I felt Tyler wake up the next morning and there,next to him, was where I lay. I could almost feel him staring at me, naked, and it made me extremely uncomfortable, I needed to get out of here. I nudged a little and I felt him gasp at my sudden move. I felt a weight lift off the bed and heard the bathroom door open and shut and then the shower turn on. Immediately after Tyler had turned the shower on, my eyes popped open. Oh crap.. I stayed the night at some hotel and had school in two hours. I got off the bed and went over towards the love seat, to which my jacket had been placed on, and reached in both pockets to find my cell phone. I turned on the flashlight and quietly began to search for my clothes. I could hear a faint low humming sound that came from the bathroom, which was Tyler singing and I fought back the laughter. After a while I had found everything but my panties and at this point i gave up.

‘Guess I’m going commando…” I muttered to myself as I began to dress myself. Once I was finished I grabbed an apple from the fruit tray and let myself out. I got into the elevator and pressed “M” [main level] and reached the lobby. There were a few people checking in and out of the hotel, and a couple people who were already working so it wasn’t a hectic morning. I stepped outside and it was snowing, uuughh. I flipped up the hood of her jacket and placed a mitten on my left hand, leaving my right hand free for my phone.I swiped to unlock my phone and phoned Mia.

“Nessa..?” a tired voice answered.

“Hey Mia, I’m at the Westin coul-”

“The Westin!? Vanessa please tell me you didn’t just have sex with some stranger!!” Mia’s voice went from below a whisper to a loud thunderclap in just seconds, and it boomed in my ear, the static of the phone didn’t help either. I could tell that she was already judging me.

“I’ll explain later, do you think your mom could let you have the car today?”

“I don’t know, Nessa it’s snowing out there, and I’m not really used to driving in the snow, and if you’re asking me for a ride from the freaking WESTIN HOTEL you are insane” there was a pause.

“Nessa do you know what time it is?” I rolled my eyes and exhaled loudly, here it goes, Mia was going to give me the lecture of a fucking lifetime.

“Vanessa, you need to quit with the partying and the sex and whatever else you’ve been doing lately.. you’re starting to become trashy! Haven’t you learned from before? It’s your last year of high school you need to start smartening up!”
“Mia! can you fucking relax? I didn’t go out and party I was just at the hockey game, Tyler remember!?” There was a long silent pause on the phone and I heard Mias voice crack.

“I’ll be there in ten minutes,”

“Just call when you get here, I’ll grab us something to eat or something, oh and can you bring me a change of clothing?” I laughed.

Once Mia arrived I handed her a cappuccino and sat in the passenger seat. As I handed her the cup she gave me cold eyes. The car ride at first was quiet, Mia didn’t like any music playing when she drove and didn’t talk much either.

“So.. Tyler?” Mia spoke, breaking the silence.

“Tyler.” I smiled.

“Vanessa, I did some more research on this guy, and he seems like bad news”

I shrugged at her statement. “It’s just sex.” I assured her.

“This guy got traded because of his ‘partying’, he’s a homophobe, has slept with a bunch of women at Boston University, and sounds like an all around douchebag,”

“Mia, like I said before, it is JUST sex”

“Thats not all, there are photos of you two all over the internet”

“What do you mean?”

“I mean, from the New Years party you went to in Dallas, his birthday, and last night already,” She tossed me her phone and safari was already up and there was an article on Tyler. ‘Dallas Stars’ Tyler Seguin’s friend from Calgary’ was the headline. I skimmed through the article and to summarize it, it was all bull shit. Once I reached the bottom of the page there were several photos of Tyler and I leaving the arena last night. Jesus… I didn’t even notice being photographed. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Is all I thought as I swiped through the photos as they revealed more and more of my face and how intimate Tyler was being with me. We weren’t even a thing?! It was straight sex, a hookup, besides, I’m sure he has tons of those in every city. All I could feel was fear rising up in my body, What if my parents saw this? Who had already seen this?

“Vanessa, that’s not even it, there’s a whole forum online about his girlfriends, and you’re the current ‘girlfriend’ if you must,” Mia started, and then she paused and looked at me. “Vanessa, they have said some pretty horrible things, and they have basically gone full FBI on this shit and have been trying to figure out who you are… Vanessa, what if they find out?” At first I didn’t think it was a problem, hooking up wasn’t an issue for me, but then it hit me, it finally truly, really hit me. I was seventeen and Tyler was twenty-three.
“Vanessa, watch what you’re doing,”

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Tylers POV


I finally checked my phone to see that I had more than thirteen missed calls and a shit ton of text messages, emails, and notifications. Why did I set my phone on ‘do not disturb’? I sighed as I cleared all of the notifications, I decided to continue on playing a couple Trivia Crack games and accepted the minimal three game requests that I could and then rejected the rest, which was a headache. I finally decided to check why I had so many missed calls, tons from my mom, a couple from Brandon from back home, and a bunch from my agent. I checked my texts next, first one I read was from Cabbie, a long time friend of mine who was also a reporter for TSN

[3 attached Items]
-dude who is she?

I laughed at the message. Cabbie was always trying to get with my sloppy seconds, or anyone honestly! I read on through the next text messages that I had received and the majority of them were about Vanessa. Gotta admit, she was a real eye catcher and seemed to be getting all the attention now. She was already gone once I got out of the shower, which was a little upsetting, seeing that I wanted to see her in the morning and grab a bite, but seeing that she worked at a school she must have had work. Damn, a naughty teacher. I was pretty much living any guys fantasy, being able to fuck their teacher. I figured that I drop by the school and surprise her before we had to head off to Edmonton for our next game.

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“Please excuse the interruption, will Vanessa Chandler please come to the front office please, Vanessa Chandler to the office.”

I blinked fast at the announcement. It was midway through second period and I got called to the office. Shit, my parents must be pissed because I didn’t come home last night. My heart started to pound fast, and I swear the whole room could hear my heart beating fast because they were all looking at me. I swallowed hard. I completely forgot. I hated it when my parents were mad at me, I hated disappointing them, but then again it didn’t take much to disappoint them. My dad was CEO for the company he worked at and my mom was a Chiropractor. Although I do come from a lot of wealth, my parents always pushed me to work for everything, hence why I got my first job at the age of fourteen. They have always wanted me to be perfect, or at least live up to them or whatever it is they wanted me to live up to, and I have been trying but it’s hard. My brother clearly failed at that when he decided he was going to stop going to the College of Notre Dame (it was an all boys hockey high school) and just go to public school, which they (my parents) supported but weren’t happy when he began to engage in drugs and almost knocked up his girlfriend, they sent him to live with our grandparents on BC for a while, and so far that seemed to have worked because when he came back he had ‘changed’ even though I have found a couple pipes and such in his room.

I finally pushed my chair back and began to go to the office and as I approached the office, I didn’t see two figures standing there, just one. They had their hands in their pockets and a backwards hat on. Oh my God.

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