Y/n's POV

At the practice the next day we were getting to work to say the least. We were doing all sorts of drills and now that there wasn't the negativity from *cough cough charlie* it is going much better. Coach said we were gonna have a new technique at working on defense. After a while he had us take a knee on the ice.

"Alright I've been doing my homework on the varsity. I'm not gonna lie to you they're good. The way they wiped your faces in the dirt last time was no fluke. So if you want your pride back you better be willing to work. There's nothing glamorous about it. In the pros we call it
blue-collar hockey. Now there's one thing Varsity does very well. They're vultures around the net." He said getting a can from a trashcan. "They pick up every piece of loose trash. That's how they beat you. Not with the first shot; the second and third. They bang in the junk so if you wanna win, you're gonna have to pick up the trash." He picked up the trashcan and turned it over spilling everything onto the ice. That's sanitary.

"Have any cream cheese?" Averman said holding up a moldy bagel.

We were doing this drill like a swoop in and stop any trash going to Julie. It was really weird, but interesting. And nasty. We did this for a while and Coach would switch around the way we did it. We left the school and coach dumped out the trash on the sidewalk. We had to pick up the trash and throw in the can he was holding quickly....

Over the next few days we did the same things trying to better it. I'd say we were getting pretty good. It was the Thursday before the game and we were finishing up a drill when coach blew his whistle.

"Let's Go! Get over here!" He yelled very angry sounding. "Grab a knee!" He said. "You guys are not skating like warriors! You look like something else." He said opening a box. He looked around at us for a second and you could see a little smile trying to form. "You look like ducks." He said ripping someone's duck jersey out of the box. "Robertson." He said throwing the jersey to Dwayne. Everyone got up excited to get our jerseys back. I honestly didn't know if we were gonna get them back since that day coach had us take them off. We all got around to get our jerseys back. At the end of practice we did like a, how you call it out in basketball at the end of a game or time out? Yeah that except we were chanting 'quack'. Tomorrow was our game against Varsity. It could either be real bad or real good......

•skip to Varsity-JV game•

We were getting ready to go on the ice as Varsity warmed up on their side. Coach lets us wear our ducks jersey, which was pretty nice.

"This is for Hans." Charlie said. We started going onto the ice and began forming a circle as we skated around. We had one hand on the ice and our stick in the other as we skated around in a circle as a tribute to Hans. After that we were in the box waiting for the game to start.

"Alright let's go hunting for goose eggs, huh? C'mon hand in." Coach said. We put our hands in and waited for Coach. "On three...quack. One....two.....three quack." As we quacked the energy felt better than previous games. Surprisingly enough the crowd 'quacked' with us. It's really just the Varsity that hates us isn't it. We finished the chant thing and began skating out onto the ice. I was starting, which is good and bad. As the puck was in play Adam was knocked to the ground and varsity came out with the puck. Julie saved the first attempted point. Goldberg stopped one of the hits with his skate and Varsity was having more trouble then they expected. Coach switched out Fulton and Russ and we were back into playing. Charlie knocked down Rick and Dwayne got the puck. Dwayne dodged a varsity player and they crashed into the boards. Then another did them Fulton crushed into them, then two more crashed into Fulton. Varsity had the puck again and Julie stopped the puck. Charlie retrieved the puck only for Rick to check him. Another Varsity player tried hitting it in but Julie saved it. Coach was switching everybody around pretty often cause of how tough varsity was. I watched as Averman, Guy, and Goldberg were playing actual defense. Soon enough Dwayne had a break away with about 2 varsity on the other side. Dwayne hit it in, but Scooter stopped it. The second period rolled around soon enough and nothing was changing. Same rough game going on. I winced a little as I watch Adam get 'tossed' over this dudes back. Everybody was getting checked man, rougher than normal. The only nice thing was hitting varsity. Averman got smashed up against the boards by two players and I could practically see the birds flying around his head. At one point Julie went to retrieve the puck and got tripped by one of our players. Varsity had a open shot and Julie just barely managed to stop it. Guy got checked into the boards really, really hard. I was one of the first ones over to him.

"Guy you there?" I said. He just made a grunt sound. This ain't looking good. Guy was staying on the ground and the ref just told him he'd be fine. A blind duck could tell he wasn't fine. The ref made us back up from Guy. The first aid dudes brought Guy back to the team. We were back to playing and Charlie had a breakaway shot. He got down and got beat by the buzzer. Two periods down with no score from anybody. We went back to the locker room for a we'll need break.

"You're playing hard. I'm proud of you guys." Coach said.

"They're cheap shotting us to death Coach." Russ said.

"I know they are. I know they are." Coach said walking around.

"It's gonna take a miracle for us to hold on." Averman said. Maybe a second later the door was kicked open. I looked up to see the 'miracle' we needed. Dean Portman.

"Dean Portman is awarded a full athletic and academic scholarship to Eden Hall Academy." Dean said reading the scholarship thing. "I had this laying around the house in Chicago and my attorney thought I should sign it. It's official boys! I'm back!" Dean said hyped up. Fulton was one of the first ones up to Dean. Everyone got up to welcome Dean, we had our complete bash bros now.

