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the team was playing at a new rink in anaheim, so they took the bus to the arrowhead pond rink. it was a pretty big stadium, which makes sense. it was the championship game, so arabella figured there'd be a lot of people. 

the team was getting ready, and arabella was sitting between fulton and averman, and kenny in the bench across. 

adam walked in with his bag, and everyone wondered why he was in the locker room. he told them that he'd be in the stands next to the bench, but now he was in the locker room. 

"coach! i woke up, and the pain was gone." to prove, he rotated the stick, just like coach had tried to get him to do. 

arabella cheered, and so did the rest of the team. but the cheering stopped when bombay looked sad. "adam, i'm sorry. we already have a full roster."

arabella forget about that. russ had taken adam's place. charlie looked over at russ and jesse, and russ was about to take off his pads so adam could play, but charlie stopped him. arabella knew charlie, and when she looked over at him, she knew he was going to give up his spot. 

charlie walked over to adam and bombay, looking at both of them. "it's what i can do for the team."

he looked over at adam, telling him to take his place. adam looked like he didn't want to, but he gave in. he put an arm on charlie's shoulder, and arabella smiled.

"charlie, i need you on the bench, coaching right there with me." bombay handed him the whiteboard. 

everyone cheered, and arabella grinned. "let's go coach spazway!"

the team walked out of the locker room, and two rink workers opened the doors for them. arabella watched as the crowd cheered, and she looked in amazement. 

there were a lot of people, and she couldn't help but feel happy. it was the last game she'd play with this team, and she knew she had to make it good. she turned to the seats surrounding where they were walking, and a little girl was wearing a jersey with arabella's number on it. 

arabella grinned, feeling happy. she waved at the girl, and said she liked her jersey. the little girl squealed in excitement as she looked up to her mom, who was filming the interaction. 

they walked onto the ice, goldberg leading them. the team skated to their bench, where bombay was smiling. "heads high! stand tall! fly straight! u.s.a!"

the team cheered, "all the way!", before breaking out to go onto the bench or ice. 

arabella and guy were the two wingers, with averman as center, fulton and dean at defense. right when the puck dropped, the iceland player got it and passed it to his teammate, before shoving averman down.

arabella watched as iceland took the puck, and skated towards the winger from the other team who was calling for a pass. arabella intercepted it and was about to pass to guy, but as she did, an iceland player knocked him down and shot the puck up the boards, where goldberg got it behind the net. 

he handed it off to dean, who got checked into the boards by an iceland player. arabella looked at the jersey, and she saw the last name was stahl. he took the puck up towards the blue line, and shot it. luckily, goldberg stopped it with his stick. arabella cheered, happy they didn't score just yet.

however, he didn't stop the puck, which meant the play was still going. an iceland player got it, and another one tripped goldberg, making him fall to the ground. he scrambled to get the puck from the iceland player, but they scored anyway. 

arabella cursed under her breath as she went over to goldberg, telling him it'll be okay. an iceland player, presumably the one that scored, went up to goldberg. "too slow, big boy!"

arabella was skating towards the bench, seeing as her shift was over. she saw kenny and dwayne hold goldberg back, and she and guy laughed at goldberg. "at least hold me back like i'm gonna kill him!"

goldberg was screaming at the player, and kenny and dwayne just held him back. a few plays later, coach called for a line change. arabella heard him tell guy, jesse, and russ to go out, and she cheered with kenny, who was next to her.

she watched as russ skated out, and she was nervous but happy for him. she heard cheering come from a little above her bench, and she looked up to see russ's friends. luke was there, and he noticed arabella looking at him. 

he walked down the stairs and leaned over the glass a little. "hey bella! this game's going pretty good, isn't it?"

