Don't Let Go
Forever and Ever
***Pat’s POV***
“Patrick Timothy Kane!” She said with her eyes starting to get glossier and more gorgeous then they already were. I had brought the wedding dress that I had been looking at for awhile now to show her how much I cared for her. Then I did what most people do when they propose, I got down on one knee and pulled out a ring that has been sitting in my room Next to my picture of her and I. Her glossy blue eyes had smooth diamond like tears flowing from them as, ‘Will you marry me,’ came from my lips. Her bottom lip started to quiver as she nodded her head yes and jumped into my arms.
“Oh Pat, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes!” She screamed and I spun her around in circles. I slid the ring on her petite finger and kissed her. By now Erica and my sisters were already here with tears in their eyes. Bridget finally let go of me and ran over and shrieked to the girls showing them the ring.
***Bridget’s POV***
The world is right once again; my true love Patrick Kane is now my fiancé. We got back home a half an hour later and all of us almost completely forgot about our flight. It had got to have been around 10 o’clock in the morning so everyone was finally awake. We gathered everyone into the family room and told his parents the news.
“So I opened my eyes and he ended up coming back with a wedding gown!” I showed them a ring and they stood up and hugged the both of us, “Oh, I was hoping you’d be the one for my baby boy.” Donna said water running down her cheeks. “I am so happy for the both of you! Now I have a gift for you Bridget.”
She ran upstairs and brought down a box wrapped up in all red. “Okay Bridget, open it.” She placed the box on my lap and I ripped the wrapping paper and opened it to find a maternity t-shirt that said ‘future Blackhawks fan’ and it was completely adorable. It was also specially customized so it had Mrs. Kane on the back with a big 88. Then it hit me, “How did you know?” She smiled, “I had found the ring badly placed by your picture in his room a couple weeks ago, Pat was never good at hiding things.” We all giggled.
**
A about an hour later we were on our flight to Chicago. I ended up falling asleep on his shoulder because the excitement took all my energy. 2 and half hours later we arrived at O’Hare International Airport. Pat wanted to make my first moment in Chicago special so he had a limo drive us to his apartment. We arrived there and ended up going to the penthouse at the top of the building and once the doors opened there was a big ‘SURPRISE!’ and almost knocked me off my feet. All the hawks players were there that I had met at the party, like Jon, Kris, Patrick, Troy, Cristobal, Adam, Dustin and Ben. But also you had the girl friends and puck bunnies there that I despised.
We really didn’t have a party it was basically a movie night. We watched all of the hockey movies and at the end of the night Adam and Patrick thought it would be funny to put in an amateur video of a woman giving birth, which made tears come to my eyes because of the pain she was in so I hid in Pat’s shoulder. “Ha, ha very funny guys now turn this shit off.” I stood up and wiped the tears from my eyes and said good bye to everyone. I think this was enough adventure for one day, “You know we were just kidding right?” Adam said trying to get me to stay. “Yeah I know but it was a bad joke considering that I AM pregnant.” Then the hormones got to me, “All of you bastards are lucky that you don’t have to go through this shit!” No one said anything but I knew that they were staring at me storm into our bedroom.
“Nice fucking job Bur!” All the guys started throwing pillows at him. “I can’t wait till your having a baby and then she kicks your ass out of the house because you showed this to her.” He put his hands up in defense, “Hey, I would never do that.” The rest of the guys gave him a look and all Sharp’s doing is laughing his head off, “Then why the fuck did you do that to Pat’s girlfriend, oh sorry fiancé?”
“I don’t know, I thought she’d laugh?” Burish said trying to come up with a good excuse.
Meanwhile Sharp’s still laughing, “Hey wait, why aren’t you getting on Sharpie’s case, this was actually his idea!” Then of course he suddenly stopped, “Well, uh, I think I should get going thanks for the movie night and the laughs Bur.” He basically ran out of the door and Bur followed behind him, he didn’t want to take on the entire team by himself…again. Pat said goodbye to everyone and then ran into our room to comfort me.
“Baby, shhhh don’t cry they’re just being asses and that’s what Bur is naturally like on a regular basis.” He kissed my forehead.
“I know, it’s just, I’m scared usually I’d have my mom here to console me and tell me everything is going to be fine and that it’s not as bad as people portray birth. But after seeing that I don’t believe anything about how beautiful child birth is.”
“It’s okay, I’m a guy so I wouldn’t understand most of the things that you girls go through but I can promise you that I will be there when it happens and I don’t even care if you break my hand from the pain, then we’ll be going through the same thing.”
