My Sister, Your Girl

JAMES POV

“James?” Mario says.
“Hi Mario, whats up?” I say.
“Can you come to the rink today?”
“Yeah sure.”
“Okay, meet me at my office at 10.”
Its 9:00 so I get ready and go have breakfast.
“Hey Cam.” I say to my sister. It had been a good night after the whole elevator incident and we had made up. Sidney and I bro hugged it out but I still made sure to add ‘if you hurt my sister ill punch you harder then before.’ He understood completely saying he would be the same with Taylor.
“Hey Jamsey.” She says happily giving me a hug.
“Up nice and early from yesterdays events I see.” I laugh.
“Yeah, I need to catch up on the 7 hours I missed being stuck in an elevator, that includes shopping.” She giggles.
I sit on one of the high bar stools and shake my head.
“Well, I have to go to the rink in 5 minutes, Mario wants to see me.”
“But it’s the off season?” She asks.
(a/n I skipped the playoffs because they weren’t really all that relevant to the storyline, so just imagine that the pens had already played and lost against Rangers, haha)
“Yep, and that makes it even more confusing as to why Mario wants to see me.” I say.
“Well, ill drive you.” She says. “Just let me grab my bag and say bye to Sid.”
After quickly having a glass of water I wait for Cami to be finished.
“Done!” She says. “Sid said that Mario probably just wants to see you about trade rumors. He said there’s nothing to worry about!”
I just simply nod my head and smile, trying to hope for the best, but in the pit of my stomach something just didn’t feel right.
“So, my car or yours?”
“Whatever you want.” I say bluntly.
Camellia picks her Maserati and gets in the drivers side.
She pulls out of the driveway and onto the road.
“Hey! James, it will be okay?” She says smiling and putting a hand on my leg.
“Yeah, I know.” I say trying to keep my cool.

***

“Ill wait just out here okay?” Cami says to me.
I nod my head and start to walk off, but Cami grabs my hand and turns me around. She embraces me in a hug calming me right down.
“I love you big bro.” She smiles.
“You too lil sis.”
And after that I enter the room to find my new coach, new GM and owner sitting around a desk.
“James! Come in.” Mario says while I am still standing at the door.
I walk in and occupy the empty seat in front of the 3 men. My palms are sweaty as I wipe them against my jeans. I get anxious knowing by the looks that this conversation isn’t going to be a good one.
“How’s your sister James. We heard about the elevator business.”
“Oh yeah, her and Vero are fine now.” I say.
“That’s good to hear James. Now you are probably wondering why you are here.” Mario says as he continues to be the only person talking.
“Yeah, I kinda am.” I say.
Mario takes a deep breath. “There is no easy way of saying this, but a lot of teams were interested in you this year.” He pauses taking another deep breath.
“And im sorry that we have to do this. Its probably the worst part of my job.”
I close my eyes wishing this was all a dream and not wanting to here the next words.
“James, you have been traded to the Nashville Predators.”
And there it was. The trade bomb. The words that stung your heart and changed your life.
“Nashville?” Is the only words I manage to choke out.
“James, just know that you will forever be apart of this team. You will be greatly missed by everyone but this trade was something that had to be done. Your agent will give you more information about the trade and when you will be leaving. Once again James, im sorry we had to do this.”
I sit still for another few seconds trying to let the words sink in. I run my hands through my hair and stand up shaking the 3 men’s hands.
I get up and walk slowly towards the door. I turn around to face them again.
“Thanks for everything Mario. Ill miss this place a lot.”
“We will miss you too James, all the best for the future, your going to go places with the amount of talent you have. Nashville will treat you well.”
I walk out the door and just stand there for a moment. Cami has her head resting on her hands but flicks her head up the look at me. She gives me a look of complete distress and sadness.
She can read me like a book, so she picks herself up and runs over to me. She wraps her hands around me and just hugs me.
“Where to?” She mumbles onto my shoulder.
“Nashville.” I crock.
“It will be okay.”
“No it wont.” I say.
“It will, I promise.” She says softly as she grabs my hand and walks along side me to the car. We both get in and drive home.

“Hey guys!” Marc says from the dinning table.
“I made dinner.” Geno says excitedly.
“I saved you a spot Cam.” Sid laughs.
But Cami and ignore them. We just walk hand in hand up the stairs. I fall onto the bed and so does Cam. We get under the sheets as my little sister lays her head on my shoulder. I pat her hair softly. I can feel tears fall off her face and onto my chest.
“Im sorry Camellia.” I cry softly. “Im so so sorry.”
“Its not your fault James, lets just not think about it right now.” She whimpers and we both fall asleep.

SIDS POV

“They didn’t look happy.” Kris says.
“I don’t think that meeting with Mario was good.” Marc replies.
“I don’t think it was.” I say.
“What happened?” Vero asks.
“You don’t think-“ Marc says before trailing his words off into silence.
“You don’t think it could of actually happened. I know there were rumors. But it couldn’t of actually happened.” Marc continues to say.
I run my fingers through my hair.
“I lost my appetite. Thanks Vero for cooking.”
“Yeah, me too.” Kris says.
Marc, Geno, Kris and I all go sit on the couch leaving Vero to do the washing up. Usually everyone would have helped or the boys would have done it on their own, but not right now.
“It couldn’t of actually happened Sidney.” Kris says.
“Not lazy, he no leave.” Geno says.
“Its not his choice G.”
“But they wouldn’t have traded him.” Kris says.
“I don’t know guys, I don’t know.” I say quietly. I didn’t want to even believe the possibility James would no longer be in the team. He wasn’t just a teammate to me anymore, he was family.
“We see in morning. Lazy no go.” Geno says before walking off into his room.
“Night Sid. We will come over tomorrow morning.” Marc says grabbing Veros hand and leaving.
“You going to sleep anytime soon?” Kris says.
“I don’t know Tanger.”
“Ill see you in the morning. Don’t stay up all night.”
After about an hour I try and make my way to bed after just sitting and thinking. I pass James room and peak through the door. James and Cami are silently sleeping and it breaks my heart. He couldn’t be traded. I didn’t want to believe it.
So instead of sleeping I went back down stairs, grabbed all the drinks I could find and drank my thoughts away until finally passing out on the kitchen bench.

***

I woke up with a startle. I search my surroundings and remember where I am. I find the many bottles of empty drinks and chuck them in the bin. I stumble into the kitchen and find some Advil, downing it with some water.
The time on the big clock read 10:00am and I was more then surprised to not see Camellia up and cooking breakfast. Instead I fumble up the stairs and check James’ room again.
There they both lay, sound asleep

Notes

I hated writing this part...
It was way to hard :( how are you guys still liking the story??