We headed back out onto the ice to the cheering crowd. Dean was second in line looking ready to kick some varsity butt. I was on the bench beside Connie watching this. I was ready to see what Dean was gonna do and well, didn't take long to figure it out. Cole started charging towards Dean and he simply bent down making Cole shoot into the glass and into the stands. The game was going on and man the bash brothers were at full power. Every Varsity player that had the puck was getting checked. It was awesome. Goldberg joined them in some of the roughhousing which was pretty funny. I skated around getting the puck moved around as Varsity was getting what they deserved. Some were going down the ice, Guy passed it to Averman, and Averman passed it to Luis. Well Luis' shot was blocked and Luis checked himself into the boards. With about 2 minutes left coach changed the line. Barely a few seconds in Dean made Rick fall earning a trip to the penalty box. The crowd booed at the poorly called penalty. Dean complained the whole way to penalty box and he got to there and changed attitudes. Reminded me of the game against Iceland. I stopped skating around to watch the scene that was happening. Dean was stripping in the box. He took off his shirt, and man he was built. He was swinging the shirt around and doing the most he could. I watched it happening til someone's hand blocked my view.

"Babe you can't watch him." Adam said.

"What I was just, seeing how stupid Dean could be." I said shrugging. He gave me a look and I began skating around. The game only went on for another moment when Coach was getting stopped for too many men. Evidently Kenny jumped over a little too early and was now going to the box with Dean. We were now two men down and had a little under two minutes left in the game to score a point and keep varsity from scoring a point.

"C'mon now bring it in." Coach said.
"The pressure is all on them. All we gotta do is hold them. Ok... Conway, Banks, and...Goldberg. I'm going with you." Coach said.

"Me, Coach?" Goldberg said confused.

"Yes you. Alright c'mon ducks let go!" Coach said clapping. "Y/n, you don't still wanna be captain do you?" Coach said smiling. I smiled realizing what was happening and quickly ripped the C off my jersey. I watched as Coach went over to Charlie. He said something and put the C on Charlie's Jersey. He looked up at Coach smiling and skated off. I watched as Varsity came on desperately. They tried shooting but Julie got it. She went for one of theirs only for it be a fake-out. The net was open. Before I processed it the Varsity player hit the puck and Adam jumped in front of it barely keeping them from scoring. Ducks got the puck and were skating down but lost it. Varsity began going down the ice soon enough Charlie and Riley were facing each other. Rick was trying to be fancy and tried getting passed Charlie only to get flipped over his back. Charlie rebounded the puck and Goldberg checked the guy who was trying to get Charlie. With about 10 seconds left Charlie began skating down. He was face to face with a Varsity player dodging one from behind and going around the one in front. He hit the puck only for it to bounce off scooters leg with 3 seconds left.

The puck slid back perfectly hitting Goldbergs stick. Two varsity players by the net and Scooter on the ground.

"Shoot Goldberg!" Everyone was yelling. As the clock hit 1 second Goldberg hit it just before the two players charged him. Scooter attempted blocking it but it didn't work. The puck hit the back of the net and the buzzer blared. Everyone burst out in cheers as the Varsity had lost. We went over the boards to go celebrate. We went over to Goldberg shocked and excited. When the hug thing broke apart I about knocked Adam down as I hugged him.

"We won! We actually won!" I said excited.

"I know! And Goldberg won it for us, never would've thought that would happen." Adam said. He leaned in and kissed me as everyone around us celebrated. After a moment we broke apart just before we were charged by Connie. We all celebrated, I noticed Luis and Ricks girlfriend, well ex girlfriend, making out.

"Hey look what Bombay did!" I heard Dwayne say. We all looked to see a banner covering the Eden Hall warriors banner. It said Eden Hall Ducks and had the ducks logo in the middle. I hugged practically everyone on the team except Dean, cause he doesn't really do single hugs. This was awesome, we beat Varsity.

We went out to the Diner Casey worked at to celebrate. Afterwards we had to go back to the stupid school whether we wanted to or not. Except school would be a little nicer now knowing we beat Varsity. Adam walked me to my dorm like every night.

"Aren't you glad you're not on Varsity?" I said.

"You couldn't pay me enough to go back to them." Adam said.

"That's good, cause I get to play hockey with you for the next few years instead of being 'rivals' with you." I said.

"Yup, now you're stuck with me forever." Adam said.

"Jeez, why'd you remind me." I said smiling.

"Oh haha. You wouldn't last a day without me." Adam said.

"Oh really? We can test that, you'll be the one knocking at my door after 4 hours." I said.

"No I wouldn't." Adam said.

"You totally would." I said.

"Would not."

"Would to."

"Would not."

"Would to."

"Would not."

"Would-" I was cut off by Adams lips. I guess that him telling me to shutup. After a moment we pulled away.

"I'll be at your dorm tomorrow morning to walk with you to breakfast, and after that we'll go hangout somewhere." Adam said.

"I wanted to sleep in tomorrow though." I said.

"You always sleep in." Adam said.

"Yeah yeah but still." I said.

"What about 9am? Is that late enough for you?" Adam asked.

"No, but I don't feel like arguing it." I said. He rolled his eyes so I pecked him on the lips, so he couldn't be dramatic.

"Bye, I love you." Adam said.

"I love you too." I said....

The End.....

Ok so, I can't believe this is over. I love y'all for reading and voting on my chapter honestly these books did so much better than I expected. I'm sad this is over but it was fun while it was here. This is one of my favorite things I've ever wrote and I really hope you guys enjoyed it. I'll definitely have more books in the future, probably not more Adam books but different people. If you want to read any more of my stuff I'm working on a book called "TULSA LOVE • Ponyboy Curtis" so if you're into Pony maybe check that out. Anyways I love y'all so much and hope you enjoyed the Adam Banks books.

-Brooke <3