Trouble in Paradise
Should I stay or should I go?
I picked the gift bag up off the floor and made my way to the door, waiting to congratulate the boys on their win. I knew I wouldn’t be able to be alone for awhile now thanks to Brandon’s actions. I also knew that I would have to call and tell the boys back in Chicago, if Jordy hadn’t done so already. I hoped he didn’t, they didn’t need to be worrying about me when they had a long road trip coming up. “Ready to go babe?” Nealer asked wrapping his arm around my waist and pulling me into his side protectively. I nodded and noticed Sidney and Duper went out before us and Geno and Kris were behind me. I sighed, “I’m sorry I ruined your night, guys. You can still go out if you want too. I’ll stay locked up in my hotel room and won’t answer the door for anyone. You need to have some fun.” I pushed, hoping that they would agree, which they didn’t of course. “We’re not leaving you alone. Johnny and the boys sent you here with us so that you’d be safe, we messed up big time tonight and we won’t let it happen again. I promise you that.” By this point we were already back to the bus that would take us back to our hotel. My entire body was killing me and I needed my pills. I slowly made my way up the steps, my ribs hurting with each step and breath that I took. I noticed Jordan was sitting alone so I grabbed the seat next to him. “Jordy, did you happen to call Johnny?” I asked praying that he would say no. “Not yet. I was going to talk to you about everything first. “ He said looking into my eyes. I could see the tears that were threatening to fall from his eyes. This wasn’t the Jordy I was used to. The Jordy I was used to never cried or showed any emotion other than happiness or anger. That’s just who he was, and I accepted it. I didn’t even have time to answer before Kunitz came over and asked for Gronk to come with him. Sunshine took his place in the seat next to me. “You know that you don’t have to be next to me twenty four seven, right?” I laughed. “We’re on a moving bus full of big tough hockey players. He’s stupid but I don’t think he’s that stupid, honestly. Plus I think Milan and the boys roughed him up pretty good. I can sit by myself for awhile.” Beau nodded as I spoke. “Yeah, I could leave you alone but where’s the fun in that? Plus I needed to talk to you about something.” I nodded and motioned for him to continue. “It’s about Ty. I think there’s something wrong with her. She’s been sick and she doesn’t want me to come home. She’s also being very odd, like she’s short on the phone and in texts. She’s always in a hurry to get off the phone. Do you think she’s cheating on me?” I couldn’t help but laugh at him. “Seriously Sunshine? You couldn’t be farther from the truth. She loves you with everything that she has. You’re the only guy that she wants. She doesn’t look at any one the same way that she looks at you. I can see the sparkle in her eyes and she’s happier with you than with anyone she’s ever been with. Just talk to her when you get back. I’m sure you’re just overthinking the whole thing.” I rubbed his arm lightly.
*Jordan’s point of view*
“Gronk I need you to come with me for a minute.” Kunitz said pulling me out of my seat and away from Kellie , dragging me to the back of the bus. I noticed that Geno, Kris, Sidney, Duper, and Neal were all there. “Uh oh, what did I do?” I laughed. We never had group meetings without the rest of the team. “Sit.” Geno ordered. I obeyed the command, mostly because I was curious as to what this was about. “We were having a discussion about Kellie, and we were thinking that after this road trip maybe she should go back to Chicago for awhile. We’re all worried about her safety and let’s face it she hasn’t had a whole lot of good things happen to her since she got here.” Neal stated slowly. I looked at them all shocked. Why do they want to send Kellie away? We’re her family we can’t just abandon her! There’s no way I was going to do that to her. She didn’t deserve it. “How can you say that? She needs us and you want to abandon her after everything? Are you fucking kidding me?” I screamed. I was beyond pissed. “Look Gronk, we are concerned for her. You said she has the pill problem and someone hasn’t exactly made things easy for her here and then there’s Brandon.” James said looking at Geno. “I’m not abandoning my baby sister. It isn’t going