CHAPTER TWO
"WE ARE DOOMED"

"OH...WE ARE DOOMED," Reece pouted. She stood with the district 5 team in their sweaters that had their names and numbers written on the back— considering they can't afford equipment or jerseys. She let out an annoyed groan as they watched the team they where playing against, the Hawks, warm up. The Hawks are undefeated, and Reece knows that they have no chance at winning, let alone scoring. She knows that she should be more positive— but she didn't really care that much.

"Hi girls!" Two Hawks, McGill and Larson, tease as they skate up to the district 5 team. Karp glares and tires to attack them but Jessie and Ty hold him back. The two Hawks skate away laughing causing Reece to roll her eyes. 'That's not even a fucking insult! I could bash their heads in my sleep!' She thought to herself, a crazy smile on her face, knowing that she could hurt them if she wanted too. She does.

"WIN! WIN! WIN! WIN! WIN! WIN!"

"They're determined, I'll give them that." Reece mumbled as she and her team watched the Hawks chant. Though, they had to look away when their coach called them over.

"Win. Win. Win. Win." Coach started to chant but all he got in replay where blank stares.

"Man, whatever that is stop!" The brunette girl interrupted as she picked up her hockey stick.

"Yeah we're fired up," Coach rolled his eyes.

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The Hawks where warming up by hitting their goalie on the shines whenever they skated past. So, Coach Bombay has the amazing idea of having his team do the same thing. Reece thought it was ridiculous because the Hawk goalie had pads and their goalie doesn't and even worse their goalie is Goldberg.

"Oh! Great, good concept guys! Ouch!" Goldberg complains as half the team pass him, all hitting him in the shines lightly. Though, Goldberg is acting like the sticks are on fire. Reece wishes they where though, make the game more interesting.

"Stop being such a baby." Reece scoffed as she hit him in the shines lightly but rolled her eyes when she heard an 'ouch'.

She holds in a laugh when Charlie hits Goldberg to hard it caused him to fall on his face. "Nice going fool!" Goldberg yelled at the Conway boy.

"Sorry didn't mean to do that," Charlie apologized.

"Oh yeah! I didn't mean to knock you down, with my stick, by accident!" Goldberg mocked.

"You're on my own team man!" The blond boy explained before he started to hit Goldberg repeatedly. "Sorry Goldberg! Didn't mean to do that Goldberg! My bad Goldberg!"

"Would you get off of me before I clock you?!"

"Hey Reece!" Ty called as he skated over to his twin. "Check it out— Mom brought Grandma." He points towards the crowd where their Mom is sitting with their neighbour Betty and Grandma Autumn. Their grandma was holding a sign that says 'Beat these shit heads.'

"Oh, got to love Grandma."

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  REECE WAS OUT FOR NOW. She was sitting on the bench with Averman waiting for the game to start, when he started singing. "Hum, batter-batter. Hum, batter-batter. Hum, batter-batter. Hey, batter-batter. Swing, batter-batter. Hum, batter-batter."

"Averman?!" Coach Bombay snapped. "It's hockey, there's no batter."

Reece and Averman shared a look, nodding at each other before they both start singing. "Hum, goalie-goalie. Hum, goalie-goalie. Hum, goalie-goalie. Hey, goalie-goalie-goalie. Save, goalie-goalie-goalie. Hum, goalie-goalie."

"Not you too!" Coach groaned as he walks to the other side of the box to get away from the two kids. Reece stops singing when he's gone, but Averman keeps going. She rolled her eyes before  elbowing him in the gut, hoping that will shut him up. And to her luck, it did.

"Hum, goalie-goalie..." Averman wheezed, hunching over and holding his stomach in pain. He sent a glare towards his friend, who only smiled innocently.

The game starts and the Hawks get the puck first. The district five team try to get it but all end up falling as the Hawks skate past them. When they get to the net to shoot, Goldberg jumps out of the way, letting the Hawks score. The Hawks score goal after goal, until the score is 5-0.

Coach finally yells for a line change. "Line change, go, go, go!"

Reece and Ty skate onto the ice and get in their positions. Reece right wing and Ty left wing, and Connie as center. When the game starts, Connie goes for the puck, but a Hawk hits the stick out of her hands.

   Later on in the game, Ty gets body slammed into the wall by two Hawks. Reece quickly skates over trying to pull them off of Ty, but when they don't budge, she goes for option two.

"Hockey sticks hit more then just pucks!" She growls as she lifts up her stick, making the two hawk players look at her in slight fear. Just as she was about to charge at them, Charlie holds her back.

The Hawks scored again and again and again and again after that. "Why me?!" Goldberg shouts, falling to his knees dramatically.

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"HOW LAZY CAN YOU BE!" Coach Bombay shouted at team. After the end of the first period— District 5 was losing, and they were loosing bad. "They're killing us out there! How many times do I have to tell you? Get those rebounds! Get your heads up! Get those pucks! Just un-" he gets cut off by a whistle that means period 2 is starting. "Just get the hell out of here."

When the second period starts they are doing a little bit better, not a lot better, but they're falling less. That's good. Well, it's good for them. The twins both push a Hawk player out of the way who were trying to get to Charlie, who has a lead.

"Come on Charlie!" Reece shouted in encouragement as she skated a little ways behind him.

"Do you really think he's going to score?!" Ty questioned his twin as they tried to keep in pace with the Conway boy.

