Forever Chicago
Wait For the Right Time
*Adam’s POV*
It had been 2 weeks since we won our second game against Chicago and Arianna had been at the arena everyday with us. She had been spending time with each player, but especially me, Bergy, and Segs. We all missed having her around here, but there were times when we wanted to send her home, like when she was making us go harder in practice than our own coach. But then we remembered that for her, home was now in Chicago with her fiancée and she would be going back there in 2 weeks time. She and I had spent some time together, but I wanted her and me to have a day together where we just caught up and had fun. It was a Saturday and we didn’t have practice so I told her to come over in the morning and we would spend the day together. It was around 1030 when I heard a knock on the door of the apartment I shared with Dougie and Arianna’s younger sister Alex who was Dougie’s girlfriend. “Hey sweetie!” She said as Alex answered the door and hugged her sister, with Dougie right behind. “You taking good care of my sister?” Arianna asked pointing at Dougie. “As always.” He said pulling Alex into his arms and kissing her head as they headed out to get some breakfast.
“I remember when we were like that and Bergy and Krech had to pull us apart.” I said as I sat down next to her on the couch with 2 coffees in my hands. “Yeah those were some fun times. I remember when Segs used to live next door and one night he heard a huge bang and came over to see that you’d blown up the kitchen basically.” She said laughing. For the next couple of hours we just reminisced on old memories and then decided it was time to go get some lunch. “Chinese food?” I asked as we got into my Range Rover. “You know me so well.” She said shutting her door and then we were off. Once we were done with lunch we went to the old park where we used to go when we dated. It was a special place and we always had great memories there.
“Adam, come lay down with me!” She said as she put her bag down and laid in front of the pond that was there. It was a nice day outside, but had clouds. “That one looks like a slice of pizza.” She said pointing to one off to the right. “That one looks like a turtle with a jetpack.” I said pointing straight up. “And that one looks like a hockey puck!” She said as she pointed to a circle in the sky. “That’s just a circle!” I said back to her and laughed. “Well so what? A hockey puck is circular.” She said sticking her tongue out at me. And with that I rolled over so I was on top of her and she started to kick and laugh as I poked and tickled her. “Mercy! Mercy!” She yelled. “I’m gonna pee!” “Not on me you’re not!” I said as I poked her sides. “Well then get off of me.” She said as she rolled over so she was now on top of me. I sat up and she turned around so now she was between my legs and I wrapped my arms around her. “I miss this.” She said as she leaned back on my shoulder. “What?” I asked as I drew shapes on her knee. “I miss being here, in Boston, I miss going to the park with you or Segs and lying in the sun and rolling down the hill and when Ty fell in the water.” She laughed as she said the last memory. “I miss Bergy and I walking over the bridge and doing the titanic scene with Barti. I miss all of this.” She finished and closed her eyes with her head leaning up towards the sun. I finally decided to ask the question that had been dying to come out for the past month. “Do you miss us?” I asked as I continued to make shapes on her knee. She opened her eyes and had a look of concentration on her face. After a minute or so she finally spoke, “Of course I miss us Adam. And believe me I had every intention of coming back and being with you after college, but that just didn’t happen. You and I were always so easy- we didn’t have to force things and we didn’t fight much and when we did, well, you know what happened when we made up.” She said blushing as I smiled at the thought of the great make-up sex we always had after an argument. “I miss the easy going couple we were and believe me there’s times when I’d give anything to have that back…. But things a-“ But I cut her off there. “I don’t want to hear that things are different. I’m just glad to hear you miss me.” After I said that she turned around. “Adam, I miss you and think about you all the time. Whenever Jon and I fight the first thing I wanna do is call you and cry and tell you how much I want to come home and when something good happens the first person I wanna call is you… well and Bergy and Segs but still you get the point.” She said biting her lip and looking down. “You think about me that much?” I asked in disbelief. “Kinda weird how you can think of someone as much as you want and they have no idea.” She said as she played with my fingers. In that moment all I wanted to do was take her in my arms, kiss her, and never let her go again. But then I looked down and saw the ring on her finger and knew that it was wrong and that as much as I wanted it, I would regret it in the future. I needed to wait for the right time.