to happen and that’s final. If you want to send her back to Chicago then I’m going with her.!” I turned my attention to the large Russian sitting beside me. “Was this your idea? Are you the one that wants to get rid of her? I should have known. You don’t care about anyone other than yourself. You don’t even care that you hurt her! All you care about is your fucking puck bunnies. You very well could have lost the one girl who has ever truly loved you for who you are and not because you're Evgeni Malkin the rich and famous hockey player. I told you after you messed it up at the club that if you ever hurt her again that I would kill you. Well you better watch your back buddy because I’m coming for you.” I growled as the bus came to a stop. “Come on Jordy! I wanna go to my room, Sunshine is bothering me.” She laughed. I turned my back to them and put on the fakest smile that I could manage and walked to her, picking her up so that I was giving her a piggyback ride, she giggled as I did so. I loved to see her smiling and laughing. She is a great girl who deserves the best. I carried her into our room and gently set her on the bed. I saw her pull the Bruins jerseys out of the bag and shake them out. I noticed a few pieces of paper fall out. “What’s that?” I asked turning to look at her. “Zdeno and Milan gave me their numbers and tickets to one of their games!” She looked so excited. I didn’t care that she was excited for another teams game. They helped her and I was forever grateful. “Are you okay with this?” She asked patting the spot next to her on the bed. I sat down next to her with my back leaning up against the headboard. “If it makes you happy then it makes me happy.” I smiled kissing her forehead. I saw her take her phone out of her pocket and dial someones number.
*Kellie’s point of view*
I took the jerseys out of the bag that big Z had given me and shook them out, waiting to see my surprise. I noticed a paper fell out of Z’s jersey. There were two numbers written on it, I couldn’t help but smile to myself. When I shook out Milan’s jersey two tickets fell out of them. There was a note paperclipped on the back. “If you can’t make it let me know and I’ll get you tickets to another game (;- M.” I looked up from the note and saw a curious look on Jordy’s face. “What’s that?” He asked. “Zdeno and Milan gave me their numbers and tickets to a game of theirs.” I smiled excitedly. I just hoped that Jordan would be okay with it. I knew when I saw the smile come across his face that he was fine with it. I hurried to pull out my phone and dialed Zdeno’s number. He answered quickly. “Hey girl! Did you see your surprise yet?” I put my hand to my face. “Of course, I’m calling you silly. I didn’t have your number before.” I heard his throaty laugh and he mumbled a true. “Hey, are Bergy and Looch with you?” I asked. “Yeah hold on.” I heard him yell for the boys and a few seconds later I heard Looch’s voice. “ I’m hurt you didn’t call me first.” He laughed. “Sorry, you were next if you weren’t with Zdeno.” I laughed. “I just wanted to thank you guys for everything. You have seriously done way too much. I don’t know how to thank you.” I sighed. “I can think of a few ways.” I heard Bergy’s voice. I imagined him wiggling his eyebrows as he said that and I laughed to myself. “I’m just playing”, I heard him laugh. “You could go out with us tonight.” I heard Looch’s voice. He was so serious. “Guys I don’t know if that’s such a good idea.” I said biting my nail nervously. “It’ll be fine. I’ll come get you. Hell I’ll come get you at your room if you want. You won't be out of mine, Z’s or Bergy’s sight the entire time. You’ll be the safest person in the entire club. Think about it, who is going to mess with a girl who has an enforcer, a guy whose 6’9 and Bergeron, plus the rest of the Bruins team.” All of us laughed. He had a point. I didn’t know a lot of people who would mess with them off the ice. “Just think of us as your body guards.” Zdeno said. “Your insanely attractive body guards at that.” I heard someone yell. “Marchy shut up.” Looch yelled back. “Alright fine. I’ll go out for a little bit. After all I do owe you guys.” I heard them all mutter a sweet before telling me they’d be here soon and hanging up. I looked over at a sleeping Jordan and smiled to myself. I pulled my favorite black dress out of my bag and my favorite black heels