Come Closer

“Meghan babe, wake up.” I opened my eyes and saw James hovering over me.

“Hmmm.”

“It’s 10am, I’m leaving.”

“Why? Where are you going.” I was still half asleep.

“I have away games this week, I won’t be back till Tuesday.”

“Oh right…I knew that, sorry I should have gotten up and made you breakfast or something.” I said getting up, until James gently pushed me back down.

“You stay in bed…my fiancé.” That comment lit up James’ face.

Just as I was laying down my phone rang. It was Khloe.

“Khloe what can be so important to wake me up?”

“Dude, we have practice with Jeff this morning…where are you?”

“I’m at James’…OH FUCK, HE IS GOING TO KILL ME! ILL BE RIGHT THERE”

“Well hurry up and get your ass over here before he kills us all!” and then she hung up. I remembered I didn’t have the car here since James drove last night.

“JAMES…STOP don’t leave yet.” I was running way to fast trying to put my clothes on, I tripped over my pant leg and fell down the stairs. I wasn’t hurt or anything; I just stopped at the bottom of the stairs and started laughing.

“Omg Meghan are you ok?” He started laughing too.

“Oh yeah I’m good, it’s not like I have never fallen before.” He helped me up and kissed my head where there was a little bruise.

“I need you to drive me to the hotel, I totally forgot we had practice with Jeff today and he will kill me if I’m late.”

“Well hurry up woman, let’s go.” Grabbing his jacket and carry-on suit case.

When we started to drive away from his house we started talking a little about the engagement.

“James, I gotta tell you something.” I said looking at him.

“What’s that?”

“I don’t think we should get married right away, I mean volleyball season just started and I can’t leave, after the season I will probably move down here and maybe coach or find a team here.” I started to say.

“I was going to tell you the same thing; I just wanted to put a ring on it to make sure you are mine.” He smiled at me.

“Oh James, your just awesome, best fiancé ever!”

“Babe I’m your only fiancé ever.” He laughed a little.

“True that babe, true that.”

It took us about 5 minutes to say goodbye when we arrived at the hotel, I haven’t stopped wearing my ring since last night, I just want to look at it all the time.

Once I got into the hotel lobby, half of the team including Khloe was sitting in the lobby.
“Holy shit there she is” Bianca said coming over and hugging me.

I took my ring off and hid it behind my back just because I wasn’t ready for everyone to know yet. I did pull Khloe aside to tell her because she was my best friend and she had the right to know.

“Khloe, I need to talk to you…NOW.” I reached down and pulled her up.

I pulled her into the bathroom and looked under all the stalls and made sure no one was in there.

“What’s wrong?” she whispered to me.

I pulled my ring out of my back pocket, put it on and put my hand in front of her face.

“AHHH! OMG” she was actually screaming. “I went with him to pick out your ring, I knew it was coming I just didn’t think this soon."

“Did you pick the ring or did he?”

“James actually saw it first, pulled it out the case and Bing, bang, boom you have an engagement ring.”

“How much did it cost?” drinking water from my bottle.

“I don’t think you want to know.”

Just as I was starting to talk Sarah walked into the bathroom.

“Are you serious, your engaged.” She came in looking stunned.

“Sara, were you listening threw the door?” I asked, getting a pissed off that she was sneaking around.

“Meghan, he is just a boy…since we came here you have hardly been with us. This is your team, we should be your first priority, not some stupid hockey player.” She was getting a little closer to me looking like she wanted to fight me.

“You have no right to be talking about my personal life and how dare you say that this team is not my first priority, you girls are like my family.” I took a step closer to her and she slapped me across the face.

“Get…out” Khloe stepped in front of me, making sure that I didn’t slap her back.

“You have no idea how bad I wanted to do that, Meghan you’re a horrible captain, pull your head out of the gutter and be a leader.” With that she walked out of the bathroom.
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“James why are you late? “Coach said that as James walked on the plane.

“Meghan was at my house last night and she forgot she had practice this morning so I had to drive her back to the hotel…I asked her to marry me last night and she said yes.” A smile lit up James’ face.

“Congrats James, now get on this plane so we are not late.” Winking at him as he walked up the plane stairs.

James got on the plane last, there was a free spot beside to Geno so James took up the opportunity to sit beside him and tell his best friend about last night’s events.

“Lazy you late, Meghan keep you up all night?” Geno laughed a little.

“I asked her to marry me.” James looked up smiling.

“She say no?” Geno punched James’ shoulder.

“No Geno, she said yes!”

“HEY, HEY” Geno stood up and yelled across the plane.

“LAZY GETTING MARRIED!”

The whole plane cheered, giving James a round of applause.

“James Neal is settling down, never thought I would see the day.” Sidney and Fleury said together, sitting at the front of the plane.

“Yeah, neither did I” James said after the cheering stopped.
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Khloe and I could not get out of practice fast enough, Sara told the whole team about my engagement, there were mixed emotions from all the girls. Most of them came over and congratulated me but Sara and Bianca just stared at me looking disgusted. Even Brendan came up to me and said he was happy for me and gave me a hug.

“I cannot believe her.” Khloe said sliding the key card to open the door. “She is a slut, whore, bitch the whole 9 yards, I knew she was bad news.”

“Maybe she is right Khloe, I mean. I have been late for team supper earlier this week, I was late for practice today because I thought James was more important than volleyball.” I said putting my stuff away and changing out of my sweaty clothes.

“Don’t say that Meg, you and James are meant to be together, you and I both know that.” Khloe and I sat on the edge of my bed.

“Volleyball is your passion, James is your fiancé, you can handle both, I know you can.”


“Khloe I need to choose what is more important, Volleyball or James, I can’t have both.”

Notes

Sorry about the late update, I was in Los Angeles with some friends for a week, but i'm back and writing again!

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