Will it be you?- Chapter 25 (Part 2)

I'm so sorry for the delay.
I have been busy lot with working on school work and being a helper to my mom.
So there will be another part to this chapter and it should be the last part for this chapter. Then it's on to chapter 26.

Thanks for the comments and keep reading :)


The driveway has a few cars off to the side it, looks like a mini parking lot with 3 cars like that in a row. One car I notice is Sidney's sliver Range Rover.
Guess the Pens practice was shoter then mine.
I turn and park beside Sid's Rover as another car comes from behide. The car parks on my right side of my car.

"Colby!!!" LC exclaims as she quickly unbuckles to get out of the car.
I just smile as I open mu car door.
Grabbing my cell phone, I climb out of my car.

"Yeah I'm going with Sid to the airport, so my car will be left here," I hear Colby say as I close my car door, quietly.
I see them then walk around the front of my car as I hear a "hey"
Turning behide me, I see Sidney walking off the front proch with a bag on his shoulders.

"Hi Sid," LC says as Sidney heads across the grass to where we all where standing at.
He smiles as he places hhis bag down as he comes over to me and kisses my cheek.

"How did your training go today?" Sidney asks as Colby and LC just stare at us.

"It was so hard. Coach Ginger pushed me harder then anyone else on the team. Maybe it's because I'm a rookie. How was your practice?" I ask.

"It wasn't as bad as your was. It was alright, we just played mini games most of the time,"

"Sounds more fun then mine," I say as I laugh.

"Yeah but you'll get to have fun with your team too,"
Smiling, I watch as Sid turns around and walks back to his Rover.

"Got your bags Army?" Sid asks as Colby made a funny face.

"Oh yeah," Colby says as me and LC begin to laugh, as Colby goes to grab his bag.
I just watch Sidney as he opens his trunk to place his bag into the car.

"Your looking at his ass," LC whispers into my ear.

"I am not. Jeez," I say, causing both of us to laugh.

"What are you two laughing about?" Sid asks as he turns around to face us.

"Nothing," LC says as Colby reappears with his bag on his shoulder.
Army walks over to Sid's car as he places his bag in, closing the trunk door as well.

"So when do you guys leave?" I asks as they both walk over to us.

"About five we have to leave. Plane leaves at six to New Jersey," Sidney says.

"Ok, so what can we do for the next two hours?" LC asks.

"We can just hangout until four then we all can head out for dinner if you girls would want that," Colby says.

"I like that, some downtime before you guys leave, so will you leave from the restaurant or here?" LC asks as we cross the drive to the front yard.

"We'll probably leave after we eat," Sid says.

"So what are we going to do now?" LC asks as we all walk up the porch steps to the covered porch.
Then out of no where, rain begins to pour down onto the porch covering.
I look around as a cold burst of wind comes by.

"Let's head inside the house," Sid says as I am right behind him
He opens the door as I move in first.
I then walk down the few steps into the house.

"So what are we going to do now?" LC asks as we all head down the hall into the Lemieux's TV room.

As I turn around, Sidney is turning on the fireplace.

"We can make some hot cocoa to warm up," Sidney says.

"And we can play a game too by the fireplace," I say.

"Good ideas, we will go make the cocoa as you two set up the game and table," LC says as she grabs my hand pulling me with her.
Going up a small step, we walk into "Nathalie's" kicthen.

"So do you know where everything is at?" I ask.

"Yep, as long as they didn't move anything on me last time I was here. I'll go grab the cups as you fill them up, placing them into the mircowave. I'll then grab the packets. We both will make two,one for us the other for our men," LC says as she smiles.

"Alright sounds like a plan," I say.
I watch as she grabs four coffee cups( two tall ones and two that have the Pens logo on it) and sets them on the countier by me.

"Tall ones are for us and the Penguins for them," LC says as I begin to laugh a little.
So I take two fill them up then place them into the mircowave as I fill up the other two.
As the mircowave goes off, I turn to see LC getting then as I grab the other two off the countier and place them in.

"You want diet, rich chocolate, or milk chocolate?" LC asks as she stirs one of the packets into one of her cups.

"Milk Chocolate," I say, laughing.
She then places two packets onto the countier beside her.

Opening the mircowave door, I grab both cups as I quickly carry the hot cups over to the countier.
Setting the cups down, I grba one of the cocoa packets and rip it open.
The smell of the chocolate fills the air as I pour the packet into the Penguin logo cup.
I see a few spoons on the countier so before I grab one I ask" Did you place the sppons on the countier?"

