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AN: yeah I know its been a while since I've updated but here is chapter 8. Please review!
I was fully dressed and sat down next to Charlie. We were in a deep conversation about the last practice that I had missed. The locker room became silent all of the sudden and I turned to see that Adam had walked in. I stood up like the rest of the Ducks had. Bombay walked in. he saw Adam and smiled quickly over at me. I was starting to wonder if Bombay and Jason had set the whole pond thing up. "Hey I wasn't sure you'd show up."
"Yeah whatever." Adam said almost sadly. "I just want to play hockey."
"Good." Bombay said then turned to the rest of us. "Ducks you all know Adam Banks."
Some of my teammates sent sideways glances my way but I just looked at the floor.
"On behalf of he Ducks I'd like to say welcome." Charlie said stepping forward to welcome him, but Jesse stopped him.
"Cake-eater." Jesse said bitterly.
"Ooh, the Jess-man, dissin' the new guy. The jess-ster."
"Shut up Averman." Jesse demanded and walked up to an already nervous Adam. "Puttin' on a Ducks jersey doesn't mean you are a real Duck."
He passed between Adam and Bombay as he left the locker room. Slowly the rest of the Ducks did the same. I was the last to leave and to Bombay's annoyance I said nothing to Adam.
Out on the ice the Ducks were still wary about trusting Adam. He was open many times but the team didn't seem to want to take a chance on him. for some odd reason Bombay never put me and Adam on the ice at the same time. I figured it had something to do with the rest of the team having to learn on their own. Connie, Charlie, and Guy were in Huskies territory while Adam skated back and forth in front of the net. He was wide open. Charlie had possession of the puck as he tried to keep it away from the Huskies player that circled him.
"Spaz-way! Banks is open!" I called out to him. "Trust him."
I'm not sure if Charlie had heard me or if it was just timing but Charlie passed te puck to Adam. Adam quickly made his shot and it was good. I looked up at Bombay and smiled. He proudly smiled back down at me. What we didn't see was Phillip Banks saw our moment of awkward father daughter moment.
I walked into my house and exhaustedly put my things down wit a thud. Bombay had taken me and Charlie out for ice cream before he took us home, and I was stuffed.
"Amore? Can you come in here please?" my father called from the kitchen. I walked in to find not just my family, but also the Banks family. By the looks on their faces they were not happy.
"Uh-oh I swear I didn't do it." I said putting my hand up.
"Amore, Phillip here tells me that you and Bombay have become very close ad we need to talk about it." Dad said sounding upset. "Phillip tell her what you saw."
"After you had told that Conway kid to trust Adam, and he listened, I saw you and Bombay exchange a look that bothers me." Phillip explained. "It was a look of pure love admiration. I saw it in Bombay's eyes. Now its just not natural for a grown man to look at a young girl that year."
I turned to look at Jason, but he wouldn't look back at me and neither would Alex or Adam.
"He was just proud that's all." I said and Phillip snorted. His attitude aggravated me a little. I knew he was just trying to find a way to get back at Bombay for taking Adam off the Hawks team.
"This is insane." I said leaning against the fridge.
"What is going on between you and your coach?" Phillip asked. I glared at him.
"He's my dad ok!" I said angrily. "You happy now. You know all my family secrets."
Phillip looked over at his kids who avoided his eye, then turned back to my dad. "Had you know about this Mike?"
"I knew she wasn't mine." Dad said in surprise. "But I never believed it would have been him."
"Come on Dad. Lets just go home." Alex said as he led Adam toward the door. Phillip stood up as well.
"Sorry Amore, I didn't know." He said. I glanced over at Adam who smiled. He had told Alex but not his father. The Banks left and dad sighed.
"how long have you known?" Dad asked me.
"since the day I moved back from moms." I said with a sigh. My dad looked at me in surprise.
"How long has he known?" Dad said looking from Jason to me. "Same day?"
We nodded. Dad just sighed. "I'm just glad you're both taking it so well. Now get ready for bed. You have a big week coming up."
I went to my room and looked out my window. I saw out of the corner of my eye some flashing lights. It was coming from Adam's window. He was telling me that he wanted to talk. I closed my blinds and went back to bed. I still couldn't forgive him.
