Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better

Hockey

***I just want to credit AshyShy for the new cover and the image for this chapter, thanks so much!***

"Yes, we love you to, Robyn." I say and hold the phone away from my ear. "Everyone tell Robyn how much we love her!" I yell into the quad.

"We love you, Robyn!!" Is screamed from every corner of the quad. I put my phone back to my ear.

"You hear them, half pint?" I wonder and she giggles.

"Yeah." Robyn says and I can hear her smile all the way from Amsterdam.

"Tell mommy and Nona that uncle CC and I love them." I say.

"I will Aunt Bee. I've gotta go to my hockey tryout." She tells me.

"Okay good luck, honey." I say.

"I miss you, I'll try to call after the tryout." Robyn tells me.

"I miss you to, have fun. Bye baby." I say as I hang up the phone.

I put the phone back on the charger and I lean against the counter. I miss Robyn and Ana and even though she bugs me I miss my mom. Rikki comes into the kitchen, he hugs me tightly and kisses my cheek.

"You miss her, don't ya Bee?" He asks quietly and I nod.

"I miss her a lot." I admit and kiss his cheek.

CC walks in the kitchen behind Rikki and I screw up my face over my boyfriend's shoulder. My twin brother happily returns the gesture. Rikki laughs and turns around to see my brother.

"Making faces at my girlfriend?" He asks and CC shakes his head.

"Making faces at the person I shared a womb with for nine months." He states and Rikki smiles.

"You've had her long enough, it's my turn now." My boyfriend says and kisses my jaw.

"No." CC complains while dragging out the 'o'. "Robyn has a hockey tryout today, right?"

"Yeah." I say as James and Jamie walk in, hearing everything.

"I miss hockey." James states as he sits on the counter pulling Jamie between his legs.

"Me to." I admit.

"Same, playing that game in New York was so much fun." CC says.

"I still can't believe CC played hockey." Rikki admits with a laugh.

Jamie has a weird look on her face, grabs the cordless phone, then marches out of the kitchen. The four of us look at each other dumbfounded.

"Bee, do you have any idea what happened?" James wonders and I shake my head.

"I was hoping you did." I admit.

We all migrate to the living room and we turn on the tv. The Jetsons is on but it's in Dutch so everything sounds a little weird to our American ears but I'm slowly getting used to watching cartoons in foreign languages. I guess it works out well that I know for certain that Rikki and I watched this episode before I left for the tour. Bret, Bobby, and Jilly join us shortly, they've been spending a lot of time together lately. Ashley comes downstairs about fifteen minutes later and sits on CC's lap. James shifts uncomfortablely at the couples and whatever the hell Jill, Bobby, and Bret are.

"I'm going to go check in Jamie, she's kinda worrying me." James says as he stands up.

Before James even gets to his feet Jamie comes downstairs and looks at at us.

"Come on." She says as we look at her confused. "I just spend the last hour on the phone, we have skates, sticks, gloves, and the arena rented in twenty minutes. The equipment us meeting us at the arena. Come on, we're gonna play some hockey." Jamie states, CC, James, and I light up. "None hockey players, it'll be fun I swear."

"It'll be fun! Only can I videotape rather than skate?" Ashley wonders.

"That's an idea." Jamie points to her. "Come on."

We make it to the arena and the equipment is already there, there's an extra of everything considering Ashley is going to videotape. Jamie and Jilly lace of twirl girl skates while the rest of us lace up black hockey skates. We pick our sticks and gloves and head out onto the us. We drop our sticks at centre ice so Ashley can pick teams.

"So why are my skates white and yours are black?" Jilly asks me.

"White skates are for people who can't skate. Jamie can't skate very well and James should be wearing them as well." I explain loud enough for Jamie and James to hear.

"I can't skate?" James wonders.

"You took out half our team because you couldn't stop." CC reminds him.

"I was like four! It was like twenty years ago." James complains.

"You were like fifteen." I say and everyone snickers.

"Okay Ashley, just divide up the sticks." Jamie explains to her.

Ashley separates the eight sticks into two groups of four. We skate up to the sticks and I look at my team. CC, James, Jilly, and myself against Rikki, Jamie, Bret, and Bobby. Bret scowls.

"Nice job Ash, you screwed us." He yells and she laughs.

"We'll give you Jilly for Jamie." I laugh and Bobby shakes his head.

"Well give you Jamie for one of the three New Yorkers." He states matter of factly.

"Bye James." CC says and he mocks hurt.

"Why me and why not you?" He wonders. "Be with your band."

"But Bee can is good." My twin states.

"All the more reason we should have Bee." Rikki smirks.

This turns into an argument so I get CC and James to drop their sticks. I mix them up and look over to the opposing team.

"One of you pick a stick." I say and Bret skates over.

The singer studies the three hockey sticks for a while. They're identical sticks but if you look at them you can tell the differences. I'm left handed and James is taller than either of us so his stick is taller. Bret ends up grabbing James' hockey stick.

"Bye, James." Twin and I say and he scowls.

"Trading me for my girl now?" James wonders as he glides over to his new team.

"If it makes you feel any better James, we'd trade Rikki for Bee." Bobby states and now it's Rikki's turn to mock hurt.

Jilly really doesn't want to skate too much so we have her around the net. James and I set up for a face of. The puck is between up, we hit sticks three times before fighting for the puck. Our sticks get tangled together and I start to try to hook the puck with my skate. James is about 6'5 and is quite a bit stronger than me so he starts to skate pushing me back towards our net. What he doesn't realize he left the puck behind him and CC skates away with the puck.

"Hey James, turn around." I say.

"What?" He asks and turns right as CC shoots the puck past Rikki into the net. "Well shit."

We spend the next hour or so skating around and scoring goals. We don't keep score or anything but a lot of it is us screwing around and chasing each other. And lots and lots of yelling.

"Hey! Next goal wins, we have five minutes left." Ashley yells.

I skate backwards towards Jilly.

"What the hell are you doing?" She wonders.

"Just go up and fill in my position." I say and she shakes her head. "I'm right behind you, Jill."

"Fine." She grumbles.

I stay within three feet of Jill while she skates, knowing that I can make up space if someone makes a break. Jamie and CC have the puck bouncing between them and Jilly stands at the net beside Rikki. Jamie and I look at each other and I point at Jill, Jamie nods. I skate to the other side of the next to bug Rikki.

"Whatcha doing, Bee?" He wonders.

"I'm skating, what does it look like?" I ask and he nods.

"Fair enough." Rikki laughs as Jilly puts the puck in the net and falls on her ass in celebration. "You're evil."

"I know." I say and kiss his cheek.