Fire in her Heart and Ice in her Veins.

Chapter 31

A few days later. Monday, November 7, 1979. 5:03 p.m.

Chelseas Pov

Its been a few days since we last played against the Birmingham Bulls and I'm feeling a lot better since then. I'm back in the gym training too, but Doc says I'm still not allowed to play hockey.  Although he did say I was healing nicely and I should be back on the ice by the end of the week, so thats good news! 

He also told me I was allowed to move around more, but I should still take it easy because if I overdue it, my recovery time would have to be extended even more...and that was not happening. But if I was being honest, recently I've been feeling a sharp pain in my side...but I don't want to tell Jack or Doc because I want to get back on the ice as soon as possible. 

The thought of being cut from the team at any second scared the living hell out of me, now that I was injured. Nobody wants to keep an injured player on their team, especially an Olympic team. 

 Right now I'm just leaving the arena after my visit with Doc, and I was going to go hang out with Lindsay and Eleanor at the University. This is the first time in days I am able to go out and see my other friends and actually do something with myself which feels amazing. 

Jack has been babying me all weekend and at first I thought it was cute, but now its just freaking annoying. Like, Jack doesn't even let me go on a walk by myself! 

This morning I got in a big fight with Jack ...and I stormed out of the room and haven't seen him since. He is probably still angry at me... but I know by tonight we'll work things out. Thats what we always do. 

After this morning I really needed to be with my friends, so I was going to the University to hang out with them. 

I drove into campus and was soon in Lindsay and Eleanors residence. I climbed the flight of stairs up to their floor and went over to their room. I knocked on the door and was greeted by a very tired Eleanor. Man she looks like she hasn't slept in days! 

" Hey El" I said, smiling at her as I walked into their dorm room. 

She smiled at me and shut the door behind her, going back over to a desk that had a mountain of textbooks piled on top of it. Ah, she's probably studying for a test or something, thats why Eleanor looks so tired. 

I let Eleanor go back to her studies and found Lindsay lying on her bed flipping through a vogue magazine.  When she finally noticed me, she quickly jumped off her bed and ran over to me, shocked to see me. 

" Chelse what are you doing here? You shouldn't be out walking around so much yet!" she yelled at me. 

I groaned and rolled my eyes, getting so sick and tired of people fussing over me. 

" Omg Linds, I got a skate to the side..thats it! I'm not dying. Can we just not talk about this please...I don't think I can take any of this much more" I said, sighing. 

And that was all true. I was getting so tired of people asking me if I was okay and I just can't handle it anymore. I know they mean well, but they need to lay off because I am getting close to snapping at every person I talk to. Thats how annoyed I was at this whole thing. 

" Fine, I'll stop...but I have just one more question?" she said, giving me a playful smirk. 

I groaned again and gave her a small smile. 

" what?" I asked.

I swear if she says anything like 'how are you feeling on a scale between 1-10' or 'Are you feeling tired or sick?' I'm going to lose my shit.