Disclaimer: I do not own the Ducks.

A/N: This is during the Ducks first year.

Interesting Practice

Jodi ran as fast as her legs could carry her to the ice rink. When she finally ran clear across the school to the rink, she was quite out of breath. She slowly walked up to the bleachers and sat quietly. She observed the JV hockey team practicing. They're good. I wonder where Fulton is. Jodi sat in the stands observing the team for a good ten minutes before a player caught her eye. The goalie, or one of the goalies really. I have seen that style of playing before, but I can't place it to where I have seen it before. Jodi sat there contemplating the place she had seen the goalie before, but couldn't quite remember.

She was startled when an individual sat next to her.

"So you hungry?"

"Fulton, you scared me. Practice is already over? Wow I must have lost myself in my thoughts for a while."

"Well no harm in that. So do you want to go meet the team?"

"Sure let's go. I'm starving."

Fulton and Jodi walked casually out of the rink and across the campus toward the cafeteria. They engaged in a bit of light conversation along the way.

"So Jodi, where did you live before you came here?"

"I lived in Maine, with my mother."

"Oh cool. So what do you think of Eden Hall so far?"

"It seems pretty cool, I mean if you like the whole prep scene and all. My roommate, for instance, is obsessed with the color pink. It is about to kill me."

Fulton chuckled at her last comment. "Yea I'm not too into the whole prep school idea either, but if it lets me play hockey than I am all for it."

"Yea that was my thoughts exactly."

"So Jodi, when you said you used to play hockey, what did you mean?"

"Well, um… you see when I was younger I loved hockey. But so did my sister. My dad said that he only wanted one daughter to play hockey. Yea, weird I know, usually you would think he would have forced me into doing it, nope other way around. He practically forced me not to play. So I stopped. Bummer really. I loved it. But I picked up on volleyball. He seemed to have no problem with that. "Girls sport" as he called it. But I still wish I could've kept playing." He last sentence she said barely above whisper, it was more to herself than to Fulton. But Fulton heard it anyway.

"Wow, that's harsh. I'm sorry you had to give up something you loved."

"Nah, don't be. It is neither here nor there. It is just water under the bridge really. So there's the cafeteria. I'm hungry let's hurry up."

As they reached the cafeteria doors Jodi was happy she had finally found a friend. She thought she might not find anybody to talk to while she was here, well at least anyone who was not a prep or wanted to be one.

"So we'll get our food and we'll go to the table so you can meet them all."

"Sounds like a plan to me."

Jodi grabbed her food and waited for Fulton to finish grabbing his. She followed Fulton as he made his way toward a table with a big group of kids sitting at it.

"This should be interesting. Oh man, why am I nervous. Calm down, Jodi. Calm down."

"Guys,"

"And GIRLS" said a voice from the far end of the table. Jodi tried to see the face but could not over Fulton's head.

"Yea, sorry. Guys AND GIRLS I'd like you to meet Jodi. She's new here too. I met her at lunch today."

Jodi stepped out from behind Fulton. "Well here goes nothing."

Sorry so short. I have some major test to study for… THANKS FOR REVIEWING!

Oh yea, Jodi meets Julie next chapter. How should the reaction be? I've got an idea, but if you could send me your suggestions… greatly appreciated!

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