• happy endings •

• chapter one •

• Anastasia's POV •

I tied on my skates and grabbed my bag off the ground as I basically flew out the door to go to the rink. This is why I hated taking naps during the day, especially before practice. As soon as I got there I realized that I was obviously late, but not too late.

I quickly rushed into the locker room and got all changed into my practice uniform. Luckily when I got out I saw that Charlie was still leading the team into warm ups and tried to go along with them so Coach Bombay wouldn't see. It was the week before we were heading over to California for the Junior Goodwill Games and today we were gonna meet the additional players.

I went right next to Adam while coach explained everything that would be going on. Me and Adam have been best friends since we were born. Well I mean both of our dads played on the same hockey team and our moms played in softball together. So it was no suprise that we grew up together. I was snapped onto my daydream as I heard my name.
".....Anastasia"
"Uhm sorry what?"
"You and Banks will share the lead of Co-Captains for this next month while we're at the games."

Yes! I mentally yelled in my head. Me and Adam had always felt bad when one of us was chosen over Co-Captain from the other, since the role was always going from one to the other. As I glanced at Adam with a big smile on my face, seeing he was just as pleased with it as I was.

Coach gave us a break as Tibbles went over to talk to him. I skated over to Connie seeing she was alone since Guy was in deep conversation with Adam. Me and her started talking about the new players we might be getting.

"So I heard that it's all guys. That the girl we were supposed to get decided not to go through with it because she didn't want to leave her team alone for their state finals. I heard she was a really good goalie but I mean, she obviously has her priorities settled."

I was about to respond when coach skated over to us making all conversations quickly fade. I hadn't even noticed that Averman, Guy, and Adam were standing beside us with serious looks on their face as they saw our new members on the other side of the rink. Mr. Tibbles started introducing the new members one by one. First he introduced this rather attractive mexican from Miami.

" Good lookin' skater " I whispered to Connie, who agreed.

" Very good looking. What do you think guys? ", butted in Averman, directing the question to Guy and Adam who were still by our sides and had clearly heard my comment.

" Shut up, Averman " , they both said simultaneously as they pushed him down on the ice causing everyone to snicker slightly.

As Tibbles finished, Coach pulled him aside to discuss something with him which gave us the chance to argue with the newbies. I was arguing with Portman about how stupid he looked with a ripped up jersey. We were both all in eachother' face and you could tell that people were stopping their arguements to focus on ours.

When I get annoyed then boy, do I get mad. Which doesn't happen often because I can be a very cheerful person but I do get angry rather quickly. We kept going till he said something that send me to the edge...