𝐂𝐀𝐊𝐄 𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐑, a.b.

(THREE)

They were all tied together, told to skate like a team. Harvey was being smothered by six teenage boys, and it was awful. She had Goldie and Dean in front of her, Averman and Dwayne behind her, and Luis and Adam on either side. It was a complete nightmare.

"This is more crowded than a truckload of goats." Harvey slightly turned, as best as she could and smiled at Dwayne.

"Couldn't have said it better Tex." She high fives him behind her back as the rest of the team groaned and complained. Harvey was complaining too, but not out loud, unless she was cursing at Luis in Spanish for poking her.

"Somebody better watch their hands." Harvey nodded her head, not being able to agree more. Averman was about five seconds away from getting his arm broken.

"Yeah someone licked me!" Harvey began to chuckle as her team complained even more. Then, Luis poked her. He already knew what happens when he pushes his little sister. Last time he annoyed her that much, he ended up with a black eye.

"Luis, te romperé todos los dedos uno por uno si sigues pinchándome." She looked at her brother, ready to attack. His eyes widened as he pushed Dwayne in between them. Dwayne, confused by the twins, just shook it off and smiled at Harvey, getting one back in return. Then, a horrible smell flew through the air.

"Oh, I smell something." Everyone looked at Goldberg, expecting the stench to be radiating off of him, but he looked innocent.

"Goldberg!" He immediately defended himself, saying it wasn't him but no one believed him, that is until Dean spoke up.

"No, it was me." Dean raised his arms, letting everyone smell the horrible odor, Everyone yelled out ew or gross as Goldie thanked them for assuming. Then Coach Bombay walked up next to them with his hands behind his back.

"I don't know how to make this any clearer. You are a team. And to win this thing, you have to work like one." All of the players rolled their eyes and nodded, agreeing with their coach. "Now as one, skate." Luis and Harvey looked at each other, smirking and nodding. Skating was their strong suit and it was the easiest for them. They all began skating but quickly fell to the floor, and Dean and Luis ended up falling on top of her.

"Si no se apartan de mí, lo juro." If the team could agree on one thing, it would be that Harvey was scary when she spoke Spanish.

"Everyone goes their own way, everyone falls down. Now get up and try again." Dean started playing team leader and began yelling at everyone.

"All right, all of you move to your right, now." Adam and Harvey looked at each other, groaning and rolling their eyes at Dean. While they were complaining, Harvey couldn't help but laugh at the team. Her laugh caused Adam to smile, as it always does. Even though Dean was in charge, Fulton wasn't going to let him be.

"Who made you boss? Everyone to the left." Fulton was really mad that Dean was able to push him down. No one has ever been able to do that to him, and he was going to make sure it never happened again. Half of the team went right and half of the team went right, resulting in everyone falling on their butts.

"You guys can argue all you want. I'm not untying you until you move as one." Harvey rolled her eyes and just laid on the cold floor, not wanting to get up. She was comfortable but someone had to ruin it. Dean grabbed her by her waist, picking her up to her feet as she scowled at him. He just smiled at her and winked, causing Luis to look between the two, mad.

"Now you're learning. Communication, that's it!" They were finally skating together and everyone was proud of themselves. Dwayne and Harvey low fived as the team continued to skate, as a team. "Good together. Move together." They slowly, but surely made their way around the rink, turning right and left, then coming to a stop.

..........

They all kneeled down in front of their coach as he picked up a rope.

"You guys are really starting to look like hockey players. I'm proud of you, team." He started to walk around the group, slowly coiling up the rope as he went. Harvey looked at the rope, recognizing where the knot had been tied, almost as if the rope was meant to catch something, or someone. "You guys worked hard today, but hockey should also be fun." Harvey slowly grabbed her helmet, bringing it closer to herself just in case as Dwayne's smile grew wider and wider. "Rancher Dwayne." Harvey knew exactly what they were doing now, Mr.Texas was going to round up some ducks.

"Yes, sir!"

"Round me up some stray cattle there." Luis and Harvey looked at each other, smirking. If someone wasn't going to get caught it would be the twins. They were fast, and everyone knew that.

"My pleasure." Harvey grabbed her helmet and skated towards the beach, quickly throwing it on top of it and skating towards her friends her had barely started to skate away from Dwayne.

"C'mon Cowboy! Come and get me." Harvey stood in front of Dwayne as he skated towards her, swinging the rope above his head as the rest of her team skated away from him. Dwayne's rope was just barely out of reach of Harvey when she slowly started to skate backwards. Harvey knew that Averman was already skating behind her, so when Dwayne threw the rope, Harvey quickly ducked and Dwayne caught Averman instead of her.

"Averman, out!" Harvey laughed as she skated towards the other end of the rink, next to Fulton and Dean. Harvey skated close to the boards as the two boys skated closer to the center, shielding her. They didn't need to worry much because Dwayne was chasing Charlie, and ended up catching him. "Charlie, out!"
This time she skated towards Adam. She skated up behind him, on his side just as Dwayne caught Julie. She decided to go bug her brother and skated towards him, jumping on his back as he skated.

"Lu!"

"Harvey!" Just as she jumped off of his back, Dwayne came up behind them and caught Luis. Harvey laughed as her brother skated off to the side of the rink, obviously mad about getting caught. Everyone was laughing and smiling, having a fun time as Dwayne began to catch more people. This was so much better than Miami practices, or at least that's what Harvey thought. They were all dancing, being goofy, and most importantly, they were being a team. Adam and Harvey were holding hands and dancing, just being themselves. Dwayne tried to teach them all to square dance, but it was an absolute mess.

Harvey has never loved a team, more than she loves this one.

Luis, te romperé todos los dedos uno por uno si sigues pinchándome. (Luis, I will break all of your fingers one by one if you keep poking me.)
Si no se apartan de mí, lo juro. (If you guys don't get off of me, I swear.)