Save Me

***Sidney’s point of view***
It was unusually quiet when I walked through the front door. Keeley usually waited up for me on nights that I went out and she stayed in. I climbed the stairs unbuttoning my shirt and dropping it to the floor in the process. When I reached my bedroom door it was closed. I opened the door and turned on the light. Keeley was laying on my bed, wearing a different one of my t-shirts than the one that I had left her in. Her back was facing me and I had a perfect view of the black lace panties that she was wearing. I sighed and made my way further into my room. I noticed the empty bottle of Jack laying on the floor next to the bed. I sighed and picked it up bringing it into the bathroom with me. I was surprised to find two empty bottles of vodka laying on the counter. I set the third bottle down and walked back into the bedroom, sitting on the bed next to Keeley. I knew I shouldn’t have gone out with the guys. I had that gut feeling like something was going to happen, but I ignored it. I moved Keeley so that she was laying on one half of the bed and I could lay on the other. I laid down next to her, when she felt me lay down she curled up next to me her head laying on my chest.
“Sid?” She whispered with a small smile on her face.
“Yeah, it’s me Keels. I’m not going anywhere I promise.” I said moving her hair out of her face. How a girl her size could manage to drink three bottles of vodka and still be as coherent as she was, is beyond me. What I did know was that there was no way I was getting any sleep tonight. I grabbed my phone and plugged it in next to hers. I noticed a light flashing and saw that she had a text message. I know looking at it would be wrong, but it could help me figure out why she decided to go hard on the alcohol that I thought was well hidden in the kitchen. Typing in her password was quite easy, it took all of two tries before I was inside her phone. I touched the message icon and saw who the messages were from. There was three picture messages from Geno and a video from Jordan. I looked at Geno’s messages first, they were all pictures of him kissing Oksana. Jordan’s video message was next. I turned the volume all the way down on her phone before pressing play. What I saw was completely unnecessary. Geno was in the back seat of Jordan’s Escalade and they appeared to be having sex. It showed them for a few seconds before it switched over to Jordan’s face, he had a giant smile and said “Looks like he doesn’t need stupid sluts like you.” Then the video ended. I was furious! I quickly sent the messages from Geno and Jordan to my phone before deleting them. Tomorrow at practice they would both be in a world of trouble. I looked down at Keeley and started to play with her hair. She didn’t deserve any of this. She curled up closer to my body and smiled before her breathing evened out again.

***Keeley’s point of view***
I shot out of bed like a rocket and ran straight to the bathroom puking my guts up. Maybe all of that alcohol wasn’t such a good idea. I felt someone come up behind me and pull my hair out of my face and rub my back with his other hand. Once I was finally finished I leaned up against him, laying my head on his bare chest. We sat like that completely silent for a few minutes.
“So do you want to tell me what happened last night?” Sid asked running his fingers through my hair.
“Not really.” I mumbled as I saw the three empty bottles laying on the bathroom counter. I know I couldn’t tell Sidney anything about what was going on. I couldn’t risk causing anything to happen with the team. They were ranked first place in their division and there was no way that I was going to jeopardize the success they were having.
“It has to be something. You don’t drink two bottles of vodka and a bottle of Jack over nothing. Why didn’t you call me? I would’ve come home right away.” Sid said moving so that he was sitting directly in front of me, looking me straight in the eyes. “I don’t want you to feel like you don’t have anyone to turn too. I’m always here for you, no matter what. You know that right?” He asked the pain filling his eyes. I nodded my head yes, my voice would crack if I tried to speak. “Now please tell me what is going on.” He spoke again. I nodded my head no as he took me in his arms hugging me tightly. “How about I call in sick to practice and we can just lay in bed and watch movies all day?” He asked kissing my head.
“Sidney, you need to go to practice. You have a big game coming up and I will not be held responsible for any of you playing badly or for a loss.” I said playing with the shirt that I was wearing. I didn’t realize until now that Sidney was wearing nothing but a pair of boxers that left absolutely nothing to the imagination.
“I will go to practice on one condition.” He said making me look him in the eyes. “I will go to practice if you promise me that you will not drink any more alcohol while I’m gone. I know exactly how many bottles I have and I will check to make sure. I’m also taking the keys to all of the cars so you can’t drive anywhere. Do we have a deal?” He asked sticking his hand out for me to shake. I rolled my eyes but shook his hand anyways. “Good, now there’s breakfast for you downstairs in the microwave. I think you’ll really like it. Pauley brought it by.” Sid said with a wink helping me up off the floor.
I left Sid and headed down to the kitchen so he could get ready for practice. I opened the door to the microwave and pulled a plate out, pulling the aluminum foil off, laughing at the smiley face that was drawn on it. Pauley had made bacon, eggs, hash browns, toast and some grits. I warmed the food up before grabbing a water out of the fridge and taking the plate to the island. I was halfway done with my breakfast before there was a knock at the door. I quickly went and answered it.
“There’s my girl!” Nealer yelled picking me up and walking in the door.
“Neal put me down before I throw up all over you.” I stated. He quickly set me down on the bar stool that I was occupying before he knocked.
“Wow. You look like crap.” He said taking the spot next to me.
“You sure do know how to make a girl feel pretty damn good about herself.” I mumbled as Sidney entered the kitchen. He laid the bottles down on the counter in front of us.
“Alright, I have three bottles less than I did last night, so that leaves me with twelve bottles. I’ll know if you open any of them too, so don’t even try it missy.” Sidney said taking a piece of bacon off my plate before I could smack his hand away.
“Wait! You’re telling me that you drank all of that last night?” Nealer asked taking a sip of his water. I nodded with a small blush.
“She can out drink the big guy! There’s two bottles of vodka there. How can you out drink the Russian? I mean vodka is like water to them.” He joked. Just the mention of his nick name stung. I played it off and continued to eat my breakfast quietly. Sidney handed me a cup of coffee before placing a soft kiss on my cheek. James hugged me and kissed my forehead.
“Hey! Tell Pauley that his cooking is fantastic and he can make me a hangover breakfast anytime he wants.” I yelled at the boys as they walked out the front door for practice.