I started to give a half smile as he kissed the top of my head. “Now get some sleep, I want to show you the city tomorrow.”
“Night”
***
The next day he did what he told me he’d do, he showed me the entire city, well at least the important parts. We went out for lunch at the Palace grill which was totally amazingly delicious. We went to the water tower place and went shopping, and he even took me to the American Girl Place that I had never been to. He bought me a just like me doll and it looked exactly like me. He even had a special little jersey made for her.
“Maybe,” Pat said, “When our little girl is born you can give this to her. And she’ll look just as pretty as her mommy does.”
I smiled, “Speaking of our little girl she’s going to have to have a name when she gets her right?”
“Oh, I knew this was going to be coming soon. What do you have in mind?”
“Well, I like the name Natalie and Anne would be her middle name, I like Amanda, Lucy, Kate, Christina, and Taylor. What about you, what do you have in mind?”
“I like Christine, Kayla, and Candy.” He said, “And the other names you like too.”
“Are you serious?”
“What?”
“Candy, Candy Kane?”
“Oh, yeah right, I forgot…”
“How do you forget you last name?” I questioned.
“I didn’t forget my last name I just, ya know, forgot about candy canes. And besides cane in candy cane is spelled with a “C”.”
I rolled my eyes, “But she’d probably get made fun of in school because of her name.”
“No she wouldn’t! It’s a good name if I was in school with her I’d think it was adorable.” He said defending his name.
I gave a small smile, “We’re still not naming her Candy.”
“Fine, then what’s her name going to be?” He pouted.
“Well you heard my list, pick one from there.”
“How about, Kate, Kate Kandy Kane!” He shouted.
“No!” I giggled, “I’m good with Kate as her first name but what about her middle name?”
“How about, OH, I’ve got it! What was your Mom’s name?”
I had a small smile come to my face when he asked about anything to do with my mom, “Elizabeth but she went by Liz.”
“Then how about Kate Elizabeth Kane, no repeating initials, no food names?”
“Yes, it’s perfect.”
He put his face close to my semi-swollen stomach, “You hear that little girl? Your name is Kate Elizabeth! Live it, breathe it, and love it!”
I started to laugh when his smirk came closer to me and I could see half of his pearly whites that half of them weren’t even real. “I love you Bridget.”
“I love you too Pat.” A tear came sneaking out of my eyes, “Forever and ever.”
“Patrick Timothy Kane!” She said with her eyes starting to get glossier and more gorgeous then they already were. I had brought the wedding dress that I had been looking at for awhile now to show her how much I cared for her. Then I did what most people do when they propose, I got down on one knee and pulled out a ring that has been sitting in my room Next to my picture of her and I. Her glossy blue eyes had smooth diamond like tears flowing from them as, ‘Will you marry me,’ came from my lips. Her bottom lip started to quiver as she nodded her head yes and jumped into my arms.
“Oh Pat, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes!” She screamed and I spun her around in circles. I slid the ring on her petite finger and kissed her. By now Erica and my sisters were already here with tears in their eyes. Bridget finally let go of me and ran over and shrieked to the girls showing them the ring.
***Bridget’s POV***
The world is right once again; my true love Patrick Kane is now my fiancé. We got back home a half an hour later and all of us almost completely forgot about our flight. It had got to have been around 10 o’clock in the morning so everyone was finally awake. We gathered everyone into the family room and told his parents the news.
“So I opened my eyes and he ended up coming back with a wedding gown!” I showed them a ring and they stood up and hugged the both of us, “Oh, I was hoping you’d be the one for my baby boy.” Donna said water running down her cheeks. “I am so happy for the both of you! Now I have a gift for you Bridget.”
She ran upstairs and brought down a box wrapped up in all red. “Okay Bridget, open it.” She placed the box on my lap and I ripped the wrapping paper and opened it to find a maternity t-shirt that said ‘future Blackhawks fan’ and it was completely adorable. It was also specially customized so it had Mrs. Kane on the back with a big 88. Then it hit me, “How did you know?” She smiled, “I had found the ring badly placed by your picture in his room a couple weeks ago, Pat was never good at hiding things.” We all giggled.
**
A about an hour later we were on our flight to Chicago. I ended up falling asleep on his shoulder because the excitement took all my energy. 2 and half hours later we arrived at O’Hare International Airport. Pat wanted to make my first moment in Chicago special so he had a limo drive us to his apartment. We arrived there and ended up going to the penthouse at the top of the building and once the doors opened there was a big ‘SURPRISE!’ and almost knocked me off my feet. All the hawks players were there that I had met at the party, like Jon, Kris, Patrick, Troy, Cristobal, Adam, Dustin and Ben. But also you had the girl friends and puck bunnies there that I despised.
