James' POV.
It's a pretty uneventful jog. Thankfully my hood and sunglasses have made me unnoticeable and people just walk past me. It's a nice day and surprisingly there are not many people in this part of the park. Just people and their dogs. I hear my alarm, that means it's time to go home.
When I get home I remember my new neighbor April. She lives 3 doors down and I never noticed her. I do tend ignore people. If I didn't they'd recognize me as James Reimer leafs goaltender and then I'll never get piece. People around here just know me as the shy guy that keeps to himself.
Once I get home, I get changed. I'm still not tired, I'm in net tomorrow and will be resting all day. I decide to text Scrivens. We used to play together on the Marlies. We are pretty good friends.
April's POV.
Pretty boring morning, I'm pretty hungry and decide to text James to see if he wants to eat breakfast with me.
*April and James texting eachother*
"hey, what you up to today"
"I'm sorry! who is this"
"April, we met yesterday" oh my goodness he didn't even put my number in his phone.
"Oh! Sorry I was pretty busy last night."
"Are you busy today? This is my day off"
"I am but I can probably can go out for a bit as long as it's soon and not for long"
"Ok, wanna come over for breakfast?"
"sounds good!"
He's here in a minute
"Hi, James! That was fast"
"Ya I live like 3 doors down."
"Oh wow. How have I never met you?"
"I spend a lot of time out and keep to myself when I'm here."
"What are you doing today."
"Work." He hasn't said what he does yet. I wonder why. I won't ask him, it's none of my business, I just met him.
"When do you have to leave"
"Well, I need to leave your house in about an hour or two but I don't need to leave for work until 4:30pm"
"Why do you need to leave here so early if you don't need to be at work until 4:30?" I feel a little hurt. Is he blowing me off?
"I need to sleep and prepare myself."
James' POV.
She was going to make me say it, I don't want to. I like having friends because of my personality instead of my status.
"Oh." Just oh? This is not good. She's upset, I have two sisters and I can tell when females are upset.
"I'm sorry, it sounds weird I just don't like getting to close to people to fast." That wasn't completely a lie but it cheered her up anyway.
"Ya I get it" she smiled and moved her hair out of her face. "So, breakfast! What do you want?"
"Do you wanna go out for breakfast? My treat." Something to cheer her up more. She was a bit of a mess yesterday and needs a friend. She also doesn't know I play in the NHL or that I even play hockey. That will give us something different to talk about. But that's just a bonus.
"Sure! Can I change?"
"Ya, I need to do the same!"
April's POV.
He's wearing his sunglasses again. It's like he's trying to hide behind them or something. He takes me somewhere quite but nice. He pays for our meal then we go home. His apartment is farther away from the elevator than mine but only by a few doors like he said.
At 4:30 I see him leaving his apartment. I looked through the peek hole at him. He's wearing a really nice suit. What does he do? Why is it such a secret? Why do I care?
James' POV.
As soon as I get to the rink I see Gusvafsson. He's already wearing his workout cloths. He doesn't see me so I sneak up on him and grab him. I swear he jumped at least a foot. I start laughing so hard and he pushes me back.
"What Guss? Didn't see that coming"
"No, I wasn't expecting an idiot to grab me." He says with a smile, mocking me.
"You're just mad I'm in net tonight" I say teasing. He makes a dismissing noise and goes to the team gym. I still need to change and then I'll join the team for our warm ups.
After our off ice warm ups it's dinner time. It's a very good meal. At 6:30 we're on the ice for the pre game warm up. At 7:00 we're back to the dressing room for the Ron Wilson to have his pre game speech. I don't really listen it's always the same for me "Stop the puck. Don't do anything stupid." Instead I take this time to prepare myself.
I hear everybody clap. That's my cue that Ron is done talking and I need to pretend I was listening. I clap along with my teammates then really start preparing. I only have about a minute than we hit the ice. Today we play Winnipeg. I would have been happier playing in Winnipeg so I could see my friends and family but I'm just happy to be playing. A year ago I was on the Marlies.

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We won. They got the first goal, 10 minutes in. Lups tied it in a minute. The second period they scored twice, in the third we scored twice. Over time didn't settle anything so it went into a shootout. Lups and Frattin scored for us and the Winnipeg guys didn't get past me.
We are leaving for Montreal tonight, I was just told I'm starting. I need to pop in to my house to get my go bag. I run into April in the hall.
"Hi, James"
"Hi, I can't talk. I need to get my stuff, I'm going to Montreal tonight."
"Really? Why?" She asks so many questions and apparently doesn't get what I can't talk means.
"Work. I travel a lot for work. Going from Montreal, to Philadelphia, then New York. I'll be home on the 30th." I say kind of annoyed. I'm so tired and just want to get on the bus to sleep.
"Wow that's crazy. Have a good trip!"
"Yep. See you later." I grab my stuff and get down stairs to Lups car. He's driving me and Nazem to the bus. We all have cars we just may as well carpool.

Notes

Once again, it's my first fanfic. I'd love helpful comments but please no hate!