My Sister, Your Girl

“So, is that all you need Cam?” Vero says as she looks up from me from the ground of my bed.
“Yeah, I think that’s it V.” And with that she closes up the last suitcase.
She gets up and sits next to me on the bed with a sigh.
“2 months hey?” She says sadly.
“Yeah, 2 months.”
“Are you sure you need to go, why cant you just go for a week?” She asks me.
“I need to do this for my brother. I need to make sure his settled in and that his going to be okay.” I say.
“But im going to miss you.” She pouts.
“Im going to miss you too Vero.” I say embracing her in a sideward hug.

***

“You got everything packed Jamesy?” I say walking into James room looking at all the boxes scattered around and the very empty room.
“Yeah, I think im just about done.” He says closing his last suitcase. He stands up and hugs me.
“Are you sure you want to come? Ill be fine by myself you know.” He says reassuringly.
“I want to come with you James, I want to make sure you will be okay and get settled.”
He nods his head and smiles softly, “Okay.”
I take a deep breath. “Now, have you got all your gear from the locker room?”
“Im going to go get it now with the boys.” He says quietly.
I know its something he hasn’t been looking forward to doing and he still really doesn’t want to do it.
Hopefully, going with the boys will make it a bit easier on him, and I know he wants to spend as much time as possible with them before he leaves.
“Okay.” I smile and leave the room. It takes James a little longer to come out but when he does he grabs my hand, breaths in deeply and walks down the stairs with me.
“Hey guys.” Marc says sitting on the lounge. He stands up to stand next to Sidney, Kris and Geno and Vero walks out of the kitchen.
“You ready to go Nealer?” Kris asks.
“Yeah, im ready.”
Sidney looks over at me with sad eyes. I give a small little smile and nod my head and he does the same back.
The boys start to leave the house as I give James and big hug. He kisses my head then leaves the house.
I sigh loudly as I close the door. Vero is standing right behind me. She gives me a hug and plats my hair softly.
“So, how about we go max out our credit cards. I have to make up for the 2 months ill be losing.” Vero smiles.
For the first time since the trade, I let out a genuinely happy laugh.
“That’s sound great to me.”

***

“So, I was thinking the night before you and James leave we could all have dinner then hit the clubs? How does that sound?” Vero asks me as she searches through a clothes rack.
“Sounds better then James and I laying in bed feelings sorry for ourselves.”
“That’s exactly it!” Vero exclaimed. “It also gives us an excuse to buy a tight dress.” She winks.
We walk out of the store and onto the next. I stop at the window and stare at the gorgeous dress through the window.
“Talk about tight dresses, I just found mine.” I giggle. Vero looks at me then back at the dress.
“Cam! It’s beautiful! It will look so good on you.” She says excitedly grabbing my hand and pulling me into the shop.
I try on the dress and it fits as perfectly as it does on the manikin.
It was a beautiful black crochet/lace dress with a big open back. The neck line of the dress came right up to my neck so it was balanced well with the open back. It hugged my curvy body nicely and was a nice length. I modeled the dress for Vero who clapped and cheered as I strutted around.
‘Perfect mon ami!” She said happily.
I brought the dress and left the shop. Vero pulled me into the next shop when she also found a beautiful purple body fighting dress that she liked. She modeled it also and she rocked the design and color. She looked stunning also and brought the dress.
The next shop we went to was for shoes. Vero found some gorgeous black wedges and a matching clutch, while I found a pair of stunning platform fire engine red heels and a matching clutch in the same red color.
We brought the items and left the shop.
We went for lunch at a salad bar and sat to talk.
“So when are we having this dinner?” I asked Vero.
“Well, you guys have 2 and a half more days here, so we will have it not tomorrow but the next night.”
We continued to talk some more before both Vero and I got a text saying that the boys were finished and home. They also did not forgot to mention that they were hungry so we had to pick them up some food.
“So you never mentioned how Sidney is with this 2 months away stuff.” Vero says from the drivers seat.
“Well, I guess we haven’t really spoken about it. We have had any alone time together. I guess I just have wanted to spend so much time with James and he does too, so we just forgot about ourselves.” I sigh.
“But im going to take him somewhere tomorrow night. I want some time with him.” I say.
“I think that’s a good idea C. It’s going to be hard being without one another for 2 months. Im sure the boys and myself will look after him though.”
And I hoped Sid would be fine. After the Pens unlucky exist from the playoffs Sid has been off. Finding out only a few weeks after hockey season ended that one of his best mates would be leaving his team wouldn’t help either. I knew he would be okay eventually, and soon we would talk about it, but right now I was waiting for him to open up to me about it.