and quietly went into the bathroom to shower and get ready. I took one last look in the mirror before leaving the bathroom and grabbing my purse. In the middle of leaving Jordan a note I heard a knock at the door. I quickly finished my sentence and opened the door, a huge smile on my face. It quickly fell when I noticed that it was Evgeni. “His eyes went wide when he noticed my outfit. It was strapless, stopped mid thigh and fit my body like a glove. “Where you go?” He asked rubbing the back of his neck. I could tell he was nervous and was trying hard not to stare at me. “She’s going out with us.” I heard. I quickly turned my head and saw Milan, Zdeno and Marchand walking in my direction. They were all wearing dark jeans, Milan had on a black button up shirt, Zdeno had a white one and Brad’s was gray. “Damn, looking good boys!” I yelled. I saw Evgeni’s jaw clench and he balled up his fists making his knuckles go white. “What did you need Evgeni?” I asked turning back to him. “Nothing.” He mumbled walking away. I shrugged and closed the door behind me, linking Brad and Milan’s arms with mine. Zdeno followed closely behind. “Where are we going?” I asked as Milan opened the SUV door for me. Zdeno got into the drivers seat and Brad took shotgun. “You’ll see when we get there.” Z laughed as he pulled out onto the street. On the way there we all made small talk, getting to know each other a little bit better. I found out Zdeno was married and he had one little girl. His wife and daughter were out of the state visiting some family for a little bit and he didn’t want to stay at the house all by himself, I could understand that. I hated being alone when I was at my place back in Chicago. Though I’m not sure it was the same reason as why Z didn’t like it. I found it to be really easy to talk to them. It was like we had been friends for years , I liked that. Before long we pulled up at a club. Z and Brad got out and when I reached for the door to open it someone had already done it. I looked up to see a smiling Milan, he outstretched his hand to help me out of the car and I gladly took it. I thanked him and followed behind him. I heard all of the girls scream when they noticed the guys. I heard a few girls yell “Milan pick me instead of that whore!” I couldn’t help but laugh. He opened his mouth to speak but I stopped him. “I’ve been around hockey players for years, I’m used to what they say.” I laughed. He nodded and led me into the club. I didn’t realize we were still holding hands until Tuukka Rask, their goaltender, commented on it. I blushed and we immediately let go. Milan offered me a drink but I politely declined. “Hey Kellie, would you like to dance?” Tuukka asked, I nodded as he lead me off to the dance floor. “So tell me, what’s going on with you and Looch?” He asked spinning me around. “I don’t think anything. He helped me out tonight and I owed him.” Tuuk laughed. “Kellie, he doesn’t just give someone his jersey, number and tickets to a game. “ I looked at him confused. “I think he likes you. I’ve never seen him hold hands with a girl before. He doesn’t do that kind of thing. That’s not the kind of guy that he is. He’s different around you, it’s a good different though. You can’t say that you don’t realize that either. He’s known for being a huge dick and fighting. He isn’t that way with you. Now, me on the other hand, is different. You should see the look that’s on his face right now. He’s pissed.” He laughed. I turned to that my back was up against Tuk, Milan was in fact very angry. “I should go. It was nice to meet you Tuukka.” I smiled and hugged him before walking back to Z and Milan. “Have fun?” Z asked. I nodded my head a small smile on my face. I took the opportunity to look at Milan, really look at him. I noticed he was just staring into space sipping on his beer. I took the seat next to him. “Want to dance?” I asked grabbing his hand. He mumbled a maybe later and I sighed. He was mad. “Are you mad that I was dancing with Tuukka?” I straight up asked. He nodded. “He was just being friendly. I don’t know a lot of your team yet, so he was just trying to get to know me. I wasn’t trying to start anything with your team. I promise.” I smiled telling the truth. “I’m sorry I got jealous.” He mumbled and I couldn’t help but laugh. The big bad Milan Lucic just apologized. Score, Me-1 Milan- 0. I could get used to this.
