𝘼𝙙𝙖𝙢'𝙨 𝙂𝙞𝙧𝙡

𝟸𝟸/𝚂𝚑𝚊𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚍

"Peyton, Come here" Bombay yells. She gets up and walks over to him. They walk into the hallway and Peyton begins to talk. "Yes coach?"

"I want you to be honest with me." Peyton gave her coach a confused look. "Did you punch Connie?" 

"Yes."

"Why?"

"Because she was being a bitch to me!"

"Language! And that's still no reason to punch her!"

"That is every reason to punch her!"

"I don't know what has gotten into you, but get it together, oh and today, your benched!"

"What?! You can't do that!"

"I am the coach, so technically I can!"

"Screw you" Peyton mutters to herself.

"What was that?"

"Oh nothing"

Bombay walks back into the locker room, leaving Peyton out in the hallway. "Hey Peyton." She hears someone say behind her. "Stannson? What do you want?"

"I want you."

"That's not weird at all."

"I mean I want you to play for my team."

"Hell no!"

"I'll pay you 1 million"

"Are you bribing me?"

"I wouldn't call it that. I would call it an eye for an eye. You get money and I get to have you on my team."

"You talk a big game Stannson"

"Yea well it's a game that wins, Unlinke your little Ducky's"

"Yea well those little Ducky's are gonna kick your ass in a few days"

"You can try, but you will fail." He takes a step towards Peyton. He puts a piece of her hair behind her ear. She slaps his hand away. "Get away, you perv." She walks back into the locker room and only sees her boyfriend in there waiting for her. "Hey, you okay?" He asks. "Yea, I'm fine." She replies.

"Are you sure?"

"Yea, I am" She replies angry.

"Okay, we can talk about this later." Adam says walking out of the locker room, giving his girlfriend some space. "Hey." Peyton looks up to see the one and only Gunnar Stahl. "If your here about me joining your team, you can forget it."

"I'm not here to tell you to join, I'm here to tell you that I saw what Stannson did and it wasn't right."

"Yea and why do you care?!"

"Because he's my coach and it's not right."

"Yeah, whatever Gunnar." Gunnar starts to leave but stops to say one more thing: "I still like you."

"What?" Peyton asks confused. "You can't still like me. I'm with Adam."

"Peyton, I never stopped liking you, ever since we started dating in 6th grade, you were the only thing on my mind, and seeing you with Adam hurts."

"I'm sorry Gunnar but I'm happy with Adam."

Peyton heard someone run away from behind the door. She caught a glimpse of the figure to know that it was Adam. "Wait, Adam !" She yelled. "I'm sorry, Peyton" Gunnar said, walking out of the locker room. Peyton went to the bench and just sat there. Adam didn't even acknowledge Peyton's existence. He simply just sat there and ignored her. Peyton knew why, but she didn't wanna bother him, he obviously didn't wanna talk. Peyton sighed and looked over on the ice. Her friends were beating the socks off of Russia. She was a little disappointed that she couldn't play though.

The game finally ended and the Ducks ended up winning. They all walked into the locker and changed. They gathered their stuff and they all left except for Adam and Peyton. They were still gathering their stuff. Peyton was about to leave, but when she looked over at Adam, she saw him wrapping his wrist. "I thought it was fine." She says, calling him out.

"It is fine, just keeping it in shape."

"You don't wrap it to keep it in shape, Adam."

"It's fine, honestly."

"You don't have to lie to me."

"I'm not lying Peyton!"

"Ok jeez, didn't know it mattered that much!"

"It's not my wrist that matters! It's us that matters."

"Adam, what are you talking about?"

"What was that in the locker room?! I saw you and Gunnar in there! He claims to still like you! I didn't even know you guys dated!"

"I'm sorry that I didn't tell you but-"

"No "buts" Peyton! If you don't wanna be with me, just say it!"

"But Adam, that's not it."

"Really Peyton?! Because that's what it seems like!" Adam says, walking out of the locker room. At that moment Peyton never felt so alone. Her boyfriend just left her alone in the locker room after yelling at her. Charlie is at the dorm and he already has enough on his plate. Connie doesn't even like her. Guy is under Connie's spell. Dean and Fulton love themselves to much to care. All Averman does is joke around. She barely even knows Russ. Julie wants time to herself right now. Luis and Peyton don't like each other to begin with. She isn't close with Ken. Dwayne is to loud and he isn't able to keep secrets, so she can't vent to him. Jesse acts like everything is about him. Goldberg is to self centered. And her own Coach yelled at her earlier, so she isn't comfortable around him right now. "God..."Peyton mutters to herself, breaking down. Peyton walks back to her dorm and goes inside. Connie wasn't in there, but Julie was. Peyton's eyes were red and puffy and she had a look of sadness. Julie noticed immediately. "Oh my god, Peyton, what's wrong?"

"M-me and A-adam got in a fight." She brings herself to say.

Julie hugs Peyton and comforts her. "It will all be okay Peyton."

Meanwhile in Charlie, Adam, and Guys dorm, Adam just walked in. He had an angry look on his face, but it also had a hint of sadness. "hey man!" Charlie said as Adam walked in. Adam didn't answer, he laid his stuff down and flopped onto his bed. "You okay?" Guy asks. "Yea, it's fine." Adam replied. "Did something happen between you and Peyton?" Charlie asks. "yea, man, we got into a fight in the locker room."

"What happened?" Guy asked.

"Well, after you guys left, I was wrapping my wrist and I didn't realize that she hadn't left yet and as she was leaving she saw me. She confronted me and I told her it was fine. Then she told me that I didn't have to lie to her, and then I called her out because I saw her in the locker room with Gunnar before the game."

"Wait, she was with Gunnar? Charlie asked. "yeah, he said that he still liked her."

"Holy crap! I'll be right back, just keep talking to Guy." Charlie says, running out of the dorm and into the girls dorm. 

Charlie opens the door and sees his sister crying in Julie's arms. He runs over to Peyton and hugs her. "I'm so sorry, Peyton." Peyton removes herself from Julie and wraps her arms around Charlie. "He said he liked me again and Adam heard." Peyton said crying. "I know, Adam told me." he said. "I don't understand why he's mad. I didn't say I liked him back."

"I know you didn't Peyton, but maybe you should tell him that."

"Screw that, he doesn't even wanna talk to me. I feel so shattered." She says, looking at Charlie. Little did she know that a certain someone was watching through the crack in the door...