the only exception - kenny wu

12. familiar face

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the team walked through the doors of the rink and were met with cameras and reporters, asking them how they feel about the game. fulton switched sides with arabella so she was in the middle of him and dean. he knew she didn't want to be near the cameras, especially with how she was feeling. 

they managed to escape the flashes of light and find their locker room, and the team began getting ready. most of them were having a pretty fun time, but arabella sat in silence in one of the corners of the room. 

it changed when bombay walked in the room, his hair slicked back and in a fancy suit. everyone cheered at this, and averman walked up to him. "hey nice jacket! did you get two pairs of pants with that?"

arabella didn't say anything, but was very confused. 'what the hell did that mean?'

she looked up and saw dean and fulton standing next to him, and saw fulton say something. she tried listening but it was pretty loud. arabella tried asking him about it, but fulton shook his head, saying he'd tell her later. 

as the team got onto the ice to warm up, arabella heard cheers from around the stadium. there were a lot of people, and that didn't help arabella. she kept warming up and skating around though, and she saw averman standing by goldberg, holding his stick as a microphone. it wasn't long before a referee came around and told them to start warming up. 

before the game, the team got their pregame talk before breaking apart to go line up. arabella wasn't on the first line, but she noticed jesse and dean were. they were both strong players, but arabella had a feeling that something was going to happen. 

right when the puck dropped, jesse and the other center were battling for the puck, when dean came out from defense and shoved the center from iceland. "come on fool, get up!"

the referee went up to him to give him a penalty, but when dean turned around, he knocked the referee to the ground. 

this led to dean getting kicked out, and arabella looked at the scoreboard. three seconds in, and he already got kicked out. that had to be a new record. bombay started to complain from the bench, like any other coach would do. "you're throwing him out? you can't do that! it's three seconds into the game!"

knowing his yelling wouldn't change anything, bombay sent arabella out to play as a winger, her usual position. the puck dropped again, and iceland got it. they skated down the ice towards goldberg, passing and knocking down anyone that was in their way. 

it wasn't long before they tricked goldberg, having him sprawl across the net to try and get the puck. an iceland player passed to his teammate, who told golderg to 'come and get it', before scoring. 

the line switched, but bombay kept arabella out for some reason, making her groan. "this fucker."

she went back to her position at the face off circle before hearing the iceland coach call out to the winger next to her, before saying something in icelandic. she knew it was probably about her feeling tired, so she knew she would get pummeled. 

when the puck dropped, she immediately skated backwards to try and get open as well as avoid the iceland winger. they finally got the puck, arabella didn't know who had it, but saw them fall due to an iceland player skating at them. 

arabella sighed as the puck was in iceland's possession, and she decided she wouldn't just wait for a pass anymore to try and stay safe. charlie was skating with the puck, but got smashed by two iceland players, making the puck loose.