MOVED ON | adam banks [2]

Count Me In

"Hey, how're ya feeling?" I asked Bombay while walking into the room care center put him in. "Not my best, but I've been worse." He chuckled lightly before sitting up. "If it makes you feel any better I knocked out Gunnar Stahl for ya. Bloody nose and all." I smiled and he shook his head with a laugh. "Of course it does."

"You're okay though, right?" I questioned looking over to the wall that had signs from the team. "I should be asking if you're okay." He said and I sighed. "I'm fine, now how're you?"

"Scarlett, I can tell somethings wrong. If you don't wanna talk about it it's okay. But I think it'd be good if you did. I always feel better once I tell someone about my problems. You don't have to talk to me, but make sure you talk to someone. I just want you to be happy, okay?"

"Yeah, I will. Thanks coach-dad." I laughed standing up and walking towards the door. "Tell the team I'll be good for practice tomorrow." He piped up and I nodded before walking out, "Will do!"

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"Hey. He's all good?" Alex questioned while I walked back into the dorm. "Yeah, he's all good. I'm just so pissed at the Iceland team. I didn't think I could be anymore, but here we are." I sighed sitting on the edge of my bed. "Are you okay?" He asked and I thought about it.

Am I okay? No. Most definitely not. Am I going to tell anyone that? No. Most definitely not.

"Yeah. I'm fine, what about you?"

"Come on, Scarlett. I know you're not okay." He turned to face me on his bed and I rolled my eyes.  "Not you too. I'm fine, I promise."

"How about...I tell you something that's bothering me, and you can tell me something that's bothering you?" He suggested and I shook my head. I mean, if he's willing to do this then why not. "Fine." I huffed turning to face him on my bed.

"Well, beginning of summer...my mom, she uh- she passed. And my dad, he's already moved on, I just don't think it's right. He barley gave any time to let her death settle in and he's already dating again. Every time I brought it up he just told me to give it a rest. I just think it's a shitty thing to do."

"Wow. I'm so sorry, I would've never called you out here if I knew. You didn't have to come, I know how hard loosing people you love is."

"No, it's okay. I needed to get away from it all, y'know? If anything, you saved me calling me to come out here." He shrugged and I gave him a small smile.

"And I'm sorry about your dad. That's a real asshole move. Maybe it's just how he's dealing with it. We all have different ways of dealing with things. Try sitting down and talking to him, maybe he'll listen better." I suggested and he nodded. I'm not the best at giving advice, so hopefully that'll do, because I have nothing else. "Your turn." He gestured to me and I sighed.

"I don't really know. I mean my family comes up here, I thought they were coming to finally watch one of my games, but turns out it was just to tell me my father isn't my real father. As much as I hate my dad, he doesn't deserve that. My mom had an affair, with two kids, got pregnant, and played it off like I was his. She only came up here to tell me because they didn't want me living with them anymore. And that's not even half of it."

"I remember you talked about how much you hated your family. Isn't this a good thing?" The boy asked tilting his head a little.

"Yes and no. They're all assholes, but they were family. Family's, family. Simple as that." I shrugged and he nodded while I turned to lay on my back. "Go on. You said there's more."

"Well, while I was in the care center for my concussion, Adam cheated on me. With Emily, who's an Iceland chick, by the way. We're not aloud to get rid of any players, some bullshit rules, huh?"

"That's not right." He scoffed as I agreed. "And to top it all of I don't even think he was gonna tell me. I only found out because I was in the room when he told Charlie and he didn't see me. Like one final fuck you to top everything off."

"I don't even know what it's at to that besides: wow. Your life is so fucked up right now." He breathed out while I laughed. "Tell me about it."

"Holy shit, I do feel better. Thanks, Larson." I smiled over at the boy. "Anytime, Anderson." He winked and I rolled my eyes.

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"You guys down to have some fun?" Aspen spoke while skipping into the lounge. "Duh." I piped up while Connie looked up from her magazine, "Your idea of fun is mostly violence. If it's something illegal, then count me out."

"Screw that, count me in, especially if it's illegal." I stood up excitedly. "You in, Julie?" Aspen raised her eyebrows with a tiny smirk playing across her lips. "As much as I'd love to get arrested with you guys, I gotta go talk to coach. I'm hoping he'll listen to me and put me in for at least a little while in next weeks game." She sighed standing up and started to walk out. "Let me know how it goes, I'll talk to him for ya too." I waved while she walked out.

"Alrighty, Con. Last chance, you're gonna miss out." Aspen sung while we slowly backed up out of the lounge. "No thanks." She chuckled picking up her magazine of the side of the couch. "Your loss." I shrugged while we turned to leave. "Don't get hurt or arrested, please. I love you!" She called out to us while we walked out the door.

"Love you!" We yelled back while waving.

"So, Miss. Johnson. What'd ya have for us today?" I excitedly asked the girl who was leading me back to her dorm. "Well, I was thinking. We can't get Emily or the Iceland team off our backs, so, we might as well mess with them a bit."

"I like what you're thinking. How 'bout we take a nice skim through our good old prank book?" I questioned with a sly smile and Aspen returned the look. "Exactly what I was gonna say."

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schools going okay?
ive got all ap and honors classes and my schedules totally packed

ive got health shop home ec and even career exploration all those classes

it's crazy