On Saturday Bombay called a practice. I met up with Charlie and Jesse before hand and walked to the rink. But I noticed that Jesse was avoiding me.
"Jesse, what's up with you?" I asked. He looked over at me and shook his head. "no tell me."
"I don't like Banks. I don't trust him." Jesse said and I sighed. I knew Adam and Jesse didn't like each other much.
"I'm not happy with him being on the team either, but he's a loyal player. What ever team he's on, he'll do his best for that team." I said. Jesse looked at me like I ad grown two heads. "Look Adam and I had been best friends for a very long time. I know him well enough to believe what I just said and he'll do his best to prove it to all of us."
"Mory!" Adam said walking up to us.
"Later." Jesse said walking away.
"Cook!" I called after him, but he just kept on walking. Adam bit his lower lip an awkwardly looked at Charlie.
"Why don't you want to talk to me any more?" Adam asked. Charlie started to walk away but I grabbed his hand.
"I haven't forgiven you yet." I replied.
Adam shook his head and walked away. Charlie and I walked into the rink and met the others in the locker room.
Bombay turned when we walked in. he looked down and I realized I was still holding on to Charlie's hand. I quickly dropped it before the others noticed. Bombay smirked a little bit and I shot him a warning look.
"Ok team pick up all your things. We're going on a field trip." Bombay announced and the team let out a cry of happiness. We quickly picked up al our things and fallowed Bombay to his van. I was put in the back next to Charlie who sat by the window and Fulton sat on the other side of me. Adam sat next to Fulton. That was till we found out there wasn't going to be enough seats so I sat on Charlie's lap. Adam glared at us. I think he had seen that I was still holding Charlie's hand when we walked into the locker room. I ignored I and stayed quite for the whole ride. When we got to the destination I walked up to Bombay.
"Isn't this the arena where the North Stars play?" I asked quietly. Bombay smiled but said nothing. We walked into find the North Stars practicing. I dropped back to Adam.
"Isn't this one of your biggest dreams?" I asked. He was still in shock and could only nod. "Now aren't you glad you are a Duck. I know Reilly would never do this."
He nudged me and I walked back up to Charlie. One of the players, recognized Bombay and he then looked down at me. "Aren't you Mike Witts daughter?"
"Yeah." I said almost shyly. I couldn't believe he knew me.
"I used to play hockey against him in high school." He said. "Tell him I say hi."
"Will do." I said and as soon as they left I embraced Charlie, but let him go about as fast as I had hugged him.
"Alright, lets have some fun!" Bombay said and we all raced onto the ice. We then raced to the ice. I grabbed Charlie's arm and lead him to one side of the ice. We ten raced to Bombay, who had to catch us both before we hit the wall.
"You two are crazy." Bombay said with a laugh. Adam skated past and I quickly grabbed his arm and skated with him. I knew he still wanted to talk and deep down I wanted us to be best friends again.
"So you want to talk?" I asked but for some reason he acted mad at me. "Ok what's up now?"
"Why don't you go ask your boyfriend." Adam said taking his arm away from me.
"What are you so upset about?" I couldn't believe him. "I don't have a boyfriend. I just have friends. Why are you being a jerk?"
"Listen, Alex told me about things like this." Adam said with a sigh. "He used to have a best friend that was a girl and then she got a boyfriend and they weren't friends any more."
"Adam, I'd only do that to you if you gave me a reason to stop being friends with you." I said with a smirk and pretended to get serious. "Like being a jerk for instance."
"Ha, ha. Very funny." He said sarcastically but smiled. "So does the team know?"
"Know what?" I asked skating a little faster. Tammy called me over and I gladly skated to her. She smiled and said she wanted to get Fulton. I smiled. We snuck up behind him and before he could turn and wrapped our arms around him. Laughing we brought him down to the ice. Fulton laughed and soon he was tickling both of us.
"Alright everybody, lets go get cleaned up." Bombay called. We all skated off the ice a little disappointed. When we got cleaned up, Bombay lead us to the stands. I sad down between Averman and Charlie. Charlie sat next to Bombay.
"I cant believe you brought us to the game." I said with a smile. Bombay smiled back.
"You all deserve it." Bombay replied. It was a very good game even though Larson and McGill showed up. I watched McGill point out Adam and laugh. They didn't even bother finding me. I knew then that Adam would be their new target.