"Yep" LC says as I pick one up to stir up the mix into the hot water.
After that one is mixed, I do the same for the taller cup.

"You ready?" LC asks.
I take out the spoon from the cup and place it into the sink.

"Yep," I say grabbing the cups that I made.
I follow LC out of the kicthen and head to the TV room.
Walking into the TV room, I seen that the boys had move the big coffee table near the fireplace.
On the table is a game and under the table were pillows

"Nice set up guys," I say as I walk over to the table.

"Thank you, which one is mine?" Sid asks as he gets up from off the floor.

"The Penguins one," I say.

Sid smiles saying" I should have known," as he takes the cup from my hand into his.
I then place my other hand on my cup.

"Who wants to be where?" Colby asks.
I want to be the closet to the fireplace.

"I want in front of the fireplace," LC says before I could say anything.

"Ok then I'll sit here," Colby says as he takes the end that was the closet to Sid's wing.

"Which spot do you want babe?" Sid asks.

"I'll take the end," I say as I carefully with my cocoa sit down.
When I got comfy, and sitting down, Colby places a deck of cards and uno onto the table.

"You picked card games?" I asks as we all begin to laugh.

"Yes, I like card games," colby says.

"Uno," Sid says as he flashes his smiles.
I breathe in.

"I'm in for Uno too,"I say
I then look at LC.

"Uno it is," LC says as Colby throws the deck of cards on the ground as he brougt up a spinner.

"UNO spin," Colby says in a deep voice.
Sidney shakes his head as he grabs the deck of cards.

"So who goes first?" LC asks.

"Colby does, he's left of the dealer," I say.
I've played this games alot, so I know all the rules mostly.

"Okie dokie," Colby says in response for LC.
LC then sliently hits him, causing a laught to up roar.
Sid then passes out five cards to all of us including himself.

My hands sucks, I have all greens as Sid flips over and puts a yellow eight as the starter card.

"Damn you Crosby," Army says as he began to draw.
This is going to be a long game.

About 45 minutes later, it is down to me and Colby for the win.

A read seven had just been placed down, so I have one card left, my victory card.

"Skip you and I win," I say as I watch Army's reactiong. He is so funny.

"I got beat by a girl," Colby says.

"I should have told you, I've played UNO all my life," I say.

"No wonder, let's play some poker," Colby says as he gets up to grab the other cards from off the floor.

"No Colby, we're playing UNO," LC says as Colby turns around and parks his butt where he got up from.

"Alright," Colby says in a whiney voice.
I grab the cards.

"I gotta deal, so Sid goes first," I say as I shuffle up the cards.

"Ok," Sid says as I pass out fives cards to each person.
I then flip over a read one to begin the game with.

"Darn it babe, you could have gave me green," Sid says as I smile

As everyone takes a turn, I see LC pushing Colby away from her.

"Don't touch my feet with your cold hands," LC says as I began to watch them.

"But, I love your feet," Colby says as I being to laugh.
Then I see LC getting up ready to attack.

"NO!!" Colby says as he shot up running.

"Get back here Armstrong!!!" LC exclaims as I hear Sid loud pitch laugh, causing me to luahg harder.
Paying my attention on Colby and LC, something hits my head.
Turning to Sid, he had this big grin on his face.

"Your going to get it Siddy," I say as Sid got up the sametime as I get up.

He took off as I follow him into the hall.
As I reach the stairs, I got up one but then I lose my footing causing me to fall down.

"Ouch," I say as I grab my knee, which is in needle like pain.

"You ok babe?" Sid asks as I look up to see him standing beside me.

"Yeah, I just didn't watch where I was going," I say

"Let me help you up," Sid says as I feel his hands on my waist.
Then he just helps me up onto my two feet.

"You alright Aaylah?" LC asks as she was in Colby's arms.
That brought a smile on my face seeing those two together.

"Yeah, I'm alright," I says as they walk ahead of us.
Sid holds my hand as we head back into the TV room behide Colby and LC.

"What time is it?" Colby asks.
I see Sid looking down at his rolex watch.

"3:30, we better begin to clean up," Sid says.
He let go of my hand as I walk and pick up the cups from off the table.
LC is picking up the pillows.
Walking from the TV room, I pass the dining room to walk up the one step into the kicthen. Going over to the sink, I turn on the water as I fill all four cups up with water.
Setting them down, I head out of there and back to the TV room.
As I walk, I see Sid and Colby lifting up the table to place it back by the couch.