As the night went on, I found that I was having a lot of fun. The guys from the Bruins were great and super friendly. They seemed to like me as well, which was great. Milan and I had just finished dancing our fifth song when I had to excuse myself to the restroom. I needed to make sure that Jordy didn’t text me and wasn’t worried. I walked into the bathroom and made sure that I was alone before I pulled my phone out of my clutch. I had a bunch of missed texts. The first one was from Jordan, telling me to have fun and not to stay out too late. Opps, too late for that it was already past one in the morning. There were a few from Evgeni but none of them made any sense. I just assumed that he was either drunk or didn’t mean to send them to me. I also had texts from Jonny, Patrick and Kaner. I sighed knowing I would have to face them sooner or later. The ones from Jonny and Patrick were pretty much the same “I heard about what happened. I’ll call in the morning. Stay safe! Miss you.” It was scary how similar their thought processes were sometimes. Kaners was entirely different. “What the fuck is going on? We sent you to Pittsburgh so you’d be safe and he fucking finds you. Are you okay? Do you want me to get on the next flight out? I’ll have Coach scratch me, I don’t care. Please text me back or call me when you get this. I don’t care what time it is. I’m worried. -Kaner” I sighed and put my phone on the counter and took a good look at myself in the mirror. If I was going to call Kaner tonight I’d need a few pills. I grabbed them out of my purse and set it up. I then called Kaner. It rang once and went to voicemail. I didn’t bother to leave a voicemail, instead I just put my phone away, fixed my hair and went back to Milan.
“All good?” He asked as I took a seat in the booth next to him. I nodded laying my head on his shoulder. “How about we get out of here?” He whispered in my ear. “Are the other guys coming?” I asked kind of hoping that they weren’t. I wanted to spend some time with Milan. His face kind of fell when I asked. “No they have a ride home.” I smiled and got out of the booth, helping him out as well. I couldn’t wait to see where we were going.
*Jordan’s point of view*
“Gronk I need you to come with me for a minute.” Kunitz said pulling me out of my seat and away from Kellie , dragging me to the back of the bus. I noticed that Geno, Kris, Sidney, Duper, and Neal were all there. “Uh oh, what did I do?” I laughed. We never had group meetings without the rest of the team. “Sit.” Geno ordered. I obeyed the command, mostly because I was curious as to what this was about. “We were having a discussion about Kellie, and we were thinking that after this road trip maybe she should go back to Chicago for awhile. We’re all worried about her safety and let’s face it she hasn’t had a whole lot of good things happen to her since she got here.” Neal stated slowly. I looked at them all shocked. Why do they want to send Kellie away? We’re her family we can’t just abandon her! There’s no way I was going to do that to her. She didn’t deserve it. “How can you say that? She needs us and you want to abandon her after everything? Are you fucking kidding me?” I screamed. I was beyond pissed. “Look Gronk, we are concerned for her. You said she has the pill problem and someone hasn’t exactly made things easy for her here and then there’s Brandon.” James said looking at Geno. “I’m not abandoning my baby sister. It isn’t going to happen and that’s final. If you want to send her back to Chicago then I’m going with her.!” I turned my attention to the large Russian sitting beside me. “Was this your idea? Are you the one that wants to get rid of her? I should have known. You don’t care about anyone other than yourself. You don’t even care that you hurt her! All you care about is your fucking puck bunnies. You very well could have lost the one girl who has ever truly loved you for who you are and not because you're Evgeni Malkin the rich and famous hockey player. I told you after you messed it up at the club that if you ever hurt her again that I would kill you. Well you better watch your back buddy because I’m coming for you.” I growled as the bus came to a stop. “Come on Jordy! I wanna go to my room, Sunshine is bothering me.” She laughed. I turned my back to them and put on the fakest smile that I could manage and walked to her, picking her up so that I was giving her a piggyback ride, she giggled as I did so. I loved to see her smiling and laughing. She is a great girl who deserves the best. I carried her into our room and gently set her on the bed. I saw her pull the Bruins jerseys out of the bag and shake them out. I noticed a few pieces of paper fall out. “What’s that?” I asked turning to look at her. “Zdeno and Milan gave me their numbers and tickets to one of their games!” She looked so excited. I didn’t care that she was excited for another teams game. They helped her and I was forever grateful. “Are you okay with this?” She asked patting the spot next to her on the bed. I sat down next to her with my back leaning up against the headboard. “If it makes you happy then it makes me happy.” I smiled kissing her forehead. I saw her take her phone out of her pocket and dial someones number.
