"Hey Adam," Linda called as she spotted him through the crowd of kids
the following evening. It was fifteen minutes before the start of the JV
game and she had let Charlie talk her into coming to another one of his
games. He was convinced that she would like the game if she gave it a fair
chance. She had to admit she had enjoyed the last couple of games more than
she had thought she would.
She hurried through the crowd to catch up to Adam who had stopped and was waiting for her. "Mind of I sit with you," she asked him. She had spent the last games sitting alone in the stands and wasn't exactly looking forward to repeating the experience.
"No not at all," Adam said. He had been planning on sitting alone anyway. He had no intention of spending anymore time with Riley and Cole than he had to. He also wanted to be able to cheer for the Ducks. He hadn't even worn his varsity jacket tonight.
Adam and Charlie found seats up near the top of the stands. From where he was sitting Adam could see the Riley, Cole and several other Varsity players in the middle of the stands and off to his right. Adam could see that Scooter was with them and everything seemed cool between him and Riley.
Once the game started Adam tried to forget about the Varsity and enjoy the game. Linda kept asking him questions about the game which he was happy to answer. However, he found himself glancing over at the Varsity group from time to time. He noticed that Scooter was cheering every time that Julie made a save. He also noticed that Riley was shooting him evil looks. However, Scooter either didn't notice or chose not to care.
"Forget about them and enjoy the game," he heard Linda say at one point during the second period. The Ducks were behind three to one at this point in the game and Adam had been watching Riley's group once again.
"What?" he said not really comprehending what she was saying to him at first.
"You've spent as much time tonight watching Riley and his goons as you have the game. Most people come to the games to watch the teams play not watch the spectators," Linda told him trying to get a smile out of him.
"Okay point taken," Adam said smiling. "From now on I'm going to enjoy the game."
"Good because I'm actually starting to enjoy watching Hockey," Linda said honestly. Now that she understood the game a little bit better she found that it wasn't all that bad.
"Really, then maybe we should get you out there and give it a try," Adam told her.
"Not a chance. I said I was enjoying watching Hockey. I have no intention of playing it."
"Chicken."
"So what if I am," Linda told him and then got quiet as she noticed that Charlie was heading toward the opposing teams goal on a break away.
Charlie took the shot but the puck was deflected away by the goalie. Linda groaned with disappointment. However, Guy was able to get control of the deflected puck before any of the defenders. He then passed the puck to Russ who was in position to have a clear shot at he goal. This time the goalie was unable to stop the puck and the Ducks scored bringing the score to three to two. The Ducks were still behind by one point as the second period came to an end.
The third period was another low scoring period. Though both team were able to take quite a few shots both goalie's were doing a good job at not letting the puck into the goal. Near the end of the period Bombay put Goldberg in as a defense man for the first time in the game. The extra work he had been putting in for the last week paid off as Goldberg was able to get control of the puck from the other team. He passed the puck off to Luis who took it past the center line and into the Ducks attack zone. Seeing two defending players in front of him, Luis passed the puck off to Dwayne who was clear and in a position to shoot the puck. Dwayne's shot went into the net tying the game with three minutes left in the game. Neither team was able to score another goal in the remaining three minutes of the game and the game ended in a tie.
"That wasn't a bad game last night," Coach Bombay told the Ducks at the beginning of practice the following evening.
"But we tied," Russ said. He couldn't help but be disappointed in the game the night before especially since he could think of several mistakes he had made during it.
"So what," Bombay. "You guys played hard and didn't give up even when you made mistakes, and yes I did see plenty of mistakes out there. I think most of you probably even know what those mistakes were whether they were made by you or a teammate. It was those little mistakes that kept you from winning. But now we know what we need to work on to keep those mistakes from happening again."
"Now, I've recruited a little coaching help from the varsity," Bombay continued indicating Adam who was standing behind him. Adam still had his skates and his hockey stick with him but other than that was in his street clothes. "So we're going to split up into two groups. Goldberg, Ken, Luis, Averman and Guy, you'll work with Adam on passing. The rest of you are with me. Let's go."
The Ducks split up into the two groups that Bombay had put them into. The Ducks with Adam jokingly gave him a hard time as they headed down to the far side of the ice. But once he had them paired off they started getting serious. Because of the odd number Adam paired off with Averman for the passing drills.
