We had our first game against Blake Freshmen Bears tonight and I was so nervous. I quickly got ready and then sat there waiting for Charlie or Luis whoever got ready quicker. I secretly was hoping it was gonna be Luis and thankfully he was. However, he just sat next to me.
"You okay Hayden?" He asked resting his hand on my shoulder.
"Yeah, I'm just nervous. This is our first game without Bombay as a coach."
"We'll be okay." He reassured me.
Well we definitely were NOT okay. The first half was good but the second half we got our asses kicked. It was a tie but still. Charlie got a bit too cocky and ended up biffing it. He fell and the puck stop just a bit too short of the goal. When we all got back to the locker room Charlie threw his helmet and stick on the floor.
"The guy hooked me alright." He said.
"We didn't need anymore goals." Kenny spoke up.
"Hey listen I was trying to win it!" Charlie got up in Kenny's face.
"Well mission unaccomplished Charlie." Averman fumed making his way past Charlie.
"We let down simple as that." Guy said.
"Hey you let down, I played hard." Connie huffed.
"Yeah man no heart." Luis told Charlie.
"What are we playing for anyway? Some stupid school, the alumni? Warriors? What the hell are we now?" Charlie took off his jersey.
"Look man, we're on scholarship, I'm staying." Russ yelled.
"Fine sellout." Fulton chimed in.
I don't understand why everyone has to fight.
"Man who you calling a sellout punk?" Russ shoved Fulton who shoved back. Charlie joined in and started shoving Russ.
"Guys knock it off." I yelled. I'm getting fed up with all the yelling.
"Come on stop it." Connie said.
"How long does it take to make a goal?" Coach hissed as he stormed into the locker room. Suddenly he threw a puck across the room and it went through the cork board that was hanging up on the other side. "Less than a second. That means no need is safe if you can't play defense.now get this straight, I don't give a damn about how many goals you score. I want one number on your mind, zero as in shutout. You got that!" He glared at Charlie who didn't dare say anything back. "Practice tomorrow morning five a.m. You gotta get up early if you want to hunt goose eggs." Coach left and we all started to take off our gear to get changed.
"Hey who took my clothes?" Guy asked.
We all looked in our lockers and realized our clothes were missing too. We started to search the entire locker room finally finding them in a pile being soaked from the shower. Even our shoes were in there. On the wall someone wrote 'freshmen stink' in shaving cream. Now what do we do?
"What are we gonna do to get back at them?" Julie suggested. A few of us were hanging out and decided the varsity team needed to be taught a lesson about pranking the pranksters.
"What if we sneak into their locker room and shred up their jackets?" Dwayne suggested.
"Dwayne honey leave this to the professionals." I patted his back.
"Or we could sneak into the chemistry room and steal a can of nitrogen. Freeze their clothes." Russ said.
"Oo I like that idea." Julie smiled.
"Me too." Kenny said.
So while Varsity was having practice we managed to sneak in to chemistry steal a can of nitrogen and get it into the locker room without anyone noticing. Security at this school is really lousy.
"Hey you think there gonna miss this big tank in chemistry class?" Russ asked.
"What do you think?" Kenny questioned sarcastically.
"What about Banksie?" I asked.
"He's one of them now isn't he." Julie said.
"Sad but true. Sorry cake-eater."
While the three of them finished getting the rest of Varsity I climbed up on the lockers and wrote 'varsity sucks ice!' in shaving cream. We admired our work for a moment the left. Varsity might prank us again but we are not gonna back down.
