Enemies From Different Teams-Rewrite

Partie vingt-trois

Next up was Cowboy Robertson from USA. We did eventually figure out that he could puck handle, but he was also a showboat, which often screwed him up. Not to be rude or anything, but I hope he showboats and screws up. We're one point behind, but still have three more shots to attempt. Cowboy skated up, picking up the puck and headed down the ice, lifting the puck in the air and hitting it off his stick. He dropped it at the blue line, skating ahead and passing the puck forward between his feet. He took a shot, and Jay saved it with his leg. 

We all jumped up and down, cheering for Jayden. When Jayden returned, USA's goalie returned to the ice and I left the rink, heading to center ice. I was really nervous because now everyone was watching me. Solely me, and no one else. There was no one else to look at. It was intimidating, but Danika simply said not to think about the people around you, just the goalie in front of you. I took in a deep breath, once the puck dropped, I brought it forward.

Skating up to the net. I went for it and stopped three quarters of the way, a couple feet from the net. I took a shot and rounded the net. Seeing that the light had flashed, my face dropped. I stood there, realising what I had done, I scored. I scored! It just passed the goalie's glove. Oh my god. I scored. I skated over to the bench quickly and jumped the boards, entering the crowd of cheers and hugs from team. I smiled when Danika had hit my arm playfully. "I told ya you could do it," I smiled even wider and we calmed down, watching USA's next player enter the rink.

With a score of 2-2 and having three players from each team shoot, we had two left from each team. Next from USA, was their goon, well one of them. Fulton entered the ice and waited at center. He had looked over at his teammates, looking just as afraid and nervous as I did. When his team reassured him and the puck dropped, that's when he took off. He raced down the ice, stopping right after the blue line. I watched both he and Jayden make eye contact. Once that happened, he slapped the puck right at Jayden.

It got super quiet, Jayden was on the ground and Fulton hadn't moved from he stood. None of us knew if the puck had entered the net or if Jayden had saved it. "Is he all right?" Finn asked.

"I don't know," Daniel replied.

"Quiet down, boys," Coach told them. Jayden stood up and the puck was in front of him. I knew he didn't catch it with his glove and he didn't  block it with his glove or pads, which meant he had blocked with the front of his body. When he stood up, he skated over smiling and cheering. We had erupted into cheers as he skated over. "Where'd you get hit?"

"I'm good," Jay replied, taking a seat next to Kyler. 

"All right, let's go, Riley," With that being said, this means Shelby was shooting last. That meant quite a bit of pressure on Shelby. Actually, it's a lot of pressure on all of us, but it seemed to me that the last players would always have the most pressure, which sucked.

Riley headed out to center. Riley didn't shoot all fancy like. He skated right up to the net and shoot like that. It seemed like he shot with ease, which he did. And he managed to score, making it 3-2 us. With one goal ahead, and Team USA has one player left, we were dying for something happened. It's either they score one again. Which will make it a tied game, and Shelby scores. Or they loose and Shelby scores. Or we both loose and we end up winning. It could go either way at this point.

Banks skated out to center. Stopping and shaving the ice, he brought his hand out, rotating it. I got confused and turned to Danika, since she had been hanging out with him for the past while. Not every day, but sometimes for like an hour or so. I didn't mind and nor did Shelby, whereas the boys didn't even know about any of this. "He had hurt his arm against Iceland after they had beat us at our game. I didn't think he'd be playing today,"

"Guess that's why Charlie's on the bench," Shelby spoke up.

"Guess so," I replied.

"You three ranting about boys uglier than us?" Oliver laughed.

"And from USA?" Alex added, putting an arm on Oliver's shoulder.

"Have you two looked in the mirror lately? 'Cause last time I checked, you were the one who got rejected, not them," Danika replied sternly, turning towards them.

Shelby and I snorted a laugh and looked at Banks. He had looked over at his teammates, who all nodded and smiled, or gave him the thumbs up. The ref skated over, setting the puck in front of him. Once the instructions were given, he hit the puck with his skate. He passed the puck back and forth between himself lightly and skated at his own speed. Arriving in front of Kyler, since Jayden said he wasn't able to do it anymore after getting hit to the lower stomach, he deked him out and scored. Making it 3-3 now. USA cheered out of excitement and he headed back to the bench where he entered the box, looking at the rink to see who was next.

"You got this," I told Shelby as she was about to make her way. 

"We believe in you,"

"Don't fuck it up," Bryce called, earning a slap from Danika.

She smiled with a nod, Danika and I high fives her.