And the last things I think about before I drift off are dimples and the taste of peppermint.
5
YAPPING THE NIGHT AWAY
Elliot
MONDAY
Alex
Good morning sunshine! It’s a beautiful Monday, the beginning of a beautiful week! Get out there and make the most of the day!
Elliot
Okay first of all, your bag absolutely does not match your team’s colors. Gold, red, gray and neon green? Disaster. Do you wear that thing everywhere?
Second of all, you texted me a mirror selfie at five a.m. on a Monday?Are you insane?
Alex
And you took five hours to text me back. Tsk tsk, new friend. That’s lazy bear behavior. Don’t you have practice today? We had to be on the ice at seven and I had to get a workout in before then.
And yes. I wear Franny everywhere, and she goes with everything, thank you very much.
Elliot
No practice. Unless we’re playing Monday or Thursday Night Football, we have Mondays off. I’m not a lazy bear! I’m a *resting* bear, there’s a difference.
Alex
You football players have it so easy, one game a week for eighteen weeks. How do you fill all that free time?
Elliot
Coming from the hockey player. You guys play for, what, four minutes at a time?
Alex
Uh, Mr. Pot, I’d like you to meet my friend, Mr. Kettle. You might get along really well, you’re the exact same color. You’re a kicker, El. I could probably count on one hand the total number of minutes you’ve spent on the field in your entire career. And I’m a goalie, we don’t play in shifts.
But you know that already. You’ve been watching me, Baker ;)
Elliot
Guilty as charged, Holmes. Though one could argue…if you know how many minutes I’ve spent out on the field…
Alex
Last year you made twenty-eight out of thirty-six field goal attempts, an average of 77.8%. In the postseason, you brought your average up, making ten out of eleven tries. Overall, your average went down half a percent from the previous season, but you made eleven more attempts that season.
Elliot
You’ve been watching me, too.
Alex
Call it having a vested interestin my new friend.
