District-5

The Hawks

Charlie's POV

"Here are our new jerseys!" Coach said and showed us them. We recently had Fulton Reed join the team and Tammy and Tommy too. They're figure skaters here in town, they can really skate good. I took my jersey after Fulton did. Bella wasn't here yet, but we took them and then made our way into the locker rooms.

Today was a game, I sure hope Bella isn't going to be benched this time. She's good and we need her. We need all of us, but Bella is one of the better players on the team. I walked into the locker rooms with Karp, Peter and Averman.

I opened my bag and this wasn't my stuff. It was Bella's stuff, I hope she shows up, if not then I can't play. Her stuff is a little smaller then mine and I'd be walking around like a penguin if I wear hers.

"Gee Charlie, did your stuff shrink or what?" Peter asked, I looked at him and shook my head.

"No, Bella must've picked up my bag last night."

"How? She changes over there and you change there." Averman said and pointed to where I was and the on the other side of me but a couple feet to the left.

"No, idiot. She was at my place last night." Then Peter, Averman and Karp started laughing,  her and I were just hanging out at my house instead of outside in the cold. Bella walked into the room and the door shut quietly behind her.

"Hey, Bella! How was last night?" Averman joked around.

She looked confused and looked at Peter who was laughing so hard he couldn't contain himself. "What?" She asked.

"You know, you and Charlie last night?" Peter asked, then stood up and hugged himself pretending that it was two people hugging and kissing. She got mad and kicked Peter and he fell forwards onto the ground.

"I swear to god you're lucky that you're not alone in here or else your butt will be redder then a tomato for a week!" She snapped and walked over to me. Throwing me my bag and picked up hers in front of me and went over to the corner. I smiled a little, but from the corner of my eye I could still see Peter making fun of me or us.

Bella left the room after getting into her gear a little upset. She had slammed the door shut as Peter kept on nagging about us and kept talking and talking, it was dreadful I tell ya. I left the room with Karp and the other two were too busy talking to even start changing yet. Coach was here and we were warming up before the other team got here. We were playing the Hawks, I knew we weren't going to be beat then since they're the best team in the league.

I saw Bella skating with Connie and Guy out on the ice. She was talking with them as they shot at the net, Goldberg did a good enough job keeping the puck away from them. I went to Coach before getting out on the ice and asked if Bella was going to play. She's been doing better and I don't think she deserves to get benched again.

"If she can show me she's ready, they she'll play and if she does, Charlie, make sure she doesn't get too hurt by the Hawks." I nodded and went out onto the ice with Karp, Terry and Jesse. I skated for awhile before passing the puck to Jesse, then from him to Karp and then Karp to Terry.

It was now time to play, so we all came in and waited to see who was playing first and then see who'd we change out with when we do line change. "Okay, Bella, Guy, Peter, Karp, Jesse and Charlie on the ice and Goldberg you're net as always." Coach said, we nodded and then he told us who would be switching with who. Fulton, Connie, Averman, Tammy, Tommy and Terry took the bench and would switch with us when Coach wants to change the line.

Bella started at face off, she got the puck and passed it back to Guy before she got knocked down by a Hawk. Apparently their best player is number nine, Banks. I never liked that kid, he was always mean to us along with his sidekicks Larson and McGill who always bother us. Guy passed the puck to Karp who fell while getting it, but was able to pass it back to no one. Bella skated for it and grabbed the puck and then went flying down the ice. You could hear everyone yelling for her anc cheering her on. Just as she was going to shoot, she hit it and then got sent into the boards by two Hawks who crushed her.

I didn't see her get up, but she scored us our first goal. Hawks didn't have one yet, but they were going to beat us for sure. I was suppose to watch out for her and I didn't. I skated towards her to help her up, but she pushed me away and got up on her own and skate down to where all the action was. I assume she's pissed with someone if she's taking it out on me. The Hawks scored two goals while I skated around and tried helping Bella.

"Come on guys, pick it up!" Coach yelled at us. I picked up my speed and went after a Hawk that had the puck in their possesion. Karp was in front of us skating backwards, the Hawk shot at the net and hit karp right in the head, but he sure was lucky he was wearing helmet. Oh yeah, Coach also got everyone new gear, sticks and helmets and eveything for us.

"Man, they dented his helmet good!" Averman said.

"Shut up Averman!" Bella was on the other side of the rink causing a fight with some Hawks. She was with three of them and it was Banks, Larson and McGill. One of them pushed her to the ground and the others of that team cheered them on. She didn't take no for an answer I guess because she got right back up and slammed one of them into the boards.

"Hey! Break it up!" A ref yelled and pulled  Bella away from them. She wasn't listening, so she took a two minute penalty for hitting the ref with her stick and then calling the Hawks some unecessary names. The ref pushed her to the penalty box and she wasn't listening. I've never seen her this upset before. She went in the box and sat on the bench after she threw her stick on the ground and kicked the board. The Hawks were laughing at her and that mad her even more pist since they weren't in penalty either.

After we brought Karp to the bench and he sat down, Coach switched Averman with Bella, so he's playing for her now. Averman got the puck and passed it to me and I skated down the ice, but I was caught off guard when I looked over at Bella. That's when a Hawk pushed me to the ground and took the puck, ending the game with 8-1. We sucked, but at least we scored a goal.

"Bella! Let's go!" Coach called and she jumped over the board and skated towards us and got off the ice. She pushed passed us all and sent Peter to the ground, he was shorter then her too so it was kinda easy to knock him over with very little strength. We all stood there as we heard the locker room door slam shut behind her.

"Well, that game was better then last time. Keep up the good work and we'll work on getting better next practice in two days from today." We nodded and Coach let us go. We walked into the room and sat down all talking to one another. Connie walked over to Bella and she was taking her helmet off.

"What happened?" Connie asked.

"What do you mean?" Connie pointed to Bella's right eye where there was some blood near her eyebrow. I didn't know she got hurt, no one did because she had her helmet on, she doesn't like when people give her attetion like that and she was too busy fighting with Hawks that we didn't realise it sooner.

Bella touched her right eye and then brought it down and looked at her hand. I looked at the guys and they were all staring at the two girls, so I looked back in the same direction as the others. "I'll be fine, it's nothing." She said as she threw her helmet into her bag and sat down to take her hockey socks off.

"Hey, those Hawks were rough!" Peter commented.

"Sure were." Karp said, he was the one who did get his helmet busted in by one of the Hawks. I threw my stuff in my bag and left the locker rooms with Peter, Averman, Karp and Goldberg. Fulton, Terry and Jesse went to do their own thing. Guy and Connie just left and Bella also just left and I assume she wasn't going to hang with any of us.

I just hope things clear up between all of us. I don't know what mad her mad, the whole thing with her and I and then bags along with Peter's help or if it was from the ice when the Hawks took her down a couple times and she lost it. But things should clear up soon, right?