"We're done," Colby says as I walk into the TV room area.

"Not yet," Sid says as I see this weird look on Colby's face
Sid walks over to the fireplace and presses the button like he did when we came in.

"Now we are done," Sid says.

"Ok, let's go eat," Colby says as I walk behide Sid as he leads the way to the front door.
As we reach the front door, a loud boom of thunder sounds.

"I hate storms," I say.
A hand grabs mine.

"You'll be alright," Sid says as he grabs an umberllia by the front door.

"Aren't those Marios and the kids?" LC asks as Sid opens the door, letting the cold wind hit against us.

"Yeah but I'll return them to him," Sid says as I follow him onto the porch, he opens the umberilla.

"Come on babe," Sid says as I turn seeing Colby and LC under another umberilla.
I get beside Sid as I wrap one of my arms around him.

"Who is sitting where?" Colby asks.

"You and LC in the back and yes all the doors are unlocked," Sid says as I stare out into the pouring rain.

"Ready babe?" Sid asks.

"Yes," I say.

"On three we run together. 1,2,3," Sid says as we head off the porch, running to his Range Rover.
As we get to it Sidney says" I'm gonna get up in first!"
I run beside him to the right side as he opens the door.

"Thanks," I says as I quickly get into the car.
Sid shuts the door as I watch him sprint to the driver side door.
As he opebs his door to climb in, I grab my seatbelt to buckle up.

"Ok that's done," Sid says as he shakes off his umberilla as he places it inbetween the seats.

"Did you get wet LC?" Colby asks as I hear the back door close.

"Nope, thanks for the protection," LC says.
Sid looks at me as he began his car up.

"Seatbelts," Sid says as he grabs his to cross his chest.
I look behind me as Colby and LC were leaning on one another.

"Yes dad," Colby says causing me to smile a bit.

"Alright," Sid says as I watch him back out.

He backs out as we turns the wheel to head out of the driveway
Stopping at the end, I watch as he looks both ways the turning to the left.

"So what does everyone want?" Sid asks.

"How about a buffet?" Colby asks.

"I could go for that too," I say.
I didn't want TGI Friday's again.

"Sounds good to me too," LC says.

"Alright Ryan's or Golden Correl?" Sid asks as he turns the car.

"Ryan's," I say.
I love their buns and butter spreading.

"No Golden Correl. Their food is better," Colby says.

"No it isn't Army," I say..

"Too,"Colby says.

"Which one do you want LC?" sid asks.

"Doesn't matter to me," LC says

"Ok then I'm making it," Sid says as he turns into a Ryan's parking lot.
Yes I won.

"Man you suck Crosby," Colby says as he slightly hits Sid's head.
Sid begins to laugh as he pulls into a parking place.

Will it be you?- Chapter 25(Part1)

"Aaylah get up babe, it's 7 o'clock," I hear Sid saying.
Rolling over, I open my eyes to see him looking down at me.

"Morning, i'm your alarm clock," Sid says as I smile and sit up in the bed.

"Thanks Sid," I say as I get up from the bed heading over to my bag.
Kneeling beside it, I unzip it and pull out a pink sweate.

"Your just changing your shirt?"

"Yes, there is no need to change my jeans. I haven't even been in them for 24 hours,'

"Yeah thats true. What would you like for breakfest?"

"Just a pop tart if you have it,"

"Ok,"
He smiles as he opens the door then closes the door as he walks out.
Shaking my head, I stand up and take off my jersey as I throw it on my bag as I place the pink sweater on.
Since i had my hockey clothes in the car, why not wear this.
I then I put the jersey in as I take out my brush to put my hair up.
Placing that back in, i grab out my tennis shoes as I zip it up for the final time.
Opening Sid's bedroom door, I walk out as I head to the living room.
No one was up, so I sat down quietly as I begin to put on my shoes as I hear the door opening.
i look up to see Sidney standing there with my pop tarts in one hand and a water in the other.\\

"This ok?" Sid asks as he comes around as he sets the items down to sit beside me.

"It's fine. We are going to have another date soon," I say as I finish tieing up my shoes.

"Yeah we diffenately are. So what time are you leaving?"
I look up at the clock thats reads 7:10.

