i had just been piled up by a bunch of upperclassman varsity players, and my head was spinning. 
                          
guy and charlie linked arms and led me into the box, and i smiled when i saw coach. 
                          
"hey, coach!" 
                          
he nodded,"okay, gilinksy, let's take a seat." 
                          
i did as i was told, while russ handed me some water,"you doing alright?" 
                          
"i will be, when the room stops spinning." i replied, sipping the water. 
                          
i watched a guy took a vicious check to the boards, and didn't get up. 
                          
"call something!" coach yelled as everyone skated to guy. 
                          
guy managed to skate to the box, but he was hurting pretty bad. 
                          
"hey, guy," i tried to cheer him up, laughing slightly,"we're in the nosebleed section." 
                          
he chuckled, but grabbed onto his stomach, when it hurt. 
                          
charlie shot in a goal, but was beat by the buzzer. we were officially two periods down with no score. 
                          
we all went into the locker room to strategize. 
                          
"they're cheap shotting us to death." danny rolled his eyes. 
                          
"i know they are." i sighed, standing with coach. 
                          
"it's gonna take a miracle for us to hold on." averman nodded. 
                          
the doors busted open to reveal dean portman, and my face instantly broke in a smile. 
                          
he started to read off of his scholarship offer,"dean portman is awarded a full athletic and academic scholarship to the eden hall academy," he looked up at us and smiled,"i had this lying around the house in chicago. my attorney thought I should sign it. i agreed. it's official boys, i'm back." 
                          
coach and i shared a look, knowing exactly what attorney he was talking about,"bombay."
                          
i pushed past everyone and jumped up into his arms, dean spinning me around. 
                          
he put me down and looked at the 'c' on my jersey,"are you-" 
                          
"she is." charlie smiled, clapping his shoulder. 
                          
"that's hot." dean replied, causing me to roll my eyes. 
                          
"hurry up and get in gear, we need you." i told him, going back to find his jersey. 
                          
•
                          
we skated onto the ice with dean, the crowd erupting into cheers. portman had changed our whole vibe, and i felt more optimistic than i had during the second period.
                          
i got to center, and riley smiled,"finally, we meet face to face." 
                          
i returned the smile, though it had a deceiving undertone,"i'm gonna wear you as a coat." 
                          
the puck was dropped and cole kept going for dean. as they neared the boards cole jumped and dean ducked, flipping him over his back and sending cole straight into the audiences, effectively shattering the glass board. 
                          
i gasped, excitement filling me as i yelled, "that's what i'm talking about!"
                          
the bash brothers were hitting varsity left and right, and i couldn't help but smile.
                          
averman passed me the puck, i faked and gave it to luis who missed and ran into the boards. 
                          
i got the puck again, only to be checked and knocked into the ground. i got up as quickly as i could, unfazed by the actions.