***

“Where are you taking me Cam?” Sidney asked from the passenger seat. I had managed to get him into the car and almost to the destination with little to none questions but now he was getting superstitious. When I reached the place, it was dark so I got out of the drivers seat and around to his side. I opened the door but before he could get out I grabbed his dress tie and wrapped it around his head. He kept questioning what I was doing while still laughing, but I just ignored him and told him it was a surprise. After blind folding his eyes I went into the back of my car and grabbed the bag of skates.
I guided him to where we were going making sure I didn’t purposely run him into anything. I sat him down on the bench just outside of the rink and start taking his shoes off.
“Oh so now you’re robbing my shoes from me too!”
I just lift my hand and place and finger on his lips before moving my finger aside and quickly and softly pecking his lips. It shut him up for a couple more minutes until I was done tying up the laces. I grabbed my shoes and did the same instructing for him to stay still.
“You really are a piece of work Camellia Neal aren’t you?” He says.
“I am only hard work for you Crosby.” I giggle.
Once I finish my skates I grab a scarf from the bags and wrap it around his neck.
“And now I have to wear a girls scarf?” He groans.
“You will thank me when you don’t freeze!” I laugh.
I slowly grab his hand and help him up.
“I might not know what’s going on since everything is dark, but I know this feeling better then anyone.” He says kicking his feet up in the skates.
I take the tie off his face and stand in front of him.
“Tada! A pond!” I say happily.
It wasn’t exactly a bond but an ice rink. I knew how much Sidney loved skating out on the pond but it was not easy to find a frozen pond in this weather.
“Good try babe.” He laughs.
I pout at him. “I thought you would like it.”
“Baby I love it!” He says grabbing my waist and kissing me.
I break the kiss by jumping out of his grip and straight onto the ice.
“Race ya!” I yell and im off.
“Your on Neal!” He replies back jumping onto the ice also and skating after me. H eventually catches up to me.
“That’s a tie.” He says after we both stop where we entered.
“Nah I so won!”
“You would want to since you started early.”
“Well.” I say coming closer to his lips. I am about to kiss him when I pull away and say. “We will just have to have a rematch!”
He groans before chasing after me and catching up. When he is right behind me he grabs my waist and spins me around. I’m now facing him and looking deep into his eyes and we share a passionate kiss.
“Im going to miss you Cam.” The mood changes and his face turns sad.
“I know baby im going to miss you too.” I kiss his lips again.
I wrap my hands around my neck while Sidney still firmly holds onto my waist. I unclasp my necklace from around my neck and look back up at Sidney. Its my gold “C” necklace that I always where.
“Here.” I say putting it around his neck.
He smiles at me and does the same with his dog tag necklace with the number 87 engraved on it.
“But you have never taken this off.” I say as he wraps it around my neck.
“Well, Camellia Neal, your just that important to me that I would take it off for you.” He smiles. “Im sure the necklace off my beautiful girl friend will be more luck then a necklace I have had for years.” He chuckles.
I grab the necklace in my fingertips after he puts it on. I bring it towards my lips and kiss it gently. I grab the necklace I had put around his neck and do the same. He does the same to both pendants as well.
“Now, we will always be together.” He says calmly.
“No matter what city we are in.”
“No matter what Camellia May Neal, I’m yours.”

Notes

first update in a while