
Don't Back Up, Don't Back Down
They're Here
We get back and there has to be am least half the town. I grab Tyler's hand and run inside. Patrick and Brad are looking out the window at everyone. "I think we should go out and sign autographs. That's sounds like a good idea." I hear Patrick say. "Don't take a step out there! They will come after you!" I scream at them. I walk outside and ask them what is going on, why they are all at my house. "Oh don't play stupid with us, Casey." It comes from a fimilar voice. Jenna Smith. "What are you doing here, Jenna? I thought you stopped coming round here five years ago." She only came for the players. They are all wearing hockey shirts. Every person in that crowd. When I go to this town they could hardly tell me their own states team. I tell them all to get lost. None of them do so I walk back inside. Patrick and Brad are standing by the door wanting to go sign anything the people brought. I tell them to go, I'm tired of looking out for their asses. They are out the door in less than a minute. Tyler comes and finds me in my bedroom. "Hey Casey. Why don't you want them to sign anything?" I talk softly because I know they can hear me with all my windows open. "Because they are more football people than anything. They know nothing about hockey. What the positions are, what the rules are, any teams, they only know some players, hell, they hardly know what a penalty box is!" Tyler looks confused. "It's just. They are all bandwagoners and puck bunnies. It would be like going to a soccer game and asking what teams they are playing. Most of them are only here because you guys are attractive." He comes over and hugs me. I don't know why, he just does. He pulls me outside to stand next to him. "Well, look over here," another voice I know better than Jenna's," it looks like little Casey is hangin round with these here players." I see his face. It's Chase and did he look like he was beat backwards with a crowbar. "Now listen here Casey. Me and a couple of the boys were gonna go out. Wanna join us and bring them along? It could be like a date for us." He winks at me. Before I start going off about how it looks like his horse, Thunder, kicked him in the face, Tyler steps up. "Well, that would be kinda tough to have her boyfriend at your date, now wouldn't it?" He puts his arm around me and I now understand he is talking about him. I look at Chase who seems utterly confused, "yeah. Can't go for the date but we still might go. Go back to Jenna. She might want you." I have known these guys for 2 days and Tyler is already lying to them about being my boyfriend. I walk inside and see Patrick with some girl on my couch and Brad with another girl in a chair. "What the fuck do you think y'alls is doing? This shit don't fly in my neck of the woods. Go somewhere else." Patrick and Brad look like they might strangle me but get up and leave. I hear the door slam and muttering about how I'm being a bitch to them. I go and lay down on the couch. Tyler goes and sits down in a chair and watches TV. I slowly start falling asleep and tell Tyler to wake me up in about two hours. I hear, "take a nap then we can go convince them you are my girlfriend." I fall asleep and dream about bandwagoners and puck bunnies taking over my house. It was a nightmare.
7/25/13