A Favor for a Friend

"Aliyah, wake up." I woke up to Olli shaking me a little.

"Hmm?" I hummed a little as I opened my eyes.

"I guess we both fell asleep last night. Its almost ten now." He said.

I stretched and sat up, I felt like I had slept far more than the six hours that I did. Not complaining one bit.

"I was going to make breakfast for us. Jussi is still asleep but there is no way I am waking him up." He said with his shy smile.

"I wouldn't wake him up either." I said, "What do you guys have for breakfast?"

"Anything you want." he said, not really but at the same time answering my question.

"Pancakes?" I said smiling up at him.

"Of course." he chuckled and disappeared into the kitchen to make pancakes.

"Chocolate chips or just plain?" he yelled to me.

"Olli, that is a stupid question!" I laughed and pulled myself up off the couch.

"I just had to double check." he said as he got the ingredients out that he would need.

I slid into one of the chairs that were around the island in the middle of the kitchen. I tried to tame my hair just a bit my running my fingers through it and pushing it back. That was a awful though. I swear my hair has a mind of it's own and one day it was going to eat me.

I was playing with my phone when Olli set a plate down in front of me. I glanced up. "Oh, thanks." I smiled and picked up my fork to take a bite. Just as I took my first bite I got a text.

'Looks like you and Olli had fun ;)' It was from Sid.

I quickly typed back, 'Not the kind of fun you are thinking of :P'

I set my phone down and took another bite. "These are the best pancakes I think I have ever had." I said.

He shrugged, "They just came out of a box."

"My mom can't cook. Cardboard tastes better than what she gives me." I explained.

My phone went off again. I picked it up and nearly started ranting then. Jussi was going to die when he woke up. I was going to kill him. He must have taken a picture after we had fallen asleep. It was going to be hard to explain when they started questioning us. Poor Olli was going to be embarrassed too.

"Did you just, um, get a text from Sid?" I asked awkwardly.

He got up and walked over to where his phone was on the charger.

"Damn...." he mumbled. I will take that as a yes.

"It looks worse than it really was. We didn't mean for that to happen." I said staring at the photo.

"Yeah...." he gulped.

Olli's POV

I was going to kill Jussi. I really will. I didn’t mean to fall asleep during the movie. She just fell asleep on my shoulder, it was no big deal….. Ok, I admit I did put my arm around her a little bit after she fell asleep but that’s all!

I stared at the photo for a moment before quickly screen shotting it and shoving my phone in my pocket. Even if the guys would give me hell later for the picture, still kind of liked it. I just wish everyone else on the team wouldn’t have seen it. On top of that, it made Aliyah angry. If it made her angry then I was angry. I don’t know if they will believe me when I explain. I doubt it.

Aliyah’s POV

I locked my phone and put it face down on the counter. I didn’t want to look at it anymore until I finished my breakfast at least.

I had no idea what I had to do today. I heard nothing from Sidney or Olli about anything going on. Maybe they just kind of had an off day. That wasn’t normal though. There was no such thing as an off day to an NHL player, especially as early on in the season as they were.

“You guys don’t have anything going on today right?” I asked once I had finished my food.

“No, for once.” He said in relief.

“I think I am going to go explore. I haven’t really see the city.” I said getting up off the chair and taking my plate to the sink.

“I could show you around if you want.” He said quickly, from his expression he must have thought it was too quickly.

“Nah, I can get around myself. Besides you need to relax. You guys are always running around.” I insisted.


“I want to though.” He said.

I shook my head. “I want you to stay here and be lazy and enjoy yourself.”

“Like I said before, you are just something else.” He said watching me intently.

“Is that good or bad now?” I asked.

“Still good.” He said cracking a smile.

“Great. I am going to change and then let Sid know not to annoy me today. I will see you later, ok?” I said.

He nodded, “Tonight or tomorrow?”

“Not sure yet.” I said.

My answer seemed to disappoint him. “Ok…. See you soon.” He said.

I went and changed into my clean clothes. I had called a cab when I went to change to come get me and drive me into the city. It was there when I was done. I got in the taxi as we started our way to the city.

Notes

Just saying I hate POV's but its hard to really let you know what he is thinking because he is so quiet. This doesn't happen a lot.