Stolen Goon // Dean Portman // Book 2

"Varsity?"

"Check it out, antsville." I took a closer look at it. I shivered looking at the hundreds of ants.

"You can learn a lot from ants." We all jumped to the dean's words, surprised.

"These Brazilian for ants can teach you a lot about successful societal structure, you see there's one queen in here. The rest are dedicated worker ants. Everybody pulls their weight, nobody complains, there's harmony and growth. Same here at Eden hall. Only you are the workers, the backbone."

"And your the queen?" Russ gave him a look, I laughed covering my mouth to stifle my laugh. I heard a few snickers from the team. I forgot how funny Russ was.

The dean sighed furrowing his eyes at Russ. "Campus tour anyone?

•••

Turns out I have four classes with Dean. Right now we were in math and let me tell you this teacher was insane.

"Every Monday you'll have a practice quiz, every Wednesday you'll have a real quiz, every Friday you'll have an exam, and anytime I feel like it you'll have a surprise quiz or exam." My mouth dropped. Julie and I made eye contact. 'This teacher is fucking insane .' I mouthed to her.

"I know right!' She mouthed back before looking back at the teacher. Man this is not going to be my best class. As the bell ring I got up and looked back to where Dean was sitting. This girl had gave him a note. I quickly walked back to where he was sitting a took the note out of his hand. A number is what it had on it.

"Sorry not a available." I said a threw the note at her. She scoffed and walked out.

"Damn your hot when you're jealous." He said as he stood up. I smiled and took his hand walking out of the class.

•••

"Wow this place is great." Fulton said as we walked into the rink.

"You know, I bet they even have a snack bar here." Goldberg said in excitement.

"Big deal." Dean said.

"They look pretty good." Luis pointed out.

"They sure won a lot of championships." Julie said.

"They're huge." Russ said.

"They're not so hot." Charlie said.

"Come on guys, we could skate out there." Connie said.

We all made our way out to the ice but got stopped quickly.

"If it isn't Captain Ducks." Rick said

"Get your hands off him." Fulton said.

"Ooo look, a Bash Brother. I'm so scared" Cole said laughing.

"How about it, Cowboy? Round up?" Charlie asked Dwayne.

"Hey Charlie, shouldn't we wait for the new coach before we mess around." Connie suggested.

"This is how we practice. Duck hockey, Connie. He'll have to get used to it sooner or later. Well come on, Cowboy. Hit it."

"Yeha! Round them up, doggies!" Dwayne said making us skate away from him.

Our game didn't last long when Charlie was caught he fell, right into the new coach.

"My name is Coach Orion. You can call me Coach or Coach Orion."

"Well you can call me Charlie." Charlie stuck out his hand. Getting a few laughs from the ducks.

"That must be what that C on your jersey stands for, huh? It sure doesn't stand for captain."

"Sorry Coach. We were just messin with you, you know?" Russ said trying to sooth the tension.

"Hey Bombay gave him that C." Goldberg said.

"And I respect that, but that's the past. This is my team now, and I'll be selecting the new captain."

"You gotta be kidding me right? I mean, you're the rookie here. We've all been together for four years."

"Okay Charlie, laps. Right now." Coach said with a straight face.

"How many, Coach Orion?" Charlie sassed

"I don't recall saying." He fired back. Charlie then started skating. Doing his laps.

"Now you listen up, and you listen up good. We are here for one reason and one reason only. You know what that is? It starts with a W."

"To win, Coach Orion, sir!" Averman yelled.

"No." He said bluntly. Some of the ducks laughed at this.

"To work! High school hockey is very hard work. And it all begins with defense. I've seen your tapes. I know you can score goals. I just don't know if you can stop them."

"Hey!" Goldberg said. Coach looked at him smugly, "Sorry sir." Goldberg quickly added.

"You're not kids or little ducks anymore, so I'm not gonna treat you that way. You're gonna learn to play two-way hockey. Offense and defense. It's gonna take one thing. Starts with a W." He turned to Averman.

"To work Coach Orion, sir!"

"Wrong. Will. It's gonna take real Will if you want to play in my barn. All right! Count off. Let's climb the ladder."

•••

We all walked into the locker room, busted. My legs were hurting so bad, but I think I played my best. At least I hope I did.

"Somebody get a shovel and bury me right here." Goldberg laid down on the bench.

"I will teach you to play like what? Starts with a W!" Charlie mocked Coach.

"Wussies." Averman said.

"That's right. Wussies in offense and defense."

"Defense, defense, defense!" Russ grunted.

"Eden Hall Academy requires you to maintain a C average to compete. I believe that is a bad rule. I don't want any C players on my team." Orion said making the sport drop lower than it already is.

"I want B's or better or you're gonna be riding the pine pony. Now you got 15 minutes after each practice to clear this locker room. You got homework to do. Oh, one more thing. Stay clear of the varsity until we play them in the JV- Varsity showdown. You got that?" And with that he left.

"15 minutes? Man I cannot move."

"Hey you guys look. He posted our position." I said getting up to go look at it. A couple other ducks went to look at it too.

"I don't believe this. I play left side not right." Fulton said sitting down.

"Third line? Man that's a major diss." Russ then went to go sit down. I still didn't see where I was posted.

"I'm not posted." I brought up.

"Neither am I." Adam said from behind me.

"Yeah you two are. Adam Banks, third line center, and Harley Ruby, first line center. Varsity?"

"I made varsity?" Adam said a went to go sit down.

"This can't be right." I said going to sit back down too.

"So what did you make?" Dean asked.

"First line center."

"Oh not ba-"

"Varsity." I cut him off. His face dropped a bit.

"Banksie did too." I said.

"Man. What about me?" He asked.

"First line, right."

"Let me guess JV?" He asked. I nodded and sighed. Man this is gonna be a strange year.

Hmmm do we like Harley on varsity? Idk if you guys do. But I promise it's gonna help with the story line! -cat