Chapter 22

CHAPTER 22

THE DREAM TEAM

Alec: Van. Dude. I don't know if Dumbo's right and your stomach is jacked up, but you have lost your mojo.

Wyatt: Did he ever have mojo?

Logan: Aw, look at one of the newest additions to the text thread—coming in hot with the burns.

Wyatt: It was actually a legit question

Wyatt: I haven't seen him play like anything other than how he's been lately

Wyatt: Which is terrible, by the way

Eli: LOL

Nathan: The best burns are the unintentional ones.

Felix: I think those are just called the truth.

Van: My stomach is fine and you all suck

Van: THAT'S the truth

Felix: IBS isn't anything to be ashamed of.

Van: Will everyone just SHUT UP about my bowels

Alec: We might. If you stopped skating like one giant bowel.

Logan: Maybe he just has IS—Irritable Syndrome.

Logan: Or SASS—Sucks at Skating Syndrome.

Eli: Also, what was up with you and Amelia? Why did she run out of the interview?

Alec: And why did you chase her?

Felix: Uh-oh.

Nathan: Does it have anything to do with why you broke another stick?

Wyatt: He broke a stick?

Eli: He broke ANOTHER stick?

Logan: I'm less interested in sticks and more interested in what Van said to make THE COACH'S DAUGHTER run away.

Logan: And also why neither of you two idiots stopped him.

Eli: I knew something happened on your trip. I KNEW IT. Didn't I tell you guys something happened?

Van: NOTHING HAPPENED

Felix: We warned you not to mess with Amelia. Didn't we warn him?

Nathan: We did.

Alec: We absolutely did. But earlier they were having like some whole other conversation while Eli and I tried to figure out what they were talking about.

Logan: A whole other conversation about what?

Van: NOTHING. It was a normal conversation.

Eli: I will testify to the fact it was NOT normal.

Camden: So what specifically made her run out of the room?

Eli: Nice of you to join us, Cam. I forgot you were on this text thread.

Alec: I think I was talking about Van's dating life.

Logan: That's enough to make any woman run away.

Van: Ha ha

Eli: Maybe Amelia was jealous?

Logan: Did she LOOK jealous?

Eli: She looked like she was about to cry.

Nathan: You can't make the coach's daughter cry. Then he'll make us cry.

Felix: What happened after that?

Van: Nothing

Logan: You didn't find Amelia?

Van: I didn't say that

Logan: Do I need to send Parker to find her?

Van: No

Van: Amelia's just fine

Alec: So you DID find her?

Eli: You guys. When is Van ever not willing to talk about anything? The fact that he won't say anything is as good as an admission of guilt. SOMETHING HAPPENED WITH HIM AND AMELIA.

Felix: Please say it's not true.

Van: It's not true

Logan: Define the "it" in that text.

Alec: Van? You still here?

Eli: Yo Van

Wyatt: I think it's safe to say he left the group text

Felix : This does not bode well …

Eli: Anyone want to tell me what bode means?

Logan: It means get a dictionary and also that Van and the rest of us are all in trouble.

Alec: Maybe it also means we should have shut up and tried to TALK to him instead of giving him a hard time.

Nathan: Sounds like a job for the captain …