On the other end of the ice Bombay had them working on defense and shooting which also gave Julie some practice. Gordon had them start at the blue line on that end of the ice and then go one on one toward the goal. The offensive player was trying to score a goal while the defensive player was to try to either get control of the puck or keep the offensive guy from scoring.
They stayed in these groups for about half the practice and then they switched for the rest of practice. After Bombay dismissed the team to the locker room Adam joined him at one of the player's bench.
"What do you think they're talking about?" Averman said to no one in particular as the headed toward the locker room. He couldn't help but glance over his shoulder one more time at Bombay and Banks.
"Ah probably us, Averman," Russ told him.
"Doesn't that bother you?" Averman asked.
"No why should it? Bombay's our coach and Banks is helping him out. They're suppose to be talking about us."
"Its no different than if we had to coaches," Connie said.
"Yeah Banks has always helped us out with things even when he was skating with us," Charlie said.
"But he wasn't whispering with the coach about us," Averman said.
"Your being paranoid," Charlie told him.
"No Averman is just afraid Adam is telling Bombay not to let Averman play because he can't pass the puck," Guy said as they started taking off their hockey gear. "How many pucks did Adam have to go chase anyway?"
"Yeah, you did realize he was the one you were suppose to be passing the puck to not Ken or Guy right Averman," Luis said.
"I was nervous," Averman said defensively.
"It's just Adam," Charlie told him. "It's not like Bombay got Riley to help him coach. There is nothing to be nervous about."
"Easy for you to say, Charlie. Without Banks on the team you're the star player," Averman said.
"What's that suppose to mean Averman?"
"Nothing," Averman said quickly seeing that Charlie was starting to lose his temper. Even after four years he was still sensitive about any implication of him being the Coach's pet. Yeah, he had a special bond with Coach Bombay but Bombay didn't play favorites. And he wasn't the only one that was close to the Coach. Bombay and Adam had a unique relationship to that Charlie thought came from the similarities they shared. Both of them had skated on the Hawks under Reilly, came from families that had money, and Bombay understood the pressure Adam felt to make his dad proud of him. Charlie didn't have a dad to have to worry about that. He really didn't care about what his step dad thought.
"Come on guys," Connie said trying to diffuse the situation. "This line of conversation is ridiculous."
"Yeah, lets just get changed and then go get some dinner. I'm starved," Russ said.
The Ducks got changed and as a group headed out of the locker room. Bombay and Adam were standing outside waiting for them.
"Anyone up for pizza, my treat?" Gordon asked them. He received a chorus of yeses from his players. "Okay then take your stuff back to your rooms and then meet me at my van in the main parking lot," Gordon told them.
"Hey Coach Banks come join us," Charlie called out from the common room of the dorm as he saw Adam walking by the door way Friday evening. Charlie, Fulton, Russ and Dwayne were getting ready to start a game of monopoly. Some other kids were gathered around the television watching a movie.
By this time all of the Ducks, even Averman, were use to Adam helping out with the coaching. In fact it had been Averman who had jokingly started calling Adam, Coach Banks during their Wednesday practice. The nickname had stuck. Adam had to admit that he liked that nickname better than the other two his friends usually used -cake-eater and preppie.
"Sorry, but I need to go get a start on my weekend homework," Adam answered stopping in the doorway. "I've got that away game tomorrow afternoon and I don't want to have everything to do on Sunday."
"Suit yourself," Russ said. He personally couldn't even imagine touching a schoolbook on a Friday evening.
After some fighting over the race car piece (it was finally decided that no one would have it) they started the game. After awhile other members of the team drifted into the room and started watching the game which Dwayne was winning. Connie and Guy were the first two who were coming back from their date to the movies. Julie came in shortly after them. She had went out to dinner with Scooter after practice.
Fulton was the first one to go out. He had just landed on Dwayne's boardwalk which though didn't put him out of the game had left him with no money. He made it to New York Ave before landing on something that he didn't own. New York Ave had a hotel on it too and belonged to Russ. Getting Fulton's properties gave Russ the green monopoly which he immediately built up. Right after Russ had put a hotel on it Charlie landed Pennsylvania Ave. effectively taking him out of the game. That left Russ and Dwayne to battle it out. Despite Russ owning more properties Dwayne still managed to win the game. By this time it was eleven o'clock. The movie had ended awhile ago and the Ducks were now the only ones left in the common room.
