Banksie// Adam Banks

Chapter 25

The next day at school went by super quickly, probably because Adam and I had practice with the varsity team after school and neither of us wanted to go.

We were sitting at lunch with our lunch group when the captain, which I had figured out his name is Rick, the goalie, Scott/ Scooter, and Cole. I don't know what position Cole plays though. Came up to us.

"So, these are our new members. I'm Rick, the captain." He said. I rolled my eyes.

"I'm Adam, and this is Anna." Adam said pointing at me. I gave a pathetic smile and looked at him.

"It's a team rule that you have to sit with us at lunch, over there." Rick said pointing towards there table.

"What if we don't want to sit over there?" I said. There was no way I was going to sit over there if I didn't have to. I looked over to the table that the rest of the Ducks team sat at, they were all looking over here.

"You're part of the team now, so you have to follow the team rules."

"Who even came up with that?" I said.

"The team, the team that you are now a part of." Rick said, he put his foot up on the bench in between me and Adam. "Look, we aren't as bad as you think we are."

"You said we didn't belong here?" I questioned.

"Well that was before, now you have a place on our team. Now come on, the rest of the team is waiting for you." He smiled and put his foot down. I looked over at the twins, Keith, and Lyla and gave them a sorry look. Adam and I grabbed our trays and stood up.

We walked over to the table and sat down in an open gap. Rick, Cole, and Scooter all stayed standing up.

"Guys, these are our new teammates, we will treat them with respect, it's not everyday that freshman make varsity."

All eyes were on us. I hated it, I tried covering my face but Adam elbowed my arm causing me to look up.

"That's Adam and that's Anna." I gave them a small smile. They gave us welcomes and went on with their lunch. Adam and I didn't talk to anyone else on the team, every once in a while someone would try to talk to us but we kept the conversations short. I still didn't know how to feel about them, they were being nice to me and Adam now that they were on their team, but they were still jerks to the ducks. 

The lunch bell rang me we were quick to grab our stuff and get out, Rick pulled me and Adam aside right before we had exited the lunch room.

"Don't be late for practice, coach doesn't play people who aren't early. And Anna, he isn't thrilled that we're getting a girl so you gotta work your butt of if you want him to play you." He shot us thumbs up as he walked backwards out of the lunchroom. 

"Maybe he isn't as terrible as we thought he was?" Adam said. I shrugged my shoulders and we walked out.

***** 

Adam and I were the first people at the rink. We quickly got to the locker room and got onto the ice. We a quick lap before the rest of the team got there. We skated over to the bench and waited. Coach walked in a few minutes after. He skated past me and gave me a weird look, I looked at Adam and it was clear that he saw the look too. I furrowed my eyebrows in confusion. I didn't even know what his look meant, but it was clear he didn't want me there.

I saw Rick skate over and talk to coach Wilson for a minute before he said something.

"Everyone, start laps, 3. Now." Coach said while waving his hand in a circle motion. "You, Roberts. Over here." I skated over to him.

"Yes coach?"

"I don't know what crap you did to get here, but it won't fly by me, don't even attempt it. I'll get you out of here faster then you got here." I was shocked, I got here the same way everyone else did. What did he mean?

I started my laps and thought about what he said. Did he think I like, cheated or something to get to varsity? I quickly finished and skated to the rest of the team. Coach explained that we were doing a scrimmage and split us into 2 teams. I got back onto defense before I was quickly called again by coach.

"Roberts! Get back here, Cole get in there!" He said.

"Coach how can you see me play if you bench me?" He rolled his eyes and called Cole back in. I skated back into position and the scrimmage started. The other team got the puck and skated to our goal, I skated to the shooter and hit him down, I passed the puck to someone on my team and they skated away. I glanced at coach and he looked confused, I was happy, I don't think he would expect a girl to knock down someone on his team.