"if you forget about how we're being knocked down like dominoes, then i'd say yeah." she grinned, and kenny watched as arabella and luke talked about the game for a little more. 

he heard luke say something, but he was turned around to face the game. he was trying to ignore luke flirting with arabella. she told him that she didn't want to date luke, but something just seemed off. 

he felt a tap on his shoulder, and he saw arabella smiling at him. "you okay?"

he nodded, then realized luke went back up to his friends. arabella watched the game with him, watching two iceland players team pin russ against the boards, before shoving him down. 

arabella boo'ed from the bench. "c'mon ref, call something!"

bombay told her to stop, so she did. russ got up and skated to the blue line, then caught a pass. arabella heard the iceland coach call out 'shooter!', and the iceland players skated towards russ as he wound up. 

before he could do that, an iceland player dove and took the puck from russ, making him fall. "aw man, i messed up."

from the bench, arabella saw iceland skate with the puck towards goldberg, and she saw dean fall to the ground, making an iceland player fly over him. 

the iceland player passed it to another, who shot it in and scored. goldberg did the splits to try and stop it, but it didn't work. it was now 2-0. 

on the ice, she watched with kenny and averman as everyone was flying around. "we can't make it. iceland's bigger, stronger, faster. they got more facial hair."

arabella gave averman a weird look, but he was watching the game. after more people got checked, coach decided to put arabella and adam on the ice, switching off for connie and luis. 

"hey, be careful out there."

the two of them hopped over the boards and skated. adam got the puck, and was skating with it. arabella was next to him, calling for a pass. however, before he could an iceland player hooked him, making him fall to the ground. arabella immediately skated over to adam, before punching the iceland player when she was sure the ref wasn't looking. 

she saw the team fly up off of the bench, telling the ref to call something. luckily, the ref only gave a penalty to the iceland player, who was about to fight arabella for punching him. he only got two minutes, but she was just glad he was in the penalty box. 

she skated over to the bench, but she saw kenny skate past the iceland player in the penalty box. "get in the box, you big goon."

arabella laughed, making a reminder to herself to try and teach kenny better things to say. she turned to adam, who was saying he was fine. she looked at him, and she gave him a look to say 'are you sure?', but he only nodded. 

arabella watched the crowd behind her do the wave, and saw that it might've been helping them, because connie skated with the puck to the blue line, then passed to luis. luis then passed it to dwayne as he dove under two iceland players trying to check him. 

dwayne was messing with the puck, showing off a little, while dean tried calling for it. an iceland player shoved dwayne down, then took the puck. 

she cheered as luis skated to catch the iceland player, and he did. however, he and the iceland player tripped, and they slid right into goldberg. the net went flying backwards. arabella couldn't help but laugh. 

sadly, the puck technically went in the net, so it was a goal. it was now 3-0, and coach told arabella, jesse, guy, kenny, and connie to go do the flying v. 

they got about halfway through the ice before iceland shoved them down, stopping their v formation. the iceland player that knocked arabella down grinned at her, and she noticed it was the boy she punched earlier. 

"get the fuck off of me before i kick your balls with my skate."

he ended up getting up, scowling at her. he and the other iceland players on the ice started skating towards goldberg with the puck, and arabella tried her hardest to catch up with them. she got one of them, but he passed the puck before she could get it. she watched as they scored again, and she groaned.  

the second period started, and arabella felt like it was hopeless. however, she still played hard, desperately wanting iceland to lose. 

averman took the faceoff, and arabella saw kenny next to a winger that was probably three times the size of him. she made sure to remember the iceland player's number, just in case he tried anything on kenny.

once again, averman got knocked down at the faceoff, causing arabella to wince. they were still getting knocked down, and the refs weren't calling anything. in the corner of her eye, she saw dean and fulton put their helmets on, grunting. 

she called over to them, getting their attention. "beat their asses."

the two of them skated onto the ice, before charging an iceland player that had the puck. arabella cheered for them, thinking it was fun to watch. the two of them continued to team up against iceland players that had the puck. 

arabella was on the ice now, and she watched as kenny went behind the net to pick up the puck, and she made sure to skate with him. kenny did a spin in the air, leaving the puck behind, but his spin caused the iceland players to look up at him in amazement. when they got their attention back, they noticed arabella. "pretty cool, right? he's also pretty cute."

she passed it to kenny, who was in front of the net, who shot and scored. she cheered and skated up to him, and she tackled him in a hug. "kenny, that was amazing! you scored!"

"wu! wu! wu! kenny wu! puts team u.s.a. on the board with an assist from arabella myers!"

she cheered, and stayed with him as he taunted the goalie, who was definitely two times his size. "what do you think about that?"

arabella laughed, but saw the goalie follow them to where they were skating. "kenny, watch out!"