"In five minutes," I say as I begin to eat.

"Alright, good luck in your first pratice,"

"You too Sid," i say as I swallow my food.

"Sorry about that,"

"Your fine babe,"
After I ate my last bite, I stood up as Sid does as well.

"Well I gotta go, so I'll see you later one before you leave tonight," I say.

"Alright. See you later," Sid says as he gives mme a kiss.

"Bye,"
I then open the door and walk out of his wing to the main house.
Walking through the halls, i find the front door.
As I open it, i hear foot steps from behide me.
turning around I see Sidney standing there.

"My bag is in your car. I didn't get it out last night," Sid says.

"Its ok. Follow me," I say as I smile as we head out of the house together.
Walking over to my car, I take out my keys from my pocket as I unlock the trunk.
Sidney leans in to grab his Penguins logo bag as he closes it.

"Thanks babe. See you later on after pratice," Sid says as he kisses me.

"When is your over?"I ask.

"About 1 to 1:30. do you know yours?"

"Not yet but I will,"

"alright call me to tell me,"

"Will do. Bye Sidney,"

"Bye Aaylah,"

I smile as i head over my car door.
Using my keys, I unlock the door and sit down into the drivers seat.
I began the car up as I close the door and buckle up.
Putting it into reverse, I back out the place it in drive to drive to the end of the driveway.
I then turn left as I head down to Southpointe rink.

Since it is going to be a long ride, I lean over alitte to turn on the radio to some music that will get me motiviated for pratice.


35 minutes later
I pull into the parking lot and i turn and park in my normal spot by the building.
turning off the car, I get out and head to the back of the car.
Taking my keys, i unlock the trunk and grab my hockey bag and one hockey stick.
I close it as i place the bag on my shoulders as i head onto the sidewalk.
Taking a deep breath, i open the door and walk in.

"Morning Aaylah, praticing?" Mark asks.

"Yeah but with my new team," I say.

"Congrats. The tigers are in the backrink, not the bigger rink. The Penguins will be in that one,"

"alright,see ya later.

"Enjoy your pratice,"

I head back to the last rink, I turn as an older lady turns around to look at me.

"Hello there. you part of the Pittsburgh Tigers?" she asks.

"Yes," i reply.

"Well i'm Coach Ginger. Who are you misses?" coach asks.

"Aaylah Thomason," i say.
She smiles as she hands me an ungly orange jersey.

"You are playing center today," she says.

"alright, is there any changing rooms around here?" I ask.

"yes right behide you. You can just leave your things in there,"

"Ok, thank you,"

I then turn around and walk over tothe dressing rooms.
Walking in, I saw a empty stall in front of me, so I walk on in and close the door.
Putting my bag on the ground and my stick in the corner, I sesure the door by locking it.
Kneeling down I put the jersey on the bench like thing, then I turn around unzipping my bag.

I pull out my shoulder pads, pads, helmet, my hockey bottoms, gears and of course my skates.

Changing from my jeans and sweater, I got in all my gear, which this is only my second time beinging in it.
Then i place all my stuff into the bag and zip it up.
Taking the orange jersey off the bench, I place it over my head as I look into the mirror.

I couldn't believe I am on a actual hockey team.

Bending over, I pick up my helmet(well sids helmet) and I place it on over my head.
It was loose but I didn't mind.

Grabbing my stick, i open the dressing room door and head out of the room the nacross the way to where the team is praticing at.

"Go ahead and warm up, Thomason," Coach Ginger says.
I nod my head as I hop onto the ice as I begin a skating routine that i normally do when I get onto the ice.

After I skate for a bit, I go over to a few girls who are shooting pucks.

"Can I shoot too?" I ask.

"Sure, I'm amy by the way and this is Ally and Melissa. Oh and our goalie, Haley," Amy says.

"It's nice to meet you all. I'm Aaylah," I say as I get into the back of the line.

"Nice to have you on our team, let's see what you got," amysays as she pushes the puck over to me.

Looking at Haley, I begin to pick up speed as I capture the puck on my stick as I whiz through Haley.
She is looking at me as I found a hole and shot the puck into the net.

"Wow that impressive,"
I skate around to face them.

"Thank you. My boyfriend showed me that. He's a hockey player too," I say.

"Well tell him thaks,"

Then a whisle blew as I skate behide the girls over to the side.

