I'm Not The Guy You're Taking Home [CHARLIE CONWAYXADAM BANKS]{BXB}

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Charlie's POV
I bump into this muscular guy and he says "woah, easy there, hotshot." He grips my arms and winks at me saying "I'm AJ Lawrence, Fort Lauderdale. Top of the food chain." I shake his hand saying "Charlie Conway. If we're hyping ourselves up here, I was the first captain of The Mighty Ducks when they first became a team." AJ says "founding member, wow." I say "I'm more accomplished than I look." He says "you look pretty accomplished to me" checking me out.

I say "oh my god" quietly, chuckling. AJ says "well, if you want to work in, let me know" smirking and going back to doing pull ups. I say "icebreaker in half an hour, I suggest going down to the rink and getting ready." Adam comes over and mumbles "damn, you looking fine" and I laugh saying "come on, cake eater. We have kids to smoke in a skating exercise." Adam says "that's against the rules, Charlie. We can go get in the way though and steal pucks, Coach Cole said."

I say "let's do it." Adam looks at me saying "I'm excited" smiling and I laugh at him being like a little kid. AJ says "what do I have to do to impress you?!" I say "nothing! I'm married!" Adam smirks and AJ says "they don't have to know!" I say "all secrets come out eventually, Lawrence." He says "see ya at the icd breaker." Adam mumbles "better not go falling for a seventeen year old."

I say "why does he look so like old?" Adam mumbles "I know, I mean I looked like him at twenty, I was a stick at seventeen. He's massive." I mumble "probably why he had me blushing a bit, he's like a carbon copy of you from like five years ago." Adam chuckles saying "apparently he's like the best hockey player here other than maybe you. He's probably figured me or you are the best, so trying to get on our good sides?" I say "Coach Cole is better than us. He played major league longer. Every other coach played minors only."

Adam says "no, he had a short run in the NHL. He played for like four years but has been here the rest of his life. If he was recently retired, he'd be playing the same hockey as me. I'm better because I'm more recent, not retired, and I'm playing longer than he did. Technically, we're top top of the food chain." I say "I played in college. I didn't even go to the minors. I'm below everyone here."

Adam says "after you've lived with me, we eat the same things and you skate with me all the time. You are ready to face these kids and coaches, ready to dominate and demolish." We talk about all this while we go to the rink just to meet more of the kids and coaches.

Coach Cole doesn't really need us until the kids go to classes and workshops but we're going down to have fun. We get to the ice and only a couple kids are out there, one being Evan the other being another duck. Coach Cole is out there too.

Adam and I put our skates on, grab our sticks, and bring a puck out. Adam and I skate over to them and Evan says "can you show me the triple deke?" I say "do you want me to show you or do you want to learn?" Evan says "both" and I say "I'll show you first" dropping the puck center floor. I skate my circle and I grab the puck. One, two, three, triple deke. Right in the net that doesn't have the board in front of it.

Evan says "woah" and I say "you ready?" Evan says "I think I'm ready to try it." I say "knock yourself out, kid." Adam looks at me and the other kid says "I'm Nick" smiling and I say "you sound familiar." He says "I have a podcast?" He shows me it and I say "dude, that is so cool. I've listened in a few times. The Wraparound, right?" Nick nods and Adam says "we listened on the way here to catch up on high school hockey, so we'd have something to talk about" chuckling.

Nick says "that's a good idea" chuckling. Adam looks at me then more kids come in, most of them broing out with my husband which makes me smile. A couple lady ducks come up to me and one says "I'm like your biggest fan." I chuckle saying "you must be the ladies holding down the fort around here, huh?" They nod and I say "Julie and Connie were always the ones making sure we did our part cause we liked to screw around. They were the boss." They smile and I say "good luck with the ice breaker" and they say "thanks!"

Everyone circles up for the icebreaker and we learn it's a free for all. Get a puck in the hole and get the hell out. Adam smirks saying "this is fun." I say "it looks like it hurts" when they all charge for the pucks. Adam says "when they get the pucks out, let's give them hell" smirking. I say "Adam, don't hurt the kids." He says "they'll be ok" smiling and they start taking pucks out. I go in and take pucks from kids and shoot it at the board covering the net and it comes right back out.

Adam does what I'm doing and we're just laughing, being menaces to the kids. One slams his hands on the ground when I snag a puck from him. I say, don't be so open when you have the puck or it's gonna be gone in seconds" passing it back to him. He keeps it to himself and hits it right in and he says "thanks, coach!" I skate by coach Cole saying "guess I'm a coach now." He chuckles saying "I would've given you a call too if I knew you were still in existence." I say "I did kind of jump off the face of the earth after college hockey" chuckling.