Love in the Shadows ~ Dean Portman x OC

Ch. 30: Lame

Pov: Fulton Reed, August 21st, 1995, Minneapolis, Minnesota

"Ok guys, think defense. Hands in" Orian start us off for our first game as the Warriors. I'm not a huge fan of the rebrand but Charlie is seething. We start quacking, as usual, but Orian cuts us off and makes us do "Go team" instead. Lame

"'Go team' How original" Charlie rolls his eyes as we set up.
"Just get in the game Charlie" Averman says
"Yea let's do it Charlie!" I try to hype him up because this is the first game where he's not captain.

He gets the puck drop and passes it to me. I run it past their whole defense and score the first goal. We are so winning this. Orian's getting mad at our celebration and wants us to "act like we've scored before". Lame

Russ knucklepucks it right on the goalie's forehead and Charlie comes in for the kill. BAM second goal. Luis knocks into the boards for our fourth, Dwayne puck handles it Texas Style for our fifth and we are feeling good. And I slapshot it right into a linemen's hand so hard he spins it right into the net for goal 6. On the bench, Kenny tries to trash talk and gets shoved by #9. It's hilarious. Goal seven is a team up between me and Averman. He moves the puck back and forth so fast the goalie doesn't notice when he passes it back to me so I can slapshot it between both their legs. Charlie gets goal 9 from way back and by half time we are thriving. Period 3 starts and we are 9-0. We are guaranteed a win so we start to lax a bit. That when it goes wrong. We're about to get 10 when we loose the puck and the Bears are coming in hot. They got the puck from Charlie and are bolting across the ice with no one but Julie in their way. Coach is yelling at us to tighten up but all we're focusing on is getting the puck. They get it into the net, closing the shutout. We start panicking when then score another, and another, and before we know it, the buzzer is ringing and we're 9-7. Charlie looses it and breaks his stick against the posts, earning 2 minutes in the box. He's yelling at the ref and the crowd is booing him. This is not good.

Final seconds of the game, Bears pull their goalie, Charlie's out of the box and he's flying down the ice but refuses to pass it. He ends up loosing the puck in just enough time for the Bears to score tying us up at 9-9. We're crushed. Orian is pissed. Team is more pissed. We all start blaming Charlie and then each other. Me and Russ fight a bit and Dwayne and Charlie try to break it until Orian comes in and we all freeze.

"How many seconds does it take to score a goal?" Orian yells. He then throws the puck hard at the board so it dents it. "Less than a second!"
We all are looking at the floor disappointed as he continues.
"That means no lead is safe if you can't play defense! Now get this straight! I don't give a damn how many goals you score, I want one number in your mind: zero, as in shutout... You got that?!" He yells that last part at Charlie who (finally) doesn't respond.
"Practice. Tomorrow morning. 5:00 am... Gotta get up early if you wanna hunt goose eggs"

We all are angrily getting changed when Guy pipes up "Who took my clothes?" We come to find out that Varsity put our clothes in a pile in the shower and cranked up the hot water. Even our shoes were soaked to the bone. To get revenge, the next day, Russ, Julie, and Ken all sneak into varsity locker room and drench their clothes and stuff in liquid nitrogen they stole from our chem class. They even got Cake Eater. They topped it all off with "Varsity Sucks Ice" written on the ceiling in shaving cream like how they did to us.

I fucking hate this school man.

WC: 711