"Welcome returning and new Tigers. I'm pleases to say I can't wait to our season which begins on Saturday, so we will be meeting here for a bit. Our next practice is friday at 2 and Saturday before the game at 12, game is at 2.We will be playing at Mellon Arena on Saturday. So let's begin practicing. Ok team one is Thomason center, Johnson left wing, Knight right wing, Nichols and Sanderson defense and Haley as goalie. Second team is Sadler center, Malone right wing, Havens left wing, Stewart and Meyers defense and goalie is jacki,"

I skate over to center ice as I see Amy, Ally and Melissa are on my team.
I turn around as I get in position as a refree comes over.
I look at the puck and place my stick were it goes on the ice.
I was getting excited to actually play on a team.

"Ok 30 minutes a game. Begin!"

the puck drops as I pass it to skate up the line near the goalie.

"Pass it!!" I exclaim as Amy passes it to me as I skate but before I knew it, I am on the ice.

"Stewart box, 2 minutes checking. You ok Thomason," Coach asks as she comes onto the ice.

"Yeah I'm fine," I say as I get up and head for center ice to begin again.

About three hours later, I come skating off the ice beside the benches.

"Good work this morning ladies. I would like to see you back here at noon for training outside. We will meet at the University of Pittsburgh stadium which means Heniz field at the front door.
Get you something to eat and I'll see you at Heniz field in a couple hours," Coach says.

I begin to walk as I hear "Aaylah wait up,"
Looking behide me, I see Amy walking up.

"Nice prctice today. You play pretty good," Amy says.

"Thank you, you play well too," I say.

"thanks would you like to grab some lunch with me a few ofthe girls from the team?"

I look up at the clock, it was 10:45 and I didn't have anything planned today but, maybe going to see Sid practing for his game tomorrow.

"Sure why not. I need to know my teammates,"

"Ok meet in the lobby in say 7 minutes. that ok?"

"Yep, I'll be there,"

I head back into the room I once occupied when i had changed the first time.
Closing the door, I sit down on the bench and placing my stick down as I lift my bag onto my lap.
Unzipping it, I pull out my pink sweater, jeans, and tennis shoes and place them onto te floor as I set it down as I unlace my skates.
As I take them off I place the guards onto the them. I put them into the bag as I begin to strip from my hockey uniform.
Placing everything into my bag, I zip it up and change back into my normal clothes and shoes.

After changing, I pick up my bag from off the floor and place it on my shoulder as I grab my hockey stick.
I head out of the room and head tothe front lobby.

Walking back out to the lobby, I see Amy and a few of the girls standing there.
Taking a deep breath, i walk over to the girls.

"Seven minutes flat, nice. So since we are heading to Pittsburgh, where should we eat at?" Amy asks.

"How about to TGI Fridays on the North Shore by Heniz Field? It has a good river view," I say.

"Ok sounds good Aaylah. Oh this is Jacki, Jessica Sadler and Kkik Malone. Girls this is our new forward Aaylah Thomason," Amy says.

"Nice to meet you all," I say.

"You too. Welcome to the team Aaylah," Jessica, the blonde says.

"Thank you,"

"So what are driving arrangements going to be? All in one car?" Haley asks.

"Um well I can fit four people into my car and someone else will have to drive their car too so we all can get there," Amy says.

"I have to exclude myself. I have to pick up a friend after training," I say.

"Alright thats fine. Wait, one of us could ride with you and come back here with the other car," Haley says.

"That's a good idea Haley, so do you wantto tag along with her to the resarant?" Amy asks.

"Yeah I'll ride with here to the resturant," Haley says.

After a few more minutes of talking, they figured out who the second driver would be.
I then walk out of the door to the outside air of November.

"So which car is yours Aaylah?" Haley asks.

"The black BMW by the building to your right," I say as I head over to my car.

"Pretty nice car, how did you get this spot by the building cause I can't get this good of spot," Haley says as I head to the back of the car.

"I don't really know. I normally park here whenever I come to practice by myself," I say, opening the trunk up as I place my hockey bag and stick in.
When everything is in, I close the lid and heading to the driver's door.
Using my keys again, I unlock the car, which automatically unlocks all the doors as i use the keys.

"Go ahead and get in Haley. It's unlocke," I say as I climb into the car and began it up, closing the door.

"Nice interior. It's better then my cars interior," Haley says.

"I love the car, it works nicely,"

Turning around a little, I look both ways as I pull out out of my parking place and turn the wheel as I drive to the exit.
Flipping my blinker on, I turn right heading to downtown Pittsburgh.

