Milly Anderson The Mighty Ducks [Book 1]

Ice-cream

The phone rings and I pick it up "Hello?" I say "Hey Milly, It's Fulton Reed" he Answers "Oh, hey Fulton what's up?" I ask "Well I was wondering if you'd like to go into town and hang out sometime today" He suggested "Yeah that sounds like fun lets meet at the lake at 1" I say "Okay see you there" "bye" I put down the phone. Fulton doesn't ring that often but we've always been Friends and we've hung out a few times, I'm glad he asked to hang out, I was getting pretty bored sitting at home doing nothing.

I decide to head out a little earlier so I can skate for a bit on the lake. I sling my skates over my shoulder and start walking. Its cloudy day, it snowed this morning giving everything a white glow about it. I arrived at the lake at 12 this gives me an hour to skate before Fulton should arrive. I circle around the lake practicing simple skills like zigzagging, stopping, changing directions and trying a few figure skating techniques for fun. I tried this waltz Jump my mum told me about a while back. It took me some time to get used to it but after a while I got the hang of it "Nice moves" I hear a voice, I turn to see Fulton sitting on a bench next to the lake "Thanks" I say. I look down at my watch to see that it's 10 past 1 "Dang the time went fast, how long have you been there?" I ask "Probably about 15 minutes, but I didn't want to disturb you, you looked so peaceful and in your zone" He replies, I laugh "Why don't you come and skate too?" I ask "I can't" he replies "why not? I've got an extra pair of skates at home, I can grab them if you want?" I suggest "No I mean I can't skate I don't know how" He replies looking down "I can teach you" I say "I don't think that's a good idea" he says "How about we go walking instead" "If you say so" I shrug sitting down next to him and taking off my skates and replacing them with my shoes.

We walk through the town chatting occasionally "I love ice-cream" Fulton replies to my question about his favourite food "No way, so do I, what's your favourite flavour?" I ask "Well I know its plain but love a good old chocolate ice-cream, what about you?" He replies "What!? That's probably my least favourite flavour I love cookies and cream" I say "Mmm cookies and cream isn't that good" he says "Well it is to me...speaking of ice-cream we should get some" I reply "Ok" he follows me as we head to the ice-cream shop. 

"That was delicious, thanks for paying by the way" I remark putting my napkin in the bin "No problem I enjoyed it too... hey there are some guys from our school" He says looking down a alleyway "yeah they are all on my hockey team but those three, the fancy looking ones, they're from the hawks team, we hate the hawks" Just then Karp goes at them and they throw him down "I'm gonna set them straight" Fulton walks up behind the three hawks, picks them up and throws them down next to Karp I hear thanks from the guys and Fulton comes back to me "Imagine what they would think if they found out how nice you really are" I laugh "but I guess you have the upper hand cause they're all so afraid of you" He shrugs smiling a bit "Do you want me to walk you home?" he asks "No I think I'm gonna skate for a bit before I go home but thanks for the offer, I'll see you round" I say "see ya" He replies. 

I skate for about an hour before I head back home. I open the door and see Casey and Charlie sitting at the table "Oh hi Milly, I invited Casey and Charlie over for dinner tonight, did you have fun today?" My mum greets me "Yeah it was chill, Hi Casey, hi Charlie. Imma head up stairs to put my skates away" I reply "Charlie why don't you go with her" Casey suggests to Charlie. I wave him over and we both go upstairs.

I shove my skates in the cupboard and sit next to Charlie on my bed "So what did you do today?" he asks "Well Fulton called, you know Fulton Reed from our school," he nods "and asked if I wanted hang out so I agreed and we pretty much just walked around town talking then we got ice-cream, and his favourite flavour is chocolate, can you believe it?" I say "That's the worst, cookies and cream is the way to go" Charlie replies "I know right? That's what I said, then we saw half our team in the alleyway about to get beat up buy some of the hawks so Fulton went and bashed them which was pretty funny, then I skated for a while and then came home" I finish "Kinda sounds like a date to me" Charlie says, I look at him confused "Nah were just friends I have never even thought about liking him... I just hope he doesn't like me" I say "But never mind that, what did you do today" I ask "Well I just had a chill day watched some tv, ate food, did some homework listened to some music in my room" He replies "We should put on some 80s music!" I run to the music player put in a CD and jump onto my bed, Charlie looks up at me "this is the creepiest song I've ever heard" He laughs and I start singing "Every breath you take, every move you make, every bond you break, every step you take, I'll be watching you" I point to Charlie and fall over laughing as he gets up and walks to the music player "lets change the pace" he changes the song, grabs my Hockey stick and jumps up on my bed so I get off and watch as he starts to sing using the stick as his microphone "Tommy used to work on the docks, Unions been on strike he's down on his luck it's tough, so tough. Gina works the diner all day, working for her man she brings home her pay for love, ooh for love" I dance "she says we've got o hold on to what we've got it doesn't make a difference if we make it or not we've got each other and that's a lot for love" then jump up with him and sing the chorus to our imaginary crowd "we'll give it a shot! ooooh we're half way there oooh oh living on a prayer! take my hand and we'll make it I swear oooh oh living on a prayer" We sing the whole song then we hear a knock on the door, I open it panting from singing so loud "you two sound like your having fun" Mum walks in "Were we too loud?" I pant trying to take deep breaths "Only enough so the whole neighbourhood could hear" she laughs "Anyways dinner is ready, catch your breath and come down stairs" she walks away.