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"luis, your speed is a great weapon. now you must learn to harness it. let's do it!" jan told luis after i finished stacking up the empty soda cans, skating out of his way.

"whoa!" he screamed knocking down the cans.

"this is going to take a while," i told jan him just nodding in agreement.

after having a few more goes and failing i skated next to luis to show him.

"okay so, when you stop you need to move your skates to the side, twist your ankle a bit and put a small amount of force on the ice," i told him as he nodded.

we practiced for another half an hour until coach brought the rest of the team back onto the ice.

"we need to get back to basics," coach told us while he made us get us on our hands and knees and crawl to the other side of the ice.

"that's it. dwayne, hustle. we're gonna be a lean, mean, fighting machine. move that big butt. go!!" he shouted as i let out a laugh listening to him.

today we had a full day of training so after being on the ice we all ended up in the gym.

i was on the treadmill in between les and kenny, with my headphones in on full blast, letting out a laugh after watching coach jumping on goldberg's treadmill.

after our gym session we all got a shower and got changed into normal clothes, i was wearing brown sweat shorts and a matching t-shirt with my plain white airforces.

i grabbed my small crossbody back that fit my essentials in following the rest of the team out of the changing rooms as dean shouted for adam, banks replying saying he'd meet us outside.

we were all sat outside of the arena waiting for adam to come out and when he did he was with coach with a sad look on his face.

"what's wrong? is everything okay?" i asked.

"yeah, we are just going to get adam's wrist checked out he'll see you later," coach said directing adam towards his car.

"hope your wrist is okay," charlie shouted after him, adam turning around to give us a small smile.

we didn't see adam till our practice the next day, he had a sling on his arm
supporting his wrist and he looked a lot happier.

"we will work hard and we're gonna succeed. nothing will bring us down. if we fall, we'll get up and try again."

i was once again helping luis with his stopping and let's just say he's getting better, he can almost stop but he can't balance himself just yet.

after helping luis practice, it was team practice and i was working on my puck handling with dwayne.

"what go get over on your edge there, connie! good, portman, good. soft hands. watch out dwayne athena's almost as good as you now," he encouraged us all.

coach was becoming a better person and i was happy he came to his senses.

"thank you dwayne," i said to the boy after practice as i'd really improved with my puck handling.

"you're welcome m'lady," he said back with a laugh.

after we all got changed out of our gear coach gathered us all to tell us that we were now tied with iceland as they had lost to germany.

we had an hours break before we needed to be in the changing rooms to prepare for our game against germany.

that is how we all ended up in a park just outside the rink, well everyone apart from charlie who said he needed to speak to coach.

we were all walking towards the park until i got an idea.

"tag you're it," i shouted as i tapped guy on the shoulder.

"awe man," he said as everyone ran away from him.

we played until i was too tired sitting on the round a bout, everyone joining me soon after.

"this is the life," connie spoke out breaking the silence.

"it really is, i wouldn't want to be anywhere else and i'm glad i'm doing it with you guys," i said facing everyone.

"aweeeee, is athena going soft?" dean teased me and i reached over to push him off the round a bout.

"bye," i shouted while running away as dean began chasing me back into the ice rink, the team following after realising the time.