𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛, 𝓂𝓎 𝒹𝒶𝓇𝓁𝒾𝓃𝑔

Fallouts

Verity and everyone got to the rink and saw varsity taking laps. It was sort of dystopian. They were all in sync as they skated.

Skills made them do a warmup circle and he choses the lineup. He had Matthew as goaltender, Damian and himself as defense, Verity at center, with Keenan and Aneli at the wings.

"Okay first to 10. Full check." Jenkins instructed, like if they didn't know the game.

Verity watches the ice. "I know the game." The puck dropped. They fought for it and Jenkins pushed her, making her fall down and he took the puck. A minute later, they scored.

    Skills called something out. Bryce entered the game switching with verity, Aneli stayed, Keenan switched with Josue and defense stayed. They tried the play, but got thrown down by varsity. Varsity takes the puck and scores again.

    Matthew shouted something to Skills before he got knocked by Rachel. "Feel like we gonna lose." Verity admits to Lucas.

    "Have some faith, V." He bumped her shoulder slightly. She bumped him back and he actually slid off the bench. The two laughed.

    They switched again. Justin and Verity went in. As soon as they did, varsity started to argue with us.

    "Let me at him!" Aneli asked Skills if she could beat Jenkins up. Rachel laughed at her.

    "Who you think you're laughing at?" Verity spoke out and everyone looked at her before continuing to argue.

    "You got a little problem? Come take a shot." Rachel purses her lips.

    "I will, rich bitch!" Aneli yelled and jumped at her. Nathan held her back and Rachel chuckled. That got her aggravated, not mad, but aggravated. It was slowly turning to anger.

    The same player from yesterday whistles. "Is it just me, or do both them girls look fine when angered?" This time Bryce was going to take a swing. Zach got him down.

    Keenan managed to calm them down and get playing again. Verity got the puck and passed it to Justin. Bryce skated fast and with all his force, threw the rude varsity player to the ground. He went down, hard.

    Justin passed the puck to Verity and she tricked some varsity players as Aneli was checking them. Verity got near the net and passed it to Skills. He made the assist.

    They did it again but this time, Bryce was going for center and Verity was doing right. Bryce won the puck and was skating in varsity's territory.

Verity was behind him when she got cross-checked by the rude varsity player. She fell headfirst to the ice.

"Hey, Jones!" Josue yelled out before checking the player with his stick. Verity got up and the two teammates helped each other.

    Jones pushed Josue and vice versa. Josue defends Verity and she did the same. That's what friends are for. Verity bumped Jones a little too hard and he fell flat on his face.

As soon as he was going to come and get her back, there was another altercation happening.

    "Damn it, Skills!" Verity heard Bryce shout. She turned to see him tackle Skills.

    "Shove off, Banks!" Skills yelled at him but they continued to fight. The other players started fighting with varsity too.

    Rachel ran at Aneli and tackled her. Verity skated over to help her friend. Verity was struggling to hold Rachel as Aneli was fighting her.

    A whistle blew. Everyone stopped and looked up to see Coach Whitey. He blew it again and varsity stopped fighting.

    "Beat your ass later, Moreau!" Rachel said to Aneli. "Yours too, Portman."

    "Break it up now! Get your team out of here now! Varsity team, out. Let's go!" He shooed them out. Then saw Bryce and Skills still fighting. "Madders, get Taylor! Yates, grab Banks!"

    They watched as Zach was pulling Bryce away from Skills and holding him tight. Matthew picked up Skills and was holding him as well.

    "Congratulations. You just forfeited whatever thing you had over varsity. They own you now. This isn't the peewees, your little tricks are not going to work at this level." He scolded.

   Verity wondered what provoked Bryce and Skills to fight. They were on the same team, they shouldn't have been fighting.

    "Now for the last time, stay away from Varsity til' the JV/Varsity showdown!" Whitey continued. "And I swear on everyone i will have you doing suicides until the day i retire!"

Justin raised his hand to talk. Whitey gave him the stink eye and he slowly put it back down. Aneli took off her helmet and her lip was bruised.

"Sorry, Coach." Aneli says. Her eyes are glossy.

Whitey smacks his knee. "Madders, Yates." He turns to the boys. "Take these gentlemen to my office. And the rest of you meet me at the football field."

-

The team got changed out and met Whitey at the football field. There were cheerleaders practicing on the sidelines.

Most of the team, except Matthew, Zach, Bryce, and Skills, were lined up under a field goal post. They were scared on why they were there.

Whitey comes up behind. "I want every single one of you to grab a vest and run suicides. Start here on the touchdown and run to every single yard line to the center and back until i tell you to stop."

He moves away from the box of vests and the team goes and grabs one. Sean puts it on and falls to the floor. "Coach, is it supposed to be this heavy?"

    "Yes." Whitey smiles. "JROTC let us borrow some fifteen pound weighted vests. Now get running when I blow my whistle. Now, Miss Mackey with cheerleading is a good friend of mine, I asked her to watch you guys run while i take care of Banks and Taylor."

    Whitey waves over to cheerleading. A middle aged brunette lady waved back. The team groans and lines up. He blows his whistle and the team starts the suicides.

    Whitey laughs to himself and walks away from the field. By the third suicide, people were huffing and puffing. Only Justin, Josue, and Randy weren't.

    Aneli would cuss every second and Verity thought her legs were going to fall off by how they felt. Her heart was burning and she was positively certain she was very red.

    "Keep it up JV!" Miss Mackey yelled.

    Everyone, but Verity, cussed back. "Shut the fuck up." They all collectively said. For the cherry on top, Miss Mackey had the cheer team chant and cheer them on.

    By the time Whitey came back, the team had ran three and a half times to the center doing suicides. Justin was the only one who actually pushed through.

    Everyone was barely able to walk over to him. "Did everyone like that?" Whitey asked and everyone fell to the floor huffing and puffing. "That's what you're going to do every time you disobey my orders. Got that?"

    Everyone gives gasps and nods their head. Whitey tosses water to them and they downed it all. "My heart is going to explode." Damian pours the water on his head.

    "My lungs are." Aneli was face down on the turf. "I will never go against Whitey."

    Verity chugs her nice and cold water bottle. "My legs feel like wet spaghetti noodles. I cannot move."

    Whitey claps his hands for everyone's attention. "Banks and Taylor, nobody talk to them until the showdown. If I hear that you guys talked to them, well, you know what will happen."

    Everyone looks at each other and sighs. "Coach Whitey, sir! May we get discharged and go to the school, sir."

    "Ambrose, get all the vests." That answered everyone's question and they all threw their vests at Justin.