No Sense of Direction

Chapter Twenty Nine

“So is this how you always spend your time before games?” Kat asked as she in the chair in front of the desk by my bed.

We had arrived in New York a few hours ago, our game against the Rangers was tomorrow at noon, and then we were driving up to Buffalo and going to play a game against the Sabres. I was in my hotel room with Kat and we were watching some TV, well I was, she was complaining.

“Pretty much,” I said and she smiled, “Most of the guys go out to explore the town, but a few of us stay in.”

“Why? Not the adventurous one?” she asked and I laughed as Kat spun around in the chair.

“I’m just not really interested in going out, I’d like to relax before a game,” I explained and she nodded her head.

“So you order in food that looks absolutely horrible and then just watch TV all night?” Kat asked and I nodded my head, “That’s so boring!”

“Well sorry, I guess I’m boring!” I said and she laughed and shook her head.

“You don’t have to go out! You can do something fun around the hotel!” she said and I looked at her confused.

“Like what?”

“Come on! You’re a big hockey player! You’re supposed to be having fun all the time!”

“Well what did you do when you were with the Bruins?”

“Man those boys were constantly pulling pranks on each other,” Kat stated and I smirked.

“You wanna pull a prank on someone?”

“Sure,” she said and I laughed and shook my head

“No thanks,” I said and then looked at the magazine in front of me.

“Come on Corbsy! Don’t be such a baby!”

I laughed and looked at her, “I’m not a baby!”

“You definitely don’t know how to have fun!” she said and I shook my head.

“I think you don’t know how to have fun,” I teased and she scoffed.

“So sitting in this suffocating room reading a hockey magazine and watching the hockey channel is fun?” she asked not believing me.

“Yes.”

“You’re full of shit! You don’t need to watch or read this stuff, you live it!” she argued and I smirked.

“So?” I amused myself by seeing how far she’ll go with this.

“Baby,” she muttered and I scoffed and then felt something hit my waist to see she threw a pen at me.

“Really?”

“I’m entertaining myself!” Kat stated and then threw another pen at me.

“Well what did you do when you were with Lucic?”

I watched as her face went red, and I instantly regretted asking the question, “I uh- well, we uh- Well let’s just say we kept ourselves um, occupied.”

“Yeah, still too much information,” I winced and she laughed.

“You asked,” she said and I shook my head and felt her throw another pen at me.

“Really?” I laughed and she smirked and shrugged her shoulders, “Do it again, I dare ya!”

“Watch me,” she said as she picked up a piece of her torn off bread from the sandwich she ordered.

“Come on, see what happens,” I teased and she smirked and then threw it at me.

I jumped up from the bed and she screamed and got out of the chair heading for the door, but I caught her and grabbed her from the waist and pulled her back. Kat was laughing and I smiled, because her laugh just made a smile just automatically form on my face.

“Sidney! Put me down!” she laughed as I walked back into the room and fell back onto the bed with her on top of me.

We seemed to stare at each other for a while. She laid on top of my chest with her arms on each side of my head and her hair falling passed her shoulders. I felt my body in-between her legs and placed my hands on her thighs. She smiled down at me and I saw her chest rising her falling and felt her warm breath on my skin. I took a gulp seeing how close we were together. Our faces were inches apart and I grew tired just thinking about what I would like to do to her right now.

I moved my hand up her body, feeling her shiver at my touch, and I placed my hand on her cheek and felt her lean into my hand. I breathed her name and she looked at me, I saw her eyes widened and she quickly pulled away.

“Sorry,” she muttered and then got off of me and headed towards the door, “I’ll see ya later.”

I cursed as I heard the door close and then laid my head back onto the bed and groaned, ‘…So close…’

-Katrina-

‘…What the hell are you doing to me, Sidney?!...’ I thought as I ran into my room and leaning against the door. I didn’t understand how one man could possibly make me completely forget about everything around me and just make me feel so wanted. I slid down to my butt and held my face, ‘…I don’t know what to do!...’

I stared down at the rock on my finger and thought about Milan, he would definitely be pissed if he found out what almost happened back there. A part of me didn’t really care if he found out, that part of me really thought that Sidney was going to kiss me, and I wanted him to actually do it.

I heard my bedroom door shake with someone gently knocking on it, “Kat.”

‘...No, no, no, go away, Sid. I don’t think I can control myself around you…’ I thought as I didn’t move my spot from the ground.

“Come on, Kat, I know you’re there,” he said and I sighed and stood up. I opened the door and Sidney offered a small smile towards me and I gave him one as well, “I’m sorry for making you feel uncomfortable.”

“It’s fine, I didn’t-“

“Milan, I know,” he said and I looked at him to see him looking at the ground.

‘…He doesn’t even know what I was gunna say…’ I thought as I held out my hand.

“Kat, do you even like him?” he asked and my eyes widened and I closed the door, “Come on Kat, I’m sorry.”

“Go away,” I said and then shook my head, ‘…I can’t let him get close…’

I ran my fingers through my hair and then sat on my bed and looked at my phone, two missed calls and three texts from him, Milan was checking in on me. I felt like it was all he was ever doing, I felt like he was waiting for me to do something wrong, waiting for an excuse to take his anger out on some hockey player.

I sighed and then looked at my brother’s game and saw that the Hurricanes had beaten the Panthers, I texted Zach and told him congrats. He replied immediately with a thank you and then I saw that I had a facetime call coming in.

“Hey!” I smiled when I saw that it wasn’t my brother’s face I was seeing, but my friend Jordan Staal.

“Kat! There’s my best mate! What’s shakin’?” he said and I laughed and shook my head.

“Are you drunk?”

“A little bit, yeah,” he answered and I saw that he was at my brother’s house, “So what are you up to?”

“Chillin’ in my hotel room,” I said and then pointed the camera around the room.

“Looks like you’re having fun!”

“A blast!” I said and then saw my brother snatch the phone off of Jordan.

“Hey baby sis!” Zach smiled when he saw me.

“Hey big bro, what’s up?!”

“Nothing much, we’re just celebrating our win against the Panthers.”

“Awesome! When do we play you?”

“Three weeks,” he replied after a long pause and him staring at his phone, probably checking his schedule.

“Can’t wait, away or home?”

“You’re comin’ here,” he said and I nodded my head, “So what are you up to?”

“In a boring ass hotel room.”

“Why?”

“Because we’re in New York,” I answered and he nodded his head.

“Game against Rangers, tell the boys to kick ass for me,” Zach said and I laughed and nodded my head, “I’d rather see them in the playoffs than the Rangers.”

“Better the Rangers than Toronto,” I said and Zach sighed.

“You got me there,” he laughed and I smirked and nodded my head, “You look tired, what’s wrong?”

“How do you do that?” I asked and he smirked

“It’s a gift,” he said and I sighed and watched as he started to walk somewhere and it got quiet, “What’s wrong, Kat?”

I told him about the bills and the missing money and about the new kid and how Sidney said that it might be possible that Sam was stealing from me and Zach grew angry.

“I have a break next week for three days, I’m gunna come up and take a look at this kid,” he said and I nodded my head.

“Thanks.”

“No one screws with my family,” he said and I smiled.

“Love you, Zach.”

“Love you too, Katrina.”