We really didn’t have a party it was basically a movie night. We watched all of the hockey movies and at the end of the night Adam and Patrick thought it would be funny to put in an amateur video of a woman giving birth, which made tears come to my eyes because of the pain she was in so I hid in Pat’s shoulder. “Ha, ha very funny guys now turn this shit off.” I stood up and wiped the tears from my eyes and said good bye to everyone. I think this was enough adventure for one day, “You know we were just kidding right?” Adam said trying to get me to stay. “Yeah I know but it was a bad joke considering that I AM pregnant.” Then the hormones got to me, “All of you bastards are lucky that you don’t have to go through this shit!” No one said anything but I knew that they were staring at me storm into our bedroom.
“Nice fucking job Bur!” All the guys started throwing pillows at him. “I can’t wait till your having a baby and then she kicks your ass out of the house because you showed this to her.” He put his hands up in defense, “Hey, I would never do that.” The rest of the guys gave him a look and all Sharp’s doing is laughing his head off, “Then why the fuck did you do that to Pat’s girlfriend, oh sorry fiancé?”
“I don’t know, I thought she’d laugh?” Burish said trying to come up with a good excuse.
Meanwhile Sharp’s still laughing, “Hey wait, why aren’t you getting on Sharpie’s case, this was actually his idea!” Then of course he suddenly stopped, “Well, uh, I think I should get going thanks for the movie night and the laughs Bur.” He basically ran out of the door and Bur followed behind him, he didn’t want to take on the entire team by himself…again. Pat said goodbye to everyone and then ran into our room to comfort me.
“Baby, shhhh don’t cry they’re just being asses and that’s what Bur is naturally like on a regular basis.” He kissed my forehead.
“I know, it’s just, I’m scared usually I’d have my mom here to console me and tell me everything is going to be fine and that it’s not as bad as people portray birth. But after seeing that I don’t believe anything about how beautiful child birth is.”
“It’s okay, I’m a guy so I wouldn’t understand most of the things that you girls go through but I can promise you that I will be there when it happens and I don’t even care if you break my hand from the pain, then we’ll be going through the same thing.”
I started to give a half smile as he kissed the top of my head. “Now get some sleep, I want to show you the city tomorrow.”
“Night”
***
The next day he did what he told me he’d do, he showed me the entire city, well at least the important parts. We went out for lunch at the Palace grill which was totally amazingly delicious. We went to the water tower place and went shopping, and he even took me to the American Girl Place that I had never been to. He bought me a just like me doll and it looked exactly like me. He even had a special little jersey made for her.
“Maybe,” Pat said, “When our little girl is born you can give this to her. And she’ll look just as pretty as her mommy does.”
I smiled, “Speaking of our little girl she’s going to have to have a name when she gets her right?”
“Oh, I knew this was going to be coming soon. What do you have in mind?”
“Well, I like the name Natalie and Anne would be her middle name, I like Amanda, Lucy, Kate, Christina, and Taylor. What about you, what do you have in mind?”
“I like Christine, Kayla, and Candy.” He said, “And the other names you like too.”
“Are you serious?”
“What?”
“Candy, Candy Kane?”
“Oh, yeah right, I forgot…”
“How do you forget you last name?” I questioned.
“I didn’t forget my last name I just, ya know, forgot about candy canes. And besides cane in candy cane is spelled with a “C”.”
I rolled my eyes, “But she’d probably get made fun of in school because of her name.”
“No she wouldn’t! It’s a good name if I was in school with her I’d think it was adorable.” He said defending his name.
I gave a small smile, “We’re still not naming her Candy.”
“Fine, then what’s her name going to be?” He pouted.
“Well you heard my list, pick one from there.”
“How about, Kate, Kate Kandy Kane!” He shouted.
“No!” I giggled, “I’m good with Kate as her first name but what about her middle name?”
“How about, OH, I’ve got it! What was your Mom’s name?”
I had a small smile come to my face when he asked about anything to do with my mom, “Elizabeth but she went by Liz.”
“Then how about Kate Elizabeth Kane, no repeating initials, no food names?”
“Yes, it’s perfect.”
He put his face close to my semi-swollen stomach, “You hear that little girl? Your name is Kate Elizabeth! Live it, breathe it, and love it!”
I started to laugh when his smirk came closer to me and I could see half of his pearly whites that half of them weren’t even real. “I love you Bridget.”
“I love you too Pat.” A tear came sneaking out of my eyes, “Forever and ever.”
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7/16/14