Rescue Me (Sidney Crosby)

“So what do you want to do today? It’s my only day off” Sidney asked as we walked back to the shop arms linked and I was huddling to his side for warmth.

“Well I actually have to make a cake, but you can watch,” I said and looked up towards him.

“All right, sounds like fun.”

“I think Tyler is there, I think he spent the night,” I said and Sidney laughed.

It’s been two weeks since our first date and I couldn’t be happier. I like Sidney, Sidney liked me, Josh like Sidney, and Sidney liked Josh, how could it go wrong? Sidney has been parking his car in front of the shop in the morning, and then we walked the two blocks to the coffee shop, have our coffee and then walk back. Sometimes he stays, and then sometimes he goes, but when he stays, it’s usually for the day, or he’ll stop by after practice. Sidney’s been walking the four blocks to the school to pick up Josh and Conner, and of course the boys are so happy to see him.

“Hey Sid! What’s up?” Tyler said as we walked into the kitchen.

“Hey man! I see how you’re spending your day off,” he said and they laughed.

I walked over towards Allie who was already working on the batter and then looked at the book to see what we had to make. When I saw that we were making a Penguins NHL cake, I looked at the boys and then over towards Allie confused. She looked at me and shook her head and I smirked understanding what she meant, it was a secret cake. I grabbed the book and then brought it into the office and walked back out and put an apron on.

“I have the batter basically finished. Did you want to get a picture up that you’re going to draw on the cake?” Allie asked and I nodded my head and then walked into the office and onto the computer to pull up the Penguins logo and then a list of all of the players’ numbers.

“Whatchya doing?” Sidney asked while appearing behind me and I jumped not hearing him come in, “Doing research on the team?”

“Yeah, sure, we’ll go with that,” I said and then he took the picture that I was printing out of the logo.

“What’s going on?”

“ALLIE!!!” I yelled for assistance.

“Yeah?” she said and then saw Sidney in here, “Crosby! Get out of here! You shouldn’t be looking at that!”

“Looking at what?” he asked looking like deer in headlights, “I’m confused, what’s going on?”

I sighed and then looked at Allie and then saw Tyler appear behind her.

“What’s going on?”

“Tell ‘em,” I said and then shook my head.

“You’re Coach called us and would like us to make a cake for you guys for some sort of event,” Allie said and I smirked and looked at Sidney, “But you can’t tell the other guys because it’s suppose to be a surprise!”

“All right, all right, we won’t tell anyone!” Sidney said and I already saw Tyler on his phone.

“I don’t think there’s going to be a surprise,” I said and then nudged my head towards Tyler.

“TYLER KENNEDY!!!” Allie yelled and Tyler smiled and reached his phone high in the air so that Allie couldn’t get it.

“And send!” Tyler said and I laughed.

“Oh my god! Will you at least act surprised when you see it?!” she yelled and the boys nodded their head, “Good!”

We walked out of the office and Allie walked over to check on the cake as I looked at the picture and saw what colors that I was going to need for the design. Once I did that, I grabbed my drawing pad and flipped the pages until I got to a clean sheet and pulled a stool over. I heard the guys talking and then placed the tip of my pencil to the paper and let my hand go, focusing only on what I needed to do and not listening to anything else.

-Sidney-

I sat on the counter and looked over towards Julie to see that she was concentrating really hard on what she was doing. I hopped off the counter and walked over towards her to see that she was drawing the Penguins logo and it was really good. I was about to tell her, when I felt Allie tap my shoulder. I looked up and saw her shaking her head and she had her finger to her mouth telling me to keep quiet. I nodded my head and then just watched as Julie worked.

‘…I guess she’ll lose her focus if I say something…’

I walked back over towards Tyler and sat next to him, seeing that he was staring at his phone.

“The guys want to see the cake,” he said and I smirked because we weren’t even supposed to know about it.

“Tell them to wait until it’s at least finished,” I said and he nodded his head.

“What’s she doing?”

“Drawing the logo, and it looks awesome,” I said and Tyler smirked.

“So you like her?”

“Yeah, I like her a lot.”

“Just be careful,” he said and I looked at him confused.

“Why?”

“Just something that Allie told me about her, it’s been bugging me,” he said and I looked at him, “It kind of-“ he sighed and scratched his cheek, “How Allie put it, it kind of sounds like Julie is running from something, or maybe even someone,” he said and I looked at him and then over towards Julie.

“You think her ex?” I asked and he nodded his head.

“What I’m trying to say man, if someone is looking for her, you being who you are, the paparazzi are going to snatch a picture of you, and Julie might be exposed.”

“I never thought about that,” I said and then sighed, “I think it’s time to have a talk with Julie about this relationship.”

“I mean, don’t break up with her yet.”

“No, never! I’m just saying that, I haven’t even asked her to be my girlfriend yet.”

“Dude! What are you waiting for? You’ve been going out for like two weeks now!”

“Excuse me if I’m a little old fashioned.”

“Bull shit!” Tyler said and we both laughed.

I saw Julie stand up and I hoped off the counter and walked over towards her to see the logo that she had drawn up, “Looks good!”

She turned around and smiled, “Thank you.”

I nodded my head and then took the drawing and saw that it was like the exact replica of the printed picture, “Looks really good,” sounding impressed.

“I have some talent,” she said and then laughed, “Allie, do you have the fondant ready?”

“Yup, and the cake’s almost finished too,” she said and I looked to see Allie pulling the large tray out of the oven, seeing that half of it was chocolate and the other half was white, “We just have to let the cake cool and then flatten out the fondant.”

“What’s fondant?” I asked and Julie looked back towards me.

“It’s an edible decoration that we over the cake to make it look smooth. It’s easier to put other decorations on top of it and looks nice,” she explained and I nodded my head and heard the front door to the shop open.

“I’ll get it,” Julie said because Allie’s hands were busy.

She walked out of the kitchen, only to walk back in a few minutes later with five boys behind her.

“I think you ordered something, Tyler,” Julie said and I smirked and shook my head as I saw Geno, James, Marc, Matt Nishanen and Kris Letang behind her trying to get into the kitchen.

“Tyler! I told you no!” Allie yelled and I laughed.

“It’s all right, Allie,” Julie said and then walked into the kitchen with the guys behind her.

I walked over towards the guys and saw that Marc was still following Julie and they were having a conversation in French. I smiled because I saw that she was getting along with my friends and teammates. When Marc waved the guys to come over, Julie showed them the drawing and they all looked impressed.