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Trials of Love Rewrite: Chapter 29
The New Roommate
I walked off the ice exhausted. I had just finished the hardest practice we had ever had. The only bright spot was when Coach Wilson appointed me to be the new captain. I was about to head back to the locker room when I heard my name being called. I turned to see Coach Orion approaching me.
"I need to talk to you about something." he told me, crossing his arms.
"Well, talk." I said. I had a feeling this was probably about Julie.
"I just spoke with Julie." What did I tell you?
"We didn't mean for it to happen." I answered quickly.
"I'm sure you didn't. That doesn't change the fact that I lost my starting goalie." He told me.
"If you want, I can work with Goldberg. I will train him into a better goalie." I offered.
"I will tell Goldberg. When can you start?"
"A couple of days." I answered.
"Great." He told me as he walked away.
I headed to the locker room and changed quickly. I decided to skip dinner and headed back to my dorm room. I opened the door and was shocked to see someone lying on Riley's old bed.
"Cole what are you doing in my room?" I asked, closing the door.
"You mean my room." Cole told me.
"What?" I asked.
"I's your new room mate." He told me.
"Why?" I asked.
"I gots in a fight with me old roommate."
"So they assigned you to me?" I asked.
"Yeah. They said you didn't have a roommate since Riley left." He told me.
I flopped down on my bed. "Great. As if I didn't have enough problems already."
"Something a matter?" Cole asked. Was that English?
"What?" I asked confused.
"Something a matter?" Cole repeated.
"You mean is something wrong?" I asked.
"Yeah." He nodded.
"Yeah. Something is defiantly wrong." I told him.
"Well what is it?" He asked.
"Julie."
"You guys having problems?"
"Not exactly." I answered. "Julie's pregnant."
"What are you's going to do?" Cole asked.
"I want to be there for her." I answered.
"Then what's the problem?" He asked.
"Julie's mother." I answered. Just thinking about Elizabitch made me want to hurl.
"Why? Is she a bitch?" He asked me and I couldn't help but smile.
"That would be putting it mildly. The woman hates the ground that I walk on." I told him.
"Because you nailed her daughter?" He asked.
"Yes, as you so graciously put it, because I nailed her daughter." I paused. "The woman had me arrested for statutory rape. Adam told the police it was his baby to get me out of it, but they are going to make us take a paternity test once the baby is born."
"That really sucks man."
"No kidding," I vented. "Once this baby is proved to be mine, I'll go to jail for the next thirty years."
"You'll have a trial right?" He asked.
"Yeah, so?" I asked back.
He rolled his eyes at me. "Why don't the two of you play the love card."
"What?"
"Convince the jury that this was an act of love." He told me. I couldn't believe what I was hearing. For the first time in the four years that I had known him, Cole made a good point.
"That could work…" I started, but was interrupted by the knocking on the door. I got up and opened the door to see Julie standing before me in tears. "Julie, what's wrong?"
"I just talked to the dean. I am being kicked out of the dorms. He said the board told him that I was damned lucky they were even letting me stay in the dorms." She cried as she hugged me.
"Can they do that?"
"Apparently so." She answered.
I sighed as I hugged her tightly. That's when the idea came to my mind. "Everything will be fine. I'll take the money that my father left me and we'll get an apartment together."
"But.." She started.
"No buts about it." I told her. "We'll get through this."
True to my word, the next morning I took the money out of the bank and Julie and I went apartment shopping. We looked at three or four before we found the perfect one. It had two bedrooms, two baths, and a balcony. The best part was it's closeness to the school. It was only a five minute drive. After a couple minutes of discussion, the apartment was ours and we would be ready to move in the very next day.
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