On The Ice | Luis Mendoza

Chapter 6

Aaliyah's pov
Today we have a game against Iceland and I'm nervous but not too nervous.We're gonna do great.

When I got to the rink everyone else was there already.
"Woah you guys are that nervous?" I chuckle.while everyone else look at me like I'm crazy. "How are you not nervous,those guys are huge"Charlie says.
"I never said I wasn't nervous,I am.But not too much"I smile at them seeing their faces soften.I look at them and catch Adam and Luis stare at me.Does Adam like me?does both Luis and Adam like me?My thoughts were interrupted when coach walks in.

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We skate out onto the ice hearing the crowd cheer. We start doing laps.Luis looks at me and winks making me blush and look away.
he doesn't know what he's doing to me.

"Alright team" coach starts and start saying our positions.I skate up and take my position.The ref drops the puck and I check one of the Iceland players.
Dean shoved one of the Iceland players and the ref comes from behind Dean making Dean turn around accidentally hitting him.The ref then sends Dean out of the game.
"You're kicking him out?,it's only 3 seconds into the game!" Coach Bombay says's. I was frustrated,Dean didn't do anything wrong.I go up to the ref and starts yelling at him telling him to let Dean back into the game.
"You better back off little lady" the ref says then skate away leaving me irritated than ever.I go back to center seeing one of the players smirking at me.He was cute.

The ref drops the puck and I shove pass Gunnar and pass the puck to averman Who passes the puck to Jesse who passes it to me but i quickly pass it to Charlie before getting flipped by two Iceland players.I look over and see that Jesse has the puck but one of the Iceland steals the puck.I get back up ignoring the pain I felt and going after the Iceland player.When I got the puck I skate to the goal just to be crushed by 3 Iceland players at the same time.The crowd starts screaming for the ref to call something but he wouldn't budge.I stand up and continue the game.Moments later I was slammed into the walls by 2 Iceland players and caused me to land on my back making me yell.
"OWW" I yell in pain not wanting to get up.Luis skates over to me  "you okay,you need to sit out for a bit" he says with concern. "I'll be fine Luis I promise" I say then skate away.
The whole game I kept getting crushed,slammed,flipped etc.I finally stole the puck and I was on a breakaway.I shut the puck into the net before getting getting tackled to the ground.
"CMON REF CALL SOMETHING"coach says,the team agrees with him yelling at the ref.I start to taste blood in my mouth and my vision goes blurry.My teammates comes up to me and starts helping me up and asking if I'm okay.

"Im fine guys don't worry"I say
"Are you sure?"jesse says
"Yeah we don't want you to play if you're injured" Ken says
They all agree
"Im alright,really.don't worry about me" I give them a small smile and  they all nod skating back.
"GET UP AALIYAH" coach says. I obey but as soon as I get up,I feel dizzy.I slowly skate over the bench and grab my water bottle,washing the blood out of my mouth.
We ended up losing 1-12.I quickly go into the locker room.I drink some water and swish it around in my mouth before spitting it out.This is too much.Suddenly coach walks in.
"12-1,12-1. Do you know what word comes to mind when you hear that?hm? PATHETIC! You guys were brought here to play hockey" he yells at us.I start clutching my fists.
"What about you!" Jesse tells
"What about me Jesse?" Coach yells back "coach standsson knew everything about us,they were ready for us" Julie states
"Yeah and you spend all your time driving around in convertibles talking to all those sponsors fools" Luis jumps in.
"Or hanging out with the Iceland lady,we saw you two Saturday night" Fulton say leaving us in disbelief and confused.
"Eating ice cream with the enemy huh coach" Dean adds.
"Hey what I do is none of your business,is that clear?" He yells at us
"Ok that's where your wrong.this is our business because you're our COACH. We're playing for you and trying to make you proud while you go around not caring about any of us but these random chicks and yourself.You're supposed to be there for us,but you're not even acting like you're trying to be there for us,and you know what, I'm getting sick of it!"
I argued.I was getting sick and irritated with him being a jerk.
"You know you really have a lot to say don't you Aaliyah,I mean you're the rookie here!i don't know what makes you think you can talk to a grown man like that but don't you ever talk to me that way or you're kicked off the team,you're nothing but an annoying little bitch" coach yelled at me.My eyes were filled with tears but I held it in.
We all started to take off our gear until coach spoke up. " stay in your gear we have practice"

"Tonight?" Goldberg asks in disbelief

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"Alright you all can go home"coach yells
"Not you Aaliyah,continue doing laps" coach says to me.
"SERIOUSLY?" I yell throwing my hands up
"Alright 40 more laps" coach says. I sigh and shake my head and continue doing laps.
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I started silently crying.