𝐁𝐑𝐔𝐓𝐀𝐋 | 𝐋𝐔𝐈𝐒 𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐎𝐙𝐀

5.

After a long day of school, we had our first game. Was I in a good mood, no because Luis keeps blowing me off and I don't know why, Charlie's been a complete asshole recently and I've been super stressed, and it's only the first week.

"Hey Jules, what time is it?" I asked Julie who was reading a book on her bed. "4:00, so we have an hour and a half until the game." She looked back at her book. "Good, just enough time for a run." I mumbled tying my other shoe.

I then left the dorm and made my way outside. My way of letting out stress, was on the ice or running. I then started my run, I ran all around campus and a down the block a few times. After about an hour I made my way back up to the dorm.

"Hey." I said to Julie who was finishing up her book. "Right on time, we gotta go! Get ready!" She said trying to rush me. "Alright, alright." I finished getting ready and so did Julie.

We made our way to the locker room, Kenny and the others joining us. I walked into the locker room and started getting my pads on. Everyone got ready, then we made our way out to the rink entry.

I sighed and Charlie walked in first, the crowd roaring. He glared at me as I entered. "Gather around." We all slowly skated over to him. "Let's go. Hustle up. Come on." We all stood around him.

"All right. Think defense." Everyone rolled their eyes. "All right, hands in. Here we go." We all
prepared to start quacking but as soon as we did, it got shut down by Coach Orion. "What the hells that? Knock that off." He glared at all of us.

"All right, go team on two. Here we go one, two!" Orion said. We all unenthusiastically, said "Go team!" Everyone either sat down or went to their spots beside me, "Play hard out there, use your head." Coach Orion whispered to me smacking my helmet. I nodded my head and skated over to the center.

The other center laughed as they looked at me, "This should be an easy win." He muttered. "What was that?" I raised an eyebrow at him. "You heard me, you're a girl and I'm a guy we both know who's gonna get the puck." I rolled my eyes at his arrogance and waited for the ref to drop the puck.

"You ready?" The ref asked us. We both nodded our heads and he dropped the puck. After a few shoves the guy was on the ground and I passed the puck to Charlie. Skating not far behind him.

He scored within the few seconds, "Good pass." He quickly said after getting scolded by Coach Orion for celebrating. "Thanks." I replied. We scored many more times, until Luis got the puck.

"Shit." I whispered to myself as he was skating full speed. "He can't stop!" "Hes got no breaks!" One of the ducks yelled. I skated faster until I was at most 5 feet away from him. "I can't stop!" He yelled. He jumped over the net, the puck going into the net, but leaving Luis crashing into the glass.

"Fuck, Luis." I skated over to him and helped him get up. "That was fresh." "Great Luis! You scored man!" "You scored." "Way to go." I was behind him helping him stay up. "You scored!" "You scored, Luis! It was amazing." Julie laughed.

"Are you okay?" Luis nodded his head and we all started skating away and he fell back down. "I guess not." Russ said. We all helped him back over to the bench. I sat down on the bench too, and Coach Orion came up behind me and put his hands on my shoulder.

"You okay out there?" He asked me. "Yeah just the other center said some sexist stuff to me." He nodded his head. "I knocked him on his ass but he keeps targeting me." I rambled on. "You know what you gotta do?" He looked at me.

"Prove you're better." He patted my shoulder and walked back to his original position. We were up by a lot and he put me back in. "Oh great you're back." The guy remarked. "Oh great you're still talking." I glared. "Haha. You better watch yourself, this is a man's sport." He replied.