"So where are you from Aaylah?" Haley asks.

"Pittsburgh, I've lived here my whole life. I am probably going to die here too. What about you?" I ask.

"Cleveland, Ohio. Don't beat me up,"
She begins to laugh as I laugh along side her.

"I won't do that. I'm too nice, so when did you decide to become a goalie?"

"Ally my life. My father played goalie in the AHL since the time I was born until he died five years ago,"

"Aww that's sad but, the good thing is that your a goalie for a good team,"

"Thanks, so when did you want to become a hockey player?"

"Actually I wanted to become on after my father died in 2002. Him and I would for hors just watch hockey and nothing but,"

"Aww, so actually when did you become a player?"

"About three and a half weeks ago,"

"Wow your a fast learner,"

"Yeah and i head some help from my boyfriend,"

"Aww that's nice of him to do that,"

"Yeah, I thank him alot for helping me. He was the one who go the try-out for the team,"

"I'm glad he did. We needed you,"

We begin to laugh as we just countine to talk somemore.

35 more minutes of driving later, I pull into the river front TGI Friday's by Heinz Field.
As Haley gets out of the car, the girls began to drive into the parking lot.

"Their here. They must have followed you," Haley says as I grab my keys out of the ignite and climb out of the car.
Closing thedoor shut, I head from theblack top the the concerte sidewalk.
As I look up, Amy was getting out of her car.

"I never knew this was even here," Melissa says as she follows Amy and a few others onto the sidewalk.

"I found it the other day when I was out here last," I say.

"Well let's not just stand here. Let's head inside. I'm straving," Ally says.

"Alright, I'm paying for todays lunch," Amy says as we head into the building, one following the other.

"You don't have to pay for me Amy. I can do it," I say as i get up beside her.

"It's alright Aaylah. We all pay for at least one dinner or lunch whenever we go out," Amy says.

"Well I'll feel bad if I let you pay for my lunch, when i have my own money,"

"Alright since your new, you can pay for your own but be warned, whoever is paying next pays for you to,"

"Alright,"
I give a quick smile.

"How many do we have today?" A waiterss asks.

"We have eight today but we have one paying for herself today," Amy says.

"Alright that is fine. Let me show you all to your table," she says as she leds us into the building as we head to a large table.

"A Waitor will be with you soon,"
She walks away as i sit inbetween Haley and Amy.

"So Aaylah since your new to our team, tell us a little about yourself," Jessica says.

"Ok, the first thing my name is Aaylah Thomason. I was born and raised in the Pittsburgh area. I have no slibings, only child is what i am. I am majoring a career for Early Childhood at the Community College of Allageny County. I like to read and write, i know I'm lame. I live life as I comes, not like year after years. Been an hockey fan all my life, well a Penguins fan all my life. I was a big fan of Mario Lemieux. Hockey became more important when my father passed away in 2002 and I've only been playing for three and a half weeks," I say, thinking it wasn't too personal.

"Three weeks?!" Kiki says.

"Yep i know it's a short time but, I've been getting help with it and all," I say.

"Well welcome to the team Aaylah. We are thankful to have you," Amy says as a waiter walks over to us.

"Hello ladies, here are your menus. What would you all like to drink?" he asks.

"Water," I say as i open my menus to look at it.
I might get the chicken style pasta.

"Ok I'll be back with your drinks,"
He walks off.

"So can you tell me about yourselfs?" I ask.

"Sure we can. I'll begin," Amy says.

As each girl goes, I got to know them much better but, before their intros were over the waiter walks out with someone to help him pass out our food.
It looks so good, as the waiter places it infront of me.
As I ate, I began to think about my 'hockey' life that I've been through since the day I was born.
The first pictures of myself, I was sitting in my dad's lap with a baby sized Mario Lemieux shirt on.
That picture always makes me smile.

I place my fork down as i look up at the clock that reads 11:53.
Training begins in seven minutes.

"Hey girls, dont we have training in a few minutes?" i ask.
Amy turns her head around.

"Yep, we better head on out so the coach doesn't yell at us too much," Amy says as she grabs the bigger recept out of the two as I grab the smaller one.
I get up from the chair i was sitting in and pushed it in as I follow Amy to the checkout line.
the other girls just walk pass us to go outside the door.

