annie to clean up their mess and collect the money. She put the tip in her empty pocket and walked over to the register. Her boss, who was serving bar, began to talk to her.
"Did you get a tip yet?" he asked as he poured a drink into a glass.
"Finally," Annie sighed, "I've been working for almost two hours and I've only gotten a dollar for tips. It seems like I never get any tips."
"Really?" her boss asked, not sounding very surprised.
Annie nodded, "Yeah. I don't know why though. I'm not mean to my customers or anything. I'm patient with them and I don't take to long to serve them..."
"Sometimes it's not always about who you are...it's about what you are," her boss replied before leaving to serve some new customers.
"Wait...what?" he left a confused Annie.
Before Annie could even think about what her boss had just said, she heard a familiar voice call her name.
"Hey Conway!"
She looked up and saw OC stand by the crowded entrance. He was with Rizzo and the two hockey players moved through the crowd of people to their red headed friend at the bar.
"Hey. How'd the game go?" Conway greeted them.
"Great. We won!" OC smiled.
"Five to four, we scored in the last second," Rizzo recapped the game.
"Ohhhh it's too bad I missed it," Annie complained, "Who scored the winning goal?"
OC gave a pissed off look and Rizzo gave her the look and said quietly, "McClanahan."
Annie just rolled her eyes and smiled at Rizzo, they both started to find it funny that OC was still mad, especially Annie after talking to Mac about it when he drove her home.
"Whatever," OC sighed, still seeming mad, "Where am I sitting?"
Rizzo and he looked around the crowded bar, and it looked like no seats were open. The two Bostonians then saw a big booth in the back that was open and reserved.
"Thanks Conway," Rizzo smiled gesturing his head towards the booth.
Annie looked over and shook her head, "Ohhhh no thats not yours. I got my boss to save you guys a small table."
She then pointed to the other side of the bar to a much smaller table, with about ten chairs covering every corner of the table.
"What's with all the chairs?" OC asked.
"It's not just for you. It's for all the hockey players that usually come..."Conway explained.
"What?" OC almost shouted from shock.
"Yeah," she nodded, "It was the best I could do. So if you don't want to sit with Mac then don't sit there at all."
Rizzo wanted to walk over and sit down at the little table, but OC wouldn't leave without a fight.
"Why are you becoming like best friends with the enemy?" OC accused.
"The enemy?" Conway questioned and then said very slowly, "YOU'RE ON THE SAME TEAM!"
"Not by choice..."OC groaned.
Annie took a deep breath and confronted her best friend, "Ok, can you please just do this for me? You don't even need to talk to Mac. I'm just really busy tonight and I can't do this right now. So please, just sit there?"
OC reluctantly nodded, "Whatever."
The two hockey players walked over to the table and sat down. A couple minutes later Silky and Jimmy came into the bar and they too sat at the small table with two of their teammates. About twenty minutes later the Minnesotan guys came in. There weren't too many because she expected most of them to be at college parties. The guys that did show up were Bah, Mark, Ken Morrow, Ramsey, Bill Baker, and last but not least Mac.
The guys who just came in and saw how crowded it was and knew they probably wouldn't be able to get a seat. They looked around and saw Annie waiting for her drinks to serve at the bar. The six walked through all the college kids to the bar.
"Hey Conway," Bah greeted her.
She turned around and saw the six hockey guys. Things between them had gotten a little better since her truce with Mac and all. She served the guys drinks when they came to the bar and would talk to them a bit in the locker room, but they never hung out after practice or anything. Mac and her were also ok with one another. They would talk to each other in groups but didn't talk just to each other since the night he gave her a good ride, and for a good reason since OC would probably flip out.
"Hey guys," she smiled, "Congratulations!"
"Thanks," Morrow said.
"Are there any seats open?" Ramsey asked.
"Well, I got my boss to save a small table for you guys," the red head tried to make this better then her first try.
"Cool," Mark said, "I think I see it over there in the back."
