The President's Daughter

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January 22, 2012- Wells Fargo Center –7:30 AM

I ran through the parking lot, as I hurried to get out of the Philadelphia rain and into the arena. After getting inside the arena, I speed walked to the rink to see that Nathan was helping Julien and Houda set up. I scurried over to the bench and tossed my sneakers off as I began to place my skates on. Just when I moved on to my other skate that was when Nathan came over to me. 

“Miss. Neely, seems to me you are late.” 

“I’m ten minutes early Horty.” 

He chuckled “Yes but you are normally an hour early for practice. Now how was your car ride here?” 

“Okay, I got to my hotel at 4 AM, and had a wonderful sleep.” 

“Dang! You only got three hours of sleep.” 

“Two and a half technically.” I said as I placed my jacket on and skated on to the ice over to Julien. 

“Jess, finally you make it to a practice.” 

 “I know, now what are the guys going to do today?” 

“Cycling the puck, powerplays and some 3 on 1 action.” 

I nodded, “Alright and let’s make Rask and Timmy practice some 3-shot warm ups.” 

“Will do and get the stats on Bryzgalov.”

“Sure thing Julien.” 

“Okay the iPad is over by the bench.” 

“Thanks.”

I skated back over to the bench and retrieved the iPad before settling myself against the half wall. As I was taking mental notes, the guys began coming up the tunnel. Some said hello to me but I just waved to them not taking my eyes off the iPad, I was too focused on watching game videos on the Flyers. While I was doing this I heard the sound of skates stopping in front of me. Looking to my left I saw it was Tyler and he was stretching. A grunt escaped my lips as I tried to refocus. 

“It’s been awhile Jess.” 

“I have work to do and you should be focusing on your stretching Seguin.” 

Tyler sighed “Are you seriously going to be referring to me as Seguin for everything?” 

“Of course I am Seguin.” I looked up at Tyler “I am after all President of this team and I have to keep it professional.” 

He rolled his eyes “Oh for Christ sake, you and I both know that isn’t the case. You’re still mad at me because of the argument we got in when we spoke about what happened between us.” 

“You outta keep your delusions to yourself, now do something helpful and get some practice in.” 

I went back to focusing on the iPad but as I was that was when Tyler swiped it from my hands. Quickly I turned on my blades to face him, “Give me the damn iPad Tyl-“ I caught myself “Seguin.” 

“Why are you trying to ignore me?  Did you seriously forget everything that happened between us?” 

“I’m just doing exactly what you wanted me to do.” I locked my eyes with his “I mean since everything that did happen was a stupid mistake.” 

With that said I yanked the iPad back from Tyler and began to head towards the tunnel. While walking down the tunnel I yelled out to Julien “I’m going to run some of the stats over with Jarvis.” 

“Alright.” Julien replied back. 

I came towards the end of the tunnel and was so freaking glad to have gotten out of watching practice.