On The Ice | Luis Mendoza

Chapter 9

We were all on the field stretching
"If coach isn't here why do we have to be" Connie complains
"We have a game tonight we have to work out" Dean says

"I say mutiny who's with me" Goldberg says
Dwayne stands up "Goldberg I'm too tired for mutiny"

"Come on guys it's not like we couldn't use the conditioning" I say
"Speak for yourself babe" Dean says

"Her names Aaliyah not babe" Adam says

"Don't tell me how to talk,rich boy" Dean shoves Adam
We all start to break them up

"Hey team USA,what you going to do today? A million jumping jacks?" A kid tells

"Man I'm getting sick of you" Jesse yells
"And I'm getting sick of seeing team USA being represented by a bunch of whining babies"The kid yells back

"Too bad you can't back up that mouth" Jesse says

"Me and my boys can take you anytime anywhere " he skates closer to us
"We don't see no boys!" Jesse argues
"I got 'em waiting,grab your gear and let's play some school yard puck, or did you forget what it's like to play for real pride" the kid argues back
Then a man took him away
"Man get off me!"

"Let's get our gear" I say with confidence
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"My little brother Russ has been telling me you guys have been choking up big time" Mike states

"Well your brothers got a big mouth" Jesse says
It goes quiet

"He does,doesn't he ?" Mike glared at Russ while he shrugged

"Anyways we call y'all here to see what y'all got" Mike says

"Well let's see what y'all got first" I say with a smirk

"I heard a lot about you" Mike says
"Oh really"
"Yup"
"Well can u back up your brothers mouth?" I ask

"Yup"
"Alright,bring it on" I say.
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I skate to center and everyone else gets in their position.

Dean gets checked by Mike
"YOU GOTTA EARN EVERYTHING INCH" he says

I pass the puck to Luis and he  smiles at me and speeds off.he shoots but doesn't stop
"OH NO NOT AGAIN,OOF"and ends up slamming into the fence.

"Hey hey hey hey hey,use the breaks baby" a guy says making me laugh.

I got the puck and passed it to Charlie and he tries to pass it to Dean but gets checked and someone else gets the puck and scores.

I go and steal the puck but Mike steals it instead
"Come get it" he tells
"Don't mind if I do" Luis says while he gets the puck
"YEAH LUIS GO" I yell

Luis passes the puck to me and I shoot and score

"YEAH"
"WOOHOO"
The team cheer

Luis skates over to me
"Great job" he says looking down at me smiling

"Thanks.oh by the way.." I start
"You should definitely use the brakes next time,they're useful" I whisper in his ear then wink and skate away.

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Russ's team scores again.

I pass the puck to guy and he shoots but it ends up hitting the trash can and shoots into the air hitting someone's windshield.

"Don't worry,it happens all the time" Mike says
"Excuse me,can you throw it back please" Charlie says

"Ally-Oop" the man says throwing the puck back

Charlie gets it and scores

Then we watch Russ do his knuckle puck trick
"Woah" we all say amazed

Ken gets the puck after Charlie passes it to him,then a guy goes for Ken causing Ken to jump over him.

Then two other guys goes to check Ken but he quickly dodged them both making both of the guys hit each other.

"Sweet moves kid"Mike says with a smirk on his face
"Oh yea you done messed up now kid,come here junior come here!" Mike says scaring Ken

Then Mike shows him the "stick,glove,shirt" method
After,we continue the game and mike's team ends up winning.

We all got on our buss while mikes team cheers
We all wave at them

"Go USA,go get 'em"Mike says
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I sit down next to Luis since connie and Julie's seats were already taken.

"How'd you like that game" Luis asks

"It was great actually" I smile and look up at him
"I'm glad to hear you enjoyed it" he says

"I'm glad to have you here with me" I say and lay my head on his shoulder.