District-5

I Didn't Do It!

"Hey, Charlie! Good luck!" My mom called as I headed to the rink for practice. I didn't meet up with Bella, she might already be there and I don't think she'd want me at her place. She didn't even looked at me yesterday.

Anyway, I walked with Fulton, Goldberg, Connie, Tommy and Tammy to practice. I assume the others are already there since they weren't with us. Connie was a little quiet then usual as well, they all were for some reason. I had to ask why, it bothered me not knowing why they were so quiet.

"Why are you all so quiet?" I asked and turned around so I was facing them and walking backwards now.

"Do you have a crush on Bella?" Connie asked.

"What?! No! She's just a friend." I told them.

"Just a friend, guys. It's okay. She means nothing more to him." Goldberg said. When you put it like that it just sounds bad.

"What! No, not what I meant and you all knew it too." I said as I held the door open for the others to walk into the arena. We headed to locker rooms and then got changed, the others were in here fooling around as usual.

"Anyone seen Bella?" Connie asked. They all shook their heads.

"No, none of us has seen her yet." She nodded and pulled her hockey pants on and then her skates. I pulled my jersey over my shoulder pads. I grabbed my helmet and stick and left out to the ice with Peter, Karp and Averman following me. I stopped once we got to the boards. But the others kept walking and we all fell to the ground on top of each other.

"What the hell, Spazeway!" Peter called.

"Oh shut up!... Hey, was that Bella on the ice?" I asked.

"I don't know, we didn't get a chance to see yet!" Averman called. We all got off the ground and got onto the ice. Coach hit our helmets and told us to quickly warm up before we do a scrimmage again. It was indeed Bella out on the ice alone shooting at the empty net.

"It is Bella" Karp said.

"Hey, it's your lover!" Peter called. Does he ever shut up! I turned around and pushed him to the ground. But he got up and didn't push me back since I was bigger then him and he was short. He was, I believe, the shortest of us all. I don't know if Tommy is taller then him or not.

"Okay, let's scrimmage!" Coach yelled, we all stood out on the ice and waited to see who was with who and where we were shooting at. "Charlie, Bella, Averman, Guy, Fulton and Tommy on one team. Connie, Goldberg, Peter, Karp, Tammy and Terry and Jesse on one team." The other team had one extra player so Coach said he'd switch them out so everyone can play.

We started off and I started at face off with Terry in front of me. Jesse sat out for the first part and then would come in and replace Terry after. The two agreed on only switching the two of them out instead of everyone, that way it is easier. I grabbed the puck before Terry and passed it back to Guy. He skated down the ice, stopped and passed it to Averman. He and Fulton  passed back and forth confusing the others until Averman passed it to me and I hit in.

"yeah!" My team yelled. Bella came and joined is too and we all huddled together cheering. Until coach told us to stop and continue to play. Peter started coming down the ice with Connie by his side and Terry was up at our net. They passed up to Terry and he shot it at our net, getting it in. They started cheering now, but we caught them off guard and Tommy flew up to the net and shot, but missed.

"They're doing the flying "v"." Fulton told our group. We nodded and knew what was coming to us, they were gonna attempt to get another goal. Fulton was now goalie because Tommy didn't want to be goalie anymore. Goldberg was goalie for the other team so we had to deal with what we got.