"Ma'am I can take you over here," A lady says as i move pass Amy and head to the register that was in front of her.
I hand the paper to her as i reach in my back pocket grabbing a twenty dollar bill that i knew was there.

"11.50," she says as i hand her the twenty.

"See you at training Aaylah, do you want me and Kiki to wait on you?" Amy asks.

"Please, so i can just follow or lead you guys in," i say.

"alright," Amy says as she walks out of the resturant.

"Eight dollars and fifty cents is your change. Have a great day,"

"Thank you too,"
I then fold the money and place it into my pocket as I head out of the door.
Grabbing my keys from my pocket, I turn to my right and head down off to the sidewalk to my car.
I unlock my door as I climb onto my combfy seats of my seat.
Placing the keys into the inginte, I grab my door hand and close my door shut.
I grab my seat belt from behide me as I cross it over my chest to clip it into place.
Looking both ways of the parking lot, I place my car into reverse as i slowly back out of my parking space.
Turning the wheel, I move it into drive as I drive to the back end of Amy's car.
I then hit my car horn to let them know that it was me.
Kiki began to move as she, Amy, and myself get into the left turning lane.
I flick on my left blinker, as the light turns to the green arrow.
Taking both of my hands, I grab the wheel and turn it to the left as i left it slip smoothly through my hands.
Since the field wasn't too far away, I figure I shouldn't turn on the radio.
To my left, I see the Carigene Science center and looking head is Heniz Field on my right side.
As the traffic light comes up, Amy's flicks on her right blinker as I turn on my mine, driving over to the far right lane.
Turning the wheel to thr right, I got onto the street then I take a sharp left into the parking lot.
The parking lot was not really full at all.
Turning to the left, I slowly park into a front parking place by the field.
Shutting off my car, I remove the keys and unbuckle.
I get out of the car, as I see the others doing the same.

"Hey Aaylah, do you have anyworkout clothes?" Ally asks.

"I dont know. Hold on," I say as I walk to the back of my car.
Using my keys, I pop open the trunk.
I see my bag and some clothes off to the side of it, so I pick them only to fine one outift of clothes.

"Yeah I do but only one pair," I say as I close the trunk with my clothes in my hand.

"Alright," ally says.

Walking in between the cars, i hop onto the sidewalk that would lead me to the field.
I see most of the girls on the sidwalk as Kiki jumps onto the walk.

"Let's get moving before coach has out heads," Amy says as I get beside Haley.

"Youready for your first intense training?" Haley asks as we follow the girls into the double doors.

"Yeah i think I can handle it," I say.

"Alright be prepared to have an ache somewhere on your body," Haley says as we walk through another set of doors as we begin walking onto the green field.
Looking up, all I see is the yellow seats the the blue sky.
Walking more in, I see the coach by the benches.

"Come on girls get in here. We've been waiting for you," Coach says as we all jog a little to make our way over to the benches.
We follow one another and sat down on the bench by our other three teammates.

"Ok I know a few of you are new, so today we will have my friend, charlie in here and we'll be doing things just like in the military so I'll be paring you up. So go change and meet me in center field, so we can begin," Coach Ginger says.
I get off the bench as I follow right behide Haley so I can find out where the changing room was.

Walkig into the same doors as before, I turn left as I walk into a room with stalla.
Passing the stalls, I walk into a room with dividers.
I got into the first stall and close the door behide me.

"Wait in the locker room after you all change," I hear Amy say.
Placing the clothes onto the bench, I strip from my sweater and jeans.
Grabbing my other clothes, I put on a black apri of exercising shorts and a purple shirt that says "Hockey Queen" on it.
Picking up my other clothes, i place them on this short bench as I open the door.
Walking out of that room and into the bigger locker room are with detailed Steeler logos.

"Nice shirt Aaylah," Jessica says.

"Thank you, my mom made it for me," i say, trying not to cry.

"You have an awesome mom, mine wouldn't do that,"

"Yeah alot of mom's done,"
I couldn't reveal my pain to people who are so new to me.

As a few minutes pass, everyone has made their way into the locker room.

"Let's move out," Amy says as we follow her out and back to the field.
Walking out this time, I see a few different things as we head to center field.

"Ok ladies we have a schedule today. So let's begin by running 10 times around the field. Go!," She says as she blew the whisle.
I begin to jog from center to the side.
This isn't going to be so hard.
As I contiune to run, I am thinking about my father and how proud he would be of me..

