𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛, 𝓂𝓎 𝒹𝒶𝓇𝓁𝒾𝓃𝑔

Split Ups

Whitey pointed to the kids as he said their names. "Diane plays center, Trey defenseman, Demarco left, Melinda right, and Fred also plays center."

    Justin raises his hand and Matthew knocks it down. "No, Just." The bigger guy says and the team agrees.

    "Coach, don't we have enough centers with Sean, Verity, and Banks? And defenseman with myself, Zach, Lucas, Damian, and Nathan?" Skills says.

    Whitey looks at everyone. "There's open slots in varsity." He stares. "Four to be precise."

    "We know moneybags over there is getting one." Bryces nickname got passed around. The whole team agrees that Bryce is definitely getting one.

    Whitey hushes them. "This practice is going to work differently. You will be competing for the slots in varsity. Starting with your shooting abilities, and blocking if you're a goaltender."

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    Whitey had them line up by their jersey numbers. Starting with Damian and ending with Justin. Matthew was being startup goaltender.

    They did fives lines so Matthew had to block 80 pucks. He managed to block 60. Only Verity, Zach, Skills, Bryce, Josue, Damian, Melinda, and Trey scored.

    Randy switched with him. Out of the 80 pucks shot at him, he blocked only 50. Verity, Zach, Skills, Bryce, Josue, Damian, Melinda, Trey, Diane, Demarco, and Nathan scored.

    "Guess who's gonna be a benchwarmer." Matthew laughed and rubbed Randy's head.

    Verity smiled at them when someone skated up next to her. "Hey, nice form." A curly haired guy told her. She didn't know if he was Fred, Trey, or Demarco. "When you, uh, shoot."

    "Thanks." Verity tells him. "Oh, I'm Verity by the way. Verity Portman, I mostly play center sometimes right if I have to."

    The guy nodded and smiled. "That's cool, I'm Trey, I play right defense." He holds his hand out and Nathan comes skating over before Verity could shake his hand.

    "Wouldn't do that, man." Nathan shakes his head.

    Both Trey and Verity give him a look. Verity shakes his hand either way and Nathan groans and puts his hands behind his head. "Nice to meet you, Trey." Verity ignores Nathan. "This is Nathan, don't listen to him."

    "Just looking out, V girl." Nathan puts his hands up. "Wouldn't want to come off wrongly."

    As if it was planned, Bryce skated over and wrapped his arm around Verity. "Hey, babes." Bryce pulled on her slightly. "Who's this?"

"Bryce, this is Trey." Verity skated away from Bryce and to Trey instead. "Trey, this is my good friend Bryce."

Nathan made a groan sound and looked st his two friends. "Damn, man." Bryce gives him a look.

"So, friends?" Trey looked between Bryce and Verity. "Interesting."

Bryce rolled his eyes and grabbed Verity's hand. "Let's go get ready for lines." He was visibly annoyed as he skated with the girl. "First Koa, now him." He mumbled under his breath.

Verity didn't know what Trey and her brother meant to Bryce. "Okay, team. Sylas will run the lines. Last to finish in five minutes will hit the football field."

"NO!" Everyone, minus the new Duckies, shouted at once.

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Fred ended up coming in last. He had no idea what was coming when he goes out to that field.