CHAPTER FOURELIJAH’S POVThe next few days went by faster than I expected. Training became more intense, and Coach Andrew wasn’t making things easy for any of us. Every day, he found something new for us to work on, whether it was our speed, passing, shooting or how quickly we reacted when things didn’t go the way we expected. I was still sore most mornings, but I had gotten used to it by now. I would wake up, complain to myself for a few minutes, then get ready and continue with my day. Hockey had always been like that for me. No matter how tired I was, I always found myself going back to it.Ryan and I had also gotten worse.It wasn’t like we hated each other or anything, but there was definitely something between us now. Every training session somehow turned into another competition. If I scored, he wanted to score. If he made a good pass, I wanted to make a better one. Even when Coach Andrew told us to stop competing against each other, we somehow still ended up doing it without
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