Unfortunately, the Eastern team lost in San Jose with a final score of 5-1, but for Cosette it didn't matter. She was actually happy for once, people were seeing a smile on her face they rarely saw, and for once, it felt good for her to smile.

Tonight they were playing at the TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts, so she would be heading to the rink in the morning for morning skate.

She met up with Cassie, Alexei, Emersen, and Natasha at TD Garden. Everyone else was already in the locker room.

Emersen had a video up on her phone as she showed Natasha and Cassie, "Does captain know?" Cassie asked her quietly.

Emersen shook her head, "No, and I don't plan on telling her either. I'll just let her figure it out on her own."

Before the skate always came the gym, Cosette felt it was necessary for her to go to the gym almost every day to stay in shape and to set a good example for the rest of her team.

It's around 7:30 am and morning skate for Cosette is at 11 am today since the home team always lets the away team get the earlier ice time, which means from 9:30 to 10:50 the Western team gets to practice and sharpen up for what's going to be a tell tale game of how these 5 Eastern games in a row will go.

Cosette is in the middle of working out when she's finishing her last set of squats she notices Noah walk in, but ever since the beach Noah hasn't talked to her or given her a chance to talk to him, but she figured with the stairs to the change rooms for the boys beside her, he had to walk past her to get there. Instead, Noah went to the preacher curl machine and changed his shirt and shorts in the open exposing his body Cosette hasn't even seen before.

Cosette was getting super hot and could feel it in her cheeks looking at was apparently was a six pack but it could be eight. She then was getting mad seeing about 15 other girls all staring at him, almost like she was being protective.

As she was passing by Noah was resting from laying down on the bench doing free weight exercises, and coincidentally Cosette somehow trips but Noah unexpectedly leaned up this time Cosette met a chest and stomach full of bench.

Cosette was extremely embarrassed now more because Noah moved, but when she looked up to yell at Noah he was already up with his headphones on, and he simply replied with saying "Sorry I have practice." Noah said with a straight face, you couldn't tell if he was joking or not.

Tonight was a huge game and the Western team needs all hands on deck despite coming away with a 5-1 win the game before, with Cosette trying to be a good leader she heads to the arena after her workout to watch the Western team practice and she couldn't believe what she was watching.

It was like watching career highlights and draft tapes people all over the internet made for when it was Noah's draft year to the NHL but a torn ACL ruined his career and his dream, but Cosette knew their team was in trouble. What she was watching was Noah and the backup goalie versing and beating the rest of the team 5 at a time, in a game of hockey.

Cosette was starting to get nervous as she could tell something or someone set him off as he's pulling off dekes she hasn't seen since his draft year... back when she liked him before aswell, no matter how hard they tried Noah was not losing the puck and she couldn't watch anymore and decided it was best to go stretch and get ready.

Cosette knew that a storm was brewing, literally outside was all dark and thunderstorms were gonna hit that night but that's not the type of storm she was thinking about.

Cosette was just worried about getting blown out not by the Western team... but Noah. She knew Noah was a loudmouth off the ice but on the ice he was always friendly to his team and encouraging, what he yells and chirps to the other team... doesn't need to be repeated.

Cosette decided to go peak her head out from the home teams tunnel because it was unusually quiet for a practice that still had 20 minutes left. What she heard next even scared her a bit, everyone was knelt around Noah after what looks to be some sort of conditioning drill as everyone you could tell by the way the jersey moved against they body had they lungs gasping for air.

It was then not a second later that Noah started ripping into his own team yelling screaming complaining anything or any form of intense dialogue, Noah had shown it, what Cosette gathered from it was that Noah is pissed because he feels he has to do everything himself and no one else gives a damn.

But when Cosette started to head back that's when she heard one of the players talk back and say "Is this because you're mad at your girlfriend so you take it out on us?" And you could tell that it was the last straw because Noah then went and jumped his teammate feeding him lefts and rights having to get nearly five people to hold him back while the trainer checked on the team mate.

He was finally getting under control in the way that they could direct him inside the tunnel but the only bad thing about the practice arena is that the hallways between dressing rooms cross like a X. As he was passing the Eastern team they started chirping so he replied with a a simple "Shut the fuck up." and that did the trick as the girls didn't talk after that.

4:30 pm some members of the Eastern team were there warming up while in comes the man, looking extremely good with his custom suit and bluetooth headphones. Cosette tried to get his attention which earned a headphone off him.

"Whatever." Cosette mumbled, she sighed and headed into the locker room as she flipped a braid over her shoulder.

She walked in and slammed her bag down, "Tonight, its Noah Dalton or nothing, destroy his ass." Cosette snarled as she took her hair out of the two French braids, and then putting her hair into a low ponytail.

The rivalry between Noah Dalton and Cosette Rentz would be one for the decades. Two incredibly talented hockey stars, both captains, and both willing to do whatever the hell it will take to take the other one down. But only one can come out on top, right? Or so they thought.

(A/N:Hope y'all enjoy this chapter. Sorry this one is a little shorter and more focused on Noah and Cosette!)