"Well I'm going to get to bed," Charlie said as he helped clean up the board game. "Coach Bombay and I are going to go watch the Varsity's game tomorrow afternoon. See ya," Charlie said leaving the common room and heading up to his room.
The others talked for a little while and then one by one headed up to bed themselves.
"So tell me about your date," Connie said to Julie as they headed to the room they shared on the first floor. "Has he kissed you yet?"
"It was only our first date," Julie told her. "That is if you don't count last Friday when he came for ice cream with all of us, which I don't."
"Yeah, definitely not a date with the rest of your hockey team hanging around huh," Connie said thinking about the almost kisses that had been ruin by one or more members of the team showing up at the wrong time. By this time they had reached their room and Connie shut and locked the door behind them. "So did he hold your hand?"
"Yes, we held hands walking to the diner and walking home."
"You walked? But doesn't Scooter have his own car?"
"Yeah, but he said he wanted to walk so that we could spend more time together."
"Oh, that is so sweet!"
"So how was the movie," Julie asked Connie trying to get the subject off her date with Scooter.
"It was great. Except for the pain in my neck from Guy having his arm draped over my shoulders the entire time. At least he didn't try kissing me during the good parts of the movie like he usually does," Connie told her making Julie laugh.
"Aren't you suppose to cuddle and kiss at the movies," Julie said when she had stopped laughing.
"Yeah, but I still like to enjoy the movie too."
The two girls got ready for bed but stayed up chatting long into the night.
"Are we loss?" Charlie asked. He and Bombay were on there way to the Varsity game at Sutton Academy the following afternoon.
"No we're not loss," Gordon told him keeping his eye on the road. "What's the name of the road coming up on the right?"
"Saw Mill Road," Charlie said when he was close enough to read the sign.
"There's a Saw Mill Road around here," Gordon said under his breath.
"Great, we're loss," Charlie said overhearing him. "Instead of watching a hockey game I'm going to spend my Saturday afternoon wandering around the countryside."
"Okay, okay, okay! Get the map out," Gordon told him pulling the van off to the side of the road.
As he put the van in park Charlie handed him the map. Gordon took a few minutes to figure out where they actually were. Charlie took in the scenery as he waited.
"This was a great short-cut coach," he said innocently.
"Very funny," Gordon told him. "Well we're not to far off from where we should be. If we take the next road on the left we'll get back to Rt. 10 and I do know the way from there," Gordon said handing the map back to Charlie.
"Did I say anything."
"No but I know you wanted to," Gordon said as he pulled the van back onto the road. Charlie just smiled. "We'll still be at Sutton Academy in time for the game."
The rest of the drive to Sutton academy was uneventful and Charlie and Bombay took their seats in the stands with fifteen minutes left until game time. Even though it was an away team a lot of students from Eden Hall had traveled to see the Varsity play and the stands were getting full.
The game started and right from the start the Eden Hall Warriors took control of the puck. Within the first three minutes they had scored. From the beginning of the game it appeared as if the Warriors were going to have an easy win. By the end of the first period the score was five to zero.
The second period was a repeat of the first period. The Sutton Academy Rams just couldn't seem to mount an attack against the Warriors goal. There goalie, however, was doing a better job at stopping the shots taken by the Warriors. The first eight minutes of the period went without a point being scored by either team.
Adam was put into the game with at that time. It didn't take long for Adam to score a goal with the assistance of Kilpatrick who was skating as the right wing. On the face-off the Rams center got control of the puck and headed for the Warriors defense zone. As the Ram center went to pass to his right wing Adam was able to intercept the pass regaining control of the puck for his team down near the Warriors goal.
Charlie let out a groan though as the Ram's right wing checked Adam sending Adam to the ice. He watched as the players scrambled for the puck and Kilpatrick ended up with control of the puck. As he watched the play move down into the Warriors attack zone he heard Bombay next to him quietly say "come on stop the game."
Charlie looked back to the Warriors defending zone to see that Adam was still down. As the referee finally blew his whistle stopping the game Adam tried to get back up but immediately went down again.
"Damn," he heard Bombay say as he made his way out of the stands. Charlie looked from Bombay back to the ice. Scooter was kneeling down by Adam now and the referee was motioning in the paramedics. The other players had gathered near their respective benches. Coach Wilson was still in his teams box.
