Tyler's POV
Jamie and I go down to the garage and get into our separate cars to go to practice.I turn on the playlist that I listen to before every game and most practices. I round the corner to Kirsten's street, it takes a minute or so to get there, and I see her standing outside waiting for me. She walks over to my Jeep, and I see that she is wearing a Michigan State volleyball t-shirt, and black yoga pants with white stripes. She looks really good. The door opens, and she climbs in next to me and says, "Wow! It's been to long Ty! What brings you here?" She jokes. "Thanks for picking me up. Hey... Just so you know, I'm really nervous about what management might say."

"Everything will be okay. I promise. I'll tell them I seduced you!" I say, and reach over to tickle her sides.

"You know I'm not ticklish! Quit Ty!" She squeals, and I stop, to pull away from her apartment building. "But you did seduce me, so that would be fairly truthful." She laughs.

"You know that's not how that went at all!" I exclaim, "I used my excellent self-control while you were wasted, and then we made an agreement."

"Well, yeah. But..." She trails off. "Wait!" She shouts. "Did we tell management that we never slept together, right?" She asks me, and then I nod. "Well, then we can't get in trouble, because we didn't sleep together last night, so... What can they punish us for? What repercussions could they possibly enforce?" She asks in a long breath.

"That all sounds good, but we may still get in trouble, because we weren't planning on telling them. But maybe if we explain the situation, then it wont be so bad. But either way, it'll be fine." I say rubbing her shoulder.

"I know it will be fine, but I don't want either of us to get in trouble." She says.

"Look, I don't care if we get in trouble from management. We don't have to keep this a secret anymore, which has to be better, right?" I ask her.

"I know we don't have to keep it a secret, but I still want to!" She makes her point very clear.

"I respect that you don't want to tell anyone else, and I wont say anything! But we can't control what management does, so we'll just have to see what happens." I say as we pull up to the Arena. I put my Jeep in park, and hustle around to open the door for her. I open it, and offer my hand to her. She takes it and hops down to the ground, and she immediately drops my hand, and I don't fight her on it. We walk in to the building together.

As soon as we walk in the building, Dave, Jim Nill, Jason Rademan, and Brittany McMullen are waiting for us at the entrance. Jim says, "We have things to discuss. Come with us." And Kirsten and I follow without a word. We go up to Jim's office, and we sit down on the chairs provided for us, and the staff that is here to talk to us sit in the chairs on the opposite side of the desk. "So. I know that this is a personal question, but did you two have sex last night?"

"Way to ease us in to the subject Jim! And no, we didn't." I answer.

"Have you in the past?" He questions further.

"No, we haven't."

"Do you plan to?"

"That's personal. We already signed the form, so I don't see why we have to have this conversation." I say.

"It isn't the most important thing. We just have to know so we can know what is going on with the staff and our players."

"Okay. But we signed the consent forms, and we haven't even had sex yet, so I don't see why it matters."

"Well, there should be some punishment because you guys didn't tell us, but since nothing has happened yet, and we have full disclosure, then we have decided against repercussions." Jim informs us.

Then Kirsten speaks up, "Then why do you have the whole staff ensemble here?"

"Because. If this conversation went somewhere else, then we need to have the proper people here to handle it." Jim says.

"Oh, okay. Well, that's what happened, so as log as that's that, then I have work to do." Kirsten says, clearly wanting to leave.

"Alright, you can leave." Jim dismisses us, and Dave follows us out, so I walk ahead of them. I can't hear their conversation, and I'm already going to be late for the workout. I change in to some shorts, and jog up to the workout room. I see everyone already on the bikes, or working with trainers, or any other workout we normally do. I go jump on a free bike.

After the off ice training, we go down to the locker room. Kirsten walks in, and she comes immediately over to help me with my back. "Sorry, but I have to take off your sweaty nasty shirt." She gets a few laughs, because people can hear.

I whisper, "It wouldn't be the first time." And she laughs. Jamie gives me a weird look, and I'm not quite sure what it means. I think it's a version of the, 'are you fucking kidding me'. And I look away.

"Shut up." She says, and massages my back. I turn around when she's done, and put my shirt back on. "Tyler, stop looking at me like that." And a few of my teammates look over, but not many.

"Like what?" I ask, and really don't know.

"Like you've seen me naked!" She says, and I see eyebrows raise, and I don't think Kirsten can see, because she is facing the wrong way. I don't know what to say, because people can hear. "Ty, it's a joke! Chill." She says pushing my shoulder again.

I stumble backwards a little for dramatic effect, and say, "Got it. I can really see you naked, if that's what you want." And wink.

"Get out of here perv!" She says, and walks backwards.

"Uh, I think you're the perv. You are the one in our locker room!" I retaliate.

"That's my job!" She shouts, and she laughs and moves on to the next person who needs taken care of. Practice is normal, nobody gets hurt, and I did pretty well. We skate off, and anyone that Kirsten taped gets it cut off, and she is in the locker room while we shower, and nobody says anything because it's become the norm.

She leaves, and I think that it's to go get ready for our Canada road trip. We are playing Toronto tomorrow, and that means I get to see my family.

Notes

Sorry for the abrupt end!