“Dick.”
“Sure you’re head’s in it, Crawley?”
“My head’s fine.” I flung it back at him as he hit the corner and we crossed each other at the crease, skating down the opposite side.
We were getting faster, the puck still moving back and forth between us; Felix barely catching the last one I flung his way.
“Come on, you gotta do better than that.” He tossed it back over, flinging it up so high that there was no way I was going to get it. It caught the end of my blade and bounced onto the ice. “That’ll be a benny, I do believe.”
I shook my head, laughing, and started my push-ups, Felix skating over to make sure I did them all. I was so pumped up from the past thirty-six hours that I finished them in record time.
I sat back on my haunches, grinning up at him.
“I take it you didn’t get laid then.” His head fell back as he laughed at his own joke.
I jumped up on my skates. “Fuck off. I haven’t got laid in eleven months; I can wait a bit longer.”
He rubbed his head, hard. “Shit, I think my balls would fall off if I went without for that long. I don’t know how you’ve done it.” He looked at me intently. “Seriously, I admire you, dude. I know the last year hasn’t been easy.”
“Thanks, but it’s not that admirable. I just couldn’t picture anyone else but her, I didn’t want to be with anyone else but her.”
We skated over to the pucks and started gathering them up before the morning drills. Coach would be taking the rookies through their paces.
“Good job you found her then, isn’t it?”
Truer words had never been spoken.
“Yeah.” I couldn’t keep the smile from sneaking up.
“When are we going back to spinning? Don’t tell Wolf, but it was fucking hard. I’m sure that’s why my hamstrings were sore.”
I knew I’d seen him hobbling. Served him right.
My head fell back, laughing hard. “You’re such a pussy. You’re not wrong though.”
He knocked the pucks over to where the bag was still on the boards. “So, what’s the plan? And when am I going to meet her properly?”
“I’m going to see her tomorrow. I’m not waiting around for this; I’ve been waiting too fucking long as it is.” I repeated what I’d told Freddie.
“What are you two ladies gassing about?
We turned to see Huck standing by the boards.
Felix slapped me on the back. “Drew’s recently unbroken heart.”
“Yeah? How does that feel?”
“Fucking fantastic.” I sent some pucks to his feet. “Make yourself useful and put these in the bag.”
“I would, but I’m telling you, my fucking hamstrings after that spinning class… they’re on fire. I could not fucking move yesterday without them burning.”
“Man, I feel you. I just came from PT.”
I looked between the two of them, whining like little kids. “Not just for girls then?”
“Fuck no, I take that back.”
“Good, because we’ll be returning.”
