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your best friend on the team

adam banks
connie moreau
-knowing connie way before knowing adam, having met her in elementary school
-becoming friends after she kicked a kid who was making fun of you
-despising the hawks like the rest of district 5 and being upset at the news of adam joining the team
-connie being the first one you tell when you realize you have a crush on banksy
-connie being supportive af; she even convinces your mother to take you guys out to get you some cuter clothes
-connie telling adam in private that he better grow a pair and ask you out before someone else realizes what a catch you are (she'll never tell you this, of course)

charlie conway
dwayne robertson
-you and dwayne meeting when the ducks meet the rest of team usa
-being super impressed with his puckhandling skills & just having to introduce yourself
-immediately clicking and just knowing you two are going to become great friends
-he introduces you to country music and teaches you texan lingo
-you teach him minnesota lingo
-your favorite thing he says is "he's all hat and no cattle!"
-talking about your farms back home

connie moreau
adam banks
-you meeting adam when he joins the ducks; like everyone else, you're not entirely thrilled
-the memory of him and a couple of his hawks friends teasing you guys is seared into your brain
-but you apologize to him after jesse snaps at him and the rest of the team chooses to ignore him
-inviting him over to your house to have some of your dad's "famous" lemon meringue pie
-you find out your dads work at the same company
-adam giving you a card on your "friendaversary" a year later thanking you for being the first of the ducks to accept and believe in him

dean portman
greg goldberg
-goldberg is so easy for you to get along with that you find yourself telling him almost everything about you
-goldberg is the first one you tell about your crush on dean
-him being surprised, a little shook, but ultimately supportive
-your parents fought a lot and you went over to goldberg's place whenever they did so
-you get to try his family's new recipes

dwayne robertson
julie gaffney
-you and julie being close friends in maine
-you guys met in the third grade
-literally never knowing life before she came along and being so thankful she's your friend
-you only met dwayne because you'd managed to convince your parents to let you go to la to watch julie compete in the junior goodwill games

fulton reed
dean portman
-you didn't like dean at first, but he was your boyfriend's best friend so you were going to learn to deal with him
-portman surprises you one day when he pulls you aside to ask for help planning a surprise party for fulton
-some random guy hits on you while you and dean are out getting supplies and dean nearly beats him up
-when you realize dean just wants the best for fulton liken you do, that's when you start to warm up to him
-nowadays you don't even remember why you didn't like him so much

greg goldberg
julie gaffney
-you didn't meet her until after team usa came back to minnesota; not until they started at eden hall
-you went to a different school but occasionally went to see goldberg on the weekends, which is how you met julie; you ended up as an extra guest at a ducks dinner celebration
-the two of you sat together and talked all throughout the meal; you were seriously curious about maine, and what bangor was like (you wanted to know about the inspiration behind the town of derry of one of your favorite horror novels)
-the next time you go to visit goldberg, you don't even go for him, you go to see julie

guy germaine
charlie conway
-you and charlie met in preschool and were inseparable
-you met guy through charlie, technically, when he brought you along to a district 5 practice
-since then, you'd watch all their practices and games
-charlie noticed your crush on guy before you even realized it
-when you realize you'll never have a chance with guy, because he's interested in connie, charlie teaches you how to skate to get your mind off him

jesse hall
lester averman
-you've known averman for what feels like forever; he's the only one who can always, without fail, make you laugh
-you gravitate towards him whenever you're sad
-sharing the same strong love for movies that he does
-you two have movie nights every friday

julie gaffney
kenny wu
-you moved to the bay area when you were young and lived across the street from kenny's family
-one day, his mom offered to bring you along to the rink while he practiced ice skating
-that was the day you started skating too
-you're always amazed when you see kenny out on the ice
-sometimes you two put together little routines to put on for your families

lester averman
guy germaine
-you and guy joined district 5 around the same time; about three months after the last player and five months before the next
-so you two naturally just stuck together
-guy's mom loves you, and you two always bake together whenever you go over to the germaine's house
-you tell guy everything about your relationship with averman, and he tells you all about his relationship with connie
-you both silently swear to make the other's significant other sorry if they ever break yours or his heart

luis mendoza
fulton reed
-fulton is actually your maternal cousin and you always hung around him while you two were growing up
-tagging along on district 5's escapade to teach him how to skate
-he hates that you like luis because of the miami native's flirtatious nature
-he'll do art projects with you and you'll listen to metal music in return
-fulton giving luis death glares if he even so much as catches luis looking at another girl

xx lesserblessed