It's the Stanley Cup playoffs again. Pittsburgh Penguins at Chicago Blackhawks game 7. I'm wearing Brandon's away jersey since he is home. Third period. Pittsburgh has 3 we have 4. Pittsburgh gets a goal and we tie 4-4. In the last 2 minutes, Andrew Shaw gets a breakaway. He's going he's going, the crowd starts to stand and he makes it! Only about a minute and a half to go. Crawford seems especially on target today. The count down starts. 10 seconds to go and I find myself standing. 5 seconds I am almost screaming. It's over! They won! The Hawks won again! Its been a few years since the last cup. Every other girlfriend or wife is dressed nice and camera ready. I am in ripped jeans, Brandon's jersey, and converse. I look extremely out but I don't care. They tell us it is time to go see the players. I look around for Brandon and find him almost instantly. I run over and he picks me off the ground. He holds me, whispering in my ear, "we did it baby. We won another cup! Fuck yeah!" I laugh at the 'fuck yeah' because I hardly hear him swear. He picks me up and skates over to his family. As Brandon puts me down, his brother says, "hey Brandon. Your skate looks a little untied. Might want to tie that so you don't trip." Brandon reaches down to tie his skate. I look at them both, but see they are fine. He pulls something out of his skate. I am confused. Brandon looks at me. "Jennifer Johnsen. I love you, and always will. Will you marry me?" I feel my emotions overflowing and look at his mom. She is crying tears of joy. "Yes! Yes I will!" I scream. Jonathan and Patrick skate over just as Brandon picks me up and kisses me. Jonathan says, "eh Shots. Now we can add you to the Hawks family." They both hug me and Brandon. I step over to his parents to talk with them. Brandon pulls me back and picks me up. He goes over to Corey, Andrew, Bryan Bickell, and Duncan Keith with me in his arms. "Hey guys!" he yells, "We fucking won and I'm getting married!" Corey in his goalie gear comes and engulfs me in a hug. It feels like a bear is grabbing you. He finally let's go and Andrew, Bryan, and Duncan all come in for a hug. I somehow get stuck in the middle of a big Hawks hug. I feel the love from every side of me. Once they let go, we go to everyone else to tell them. Everyone seems ecstatic about the news. Finally we call my parents. "MOM! DAD! BRANDON PROPOSED!" I hear my mom start crying and my dad saying congratulations. I hang up and turn around to see Brandon with the cup. He has it and is screaming. He kisses it and skates around with it for a while. He let's me touch the cup. This day couldn't get any better. He hands the cup off to Corey and Corey skates around with it. The Hawks seems like a third family to me, after mine and Brandon's. I tell my brother and they don't seem that interested. I hang up and get smooshed in another Hawks sandwich. This time with Jonathan, both Patrick's, Corey and Brandon. I don't even care anymore. It makes me feel more like part of the team. I hear them all start laughing and they start jumping up and down, forcing me to jump with them. This lasts another 5 hours then we all go to bars and clubs. I get with the magic group, Toews, Kane, Sharp, Crawford. Most of these people is where "Shots" came out of. Jonathan walks into a bar with us behind him and him hoisting the cup. We get rounds and rounds of drinks. Finally I say I have to eat something. So we all go over to the nearest hotdog place. I tell them it can't be any hotdog, it HAS to be a Gene and Jude's hotdog. We have a limo driver and make him drive us to Gene and Jude's. We leave the cup in the limo and stand there. I have to order for all of us because they are too drunk to even stand straight. We get in the limo, give the driver one and go. At everyone's first bite I see their faces light up. Probably because it is the best damn hotdog in all of the Chicago area. We finish them and go to another bar. By the time we are dropped off it is 7:30am the next day. We have partied for nine and a half hours straight. We go to Brandon's house. We pass out almost as soon as we see the bed. We wake up at 6pm and restart this entire process for the next 5 days until the parade. At the parade, I sit on the bus with Brandon, Andrew, and Corey. Patrick and Jonathan are on the front bus with the cup. Brandon runs over to me and picks me up like Jonathan is doing the cup. He brings me down and kisses me. We hear shouts of congratulations. Brandon goes and sits down at the back of the bus, bringing me with him. We sit there and talk with Andrew and Corey and all of them wave. The bus slows down and stops in front of a giant crowd. I hear someone yell "IS THAT THE SAADMOTHER THEN!?" and Brandon and I both laugh. When we finally get to the rally, there is about 4 million people in front of us. Corey makes a better speech and Patrick is still drunk. Brandon makes a speech too saying how happy he is about this. Jonathan brings out the cup and makes a quick speech. Then Chelsea Dagger plays as everyone gets up to dance. I am surrounded by an entire team of drunks, but it is fun. As we walk back to the buses, there starts a team singing of Chelsea Dagger as well as on the way back to the UC. We stop at a red light and I just hear "ITS ONE FOR THE DAGGER AND ANOTHER FOR THE ONE YOU BELIEVE!" being screamed at the same time from each bus. Back at the UC Coach Q gives them all a little half drunken talk and tells them to have an amazing off season and when each of them will get the cup. I drive back to Brandon's house andwe get ready to go over to Patrick Kane's house for a barbeque. As we are about to leave, I realize what Brandon has done. He brought me into the Hawks family, loves me like no one ever has, and made me fall for him. Once we pick a day, I will be marrying the best thing that has ever happened to me and will be extremely excited in doing so. Also, seeing Patrick Kane try to keep up dancing with my family.