Every time Lacey went for figure skating lessons, she’d watch the boys at the other end of the rink with their hockey lessons and wonder.
“I want to try that,” she said.
Her mom was horrified, but her dad said that Lacey’s teeth were coming in crooked anyway, why not get the rink paying for new ones.
She was fast and could turn on a dime.
Some moose crashed her into the boards, and she was out cold for a minute.
The team dropped her after that, but now and then she still played pickup games out on the lake.