As the medics came into to tend to Adam Charlie started making his way out of the stands. He figured Bombay would be hanging around near the entrance to the rink so once he was out of the stands he started heading in that direction.
She hurried through the crowd to catch up to Adam who had stopped and was waiting for her. "Mind of I sit with you," she asked him. She had spent the last games sitting alone in the stands and wasn't exactly looking forward to repeating the experience.
"No not at all," Adam said. He had been planning on sitting alone anyway. He had no intention of spending anymore time with Riley and Cole than he had to. He also wanted to be able to cheer for the Ducks. He hadn't even worn his varsity jacket tonight.
Adam and Charlie found seats up near the top of the stands. From where he was sitting Adam could see the Riley, Cole and several other Varsity players in the middle of the stands and off to his right. Adam could see that Scooter was with them and everything seemed cool between him and Riley.
Once the game started Adam tried to forget about the Varsity and enjoy the game. Linda kept asking him questions about the game which he was happy to answer. However, he found himself glancing over at the Varsity group from time to time. He noticed that Scooter was cheering every time that Julie made a save. He also noticed that Riley was shooting him evil looks. However, Scooter either didn't notice or chose not to care.
"Forget about them and enjoy the game," he heard Linda say at one point during the second period. The Ducks were behind three to one at this point in the game and Adam had been watching Riley's group once again.
"What?" he said not really comprehending what she was saying to him at first.
"You've spent as much time tonight watching Riley and his goons as you have the game. Most people come to the games to watch the teams play not watch the spectators," Linda told him trying to get a smile out of him.
"Okay point taken," Adam said smiling. "From now on I'm going to enjoy the game."
"Good because I'm actually starting to enjoy watching Hockey," Linda said honestly. Now that she understood the game a little bit better she found that it wasn't all that bad.
"Really, then maybe we should get you out there and give it a try," Adam told her.
"Not a chance. I said I was enjoying watching Hockey. I have no intention of playing it."
"Chicken."
"So what if I am," Linda told him and then got quiet as she noticed that Charlie was heading toward the opposing teams goal on a break away.
Charlie took the shot but the puck was deflected away by the goalie. Linda groaned with disappointment. However, Guy was able to get control of the deflected puck before any of the defenders. He then passed the puck to Russ who was in position to have a clear shot at he goal. This time the goalie was unable to stop the puck and the Ducks scored bringing the score to three to two. The Ducks were still behind by one point as the second period came to an end.
The third period was another low scoring period. Though both team were able to take quite a few shots both goalie's were doing a good job at not letting the puck into the goal. Near the end of the period Bombay put Goldberg in as a defense man for the first time in the game. The extra work he had been putting in for the last week paid off as Goldberg was able to get control of the puck from the other team. He passed the puck off to Luis who took it past the center line and into the Ducks attack zone. Seeing two defending players in front of him, Luis passed the puck off to Dwayne who was clear and in a position to shoot the puck. Dwayne's shot went into the net tying the game with three minutes left in the game. Neither team was able to score another goal in the remaining three minutes of the game and the game ended in a tie.
"That wasn't a bad game last night," Coach Bombay told the Ducks at the beginning of practice the following evening.
"But we tied," Russ said. He couldn't help but be disappointed in the game the night before especially since he could think of several mistakes he had made during it.
"So what," Bombay. "You guys played hard and didn't give up even when you made mistakes, and yes I did see plenty of mistakes out there. I think most of you probably even know what those mistakes were whether they were made by you or a teammate. It was those little mistakes that kept you from winning. But now we know what we need to work on to keep those mistakes from happening again."
"Now, I've recruited a little coaching help from the varsity," Bombay continued indicating Adam who was standing behind him. Adam still had his skates and his hockey stick with him but other than that was in his street clothes. "So we're going to split up into two groups. Goldberg, Ken, Luis, Averman and Guy, you'll work with Adam on passing. The rest of you are with me. Let's go."
The Ducks split up into the two groups that Bombay had put them into. The Ducks with Adam jokingly gave him a hard time as they headed down to the far side of the ice. But once he had them paired off they started getting serious. Because of the odd number Adam paired off with Averman for the passing drills.
On the other end of the ice Bombay had them working on defense and shooting which also gave Julie some practice. Gordon had them start at the blue line on that end of the ice and then go one on one toward the goal. The offensive player was trying to score a goal while the defensive player was to try to either get control of the puck or keep the offensive guy from scoring.
