Intrigue

Alexa's POV

The second period began and I was getting a migraine from the fool beside me. He was arrogant and out-spoken, telling me about all the different cases he had tried and won. The guy was a total douche, staring at my backside blatantly anytime I jumped up to cheer. I felt odd in the red jersey, especially since I rarely cheer for a team other than the Flyers.

I had grew up on hockey. My grandfather was a huge fan of the sport and I had season tickets until the day he passed away two years ago. I haven’t been to one of their games since. I’ll watch them on television faithfully, but I haven’t brought myself to going to one of the games. I moved to Chicago for a change. I had graduated from law school and found a fantastic job as an entry-level attorney dealing with corporate law. There weren’t many women in the field, but I had received glowing reviews from my professors. I was excited to start full-time next week. I had stopped in a few days this week and the idiot beside me wouldn’t leave me alone until I agreed to a date with him.

About midway through the second period my date went to get drinks and an usher approached me. “Excuse me, miss?” I looked up at him wondering why he needed me. He handed me an envelope and walked away.

I quickly opened it and smiled at the contents. “Cheer for me during the third, then ditch him and meet me by the locker room after the game.” Colin sat back down next to me, sneaking his arm around me and handing me a beer. I ignored him as much as possible. I hoped he got the hint when I smacked his hand away as he rubbed my shoulder.

The Blackhawks were winning the game. The better they did, the more I got into it. Brent was playing well and I knew he was showing off. He was dropping in to the offensive zone and taking shots whenever he could. He finally snapped one past Price with about four minutes left in the period. I cheered loudly and Colin just glared at me. “Wow, not many women like sports like you do.” I just smiled. Colin actually asked me to join him for dinner but I let him know I had too much unpacking and would see him on Monday.

I walked towards a different exit than Colin, half debating whether I should go towards the locker room. I wasn’t sure I wanted to meet a bunch of playboys. My last relationship ended because I got cheated on and it damn near broke my heart.

I finally gave in and went towards the locker room, hoping to just thank him and get out of there. I waited outside for about fifteen minutes catching glares from girls who looked like strippers before he came barreling out, freshly showered. “Hey, I’m glad you came. Now this is gonna be weird, but I never got your name.” He looked at me intently.

“It’s Alexa”, I said, brushing the hair out of my eyes.

“Come on, I’m starving, let’s go get something to eat. If we hurry, we won’t have company.” He smiled and reached for my hand.

“Are we going to leave my car here and pick it up later?” I asked, wondering if I should drive. He shook his head affirmatively. He pulled me out a side door and towards a black SUV.

“So what do you feel like eating?” he asked me and I shrugged. “Since you are making me eat so late, it’s gotta be something bad for me.” I answered sticking my tongue out at him.

We ended up at a burger place not far from the arena. We ordered our food and he smiled when they brought our plates out. “Oh my gosh, its huge” I commented looking at the burger in front of me.

He cracked up. “I don’t think you can finish it.”

I gave him a sly look. “Oh, you'd be suprised" I answered. I heard loud voices coming through the door and Brent groaned. Patrick Sharp slid into our booth and flashed me a signature smile as he stole fries.

“I assume you know who I am, and you are who?’ he asked extending his hand.

“Sharpy, this is Alexa.” He just grunted.

“And why didn’t you come in and see us?” Patrick asked and Brent just threw him a look.

“One, she doesn’t even like you, she isn’t a Blackhawks fan and two because I didn’t want to scare her away.” Brent said clearly annoyed at the interruption now. We finished eating and Brent teased me about the little piece of burger I left. The other Patrick had come over and introduced himself, as well as Jonathan and Duncan. They all seemed fairly nice. We left not long after. He coaxed Duncan into coming with us and taking his truck home so that he could drive with me which was really sweet.

Duncan teased me the ride back to the arena about Philly. He seemed like he would be a really fun person to hang out with. We finally pulled up beside my car. I threw Brent the keys and let him drive back to our building. It was almost midnight, but all the food had woken me up. “Do you want to watch a movie or something?” he asked looking at me hopefully.

“Uhmm ok, your place or mine” I asked and he broke into a big grin and I laughed.

"Come on, I have a bunch of new movies I bought. We can watch one in my room to avoid Duncan when he comes back." We went into the kitchen and he got us drinks. He ran upstairs and I followed him up. Once we got into his room, he rummaged around in his closet. He threw me a pair of shorts and a t shirt and told me to get comfortable. He left the room with his clothes and got changed down the hall. He knocked before he came back in which I though was really sweet. Finally we got settled in for the movie.

Brent's POV

She looked adorable in the huge clothes I had given her. She had pulled her hair up and was sitting on the end of the bed. I had to resist the urge to kiss her, at least now anyway. I talked a good game to myself, but when it came down to it, I was definitely shy. I threw a comedy on and laid down with my pillows propping me up. I gently pulled her down towards me, placing her head on the pillow next to mine. “Get comfortable Alex” I said and she grinned.

“Alex, hmm I like that, no one has ever called me that before. It is usually Lexa which I hate.”

I turned my attention to the movie. As much as my mind was going crazy imagining all of the kinky things I could be doing to her, I was behaving myself and planned on keeping it that way. Halfway through the movie she rolled onto her side to get more comfortable. I slid behind her and wrapped my arms around her pulling her into me but not allowing my hands to roam from her mid-section. As the credits came up on the screen I noticed she was sound asleep. I covered us with a blanket and cuddled her into me, wishing I had kissed her earlier, before she fell asleep.

I woke up and noticed she was no longer beside me. After a quick trip to the bathroom, I walked downstairs. Her and Duncan were eating cereal and watching tv.

“Gonna go run, you want to come?” she asked me. I agreed. We were off today and tomorrow which was a nice change. “I’ll be back in twenty, lemme get some clothes on. “ she said walking out the front door.

Dunc threw a pillow at me as soon as she walked out. “Please tell me you hit that, did you see her behind? My god Seabs, tell me you smacked that around a bit. “ I shook my head no and ran up the steps for clothes. It was the middle of October and I wasn’t trying to freeze while running.

I met her in the hallway and as soon as we got outside we hit the pavement running. She was impressive. I could tell she ran on a normal basis. We ran three miles. The last mile I tried to hang back a little bit. I couldn’t help it, she had on tight pants and I had to at least check out the view. I sped back up beside her and she arched her eyebrows at me. I sped up, hoping she wouldn’t call me out on it. I was out of breath by the time we made it back to the apartment. I leaned over, stretching and trying to catch my breath. She just smiled at me and announced she was going to her apartment to take a shower and get some work done. I groaned after she ran up the steps. Now I would have to go all day thinking about why I still didn't kiss her.

Notes

Brent's just so damn cute.