in reverse-adam banks(1)

chapter 8 - the challenge

Adam's POV

What in the world is that. I leapt out of my dorm bed in the middle of the night itching like crazy. There was something crawling all over me. I ran to the light switch as fast as I could in the dark to turn the light only to find ants covering my bed. Deciding not to stay in here with the ants, I threw open the door and ran into the hallway seeing the rest of the varsity team standing in the hallway, covered in ants.

Now I realized someone had targeted the varsity team on purpose. Riley started glaring at someone behind me and I turned around to see the ducks smirking at us. Checking the time, it was only 11:00, I realized that the ducks must have found the money because we had left the restaurant at 9:00. 

"We'll get you for this," Riley exclaimed.

"We could take you anytime, anywhere," Charlie taunted.

"Fine then. Tomorrow. Dawn," Riley challenged. Before Charlie had a chance to respond, Riley turned back into his dorm with the rest of the team following his lead.

You just made a mistake Charlie, I thought to myself. The ducks were good but they were nowhere near the level of varsity because of their lack of defense. This was definitely going to be an interesting game. And an early one I realized remembering that Riley had said dawn. I went back into my dorm and almost laid onto the bed before remembering the ants and deciding to just sleep on the floor. I was drifting off to sleep when I realized that Layla didn't know about the challenge. But sleep had taken it's hold on me and I was too far gone to do anything about it.

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Layla's POV

There was someone knocking on my door. Loudly. Actually they were banging on the door. I groaned and rolled out of bed to open the door. 3:30?!?! What is going open. As I opened the door, Riley immediately started talking, not giving me a chance to ask what was going on.

"Get your hockey stuff and school stuff Layla I'm not sure if we'll have time after."

"After what? Riley what's going on?"

"Oh. Yeah you weren't there last night. The ducks put ants in our dorms and so we challenged them to a scrimmage this morning. You don't have to come if you want to get some sleep since you weren't there last night."

"You're out of your god damn mind mister. Why in the world would I miss a chance to show the ducks what varsity can do? I'm coming." While I was informing Riley of my intentions I had been gathering my things and I was now ready to go. 

"Alright then. Just checking. You seem ready. Let's go." We exited my dorm room and started running down the hall towards the arena.

As our team trickled out onto the ice from our locker room, I could see the ducks doing the same across the ice. Some of them looked nervous and a few, including Charlie, looked angry.  I could tell already that this was going to be a rough game. Penalty wise and score wise. And there was nothing I could do about it. I had asked Riley to go a little easy on them but I also knew he would do whatever it took to win. And that there was my concern. 

Both teams skated out onto the ice getting ready to start the game. Charlie was playing center, making him opposite of Riley. I was playing left wing and Jayden should have been playing the right. But he wasn't there. Instead it was...Banks?? What's he doing there. He's going to get destroyed. Wait a second. Since when do I care what happens to Adam? I'm supposed to hate him. I have to make him miserable. Why now do I care that the ducks might hurt him. Maybe I-

"Layla," Riley called to me, "you ready to play?"

"Sorry captain. You're good to go." I slid my helmet on and got ready for the trip to hell. 

This was definitely one of the if not the roughest game I have ever played in. The varsity players were knocking over ducks left and right. We scored somewhere around 18 goals, Riley, Banks, and I splitting the total 6-6-6. Now nearing the end of the game, Adam got the puck and was racing toward the goal. When he was about to shoot, and I think he would have made it, I watched helplessly as Charlie hooked him in a desperate attempt to stop the goal. 

"What the hell was that Charlie," Banks shouted. And all hell broke loose.

Charlie started throwing punches at Adam. The varsity players were yelling at the ducks. Cole was about to throw punches at Fulton. And that's when Coach Orion decided to walk in. 

He ran over to the Charlie-Adam fight attempting to break it up. I could tell he was about to explode at his team. Upon his telling, more like shouting, we left the ice and headed to our locker room. I shook my head as I laughed quietly. I just realized that we knew exactly how to beat the ducks in the official showdown.

But that's a talk for another day. For right now, I needed to figure out what happened on the ice. Why I suddenly cared. And whatever it is, I don't think it'll be any good. 

author's note: again thanks for reading!!! don't forget to vote and comment  if you have any suggestions or just so I know you like the story. PS: sorry for the late update I will do my best to get another update out tomorrow but I am starting to write another story as well. It's called One Decision and it's a harry potter story if you want to check it out when i publish it! thanks so much and have a great day!! more soon!!