They stayed in these groups for about half the practice and then they switched for the rest of practice. After Bombay dismissed the team to the locker room Adam joined him at one of the player's bench.
"What do you think they're talking about?" Averman said to no one in particular as the headed toward the locker room. He couldn't help but glance over his shoulder one more time at Bombay and Banks.
"Ah probably us, Averman," Russ told him.
"Doesn't that bother you?" Averman asked.
"No why should it? Bombay's our coach and Banks is helping him out. They're suppose to be talking about us."
"Its no different than if we had to coaches," Connie said.
"Yeah Banks has always helped us out with things even when he was skating with us," Charlie said.
"But he wasn't whispering with the coach about us," Averman said.
"Your being paranoid," Charlie told him.
"No Averman is just afraid Adam is telling Bombay not to let Averman play because he can't pass the puck," Guy said as they started taking off their hockey gear. "How many pucks did Adam have to go chase anyway?"
"Yeah, you did realize he was the one you were suppose to be passing the puck to not Ken or Guy right Averman," Luis said.
"I was nervous," Averman said defensively.
"It's just Adam," Charlie told him. "It's not like Bombay got Riley to help him coach. There is nothing to be nervous about."
"Easy for you to say, Charlie. Without Banks on the team you're the star player," Averman said.
"What's that suppose to mean Averman?"
"Nothing," Averman said quickly seeing that Charlie was starting to lose his temper. Even after four years he was still sensitive about any implication of him being the Coach's pet. Yeah, he had a special bond with Coach Bombay but Bombay didn't play favorites. And he wasn't the only one that was close to the Coach. Bombay and Adam had a unique relationship to that Charlie thought came from the similarities they shared. Both of them had skated on the Hawks under Reilly, came from families that had money, and Bombay understood the pressure Adam felt to make his dad proud of him. Charlie didn't have a dad to have to worry about that. He really didn't care about what his step dad thought.
"Come on guys," Connie said trying to diffuse the situation. "This line of conversation is ridiculous."
"Yeah, lets just get changed and then go get some dinner. I'm starved," Russ said.
The Ducks got changed and as a group headed out of the locker room. Bombay and Adam were standing outside waiting for them.
"Anyone up for pizza, my treat?" Gordon asked them. He received a chorus of yeses from his players. "Okay then take your stuff back to your rooms and then meet me at my van in the main parking lot," Gordon told them.
"Hey Coach Banks come join us," Charlie called out from the common room of the dorm as he saw Adam walking by the door way Friday evening. Charlie, Fulton, Russ and Dwayne were getting ready to start a game of monopoly. Some other kids were gathered around the television watching a movie.
By this time all of the Ducks, even Averman, were use to Adam helping out with the coaching. In fact it had been Averman who had jokingly started calling Adam, Coach Banks during their Wednesday practice. The nickname had stuck. Adam had to admit that he liked that nickname better than the other two his friends usually used -cake-eater and preppie.
"Sorry, but I need to go get a start on my weekend homework," Adam answered stopping in the doorway. "I've got that away game tomorrow afternoon and I don't want to have everything to do on Sunday."
"Suit yourself," Russ said. He personally couldn't even imagine touching a schoolbook on a Friday evening.
After some fighting over the race car piece (it was finally decided that no one would have it) they started the game. After awhile other members of the team drifted into the room and started watching the game which Dwayne was winning. Connie and Guy were the first two who were coming back from their date to the movies. Julie came in shortly after them. She had went out to dinner with Scooter after practice.
Fulton was the first one to go out. He had just landed on Dwayne's boardwalk which though didn't put him out of the game had left him with no money. He made it to New York Ave before landing on something that he didn't own. New York Ave had a hotel on it too and belonged to Russ. Getting Fulton's properties gave Russ the green monopoly which he immediately built up. Right after Russ had put a hotel on it Charlie landed Pennsylvania Ave. effectively taking him out of the game. That left Russ and Dwayne to battle it out. Despite Russ owning more properties Dwayne still managed to win the game. By this time it was eleven o'clock. The movie had ended awhile ago and the Ducks were now the only ones left in the common room.
"Well I'm going to get to bed," Charlie said as he helped clean up the board game. "Coach Bombay and I are going to go watch the Varsity's game tomorrow afternoon. See ya," Charlie said leaving the common room and heading up to his room.
