A Hockey Player's Guide to Life

Chapter 1

Rule 7 – A Teammate has their teammate's backs

Derek and Casey had been together for the last two days, in airports, and now they were on the bus. Though Derek was sitting a row behind her, and attempting to blare his music as loud as he could but he could still hear her chatter. Suddenly her head whipped around her hand ripping the head phones off of his ears.

"OMG I just saw the first sign!" She squealed.

"Yea, so?" Derek asked rather sarcastically.

"We're almost there! Aren't you excited?" She asked.

"I'm not a dork like you Case, I can keep my excitement inside." Derek snarled.

"Aw come on Derek, aren't you excited to start at Queens?" Casey asked.

"Of Course, but I know how everything's going to go!" Derek responded calmly, reclining back in his seat.

"And how is everything going go?" Casey asked mockingly

"I'll have a stellar Hockey career, I'll have the easiest courses, and of course I'll have all the girls chasing me." Derek responded.

"You Pig!"

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Finally being able to ditch Casey was a dream come true. As Derek made his way to his room he filled his mind with the thoughts of new girls and his new room mate, which he hoped would be almost as cool as him. As Derek dragged his last bags up to his dorm room he heard the loud boom of something smashing in his room. Derek fumbled with his key and then threw the door open. Standing over an overturned box was an boy about his height with short black hair. He had pale skin and tons of freckles and he seemed to be screaming at his phone.

"LOOK my room mate's here if I see Mr. Cuddles I will call you immediately." And with a click he hung up on the other person.

"I give her five seconds to call back." He snarled throwing the phone onto a pile of clothes he had obviously dislodged from his pack. "Hi, I'm Adam, you must be Derek." He introduced, sticking out a hand as his cell phone rang again.

"Angry girlfriend?" Derek asked as he shook his new room mate's hand.

"Worse, sorry but if I don't pick up now she won't leave me alone." He suddenly stated, picking up again. Derek laughed to himself,

"You have my box of what? Well then that means…" he suddenly cried ripping open a box. One he lifted the panels a cloud of fluff erupted through the room. "Oh, I found Mr. Cuddles… and I don't think he made it. Yep, yep, I'll bring them over, and you can give me back my box of, of, ok, just don't watch any of those promise?" And then he hung up again.

"Sorry bro, gotta go trade her stuffed animals for my um… adult DVDs." Adam cried out, grabbing his key and picking up the box of animals. "We'll party later alright? I've got a few parties lined up."

"Sounds awesome, sounds like we're going to be good friends." Derek responded clapping a hand to his new found friends shoulder.

"Hey, you're a hockey boy, just like me, us teammates need to stick together. Don't worry, teammate, I've got your back."

"How do you know we're going to be teammates?" Derek asked

"Simple, we're in the Hockey scholarship room, we've got a permanent spot." Adam responded heaving the box up into his arms. "Get the door for me?"

Derek watched Adam leave and then went to packing, knowing that this was probably going to be his new best friend.