Eden Hall love story~ Adam Banks

Varsity V.S. Ducks

It was the morning of the game. The varsity against Ducks game. Adam and I met up with the Ducks at the rink. We planned to do a memorial for Hans.

"This is for Hans." Charlie said.

Everyone looked at me. "Let's do this." We stepped onto the ice. We skated in a circle. While doing it, I thought about Hans. He's the reason why I started skating. I need to win this, for myself and for him.

"All right, let's go hunting for goose eggs, huh?" Orion said. "Come on hands in. On three, quack."

A smile formed on all our faces. We all quacked. The crowd joined in. The varsity boys looked so angry. This is gonna be fun.

Adam took the face-off. I was next to him on the right.

He faced Rick. "You're gonna wish like hell you stuck with us."

"Save the trash talk." Adam reacted annoyed.

They both looked at the ref. "Okay, boys, let's go. Sticks on the ice." He dropped the puck and the game started.

Varsity got the puck first. I skated after Rick. He was fast, really fast. The first attempt on the goal, Julie got it.

Varsity took the puck again, second attempt, Goldberg saved it with his foot.

Charlie and Rick faced each other. "Why'd you come back?" Rick asked.

Charlie smirked. "Unfinished business."

"We'll finish it for you." Rick tried to knock Charlie down to the ice, but instead, Charlie pushed Rick down.

It was a lot of pushing and knocking down or into the boards.

Third varsity attempt, Julie saved it. She was doing a really good job. We all played really good.

Our first shot was saved by Scooter.

I skated towards the goal with the puck but was knocked down hard. It felt like I couldn't stand up for a second. After what felt like a few minutes, I was skating towards the bench.

It looked like a chaos on the ice. Everyone was flying and falling. How long can we go on?

Now Averman was lifted to the bench.

"Ki, think you can play again." Orion asked me. I was still feeling a little dizzy but I needed to play. Without thinking I stepped onto the ice again.

Goldberg was playing defense in stead of goalie and he was so good at it. Julie saved a few goals again. We can do this.

Guy got checked into the boards and wasn't standing up. He got helped of the ice by paramedics.

"We'll get them back, Guy." I said to him.

A varsity player was behind me. "Is that so?" he said and he knocked me down. Adam jumped on the ice to attack him but was stopped by Fulton and Russ.

After two periods, still no goals. We went to the locker room.

Orion walked past all of us while we sat down. "You're playing hard. I'm proud of you guys."

Luis sighed. "They're cheap-shooting us to death, coach."

"I know they are, I know they are." He turned to face us.

"It's gonna take a miracle for us to hold on." Averman spoke up.

That moment someone walked in. "Dean Portman is awarded a full athletic and academic scholarship to the Eden Hall Acedemy. I had this lying around the house in Chicago. My attorney thought I should sign it. I agreed. It's official, boys. I'm back." This is exactly what we needed right now. Dean is back.

Everyone jumped up to Dean and gave him a hug. "It's so good to see you, Dean! Ready to kick some preppy asses?"

"Let's go dance on their skulls!" Dean yelled.

The third period was about to start. When the crowd saw Dean, everyone cheered.

Two seconds into the game, Dean knocked Cole THROUGH the window. The glass burst into hundreds of pieces. He landed in the crowd.

Dean and Fulton, the Bash Brothers, they were back. And it helped. We had more chances to score.

Luis had a big chance to score but Scooter saved it, and Luis couldn't stop so fell into the board.

Portman got two minutes in the penalty box for hooking. He saw the crowd cheering for him when he was in the box, so he started stripping??? Think it was his way of showing he was really back.

It was getting a real chaos right now. We had to many man on the ice so Luis had to sit back on the bench and Kenny had to go join Fulton in the penalty box. Coach called a time out.

"Now listen to me. The pressure is all on them. All we gotta do is hold our ground. Okay, Conway, Banks.... and Goldberg, I'm going with you." Coach looked at Goldberg.

Goldberg looked scared. "Me, coach?"

"You, Goldberg. You earned your spot out there." Coach was right, he did. "Okay, Ducks? Here we go! Come on!"

Adam and Goldberg stepped onto the ice. Before Charlie followed them, coach gave him back his C. Charlie was captain again.

It was five on three for two minutes. Winning was getting really hard like this.

Varsity had a shot on open net. Adam jumped in front of the net and saved it. I yelled and cheered so hard.

Charlie knocked down Rick and took the puck. He skated towards the goal. Ten seconds left. Charlie passes back to Goldberg.

Two seconds.

"Goldberg, put it in!" I yelled. He did and....