The others talked for a little while and then one by one headed up to bed themselves.
"So tell me about your date," Connie said to Julie as they headed to the room they shared on the first floor. "Has he kissed you yet?"
"It was only our first date," Julie told her. "That is if you don't count last Friday when he came for ice cream with all of us, which I don't."
"Yeah, definitely not a date with the rest of your hockey team hanging around huh," Connie said thinking about the almost kisses that had been ruin by one or more members of the team showing up at the wrong time. By this time they had reached their room and Connie shut and locked the door behind them. "So did he hold your hand?"
"Yes, we held hands walking to the diner and walking home."
"You walked? But doesn't Scooter have his own car?"
"Yeah, but he said he wanted to walk so that we could spend more time together."
"Oh, that is so sweet!"
"So how was the movie," Julie asked Connie trying to get the subject off her date with Scooter.
"It was great. Except for the pain in my neck from Guy having his arm draped over my shoulders the entire time. At least he didn't try kissing me during the good parts of the movie like he usually does," Connie told her making Julie laugh.
"Aren't you suppose to cuddle and kiss at the movies," Julie said when she had stopped laughing.
"Yeah, but I still like to enjoy the movie too."
The two girls got ready for bed but stayed up chatting long into the night.
"Are we loss?" Charlie asked. He and Bombay were on there way to the Varsity game at Sutton Academy the following afternoon.
"No we're not loss," Gordon told him keeping his eye on the road. "What's the name of the road coming up on the right?"
"Saw Mill Road," Charlie said when he was close enough to read the sign.
"There's a Saw Mill Road around here," Gordon said under his breath.
"Great, we're loss," Charlie said overhearing him. "Instead of watching a hockey game I'm going to spend my Saturday afternoon wandering around the countryside."
"Okay, okay, okay! Get the map out," Gordon told him pulling the van off to the side of the road.
As he put the van in park Charlie handed him the map. Gordon took a few minutes to figure out where they actually were. Charlie took in the scenery as he waited.
"This was a great short-cut coach," he said innocently.
"Very funny," Gordon told him. "Well we're not to far off from where we should be. If we take the next road on the left we'll get back to Rt. 10 and I do know the way from there," Gordon said handing the map back to Charlie.
"Did I say anything."
"No but I know you wanted to," Gordon said as he pulled the van back onto the road. Charlie just smiled. "We'll still be at Sutton Academy in time for the game."
The rest of the drive to Sutton academy was uneventful and Charlie and Bombay took their seats in the stands with fifteen minutes left until game time. Even though it was an away team a lot of students from Eden Hall had traveled to see the Varsity play and the stands were getting full.
The game started and right from the start the Eden Hall Warriors took control of the puck. Within the first three minutes they had scored. From the beginning of the game it appeared as if the Warriors were going to have an easy win. By the end of the first period the score was five to zero.
The second period was a repeat of the first period. The Sutton Academy Rams just couldn't seem to mount an attack against the Warriors goal. There goalie, however, was doing a better job at stopping the shots taken by the Warriors. The first eight minutes of the period went without a point being scored by either team.
Adam was put into the game with at that time. It didn't take long for Adam to score a goal with the assistance of Kilpatrick who was skating as the right wing. On the face-off the Rams center got control of the puck and headed for the Warriors defense zone. As the Ram center went to pass to his right wing Adam was able to intercept the pass regaining control of the puck for his team down near the Warriors goal.
Charlie let out a groan though as the Ram's right wing checked Adam sending Adam to the ice. He watched as the players scrambled for the puck and Kilpatrick ended up with control of the puck. As he watched the play move down into the Warriors attack zone he heard Bombay next to him quietly say "come on stop the game."
Charlie looked back to the Warriors defending zone to see that Adam was still down. As the referee finally blew his whistle stopping the game Adam tried to get back up but immediately went down again.
"Damn," he heard Bombay say as he made his way out of the stands. Charlie looked from Bombay back to the ice. Scooter was kneeling down by Adam now and the referee was motioning in the paramedics. The other players had gathered near their respective benches. Coach Wilson was still in his teams box.
As the medics came into to tend to Adam Charlie started making his way out of the stands. He figured Bombay would be hanging around near the entrance to the rink so once he was out of the stands he started heading in that direction.