On The Ice (boyxboy)

eight

OLLIE'S POV

After my eventful weekend I decided to stay casual on Monday. It was cold this morning so I brought out dark gray sweats and a bruins hoodie. To be honest I didn't feel to well this morning, but I have to be at practice today or else I can't play in tomorrows game. Which I need because it's against some rich school that will definitely have scouts swarming the place. Hopefully it's just a stomach bug and I'll get over it. Either that or I'm playing through it.

My first two periods today were boring. I had a media tech class first block and we just focused on editing the footage from Fridays game. Which took about 30 minutes tops and I slept the rest of class. Second block I was supposed to have a college class at the community college but the professor was sick so they cancelled the lecture, which was fine by me.

In my high school, they didn't have enough teachers to have AP classes, but they did offer college classes to juniors and seniors at the community college. I take a few college classes, but they're easy so I don't really have to worry about them. I'm trying to get a head start on my college education.

By the time lunch rolls around I find Matthew at his locker talking to Alicia, a 5'10 black girl. Her hair was done up in a bun and she wore a UMich girls hockey hoodie and leggings. She had glossy, full lips and the biggest eyelashes you'd ever see. She's one of the nicest girls I've ever met. And if I wasn't gay I would try hard for her to be mine, what a shame.

"Sup Matt." I called. Alicia turned, smiled and waved, showing off her bright white teeth.

"Hey. You excited for the game tomorrow?" Matt asked me.

"Yeah, there is gonna be so many scouts. We gotta get the win." We high-fived each other.

"It's okay. I bet you guys will win. Who is it against, again?" Alicia asked. Turning her deep brown eyes on me. She was only two inches shorter than me and if she wasn't as nice as she was I would intimidated. Not only was she tall, she was an absolute beast between the posts.

"Rivermonte. They're a few hours from here but their school is huge. I think they lost their first game, but I don't think we should underestimate them." I said.

"When we played them last year they just kept hammering our goalie. They took lots of shots and they had power too. I think there are a few active NHLers out of that school." Matt said.

I think there is too. No need to feel threatened though, we have a couple guys in the AHL and the ECHL. That's no NHL but still pretty high up there. If my dad was here he would talk about how I'll be the first, but I prefer not to talk about the NHL projections around my friends.

I finished up the rest of the day in a breeze. Practice was right after school today and boy was I thankful for that.

I headed to the rink and made my way into the chilled arena. I like to think we have a nice arena. 4 rows of bleachers on each side of the rink and a nice scoreboard to the side. We don't have one of those big ones over the ice. We got a pretty nice Zamboni too, if you care about that sort of thing. And as I said before, nice locker room facilities.

On my way to the locker room, I did take notice that I didn't see Charlie today. I don't think we had any classes together and I didn't eat lunch today so it's normal I didn't see him to be honest.

I pushed open the door and some of the guys were already there. I liked to get there early so I could take my time.

I sat down on my bench and set my gear down. A minute later Charlie walked in with his unruly hair. I did notice that it actually was quite long. In the back at least. I liked it.