I realized late that night, or maybe it was early the next morning, that Julie was as mean and malicious as she was beautiful. It all started with a gentle tickle on my arms and legs that soon turned into a painful burning that had me throwing myself out of bed. Rick and I rushed for the door, pulling and tugging with all our might, to no avail. We could hear the screams of the rest of the team filling the hall along with the vile laughter of the Ducks. Finally the door shot open and we fell back with a thud. We scrambled to our feet and raced out in the corridor to the malevolent cackling of the JV. I had been wondering why I was having a dream about Julie yelling at that Averman kid about a sticker.
We stood there staring at the younger team itching, welted and pissed as Conway made a challenge to Riley.
"We'll take you anytime anywhere."
Was it just me or did they actually have a death wish? If I wasn't so uncomfortable I probably would've shaken that kid for being so stubborn. I mean where in his preschool mind did he come up with the idea that they could beat us. Did they even take into consideration, we had their leading scorer on our side. It was like walking into the Lion's den with a tee-bone tied around your neck, moron.
"Tomorrow, dawn." Riley snapped shoving past on the way to the shower, we all followed him, making threatening comments to the freshmen. Damn ants.
Lucky me got elected to be the one to call the Banks' at 3:00 AM to alert Banksie on the improvised game scheduled for the two hours later. I must have been being punished for something I did in a past life. I couldn't imagine what it was but it must have been something really rotten. Maybe I was Jack The Ripper or at the very least The Boston Strangler. Luckily the poor kid had his own private line in his room, it would've been fun to try to explain to his parents.
'Yes Mr. Banks I often to wake people in the wee morning hours, to tell them about spontaneous hockey games.'
"Hello?" He coughed then tried again "Hello?"
"Banks, it's Scooter, we got a game at five, be ready in a half hour I'm leaving to come get you now." I instructed
"What are you talking about?" He responded groggily
"Game, against the JV in two hours, now get up." With that I hung up
Six cappuccinos and an hour and a half later, I was sitting in the locker room suiting up. The rest of the team was all set for a slaughter, I was thinking about how much of a bad idea that seemed and Adam was standing in front of the locker looking lost. Suddenly I was getting the urge to puke.
"Hey can we call it even?" I gave Gaffney my best smile as I skated up behind her
"I hate ties, they're like kissing your brother." She spat sarcastically
If I was her brother it would make everything I was thinking about doing with her very wrong. Make that illegal in all but three states. We went into our separate benches and worked out our game plans. The Ducks went through their usual pregame ritual of quacking and I could tell Banks felt like he'd been kicked in the stomach. I sighed as we cleared the bench and I skated to my crease, opposite Julie's. I was praying I didn't get to distracted staring at her to stop anything, the I realized it was Goldberg I was giving goo goo eyes to and the desire to ralph returned.
The won that grudge match with little ease but we never actually got to play to ten. The game was cut short by a burst of anger from Charlie that ended with Adam in a head lock and the both of them on top of me in the goal. Now as much as I'd been day dreaming of a opening my eyes and seeing a Duck on top of me, it was generally not Conway I was fantasizing about. Not that I'm saying their captain wasn't attractive just not female, which was sort of a requirement.
Before I knew we were in a full on brawl, fist were flying, uniforms ripping, it was pretty intense. Thank god Orion showed up when he did, I think Cole was really going to tare that lone bash brother apart.
As we were leaving the ice Riley turned and screamed
"We're gonna destroy you guys."
"Leave it alone." I told him pushing him lightly turned the exit.
The other guys all went out for a pizza after we changed, but I just wasn't in the mood. I wanted to go find Julie, and talk to her. There were a few things I wanted to say to her. I pulled on some clean clothes and waved to my fellow Warriors as they passed me on the way out of the locker room. A few minutes later I heard a crash and a scream, I shook my head and reluctantly got up. Of course finding Banksie sitting on the shower his knuckles bleeding
"Banks, what the hell did you do?" I put my hands on my hips and gave him the annoyed mother look
"Punched the wall." He moaned
"Oh brother." I guess I wasn't going to go talk Gaffney anymore, it was a trip to the nurse of us. That boy was getting bad for my love life.
We stood there staring at the younger team itching, welted and pissed as Conway made a challenge to Riley.
"We'll take you anytime anywhere."
Was it just me or did they actually have a death wish? If I wasn't so uncomfortable I probably would've shaken that kid for being so stubborn. I mean where in his preschool mind did he come up with the idea that they could beat us. Did they even take into consideration, we had their leading scorer on our side. It was like walking into the Lion's den with a tee-bone tied around your neck, moron.
"Tomorrow, dawn." Riley snapped shoving past on the way to the shower, we all followed him, making threatening comments to the freshmen. Damn ants.
Lucky me got elected to be the one to call the Banks' at 3:00 AM to alert Banksie on the improvised game scheduled for the two hours later. I must have been being punished for something I did in a past life. I couldn't imagine what it was but it must have been something really rotten. Maybe I was Jack The Ripper or at the very least The Boston Strangler. Luckily the poor kid had his own private line in his room, it would've been fun to try to explain to his parents.
'Yes Mr. Banks I often to wake people in the wee morning hours, to tell them about spontaneous hockey games.'
"Hello?" He coughed then tried again "Hello?"
"Banks, it's Scooter, we got a game at five, be ready in a half hour I'm leaving to come get you now." I instructed
"What are you talking about?" He responded groggily
"Game, against the JV in two hours, now get up." With that I hung up
Six cappuccinos and an hour and a half later, I was sitting in the locker room suiting up. The rest of the team was all set for a slaughter, I was thinking about how much of a bad idea that seemed and Adam was standing in front of the locker looking lost. Suddenly I was getting the urge to puke.
"Hey can we call it even?" I gave Gaffney my best smile as I skated up behind her
"I hate ties, they're like kissing your brother." She spat sarcastically
If I was her brother it would make everything I was thinking about doing with her very wrong. Make that illegal in all but three states. We went into our separate benches and worked out our game plans. The Ducks went through their usual pregame ritual of quacking and I could tell Banks felt like he'd been kicked in the stomach. I sighed as we cleared the bench and I skated to my crease, opposite Julie's. I was praying I didn't get to distracted staring at her to stop anything, the I realized it was Goldberg I was giving goo goo eyes to and the desire to ralph returned.
The won that grudge match with little ease but we never actually got to play to ten. The game was cut short by a burst of anger from Charlie that ended with Adam in a head lock and the both of them on top of me in the goal. Now as much as I'd been day dreaming of a opening my eyes and seeing a Duck on top of me, it was generally not Conway I was fantasizing about. Not that I'm saying their captain wasn't attractive just not female, which was sort of a requirement.
Before I knew we were in a full on brawl, fist were flying, uniforms ripping, it was pretty intense. Thank god Orion showed up when he did, I think Cole was really going to tare that lone bash brother apart.
As we were leaving the ice Riley turned and screamed
"We're gonna destroy you guys."
"Leave it alone." I told him pushing him lightly turned the exit.
The other guys all went out for a pizza after we changed, but I just wasn't in the mood. I wanted to go find Julie, and talk to her. There were a few things I wanted to say to her. I pulled on some clean clothes and waved to my fellow Warriors as they passed me on the way out of the locker room. A few minutes later I heard a crash and a scream, I shook my head and reluctantly got up. Of course finding Banksie sitting on the shower his knuckles bleeding
"Banks, what the hell did you do?" I put my hands on my hips and gave him the annoyed mother look
"Punched the wall." He moaned
"Oh brother." I guess I wasn't going to go talk Gaffney anymore, it was a trip to the nurse of us. That boy was getting bad for my love life.