Stupid Love

19

My headphones are blasting "Coming Undone" by Korn as I walk through the hallways to my old locker room. My hockey bag is in my hand as my eyes are locked onto the handle. I'm expecting the guys to be mad that I wasn't there last year. I've let them all down. I take a deep breath of cold air and exhale as I open the door. I can hear the room get quiet and then suddenly erupt.

"Oh captain My captain!" The locker room chanted. I never felt so relieved in my life. A piece of me was finally reborn. I shake my head and try to quiet the locker room as the coach comes in.

"Boys! As you can see I've called for some reinforcements for the upcoming games we will be playing. Corbin, will you please say a few words?" He says as he looks at me.

I felt pressured and just went for it, without even thinking. "Boy, I'm sorry for not being there last year. I did a mini retirement and saw what happened last year and I will tell you now that I've brought some extra motivation. No one will expect what's about to happen. I need you boys to believe that." I yelled.

They started clapping and hollering after I finished. Coach then interrupts it to announce something again.

"Your starting lineup for today's game, Matt you're the starting left wing," The room erupts. "Luke, you're the starting right wing." The room erupts again. "Corbin, you're the starting center." The room goes berserk. I started zoning out, I was thinking of everything that happened with Mia and Joey. It pisses me off, I have the urge to take it out. My arm veins pop out as I look down. The cheering and the noise goes to the background. I'm just focused.

"Go get them boys!" Coach yelled. Everyone is now getting up from the benches and all waiting for me to take the front. I laced up my skates harder and stood up. I pull my jersey over my pads a little bit lower and I walk up to the front.

"Lets go fuck some shit up boys." I yell.

The room erupted and I started walking out of the locker room towards the long hallway. I can feel the cold and the arena yelling and chanting "Lets go Falcons." There's some music being played and the announcers are being loud like always. I walk up to the rink entrance while being greeted by a rink worker.

"Is your team all here?" He asked.

I look behind me and the whole team is behind me. I felt like a general leading my team to battle. It also didn't help that I was the tallest on the team. On skates I was nearing 6 feet tall. Everyone else was a close 5"10 or shorter.

"Yeah" I replied.

He opened up the rink door and I jumped onto the ice. Thankfully I got my rust out yesterday otherwise I would've fallen on my face. My legs and body just correspond with each other and work like a dream. I was skating faster than I ever have before, with the extra pep in my steps.

I ignored the boos we got as the warm up lap ended and we began stretching. #10 from their team came over to me.

"So the mighty Corbin returns? Too bad your return will be short lived." He said in a smirk.

I ignored him as I scanned through the crowd and saw the scouts hiding in plain sight. I also noticed Joey and Abby sitting in the crowd. My blood boils at the sight of her. I don't know if I wanted to scream at her or fuck her like theres no tomorrow.

"Hey dumbass I'm talking to you," #10 yells at me.

I get out of my stretch and skate past the squirrel shaped player over to my bench.

"Coach," I yell

He turns and looks at me.

"I'm going to run it up on them tonight." I say