***Sidney’s point of view***
“So do you want to let me in on what’s happening with Keeley?” James asked pulling out of my drive and onto the quiet street. I sighed, not really knowing if I should or not. After debating for a few moments I finally decided to go for it.
“Geno sent her picture messages of him kissing his new hoe and then to top it off, Jordan sent her a video message of Geno and this girl in the back seat of his car fucking and he told Keels she was a stupid slut.” James slammed on the breaks. I was thankful that no one had been driving behind us, because we would’ve been in an accident if there was.
“He did what?!” James yelled. I nodded my head yes. “I’m going to kill both of them. No one treats our girl like that. So that’s why she drank enough to kill a horse last night?” Nealer asked pressing the gas pedal again.
“Yeah. I can’t believe that they have the balls to do this to her. She doesn’t know anything about the video. I deleted that off her phone before she could see it.” I said as Neal pulled into a parking spot. I looked around for their cars and spotted Jordan’s right away. “Well jackass number one is here. Let’s see about number two.” I said taking my bag from Neal and walking into the arena. It wasn’t too hard to spot Jordan in the locker room. He was sitting in his stall putting his jersey on. I dropped my bag and made my way straight to him, not even bothering to answer the questions of my teammates. Jordan didn’t even see me coming. My fist connected with his jaw before he even looked up. Neal was at my side pulling me away before I could hit him again.
“Save it for the ice.” He whispered dragging me to my locker. The atmosphere in the room had changed dramatically. It went from being noisy and cheerful to so quiet that you could hear a pin drop. I quickly got dressed and went out on to the ice. James and I were the first ones out there. The rest of the guys joined us minutes later.
“Alright boys! Let’s get started!” Coach yelled, blowing the whistle. It was me, Nealer, and Beau against Jordan, Downie and Ollie. I started out with the puck but shot it to James. He shot it to Beau and then Beau gave it back to James. He was getting ready to set me up for the goal when I dropped my stick and slammed Jordan into the boards. He fell onto the ice and didn’t get up for a few seconds. The three of us skated back to the rest of the team. Coach called Geno, Letang, and Cooke to go against Bortz, Despres, and Kuni. I grabbed Despres’ by the jersey and told him to stay back. Coach blew the whistle and I took off full speed ahead towards Geno, slamming him into the boards, he fell and I ended up falling on top of him. Geno grabbed my jersey and flipped me onto the ice. He tried getting up but I pulled him back down and punched him in the jaw a few times.

***Keeley’s point of view***
The house was really quiet and I was getting really bored without Sidney here. I had already done all the dishes, put them away, vacuumed the entire house and dusted, and there was still at least an hour until he got back from practice. I threw myself onto the couch, grabbing my phone off the coffee table in the process. I had a missed call from my favorite Chicago boys. Smiling to myself I pressed the facetime button and waited for them to pick up.
“There’s my favorite trainer!” Kaner said. I watched as a roll of tape flew and hit Kaner in the head. “I heard that!” Their trainer said with a slight smile. “Okay okay. My favorite female trainer.” He said throwing the tape back in the trainer’s direction. “It’s nice to see you’re okay.” Kaner said sitting down on the bench, his voice serious.
“Yeah yeah. I’m fine. Sidney took great care of me.” I said grabbing a water out of the fridge and climbing the stairs to his room.
“How’s staying with him going?” He asked as Jonny sat down next to him, joining the conversation. I said hello and laid down on Sid’s bed. He hated drinks in his room, but I figured what he didn’t know wouldn’t hurt him.
“It’s going fine. He’s been with me a lot the last few weeks.” I said taking a sip of my water.
“Hey, isn’t that Sid’s room?” Jonny asked completely changing the topic. I nodded my head yes.
“You’re staying in Sidney’s room?” Kane practically screamed, getting the attention of the entire locker room. I laughed as Jonny smacked him in the back of the head.
“Yep. We’ve slept in the same bed two nights in a row and you know what I’ve slept in nothing but his shirt too. Wanna see?” I asked knowing it would aggravate both boys. I laughed as Crow, Carcillo, Shaw, Sharp and Saad tried to take Kane’s phone.
“Shame on you Sharpie! I’m telling Abby!” I laughed sitting up.
“Hey doll face, I know you were just kidding. How’s my favorite girl?” He asked flashing his gorgeous smile. I spoke to him for a few minutes before Crawford stole the phone away.
“So Captain Crosby, huh? Going after the enemy now, are we? That hurts babe.” He put his hand up to his chest, faking being hurt.
“Sorry sugar, but you know how much I like breaking rules.” I laughed winking at him. “Just do me a favor, go out there and kick some ass for me! I expect goals from all of my boys. That includes you, Corey!” I laughed referring to a question he was asked in an interview. After that we said our goodbyes and they promised to facetime me later. I hung up and saw the twitter notification pop up.
“@KeeleyCooke23 is Dating Pittsburgh Penguins Captain Sidney Crosby, stay tuned for more details.” Oh I was definitely going to kill Shawzie when I saw him next. My phone started to vibrate nonstop so I turned it off and put it on the charger. Good thing Sid didn’t have a twitter. I just hoped that none of the boys would see it until I could explain the situation to Sidney. Good thing they all have a good sense of humor, right?

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