The five hockey players and Annie turned to see what Mark was looking at. He was talking about the same both that the other guys thought was theres, the nice big one that was already reserved for another event. This caused Annie to chuckle then she said:
"Oh no! It's that one over there. With OC, Jimmy, Rizzo, and Silky."
She then pointed to the correct table and all the guys who were sitting there were laughing about something. Annie noticed OC seemed a little less tense, which was a good thing.
The guys weren't hesitate about joining the table because they were friendly with Jimmy and Rizzo. The only one who seemed to have a slight problem was Mac, because OC was always a jerk to him. But Mac just went along with the rest of the guys and sat at the table. As they were walking Annie said to Rob, "Congrats on scoring the goal!"
Robbie simply nodded at her and went to sit with the other guys at the little table.
Annie's shift finished at ten. She clocked out of a very unsuccessful night, having only gotten about $1.50 in tips. When the waitress came back out to the bar she noticed all the guys were gone, probably out at a party. Annie smiled thinking about the guys finally being at peace but it quickly turned to a frown when she realized she had to walk home.
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Meanwhile, the guys seemed to be having a great time at the party. The Boston guys didn't know anybody there so they just talked to all the pretty girls without caring who they were going out with or went out with already. Some of the Minnesotans joined them and talked to any hot girl that they or their friends hadn't dated, hooked up with,or had sex with.
Mac was also talking to a girl, Christy, who he already knew from an English class he took the previous year. They seemed to be hitting it off pretty well until the hockey player saw something at the corner of his eye.
It was OC – talking to none other then Jamie, his ex girlfriend. Mac was pissed, he hated her and never wanted to see her face again. Mac left Christy, who was in mid sentence, to confront OC. When he got there Jamie was laughing at something that OC just said.
"Jamie, what the hell?" Mac asked.
The blonde turned around and laughed, pretending to act all innocent. Mac knew perfectly well that she knew what she was doing. She knew that Mac hated OC and the Boston guy had mutual feelings toward him.
"Hey babe, haven't seen you in a while. Hows it going?" she smiled.
"Spectacular," Mac rolled his eyes, "What are you doing here? Shouldn't you be off with Andrew?"
Andrew was the guy that Mac caught her with a few days after their break up. Jamie was friends with him but Mac didn't like him, and for god reason. He was a womanizer. He flirted with every girl and tried to sleep with him. He even made bets with his friends to see how long it would take before he gets in bed with a girl, which sometimes he called conquests. And if he didn't get his way he'd bother them and always get on their nerves.
"Andrew? Ohhhh please," Jamie laughed, "I dumped his sorry ass months ago. He's so stupid and is always hitting on those waitresses down at P.J Kellehers anyways..."
By that time OC already left the conversation. He actually left when Mac first came in. He remembered something Annie told him about not fighting with Mac because there would be a good chance that he would get kicked off the team, that and the girl was sort of annoying anyways.
So OC just walked over to the keg and got himself another drink. He was about to take his first sip when he was greeted by Mark.
"Hey man"
"Hey," OC replied.
OC thought Mark was alright, and a very good hockey player, despite the fact that he was good friends with Mac.
"I saw Mac walk in on you and Jamie-"
"Oh thats her name? She never told me..."
"That's his ex-girlfriend," Mark explained.
OC then looked over at the ex-couple again, who seemed to be in a rather heated discussion. This time he seemed interested. Nothing would piss off Mac more than him nailing his ex-girlfriend.
"Really?" OC asked, trying to come off as if he didn't care.
Mark could see right through him, "Yeah, so you might want to keep it in your pants."
Mark walked away to join the rest of the party. OC took another sip of his beer and looked for the last time at Mac and Jamie. Mac looked even more pissed then when he first barged in on the conversation and left angrily. Jamie just stood there looking rather annoyed. OC just took another deep breath, gulped down the remainder of his beer in one swig, and went over to continue talking to the blonde.
