Just the two of us

"Real friends"

It's 5:55, I'm running late, again. I shove my things into my bag and run out the door still trying to close the zip on my bag, it's heavy with all my hockey gear for our first ducks training tomorrow.
As I'm speed walking to Adams house I see two faces I was hoping to never see again, McGill and Larson.
"Off to your boyfriends house, Duck?" McGill says, cracking himself up. "None of your business McGill, why do you care so much anyway?" I say, I'm actually quite curious as to why he's always so interested. "Because he has a crushhh" Larson says and winks. "I do not!" McGill snaps back and gives Larson a death stare, like he does every game when Larson is messing around. "Whatever" I say, and continue walking to Adams house.
I arrive at Adams house and, once again, half walk half slip up the driveway to the front door. When I finally get there I knock on the door and rub my hands together, trying to warm them up.
"Hey y/n, come in it's freezing" Adam says as he gestures for me to come in. "Took you long enough"
I say, we both laugh it off.
I hurry into Adams house and we go upstairs to his bedroom, it's been the same since we were little kids, with hockey posters on the walls and the warn out chair in the corner that I always sit on whenever I come over, which is basically everyday.
I put my bag with my hockey gear in it on the floor in the back corner of Adams room with his stuff, and I sit down on my chair in the opposite corner and Adam sits on his bed.
"Guess who I saw on the way here" I say, quite excited to tell Adam about the run in with McGill and Larson. "Who?" Adam says, filled with curiosity.
"McGill and Larson!" I say, laughing. "They didn't do anything to you, did they?" Adam says, a bit worried, as usual. "No, but Larson said McGill has a crush on me! He obviously doesn't tho, he's always mean to me"  "h-he actually does like you y/n" Adam says, a little scared to tell me. "What?! No, no he doesn't" I say, completely shocked, that cant be true, he's always mean to me, surely he wouldn't be mean to me if he liked me, right? "Most of the guys on the team liked you y/n, they probably still do, that's what we were laughing at in the locker room earlier today"
I'm completely shocked, and confused. Then I put the pieces together, "he probably only likes me because I'm the only girl on the team, you know like the only girl they were ever really close to..." I say, hopefully. "Yeah, maybe".
There's a bit of silence as we both think about that, I find it quite funny actually, and I start to burst out laughing, Adam copies. "I'm in loveeee with y/n!!" Adam says mimicking McGill, we both continue laughing until we're out of breath.
"So, are you dreading this ducks practice tomorrow to?" Adam asks, still laughing a little. "Well, to be honest Adam, I'm kinda glad we got moved to the ducks..." I've been holding that in for a while now. "What? Why?!" Adam says, shocked. "The guys on the hawks were easy on me, and mean to me just because I'm a girl, I hated it" I blurt out. "Oh" Adam says in a low voice. "And, there's a girl on the ducks, maybe I could be friends with her" I say, hopeful. I know that there is a girl on the ducks, Connie Moreau, I've seen her at games before, it could go two ways with her tomorrow, she could be happy there's another girl on her team to join her, or, she could hate me because she won't be the only girl anymore, and I can't blame her. "It's okay y/n, I get it, I guess I'm excited for a few parts to" Adam says, with a smile spreading across his face. "Ooo for the girl?" I say, exited. "No! I'm excited to make new friends, real friends, because right now, it's pretty much just me and you" Adam says, and we both let out a little laugh.
"Yeah, the ducks seem like real friends, I'm excited to meet them properly" i add.
"Don't get your hopes up, they might not like us straight away, I mean some of our team- well our old team, is a bit mean to them" Adam says. "Thats true, I guess we'll have to find out tomorrow"