"Okay one more step."

"Tyler you're freaking me out," Zoe said, putting her hands out so she wouldn't fall. Tyler had showed up at her new office and snatched her out of work. Her new job. That she had just started. A day ago.

"I know the transition has been rough," Tyler was talking about Zoe leaving everything in Chicago so she could be closer to Tyler, "But I thought this might help."

Tyler pulled his hands down, away from Zoe's eyes and she flickered them open. In front of her, on their bed was a puppy. A newborn puppy.

Zoe just stood there speechless. She put her hands up to her mouth before running towards when the puppy sat with wide eyes.

"Oh my god Tyler."

"I remember you telling me on the phone one night how you had always wanted a puppy and your parents would never get you one so I thought this might help with your homesickness," Tyler said before realizing his sentence hadn't made much sense. But before he could re-say it Zoe was already kissing him. The puppy barked making Zoe pull away from Tyler.

"So...what should we name it?"

-------

Michaela was walking down the street coming back from work when she saw Patrick in the midst of girls. Same old Patrick she thought, cracking a smile.

She moved in between the clawing of hands trying to get pictures with Patrick. She kept trudging her way through crowd before she reached Patrick. He made eye contact with her before pulling her into the biggest hug. He hadn't seen Zoe or any of her friends since Zoe had, in a way, picked Tyler.

Patrick had told Zoe that he wanted her to be happy, so he understood her choice. But he missed her. He missed more than he missed hockey during the off season.

Michaela back away from the hug smiling. She and Patrick had gotten close while him and Zoe were dating. He had helped her and Andrea through multiple things throughout him and Zoe's relationship, she missed him.

"I am not at all surprised that I found you surrounded by girls Mr. Patrick Kane," Michaela said playfully hitting him on the shoulder. Patrick just shook his head and rubbed the back of his neck.

"I have the day off of hockey, do you want to go get some lunch and catch up?"

Michaela just nodded her head before looking around as to where they could get lunch. She saw that Cafe 318 was just ahead. Patrick saw it too and quickly started walking towards it before more girls asked him for pictures.

Once the hostess had sat them at a table Michaela jumped right into it.

"She moved to Boston."

At first Patrick didn't know what Michaela was talking about, but then it hit him. Like a train. He just looked down at his hands a started to twiddle his thumbs. He had been thinking about going to Zoe's house and catching up her, but she wasn't even here anymore. She was with Tyler. They were together.

"Is she happy?"

It was the only question Patrick had been wanting to ask since she saw Michaela. Michaela didn't really know how to answer the question. She knew the answer, not that Zoe had given her a straight up answer. They talked everyday, the same time everyday. There was a reason Michaela had accepted to lunch with Patrick. Zoe was bound to call her at any moment and then she would make her to talk to Patrick. She had it all planned out.

"She could be happier," Michaela said looking at Patrick. She had heard the stories and the raves about Tyler but with Patrick everything was one hundred percent more enthusiastic and loving. Michaela had come to her own realization since Zoe wouldn't come out and admit that she was still in love with Patrick.

Patrick looked up at Michaela in desperation. Hoping that maybe she would say that Patrick was the only one that could make her happy. She just looked at him and smiled. That was all the reassurance he needed.

He hoped that he and Zoe would end up together, but if that day would come he didn't know.

But he had hope. And for right now, that was enough.

-------

"They will not beat us again! Do you hear me?" The Blackhawks coach said about beating the Bruins. Last time they hadn't been so lucky. This time though they were on their own turf and this time they were more fired up than they've ever been.

The Bruins on the other hand were more nervous than last time. The most nervous though was Tyler. Zoe wanted to come along with him and the team to see her friends. But he was nervous that she would see Patrick and leave Tyler alone in the dark. He wasn't nervous to play the game. He was nervous to see Patrick and Zoe.

------

Zoe was anxious. Who to root for?

The Bruins because her boyfriend played for them or the Blackhawks because she secretly was still in love with Patrick.

God she was such a bad person for saying I love you to one man but thinking it to another. Reality was though that she would always love Patrick, whether she ended up with him or not.

It was the third period and the Blackhawks were up one from the Bruins, but Zoe didn't know if they could keep the lead.

She hoped they would.

Michaela and Andrea were on the left and right of her. She had practically dragged them here since today was the only day they would be able to see each other before Zoe had to go back to Boston. They had hd a girl talk earlier that day about Tyler. And yes Zoe loved Tyler, she just didn't know if she loved Tyler or Patrick more.

In the midst of her thinking about the two men in her life Patrick skated down the ice towards the net until he was pummeled and thrown to the ice. Blood seeping from his head. Zoe looked away for one second and then suddendly she was on her feet yelling Patricks name.

And the person who had thrown Patrick to the ice. Who had possibly killed the man she loved was the other man she loved.

Tyler.

Notes

Sorry it took me a long time to update. I can't decide if I should start to wrap this story up in a couple chapters and start a story I've been thinking about with just Tyler. Or if I should make a sequel with who Zoe ends up with. And yes I finally figured out who I want her to end up with.

Anyways,

xoxo

have a good rest of the weekend!