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Re: Remorse -- An NHL 10 BAP
Ned Blake awoke to the blaring siren emanating from his well-placed alarm clock.
He glanced over his shoulder to view the time, and saw it was well past noon.
Time to get up, he thought grimly.
He slowly made his way through his morning stretches, cracking his weary bones.
Once he was done, he grabbed a towel from his closet, swung it over his right shoulder, and walked out the door, towards the bathroom.
He stifled a yawn, then, and stopped in his footsteps to stretch once again.
All of a sudden, he felt a gush of wind blow by him as his sister, Jennifer, blazed past him, and into the bathroom.
“GOD DAMNIT JENN!” he yelled.
He banged on the door, but it was no good, as his sister did a damned good job of ignoring him.
“Mom!” He shouted down.
“What is it, honey?” His mother asked sweetly.
“Jenn stole the bathroom from me!”
“Just let her finish in peace, I'm sure there are better things you can be doing.”
Ned grumbled his approval before stomping back to his room as loudly as possible.
His sister had finally finished her time in the bathroom, and Ned quickly dashed in, and closed the door behind him.
He glanced in the mirror and inspected his face.
He was, what he had often heard before, “Good-looking”. He had a short crop of light brown hair with relatively thick eyebrows and a somewhat muscularly built face. He rubbed a hand against his chin, feeling for hairs.
“Damn,” he said to himself. No luck. For about a year, the sixteen year old boy had been trying to grow a beard. He had wanted to impress a girl in his school. He had thought that hockey would be enough, but apparently, she only had eyes for the constantly partying football players.
What was it that set him and those talentless brutes apart? It couldn't be money; they were all dirt poor.
Why did Natasha insist on ignoring him, the captain and star of the successful ice hockey team, a future superstar?
It was true. Already, NHL scouts flocked to various games to see his performances in net. There was a good deal of multi-page articles solely on him from various hockey magazines.
The Hockey News titled him “The next Patrick Roy,” while ESPN Magazine had made him a cover athlete one issue, which surprised him greatly. ESPN doesn't ever do hockey nowadays.
The fact that he was so widely heralded did nothing for Ned's confidence, however. Instead, it undermined it. What would happen if he failed? Not only would he fail himself, his parents, his family and friends ; he would also have failed the entire hockey community, as an entity.
He took one great sigh at that though, and, with thoughts of celebrating his first Stanley Cup with his family, and Natasha, on his mind, he disrobed and stepped into the warming shower.
All was good in the house of the Blake's. Yet soon, an unknown presence, an unknown force, would penetrate the walls of the house through a family member, and nothing will ever be the same again.
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08-15-2009, 07:28 PM