*Kellie’s point of view*
I took the jerseys out of the bag that big Z had given me and shook them out, waiting to see my surprise. I noticed a paper fell out of Z’s jersey. There were two numbers written on it, I couldn’t help but smile to myself. When I shook out Milan’s jersey two tickets fell out of them. There was a note paperclipped on the back. “If you can’t make it let me know and I’ll get you tickets to another game (;- M.” I looked up from the note and saw a curious look on Jordy’s face. “What’s that?” He asked. “Zdeno and Milan gave me their numbers and tickets to a game of theirs.” I smiled excitedly. I just hoped that Jordan would be okay with it. I knew when I saw the smile come across his face that he was fine with it. I hurried to pull out my phone and dialed Zdeno’s number. He answered quickly. “Hey girl! Did you see your surprise yet?” I put my hand to my face. “Of course, I’m calling you silly. I didn’t have your number before.” I heard his throaty laugh and he mumbled a true. “Hey, are Bergy and Looch with you?” I asked. “Yeah hold on.” I heard him yell for the boys and a few seconds later I heard Looch’s voice. “ I’m hurt you didn’t call me first.” He laughed. “Sorry, you were next if you weren’t with Zdeno.” I laughed. “I just wanted to thank you guys for everything. You have seriously done way too much. I don’t know how to thank you.” I sighed. “I can think of a few ways.” I heard Bergy’s voice. I imagined him wiggling his eyebrows as he said that and I laughed to myself. “I’m just playing”, I heard him laugh. “You could go out with us tonight.” I heard Looch’s voice. He was so serious. “Guys I don’t know if that’s such a good idea.” I said biting my nail nervously. “It’ll be fine. I’ll come get you. Hell I’ll come get you at your room if you want. You won't be out of mine, Z’s or Bergy’s sight the entire time. You’ll be the safest person in the entire club. Think about it, who is going to mess with a girl who has an enforcer, a guy whose 6’9 and Bergeron, plus the rest of the Bruins team.” All of us laughed. He had a point. I didn’t know a lot of people who would mess with them off the ice. “Just think of us as your body guards.” Zdeno said. “Your insanely attractive body guards at that.” I heard someone yell. “Marchy shut up.” Looch yelled back. “Alright fine. I’ll go out for a little bit. After all I do owe you guys.” I heard them all mutter a sweet before telling me they’d be here soon and hanging up. I looked over at a sleeping Jordan and smiled to myself. I pulled my favorite black dress out of my bag and my favorite black heels and quietly went into the bathroom to shower and get ready. I took one last look in the mirror before leaving the bathroom and grabbing my purse. In the middle of leaving Jordan a note I heard a knock at the door. I quickly finished my sentence and opened the door, a huge smile on my face. It quickly fell when I noticed that it was Evgeni. “His eyes went wide when he noticed my outfit. It was strapless, stopped mid thigh and fit my body like a glove. “Where you go?” He asked rubbing the back of his neck. I could tell he was nervous and was trying hard not to stare at me. “She’s going out with us.” I heard. I quickly turned my head and saw Milan, Zdeno and Marchand walking in my direction. They were all wearing dark jeans, Milan had on a black button up shirt, Zdeno had a white one and Brad’s was gray. “Damn, looking good boys!” I yelled. I saw Evgeni’s jaw clench and he balled up his fists making his knuckles go white. “What did you need Evgeni?” I asked turning back to him. “Nothing.” He mumbled walking away. I shrugged and closed the door behind me, linking Brad and Milan’s arms with mine. Zdeno followed closely behind. “Where are we going?” I asked as Milan opened the SUV door for me. Zdeno got into the drivers seat and Brad took shotgun. “You’ll see when we get there.” Z laughed as he pulled out onto the street. On the way there we all made small talk, getting to know each other a little bit better. I found out Zdeno was married and he had one little girl. His wife and daughter were out of the state visiting some family for a little bit and he didn’t want to stay at the house all by himself, I could understand that. I hated being alone when I was at my place back in Chicago. Though I’m not sure it was the same reason as why Z didn’t like it. I found it to be really easy to talk to them. It was like we had been friends for years , I liked that. Before long we pulled up at a club. Z and Brad got out and when I reached for the door to open it someone had already done it. I looked up to see a smiling Milan, he outstretched his