"Of course not! It's Spazway, he's probably going to fall." Just as she says that Charlie takes the shot, he misses the puck, falls on his stomach, and then ends up sliding into the wall. "It's sad that he's one of our best players." Reece mumbled as she skated over to Charlie to help him up. But this kid who had the name Banks on the back of his jersey, gets there before she could. As Charlie tries to get up, Banks pushes him into the boards making him fall again.

Reece glares at the back of the boy's head, clenching her jaw and skating up to him. Reece can hear her mothers cheer when she body checks the Hawk to the ground. Adam looks up at her, shock clear in his eyes. But he snaps out of his trance when Reece smirks at him. He gives her a dirty look before kicking his foot out and pulling her feet right out from under her, causing her to fall beside him.

Ty and Charlie help her up well Banks stands up on his own. She goes to charge at him but Ty and Charlie hold her back. "Let me at him! I'll kick him so hard in the dick he won't have one anymore!" Adam just scoffs before skating away. "Yeah! Run away, asshat!"

"Okay, let's get you off the ice before you kill someone." Ty sighs as he pushes his sister in Charlie's direction. Her and Charlie both skate over to Couch, who of coarse, had something to say.

"Nice fan Charlie, keep swinging maybe you'll give them a cold."

"Shut the fuck up!"

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"I'M SO EMBARRASSED." Connie groans as she puts her head in her hands.

"Yup," the twins say mirroring her position. They both look at the score board that has the final score, which is 17-0. "Well that's just depressing."

"We need a new goalie," Averman added.

"Hey, shut up!" Bombay roared, causing the team to stop talking. "You guys stink! I thought we came here to play hockey?!"

"You know, I knew we forgot something." Peter mocked, making the team laugh.

"You think it's funny? You think losing is funny?!"

"Well, not at first," Averman starts, "but once you get the hang of it."

"We're the ones getting are butts kicked!" Jesse snapped.

"Yeah, it's not like you coach us or anything. At least we try." Terry glared at coach, agreeing with his older brother.

"You didn't listen to a word I said!" Bombay shouted making Reece cringe away from the load volume.

"Dude chill," Reece breathed out as she ran a hand through her sweaty brown hair.

"No, dude, I'm not going to chill." Bombay seethed, sending a glare at Reece who only scoffed and rolled her eyes. "I said keep your heads up! You put your heads down! I said hustle! You went slower! That was the sloppiest playing I've ever seen. Why the hell won't you just listen to me?!"

"Why the hell should we?" Jesse sneers. He sends one last glare at the coach before stomping away, his brother right behind him.

"I don't care. You want to lose, fine. You're the ones who look like idiots out there." Bombay spoke with a scowl before leaving as well.

The rest of the team sat there in awkward silence, till Reece breaks it. "Well...that was fun."

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"I don't believe it! Who would throw these away!" Averman shouted in joy as he picked a magazine out of a box— a wide grin spread across his face like a child on Christmas. Reece along with all the guys on the team where in an alley after the game. She really wished that she went with Connie to the mall, but she knows there is no backing out now. She's stuck with these idiots for the rest of the day.

She rolled her eyes from where she stood leaning against the wall, knowing that the magazines are filled with half naked woman in either their underwear or in bikinis. "You guys are disgusting!" She shouted over to them, her voice laced with disgust, but they only ignored her.

"Hold it!" Karp says, silencing everyone. "First look free. Next 5 minuets cost a buck each."

"Yeah guys fork it over," Peter cackled. Reece cringed, wondering why he can't just laugh like a normal person.

"Bullshit!" Ty snapped, as he throws down the magazine.

"Forget it Karp." Averman closes his magazine. "I can see this everyday on MTV."

"Hey look! This ones from Minneapolis." Peter announces as he picked up a new magazine. He looks toward Guy with a smirk. "Hey, Guy, look, it's your mom." Peter laughs before running away, everyone chasing after him. Reece rolled her eyes, but followed anyway.

"Let's give him a wedgie." Jesse laughed as they all cornered Peter.

"Yeah, good idea Jesse," Terry said.

"Come on guys," Peter begs "I was only kidding, okay?"

"Hey!" Karp shouted, getting everyone's attention. Reece sighed when she saw who showed up. Three Hawks— Larson, McGill, and Banks, all on rollerblades, snatched the magazine out of Karp's hand.

"Hi girls." Larson teases, as the three Hawks start circling them.

"Fuck you!" Reece hissed, her jaw clenched.

"Does your mommy know you have that." McGill teased, referring to the magazine and ignoring Reece's comment. "Nah, she's to busy with the mail man."

"That'll make great bathroom reading." Adam laughed, making Reece glare at him and him glare back at her. They're both still a little pissed about the body chucking and tripping incident.

"That's mine you jerk, I found it." Karp growled at the three boys, who only laughed.

"You wouldn't even know what to do with it, wuss breath." McGill mocked as he stopped skating.

"Are you really going to let him call you wuss breath." Peter mumbles to Karp, trying to get him angry.

"Really Peter," Reece sighed, frowning when the boy merely shrugged with smirk.

"NO!" Karp roared, charging at the Hawks. Though it quickly backfired when Larson and McGill pushed him into the trash. Just as Reece was going to lunge at them herself, Fulton Reed shows up.

Fulton Reed is a tall and pretty intimidating boy who doesn't talk much. He grabs hold of the back of Larson's hoodie and pushed him into McGill and Banks, making them all fall into the trash, on top of Karp.

The Hawks quickly skated away as Reece helps Karp up. "Thanks man." She thanked Fulton. She shrugged when he just grunted and walked away, "All right then."

edited – May 15th 2020