Dream
"Hey daddy," I say as I walk up to him as he is sitting down on our old looking porc.

"This is my hockey queen," Dad says as I sit beside him.

"Oh daddy. I have something to tell you,"

"Well go ahead and tell me. Hope it is good news,"

"It is. I made it on a women's hockey team,"

"That's fantastic babygirl. I'm so proud of you," Dad says as we both get up so he could hug me.
He is s proud of me.


"Come on Aaylah," Jessica says as I try to make the past up as I go pass the beginning to stop.

For the rest of the practice was so intense that it's painful to me.

"Bring it in girls," Coach says as I slowly begin my walk back to her, which she is all the way in center field.

Reaching center field, i fall down beside Haley.

"Bery good training work today. I want to make another training for tomorrow but, I'm not. So we will meet Friday at 2pm, the Pointe. Then be at Mellon Arena by noon on Saturday so we can have a practce before the game at 2:30. Go ahead and change.
Have a great rest of the day. Desmissed,"

Slowly getting up from off the ground, i head slowly to the locker room behide a few of the girls.
Reaching the door, i walk into the room.
I then walk over the stall/changing area.
Walking into the same stall, I close the door.
Slowly, I change from my exercising clothes back into my jeans and sweater.
Zipping up my sweater, I grab my dirty clothes and open the stall door and walk out.
I then walk into the big locker room to see the clock on the wall reads 1:05.

"See you on Friday Aaylah. It was a good day today," Haley says.

"See ya then, bye," I say to everyone as i head out of the locker room.
I walk back out the way that i came in.
Pushing open the double doors, I walk to the outside to see all the cars.
Walking down the sidewalk, I stop as I see my black car.
Turning down the driver side, I take out my keys to unlock the door.
Opening it up, I quickly get in and shut the door.
Putting my keys into the car as I began it up, throwing my exercising clothes into the backseat.
Then i grab my seatbelt, to cross it over my shoulder and clip it into place beside me.
Before I place it into reverse, I lean over my passinger seat to grab my cell phone.
Opening it up, I dial LC's cell number as I place it up to my ear before i pull out.
Placing it into reverse, I look both ways as I turn the wheel to the left to back out.
Quickly I change it to drive.

"Hey Aaylah," Lc says.

"Hey I'm running a few minutes late, but i'm on my way," I say as I turn out on the road.
I then look as I hop into the right turning lane as I click on my blinker.

"That's ok, so how was practice?" LC asks as I right, heading for CCAC.

"Practice was good, so was training. The running was the worst part of today. How was school?" I ask.

"They were alright,"

"Ok well I should be at front soon,"

"Ok see you then,"
I hit end on my cell as I throw it onto my passinger seat.
As the time passes, I turn my right blinker one as I pull into the school lot.
Taking a left turn, I pull up into the front of the building as I see LC standing there.
Stopping the car, she smiles as she walks over and opens the door up.
I then lean over and grab my cell from off the seat as she gets into the car.

"You look tired," LC says as she closes her door.

"I am. My coach pushed me so much today in training," I say as I pull away from the curb as I head for the exit.

"When is your next practice?" LC asks as I turn left to the light.

"Friday at two. She is giving us a day off plus, I couldn't go tomorrow,"
I then turn the wheel to the right to end up on the road heading to the lemieux household.

"Yeah,you have classes right?" LC asks.

"Yep, classes on thrusdays and labs on Tuesdays," I say.

"Oh got ya, since your a junior/"

"Yep, i got an advanage,"

"Yes you do, so what are we going to do after our boys leave tonight?"

"We can pack your stuff up and move you into my apartment tonight,"

"Ok, thats a good idea cause I would be alone in sid's wing while he is gone and thats no fun,"

"Ok, then perfect timing," I say.

"Yeah, so what are we doing after classes tomorrow?" LC asks.

"We can do some food shopping cause i know that food is probably bad and then we can do homework.
Near game time we could order some food,"

"That sounds awesome,"

About 20 minutes later, I turn right and pull into the Lemieux driveway.

Update

no this isn't an update to the story.
I just want to let everyone know that it might be until the weekend until i get the new chapter up, so bare with me.
My life is kinda hecktic right now.

well in other news, I will be posting a brand new story come on Sunday afternoon, if the Penguins win their game, if not it will be posted on Monday evening.

So I hope you all have a good rest of the week and oh the most important thing is....
GO PENGUINS!!!!!!