Notes: Anyone ever told when you were a kid if you sleep all day you won't
be able to sleep at night? If you have you'll get a kick out of this
chapter. Insomnia is not fun! My chapters are being inspired by songs
again! This one is the name of a song by Dishwalla. It was the coolest
song when I was a senior in high school. This is what we call comedy
relief. It's just an excuse to get in Banks' head some more without any
real action. Next chapter this fic will really pick up speed I promise! I
got an A on my psych test (Don't ask how I managed that since it was
originally a D+) and wanted to take the edge off Banks angst for once!
Counting Blue Cars
I sat staring out the window. It wasn't as if I could actually see anything since it was three am. But I couldn't sleep. I slept almost all day. I should get up and get a painkiller. The others would understand. Except it was dark in the room and the painkillers were somewhere on the table.
I still haven't heard about the prank the others pulled. They said if we didn't know we couldn't be blamed. Must have been something big.
I looked at the clock in the room for the twentieth time. It was 3:07. I started counting stars in hopes to fall asleep. I already tried counting sheep. That this wasn't working either. I could bang my head on the wall but that might not be wise considering I hurt my head once already today or rather yesterday. And the three other people in this room might get mad at me making noise.
Okay that's it. If I'm still awake at four I am going to find those pain pills even if I wake everyone up.
Four o'clock came and passed. I decided not to find the pills. The team has a game today Vs Austria. I wonder how Russ will do. I am going to sit in the stands with Jan and Don Tibbles. Don was recently fired from Hendrix Hockey Apparel. I know it will be hard to watch the game from the stands. I want to play today. But the coach won't let me. Heck with this insomnia I probably would fall asleep on the ice.
What could make me fall asleep? I could try to figure out math problems. That puts most people to sleep. If x= the amount of time I've been awake…no wait I can't do that. Hmm I could depress myself with figuring out my chances of making a NHL team again. Let's see 15,000 people for a 15 people team that makes it 1 and 1000. No that didn't help.
Whom am I kidding? Ms. McKay is right. I don't have a chance of making a NHL team with those odds. I have to stop thinking that. Coach said I have a better chance with those odds because of my talent. But then again, he said that when he was starting to turn into 'Captain Blood' as Jesse called him. And all he cared about was winning. Need to get off that train of thought. It reminds me of my Hawk days.
I sigh. "You can't sleep either?" Jesse asked quietly from the bottom bunk.
I grin. I hadn't known I wasn't the only one who couldn't sleep. I look at the clock. It's six already. There is light outside the window! I climb down the stairs and motion Jesse. After putting on some sweat pants we both went outside, sat, and watched the sun rise. We were a little hidden.
We talked for awhile. Neither of us were too sure about Russ playing today. Jesse said it was nice of me to give him my spot. I told him my reasoning. I even told him about all of the Tylenol I took the past couple of days.
He just shook his head and didn't say anything for a bit. Then finally he said, "Next time you want to go on a Tylenol binge let me know so I can hide it. We are out of Tylenol."
I just grinned.
"I want to know what they did to Iceland anyway." Jesse said. "But all they will say is it's best we didn't know."
"With Conway coming up with these pranks maybe it is best not to know." I said.
We chatted for quite awhile before we realized we were going to be late to breakfast. Again!
Counting Blue Cars
I sat staring out the window. It wasn't as if I could actually see anything since it was three am. But I couldn't sleep. I slept almost all day. I should get up and get a painkiller. The others would understand. Except it was dark in the room and the painkillers were somewhere on the table.
I still haven't heard about the prank the others pulled. They said if we didn't know we couldn't be blamed. Must have been something big.
I looked at the clock in the room for the twentieth time. It was 3:07. I started counting stars in hopes to fall asleep. I already tried counting sheep. That this wasn't working either. I could bang my head on the wall but that might not be wise considering I hurt my head once already today or rather yesterday. And the three other people in this room might get mad at me making noise.
Okay that's it. If I'm still awake at four I am going to find those pain pills even if I wake everyone up.
Four o'clock came and passed. I decided not to find the pills. The team has a game today Vs Austria. I wonder how Russ will do. I am going to sit in the stands with Jan and Don Tibbles. Don was recently fired from Hendrix Hockey Apparel. I know it will be hard to watch the game from the stands. I want to play today. But the coach won't let me. Heck with this insomnia I probably would fall asleep on the ice.
What could make me fall asleep? I could try to figure out math problems. That puts most people to sleep. If x= the amount of time I've been awake…no wait I can't do that. Hmm I could depress myself with figuring out my chances of making a NHL team again. Let's see 15,000 people for a 15 people team that makes it 1 and 1000. No that didn't help.
Whom am I kidding? Ms. McKay is right. I don't have a chance of making a NHL team with those odds. I have to stop thinking that. Coach said I have a better chance with those odds because of my talent. But then again, he said that when he was starting to turn into 'Captain Blood' as Jesse called him. And all he cared about was winning. Need to get off that train of thought. It reminds me of my Hawk days.
I sigh. "You can't sleep either?" Jesse asked quietly from the bottom bunk.
I grin. I hadn't known I wasn't the only one who couldn't sleep. I look at the clock. It's six already. There is light outside the window! I climb down the stairs and motion Jesse. After putting on some sweat pants we both went outside, sat, and watched the sun rise. We were a little hidden.
We talked for awhile. Neither of us were too sure about Russ playing today. Jesse said it was nice of me to give him my spot. I told him my reasoning. I even told him about all of the Tylenol I took the past couple of days.
He just shook his head and didn't say anything for a bit. Then finally he said, "Next time you want to go on a Tylenol binge let me know so I can hide it. We are out of Tylenol."
I just grinned.
"I want to know what they did to Iceland anyway." Jesse said. "But all they will say is it's best we didn't know."
"With Conway coming up with these pranks maybe it is best not to know." I said.
We chatted for quite awhile before we realized we were going to be late to breakfast. Again!
