Milly Anderson The Mighty Ducks [Book 1]

Game 1 with Bombay

I pull my jersey over my pads and lace up my skates, The quality of this stuff is below what you would find in a garbage can, I cant really say much I never wear anything fancy, just trackies mostly, I don't have much clothes at all.

We skate out of the change rooms and onto the ice, the hawks are skating back and forth doing all their preppy training while we just sit on the bench loathing how rich they are "Hi girls" two of the hawks mock "OI! Shut your mouth Phillips!" I yell from behind a struggling Averman "Who's Phillips?" the hawks player askes "Never mind! Just.. Pee off!" [IYKYK 🤣] They skate away with confused looks at my statement, I just sit back down.

We watch the hawks do their chant they were all in sync "WIN! WIN! WIN! WIN!" I knew they were in luck, they were in fact going to win like they do every game "Alright gather round" Bombay brought us in "win, win, win, win" we started to join in but none of us were in time and most of us were unsure why we needed to do this. Bombay gave up and told us to go warm up.

Goldberg stood in the goals and we came past hitting his pads replicating the hawks warm ups, Charlie was in front of me and he hit Goldberg hard enough to make him fall over "Nice going fool" Goldberg says from the ground "sorry I didn't mean to do that" Charlie says empathetically "oh yeah "I didn't mean to knock you out with my stick by accident"" he replies "yeah sure I came in and-your on my own team, oh sorry Goldberg, didn't mean to Goldberg" Charlie says hitting him with his stick "Would you get off me before I clock you" He squirms "nice one Charlie" I say high fiving him "Come on Goldie get up" I put out my hand to help him up, he grabs it but pulls me down so I fall on the ice with him "Hey!" I turn to Charlie and ask for him to help me up but I pull him down too and we all laugh rolling on the ice.

The game starts and we're getting smashed, Guy gets checked on the boards, Connie gets her stick hit out of her hands, I get pushed over, multiple times, and the refs never call anything, and Goldberg misses every save and blames it on the rest of the team.

End of period one and Bombay has us sitting on the bench and he's doing that quiet yelling thing "How lazy can you be? They're killing us out there! How many times do I have to tell you: get those rebounds, get your heads up, get those loose pucks, get...just... just get the hell out of here" he sighs.

I'm off right now and Charlie has the puck he's heading straight for the goals "Alright" Bombay stands up looking hopeful "he's spazway, he'll screw up" Karp says "Oi!" I say harshly, Karp shrugs. Then Charlie falls and slides hitting the boards but as he begins to stand up he gets checked and falls again only to get up and skate over to the bench. I here Casey yelling encouragements but on the other hand Bombay... not so much "Nice fan, Charlie, Keep swinging maybe you'll give 'em a cold" Charlie sits next to me "I see you had your first kiss with the boards there bud" I laugh, he mumbles something indecisive "Huh?" I ask "oh, doesn't matter" he replies "Ok I guess," I laugh, he returns the laugh nervously "Get back on there Anderson" Bombay tells me, so I do and immediately get checked, "Hey, call something ref!" I yell at the ref then get up skating over to where the guy that checked me had the puck I shoved him over onto the ice and took the puck passing it to guy who got the puck stolen straight away, Gaining the hawks another point when Goldberg just let them past.

The buzzer rang signalling the end of the game we all skate to the bench, I sit watching Bombay admire the hawks, until he turns to us. I knew exactly what was gonna happen I could see it in his face "Here we go" I whisper to Charlie "Shut up!" Bombay yells, everyone stops arguing "you guy stink!" Averman sniffs under his arm and I laugh "I thought we came here to play hockey" "You know I knew we forgot something" Peter says making us all laugh but Bombay cuts us off "oh you think its funny, you thing losing is funny!" "well not at first but, once you get the hang of it" Averman jokes "true" I agree "we're the ones out there getting our butts kicked" Jesse points out "yeah its not like you coach us or anything, at least we tried" terry added "You didn't listen to a word I said, I said keep your heads up you put your heads down, I said hustle you went slower, that was the sloppiest playing I've ever seen. Why the hell don't you just listen to me!" Coach spat "why the hell should we?" Jesse skates to the change rooms "I don't care, you wanna lose, fine. Your the ones that look like idiots out there" Bombay walks out to.

Soon we all file through to the change room "This coach's a real jerk" Jesse says "yeah" we all agree "I think he's alright" Connie says "Alright!? He's a walking nightmare!" Guy speaks up "I said put your heads up you put your heads down" Averman mocks "Ha! yeah Coach why don't you pull your head out...out your ass!" Jesse laughs along with everyone else.

I pack up my things and say goodbye to the team "I'm heading out now guys, see ya later" the team says their goodbyes and I head out to see Mum standing by the car she hugs me and then we both get into the car "That coach doesn't seem too nice" she says "Yeah I'm pretty sure Casey hates him" we laugh both knowing Casey could snap his neck if he provoked her. Mum and Casey have been best friends forever its how me and Charlie became best friends. "How about we put on some tunes" she suggests "You know it!" She turns up the radio and walking on sunshine by katrina and the waves comes on. we start dancing in our seats and mum taps to the beat on her steering wheel, windows down volume up, we sing all the way home.