Forever Chicago
My Knight In Shining Armor
*Arianna’s POV*
My two months in Boston had come and gone and today was my last day and the boys asked me to come to the arena following their practice so they could say goodbye. As I zipped up my suitcase and put my jacket on, I looked around my apartment one last time since I wouldn’t be back for another 3 months. Jon didn’t know I was coming back yet, but there was no other way to get the wedding done by May if I didn’t come back and have the help I needed to plan it all.
About half an hour later I pulled into the parking lot at The Garden and headed to the locker room. When I got in there the lights were off and I figured out what was happening. “SUPRISE!” Everyone yelled as they turned on the lights and jumped up, also revealing a really good looking cake in the process. Even though I had figured out what was going on, I was still surprised so my heart rate had quickened a bit and I let out a small yell, but a smile came to my face in no time as Lucic and Seidenberg came towards me. “Hey guys.” I said giving each of them a hug. We all hung out for a while before Tyler asked me to come talk to him for a couple of minutes. He pulled me out of the room and out to where the rink was. We both put on our skates and got out on the ice holding hands.
“Do you have to go back?” He pleaded as he stopped in front of me. “Ty I promised Jon I’d come back… I’ve already pushed it off 2 weeks. Christmas is next week and we’re going up to Winnipeg. I can’t keep pushing it off. No one knows this yet, but I’ll be back in March because I can’t finish planning this wedding by myself so I’m gonna come back in March until a couple of weeks before the wedding to finish things up. But don’t tell anyone because Jon doesn’t even know yet.” I sighed as I looked down at the ice. “We’re gonna miss you.” He said pulling me close to his chest. “I’m gonna miss you guys too. It’s just like old times.” I smiled as I looked around the rink. “Yeah. You, me, and Adam at my house while you throw marshmallows at me!” He said as he pretended to be mad at me and I stuck my tongue out at him. “Oh shush you know you love it.” I retorted as we headed for the bench and sat down. “I really don’t wanna leave.” I said after a few minutes of silence. “Then don’t. We love having you here. I mean I know you love Jon, but he took you away from us... from me and Bergy and Adam and your family and all of us. We miss you and we want you to come home.” He said as he looked at our intertwined fingers. “Segs, you know if I could drop my life in Chicago and come back here, I would. I miss you all like crazy and I miss Boston, but I’d be lying if I said I regret Chicago. It gave me amazing friends and another family and the guy I’m marrying in 5 months. I know none of you like that I didn’t stay here and that I love a new team AND love you guys and that I didn’t end up with Adam, but that’s what happens… life changes and sometimes we don’t like it, but it happens.” I said sadly. “Would you go back and change it if you could?” He asked as he continued to play with my fingers. “I mean there’s a lot I would have done differently especially when it came to Adam, but honestly I don’t think I would. It could have messed up other things I love. I mean I love you all and leaving Boston and my old life behind was the hardest thing I ever had to do, but saying I don’t love Chicago and all it’s given me would be a lie. Believe me, if you had told me 4 years ago when I met you guys that this is how things were going to end up I would have said you were nuts. I would have said I was gonna end up with Adam and stay in Boston forever because it’s where my heart is and will always be, but that was 4 years ago… I was 16 and didn’t know where life was gonna take me.” I said looking at him as he looked back at me. “Do you regret things with Adam?” I knew he didn’t just mean how things ended with me and him… I knew Segs and I knew he meant the whole situation from beginning until now with Adam.
“I mean, there’s thing I regret about it. I regret waiting as long as we did to finally say the hell with it, we’re gonna be together. I regret not spending as much time as I could have with him. I regret not telling him how I felt when I knew what I felt. I regret breaking my promise that if the feelings were still there when I got back from college that I would be with him. I regret how he found out about me and Jon. I regret breaking his heart. Like I said Segs, there’s a shitload of things I would do differently if I could go back, but Adam is the main thing. Like I told him, I had every intention of coming back after college and being with him… but life obviously had other plans.” I said as I felt a tear fall down my cheek on the opposite side of where he could see.
“Wait… you still have feelings for him? Like serious feelings? I mean you said you broke the promise to him but to break it that would mean you still love him.” He said as he pulled apart everything I had said. “I’m always gonna love him Segs. Adam and I ended things thinking we would end up together no matter what. It wasn’t a normal break up… it was us saying were taking a break until we didn’t have to be long distance… I mean it’s like we never actually broke up… it was a designated waiting period. I mean in all honesty, I’m always gonna be his girl and he’s always gonna be my Adam, but the feelings Jon gives me are the feelings I got from Adam and it broke my heart when I left so when I found out that someone could make me feel those things again, plus so much more, that’s how I knew Jon was the one.” I explained as my mood changed from happy to sad. “You really love him, don’t you?” He asked. “Segs, would I be marrying him over Adam if I didn’t?” I asked as I let out a sad laugh. “I’m sorry.” Was all he said. I knew it was referring to everything… it was referring to everything with Adam and all the drama and pain and all the fighting and everything that I’d been put through since I left Boston and that was why I loved Tyler… he was my knight in shining armor
