Noah:
Ryan walked up to us, his lips in a small smile, his eyes darting to Kimberly and then to me. I pulled her closer, hearing her groan a little. There was no way I was letting him get anywhere near her.
“Coach,” I called out, not taking my eyes off the snake standing in front of me. “You didn’t tell us that we were going to play with the vipers.”
“I’m the coach. I don’t need to tell you anything. My job is to make sure that you don’t make a fool of yourselves on the ice.”
A deep exhale escaped my nostrils. Coach William had the most bizarre training regimen, and it wasn’t far from him to set up a session like this.
“What happened to their coach?” I asked my team members, standing up and flanking me, as we stared our greatest rivals down.
“Sick for the day. So I told him that his
