Chapter 02 -My talk with Kengy and my decision

"What do you mean you don't know if you going to say yes?" Connie asked. "I don't know, I like him a lot but I don't want to end up hurting him, or getting hurt, you know what I mean?" I explained. "Yeah we do but Jaimie, if you like him I doubt that you will hurt him, and trust me he likes you, so I doubt he will hurt you." Julie stated. "You have a point there." I said. "Hey can I call my friend back home please?" I pleaded. "Yeah go ahead." Connie said. The phone started to ring. "Hello?" "Hey Kengy!" I screamed. "Oh My God Jaimie, how are you?" she asked. "I'm awesome, how are you?" "I'm good, I miss you so much though." "You miss me, I've been practically crying over here because I miss you." "Really, everyone misses you, you are like the talk of Minneapolis." There was a long pause. "I have a problem." "Okay I'm here what is it?" "You know Adam Banks right?" "Yeah of course." "Well he asked me to the junior prom and I don't know what to say." "Jaimie are you nuts, you've always liked this kid and now you don't know what to say." "Yeah, I just don't get how I can come here and someone likes me this quickly." "Well miracles happen and that sure as hell is a miracle. Adam is a pretty cute kid." "Pretty cute Kengy, he's freaking hot!" "Okay then what in the blue hell is your problem?" "Kendra like I said to Julie and Connie, I don't want to get hurt and I don't want to hurt him." "If you love him that much Jaimie then you won't hurt him and." "And if he loves me like you think he does then he won't hurt me, I know, I know they gave me that same lecture." I finished for her. "Listen I have to go eat dinner, but Jaimie just say yes, and if he does hurt you then you know it's not meant to be, just move on with your life if something bad happens with you two, which I doubt will happen. I love you like a sister and I want you to come back here just as badly as you do but don't come back for that reason, hockey is your life and don't ruin that for a guy." "Okay, I'll let you go, and thank you so much, can you call my parents and tell them I love them and tell everyone else I said hi and I'll see them soon." "Sure Jamies anything for you. Bye I'll see you soon." Kendra said. "Bye." I hung up the phone and lay down on my bed. There was a knock at the door. "Come in!" I screamed. "Hey you done your phone call?" "Yeah. Julie?" I asked her. "Yeah." She said sitting on my bed next to me. "I'm going to say yes to Adam." "That is so great, you know how happy you'll make him?" "Very happy." "Yeah." Julie said standing up and opening the door. "Julie who are you going with?" Julie turned around to face me and smiled. "Dean." She said as she walked out of the room and started walking down the hall. "PORTMAN!" "Julie, JULIE, your going with Portman, that is so awesome!" I screamed at her as I ran down the hall after her. "Yeah I'm going with Portman." "Who asked who?" I asked getting more curious as the seconds went on. "He did finally." As we both burst out laughing. We turned the corner to find the team waiting there for us. Portman walked up to Julie and gave her a kiss, as Charlie walked up to me. "Hey Jamies, I heard Adam asked you to junior prom, what did you say to him?" Charlie asked. "Charlie I just read the note like thirty minutes ago let me decide." "Okay, Okay, Okay get on my back about it." "You're the one that jumped on my back wanting to know what I said to him!" We both laughed. "Fight, Fight, Fight!" The team yelled. "Yeah you guys only wish." I said as I walked over to Adam. I got on my toes and whispered in his ear, "Yes I will go to the prom with you." I pulled away to look at his face to see his reaction, and he just smiled and gave me a kiss on the cheek. "You just made my day." He said putting his arms around my shoulders and hugging me. "Finally, what took you guys so long to get together?" Averman asked. "Your mouth." I said as the team burst out laughing. "SLAM!" They yelled. "What's so funny?" Someone said behind us. We turned around to see who was talking to us. "Coach Bombay!" Charlie screamed. The team ran up to Bombay and starting hugging him. "Why are you here?" Charlie asked. "Someone from your team called me, because your current coach had some personal problems to deal with back home." He said looking around and finally finding who had called him. "Jaimie. you called him, we love you so much, thank you!" Connie said walking up to me hugging me. "Your welcome." I said walking over to Coach Bombay. "Thank you for coming." I said hugging him. "Anytime." "Okay so are we ready to begin our training again?" coach asked. "Begin training. what do you mean?" Adam asked. "Yeah we have to defend our title." "Oh the championship title." Charlie said with a smile on his face. "Yeah that one, but we have to do it as Team USA, not as the ducks." Gordon said. "Coach, after we won the championship, you promised us that no matter what we could stay Ducks and that we never had to change our names." Adam stated. "Yeah well, you all have grown up and you need a new name, you can keep the Ducks as a street name and as your school name, but World Wide you are now known as team USA." Gordon said walking away. "He can't do that, he just can't, and he has no right!" Jesse exclaimed sitting down. "I brought him here, I'll go talk to him." I said walking away from the team. I walked down the hall going in the direction that Coach Bombay went. "Coach are you still here, Coach!" I screamed hoping for an answer. "Yeah, in here." I heard from around the corner. "Coach. I'll just get straight to the point. I respect you a lot, but back there when you were talking with your team I lost a lot of that respect for you. I came to this school to play for the ducks and with the ducks, not team USA." I said. "Well I'm sorry Jaimie, but I'm now coaching team USA." He said unpacking his stuff. "That's fine but we'll just ask the team who they want to play for; the Ducks or Team USA, and if they want to play for Team USA then, I guess I have no choice but to leave." I said starting to cry. "But what about if they choose the Ducks, then I'm sorry I called you, you might as well go back home, unless you change your mind and decide to coach the Ducks." I said walking down the hall towards my team. "Oh God, Jaimie, what's the matter?" Julie said coming up to me and hugging me. "Listen to your coach and he'll tell you." I said as Julie stepped away from me. "When I got this team together I wanted so bad to win a championship, and we did." "Coach just get to the point." Portman said. "Okay well, either I leave or Jaimie leaves." Coach said with a certain pride that made me think twice about giving the team that ultimatum. "What, you can't give us that choice!" Adam said getting up in coach's face. "Actually. I gave you all that choice, he didn't." I said hoping Adam wouldn't get in my face like he did to coach. "What?" They all questioned. "I came here to play for the Ducks, not Team USA or any other team. I know you guys were once a Team USA, but I believed that you would never go back to that, and I'm hoping I can stay part of the team by knowing that I can still be a Duck." I said trying hard not to start crying. "I'm so sorry for giving you that choice to make, but if I knew this was going to happen I wouldn't have called him." I said walking up to Adam. "It's okay but you know we can't choose this." He stated taking my hand. "I know." I said with my head down. "I call a team meeting, without coach Bombay and Jaimie there, if we're going to make this decision we better make it soon." Charlie said. "I got your back Jaimie, don't worry about it." Adam said giving me a kiss. "I'll try not to, I'll be in my room, call me when you're all done." "We will. I love you." Adam said putting his forehead to mine. "I love you too." I said pulling away. "Okay come on Adam, we better make this now." Goldberg said. They walked down the hall and out of site. I turned around and walked down to my room, asking myself if what I said would be enough to convince them that I wanted and needed to stay.