Chapter 8
Disclaimer: I do not own the Mighty Ducks and I am not getting paid to do this.
Adam,
I had been up since all hours of the morning, coach had called an early morning practice at five AM. He felt that we were not as prepared as we should be for our game this afternoon. Even though we had never lost to the Wildcats, and last time we had played them we had won by a considerable amount. But of course as usual we had to be perfect.
By German I was sore and exhausted, not to mention my ribs were aching. I even considered missing class so I could get some extra sleep but I knew it was not an option. My Dad would kill me if I didn't get an A in the class which meant I could not miss a single class. It was not even an option that I zoned out; I needed to pay attention since we had a huge test next Thursday. I did kinda lose my attention when Lily walked in. She looked dressed like all the other girls here– with the exception of Connie and Julie– but she seemed to stand out. I really have never seen someone look as gorgeous as her in a pink polo shirt. It was a shame that she sat behind me because it made it hard to look at her. Well without being too obvious about it.
After class I had meant to talk to her but Connie came up to me first.
" Hey Banksie" Connie said tossing her long black hair over her shoulder.
" Hey, what's up?" I asked as I stuffed my German books into my messenger bag.
" Ah well same as you I guess. Getting ready for another long and boring class." she joked.
" Definitely the same thing here" I responded. We both had Algebra two together. So we both could hardly deal with the teacher, it was one of the dullest classes to sit through.
" Well anyway I just wanted to tell you that it was fun hanging out with you on Saturday." she said.
" Yeah, Its been a while" I said. I did miss hanging out with Connie as well as the rest of the team.
" Just because your not on the team anymore that doesn't mean that we can't be friends." She said with a smile. Connie was probably one of the sweetest people that I had ever met.
" Thanks Connie, I appreciate that."
Connie headed off to meet Guy before class– which was there usual routine– even though they had about two minutes together. They took every opportunity they could to be together. They had been together forever, and I did not see it ending any time soon.
I was also not looking forward to lunch since it was a game day I had to sit with my "team". This meant listening to them talk about what trash the Ducks were, and how they were gonna crush them on Friday. It was seriously what half of them based their lives around. They kinda reminded me of my Father, it was probably exactly how he was in high school.
As predicted that was all they talked about but of course it was worse than I had expected with the game coming up. I saw Lily again at lunch but she was surrounded by her friends. I couldn't even imagine going over there today, knowing that the team would harass me about it. It wasn't even that they would harass me it was that they would probably harass her. And I really did not know what I would do if they did.
Finally I made it to the last class of the day– Physics– and just my luck it was a lab period. That meant basically two hours of class.
" Hey" Lily said as she sat down next to me. She usually sat with her friend on the other side of the room, but I liked this seating arrangement better.
" Hi" I responded.
" What's up?" she asked. But before I could answer she started laughing.
" Wait that is a stupid question. You're doing the same thing as me; sitting in class waiting to get bored out of you're mind." she laughed.
" True" I said.
Before we could talk anymore the teacher Mr. Martian came in and we started learning, that was never a good thing. Today the topic happened to be electric circuits, it was hard to feign interest on the subject. I found the girl next to me far more interesting anyway. It was adorable how she chewed on her pen cap and how she curled her hair around her fingers. This kept me busy for the first fifty minutes, until it was time to start our labs.
" Recently I have noticed a decline in the laboratory grades. I have decided that it probably was not the best idea to let you pick your own partners. So in an attempt to save you students from failure I am going to assign you new partners". Mr. Martian said and it was not exactly met with happiness. Everyone groaned. Personally I did not mind, my partner was my friend Andrew. The only problem was he did not exactly know what he was doing, nor did he care about his grade. So I ended up doing most of the work myself.
" Ok so here are the new pairings– and they are final there will be no switching– do not come to me with your trivial little problems please. I will not listen. First is Katie Murray and Julie Gaffney. Douglas and Carson, Parker and Johnson, Banks and Ivanova." he listed.
I was kind of shocked. I never really thought I would get that lucky– Lily as my lab partner– I was never so happy for an assigned partner in my life.