hand to help me out of the car and I gladly took it. I thanked him and followed behind him. I heard all of the girls scream when they noticed the guys. I heard a few girls yell “Milan pick me instead of that whore!” I couldn’t help but laugh. He opened his mouth to speak but I stopped him. “I’ve been around hockey players for years, I’m used to what they say.” I laughed. He nodded and led me into the club. I didn’t realize we were still holding hands until Tuukka Rask, their goaltender, commented on it. I blushed and we immediately let go. Milan offered me a drink but I politely declined. “Hey Kellie, would you like to dance?” Tuukka asked, I nodded as he lead me off to the dance floor. “So tell me, what’s going on with you and Looch?” He asked spinning me around. “I don’t think anything. He helped me out tonight and I owed him.” Tuuk laughed. “Kellie, he doesn’t just give someone his jersey, number and tickets to a game. “ I looked at him confused. “I think he likes you. I’ve never seen him hold hands with a girl before. He doesn’t do that kind of thing. That’s not the kind of guy that he is. He’s different around you, it’s a good different though. You can’t say that you don’t realize that either. He’s known for being a huge dick and fighting. He isn’t that way with you. Now, me on the other hand, is different. You should see the look that’s on his face right now. He’s pissed.” He laughed. I turned to that my back was up against Tuk, Milan was in fact very angry. “I should go. It was nice to meet you Tuukka.” I smiled and hugged him before walking back to Z and Milan. “Have fun?” Z asked. I nodded my head a small smile on my face. I took the opportunity to look at Milan, really look at him. I noticed he was just staring into space sipping on his beer. I took the seat next to him. “Want to dance?” I asked grabbing his hand. He mumbled a maybe later and I sighed. He was mad. “Are you mad that I was dancing with Tuukka?” I straight up asked. He nodded. “He was just being friendly. I don’t know a lot of your team yet, so he was just trying to get to know me. I wasn’t trying to start anything with your team. I promise.” I smiled telling the truth. “I’m sorry I got jealous.” He mumbled and I couldn’t help but laugh. The big bad Milan Lucic just apologized. Score, Me-1 Milan- 0. I could get used to this.
As the night went on, I found that I was having a lot of fun. The guys from the Bruins were great and super friendly. They seemed to like me as well, which was great. Milan and I had just finished dancing our fifth song when I had to excuse myself to the restroom. I needed to make sure that Jordy didn’t text me and wasn’t worried. I walked into the bathroom and made sure that I was alone before I pulled my phone out of my clutch. I had a bunch of missed texts. The first one was from Jordan, telling me to have fun and not to stay out too late. Opps, too late for that it was already past one in the morning. There were a few from Evgeni but none of them made any sense. I just assumed that he was either drunk or didn’t mean to send them to me. I also had texts from Jonny, Patrick and Kaner. I sighed knowing I would have to face them sooner or later. The ones from Jonny and Patrick were pretty much the same “I heard about what happened. I’ll call in the morning. Stay safe! Miss you.” It was scary how similar their thought processes were sometimes. Kaners was entirely different. “What the fuck is going on? We sent you to Pittsburgh so you’d be safe and he fucking finds you. Are you okay? Do you want me to get on the next flight out? I’ll have Coach scratch me, I don’t care. Please text me back or call me when you get this. I don’t care what time it is. I’m worried. -Kaner” I sighed and put my phone on the counter and took a good look at myself in the mirror. If I was going to call Kaner tonight I’d need a few pills. I grabbed them out of my purse and set it up. I then called Kaner. It rang once and went to voicemail. I didn’t bother to leave a voicemail, instead I just put my phone away, fixed my hair and went back to Milan.
“All good?” He asked as I took a seat in the booth next to him. I nodded laying my head on his shoulder. “How about we get out of here?” He whispered in my ear. “Are the other guys coming?” I asked kind of hoping that they weren’t. I wanted to spend some time with Milan. His face kind of fell when I asked. “No they have a ride home.” I smiled and got out of the booth, helping him out as well. I couldn’t wait to see where we were going.
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I have a few days (fingers crossed) off of work so I'll try to update tomorrow!
6/12/17