96's girl •charlie conway fanfic•

Panic.

"Okay time to meet the ducks!" Tibbles excitedly shouted. 

"Ducks?" Dean spoke "who names there team 'ducks'" he said cringing. 
"Well actually ducks are--" Dwayne was interrupted "shut it tex." Dean started again "ducks are lame and wimpy, I ain't playing with no ducks." He finished 

"Well then you won't play at all" tibbles said. "I guess i could deal with some wimp.." Dean mumbled quietly. Tibbles just nods proudly as he leads us out the door.

I wanna go home, home with Mac. Why did I accept this?

Then we arrived in front of the ducks, looking over the players one boy caught my attention. Number 96. He was tall, brunette, and really cute.

Oh yeah thats why..

I didn't realize I was staring till I was called to show off my 'talent'. "And next we have ms. Blanc" Tibbles said, making everyone look at me. Making him look at me. He gave me a small smile, and lord was his smile cute. 

"Elsie?" Tibbles calls out. Then it hits me. They're all staring at me. Watching me. Judging me. All of the sudden I froze up, I couldn't move. 

Oh God. Why now, this never happened in cali. So why the hell now..

"Whats happening?" 

"Is she okay?"

"Elsie? Are you alright?" 

Everyone was surrounding me asking me questions that I couldn't answer, especially not in the state I'm in right now.

"Stop crowding her! Move, move." It was the boy. I saw him push everyone out of the way, making a few people stumble a bit. He grabbed my hands and began to speak in a low, calming tone. "Hey, I'm Charlie, what's your name?" He spoke to me like I was the only person there, like I was the only person who mattered.

"Els--Elsie Blanc" I slowly breathed out. Charlie gave a small smile back. "That's really pretty," he says softly. I could feel his thumb slowly rubbing circles on the backs of my hands, it was calming. 

"What position do you play?" "Center" I said calming down a bit. "Me too." He says, looking back to see everyone watching us. Finally I was calmed down. I could breathe properly and think. "You okay?" He asks turning back to me. "Yeah, thank you" I say softly a little embarrassed of the 'interruption' I caused. 

"Dont worry about it, its alright." Suddenly tibbles and bombay came up to me and charlie, "Elsie are you ok? What happened?" Tibbles said worridly, "oh uhm nothing..im alright" I say stumbling over my words. "Are you sure?" "Yes." Once tibbles stopped bombarding me with questions I heard bombay talk to charlie. "How'd you know what to do?" He asks the boy "oh, my mom gets panic attacks sometimes. Kinda just learned what to say over time." He says shrugging,

Or lord, hes perfect.

He turned to me and started speaking again "are you sure you're okay?" He says while lightly touching my shoulder. It was a very comforting action. "Yeah I'm alright, you just made me nervous" I laughed a bit not realizing what I'd said. "Me? What did I do?" He said a little offended"Huh? OH!" I paused, rethinking my life choices i spoke again "no uhm, not youuu..I mean uhm.." I stuttered over my words as I tried to cover up my mistake. "I'm just messing with you, it's fine." "Oh." I stopped.

Well thats embarrassing..

"Okay well, Elsie will not be showing us today then, how bout that?" Tibbles says smiling at me, "you can present when you feel more comfortable" he spoke again. "Yes, thank you" I said lightly. "Moving on, Dean Portman." Tibbles says cheerfully motioning to Dean. "That guys a teenager?" Bombay says worridly looking at the others. "Hormones" "Hes a goon!" Bombay shouts even more worried. "I believe they're called enforcers gorden" I kinda just drowned them out after that. Slowly, I skated towards charlie as Dean came out throwing, pushing and threatening the other players.

I knew he wasn't actually gonna do anything but I needed an excuse to move. Dean skated towards me slung his arm around my shoulder and kinda whispered in my ear "hey babe, you ok?" He sounded genuine, I replied with a nod and a smile so he skated off, back to bullying the other kids.

Charlie leaned over "what'd he say?" He asked softly, I simply shook my head as a way of saying "oh, nothing"
He looked at me suspiously as a fight broke out.

Everybody was shoving each other but I kinda just stood back not wanting to start problems. Then bombay blew his annoying, high pitched whistle.

"LISTEN UP."

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A/n☆~ sorry for taking so long this has been sitting in my drafts for a hot minute lmao. This chapter is really bad but im to lazy to re write so deal with it.