Elian- Alex was in front of me, I put my phone away in a hurry and encouraged him with my eyes to continue-. It’s just an idea but, I used to play hockey with my cousin, when we were kids. I would never think of him for the team if we weren’t in a desperate situation, maybe…
-Great- I cut him off-, can you tell him to go to the rink tomorrow?- his eyes lit up. He nodded-. Perfect. I’ll make a group with all of us, I’ll send news and training schedules. You can send whatever you want too- he nodded again, he gave me the contacts of the rest and, after adding them, when I had to name the group I stopped-. Does the team have a name?
-They called us the “ice children” but I never liked it- and I couldn’t find any reason to deny it, it sounded horrible, it didn’t inspire fear, motivation or talent. It seemed like the name of some amateurs, I couldn’t allow my team to enter a tournament with that name. Not while I was alive.
-We’ll think of another one later. That will be our first group objective- while we were returning to the road I was writing in the group:
“Captain Elian speaking: our first objective will be to get a new, nice and reckless name for the tournament. Second objective will be to get the remaining members. There will be training tomorrow at 6 in the morning”
-Six in the morning?- I heard Noah shout-. you’re crazy, Cap.
-What time do you usually train?- I asked, in fact, I should have asked before. I was the new one there, I was the one who had to adjust to the existing schedule.
-We start at nine at night.
-It’s very late- I was surprised, with that schedule the training would end around midnight.
-Listen, I go to bed at four in the morning. If we follow your schedule then I’ll only sleep for two hours and I can’t play clearly if I sleep for two hours, right?
-Why don’t you sleep earlier?- I asked raising my hands in the air.
-Guys. Elian is our captain now, he’s not just a member of the group. Why don’t we try to follow his schedule for a week?
-A week- Noah agreed raising a finger.
-Leave it, he’s being dramatic- out of nowhere Lan was next to me, I jumped away-. I should be the one to go away, Blake- he snapped raising an eyebrow-. I have a hurt shoulder, that’s all, you don’t have to look at me as if I were a wounded animal.
-You can keep playing with a hurt shoulder- I found myself saying-, that’s not the reason you quit hockey, right?
-I didn’t quit- he clarified-, I just focused on something else.
-Why?
-I wasn’t the only one who got hurt. I had the best of it, I couldn’t get back on the ice after that.
-What’s “that”?
-I’ll tell you if you guys win the tournament- he smiled as his eyes sparkled.
-I’m not a little kid- I said with a grimace-, I won’t die for not knowing your secret. And we don’t have much chance of winning either.
-Why can’t you stop looking at the problems and relax?
-I’ll tell you if we win the tournament- I returned. Lan laughed out loud.
