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You Know Who I Am?

Midterms, reunions, Sushi, and Tears.

Growing up in Montreal and being able to go to University here is a dream. I can see my family whenever I want, and I get to live in the city while studying. Bonjour, mon nom est Lydia and I go to McGill University in Montreal, Quebec and I am studying Social Work. I grew up in Montreal with my two older brothers, Henry and Christian, and with my mother, Lena, and father, Adrien. (so if I go off in French, its because thats my language) I am French through and through and will speak it to my family and thats the language I study in, sometimes my english isn’t great when I’m mad and you know since I’m French I don’t know how to say my h’s.

I turned 21 earlier this year in April and it is now November and I am now finished all my midterms and want to just have a little fun to celebrate with my best friend, Sara.

Sara has been my best friend since the first day of Kindergarten when we both wanted to play on the swings together, we have been inseparable since. Sara is beautiful, smart, and we both have the same humour which are some of the reasons she’s my bestfriend. Sara is my roommate and goes to McGill too studying nursing. I have never been a real science girl, but Sara always helped me as she loved science and always knew that is what she wanted to study in University. Sara comes from a French family too and her parents are very French as they moved from France to Quebec, Canada when her parents got married. Their English is not very good, but I usually speak French to them anyways. Sara has a younger sister named Emily and she is a grade 12 at our high school that we went too.

Also as I am Canadian, I am a fan of the Montreal Canadiens. I try to watch every game but usually I will get to watch the ones on the weekends. Everyone in Montreal loves hockey as we are Canadian and it helps to have your own National Hockey League team here too. I grew up watching Montreal play and my favourite present player is P.K Subban or Carey Price, I love the whole team but those two are the best. My whole family watches hockey especially when there is a Saturday night game, I usually will come home to watch those games. Usually my family gets tickets to go about three times a season which I love because the Bell Centre is just a whole different atmosphere, what can we say Montreal loves their hockey.

My mom is a teacher working at the local high school that I went to and Sara’s sister still goes to. J’aime ma maman and she is also one of my best friends. My dad is a doctor and works near my high school which is closer to the country side of Montreal as I am living right in the city. I bet your wondering why I said I do not like science yet my dad is a Doctor, well I didn’t get the science loving gene and it really sucks. My mom and dad are still very much in love and they carpool to work together everyday and I think that is the cutest thing. My two older brothers are 23 and 25. Yes my parents had a kid 2 years apart each time. Both of my brothers have blonde hair like me and my mom, my dad has light brown and curly. Both of my brother's hair is more darker than mine as they have a mix of blonde and like brown from my dad and I got my Mom's very blonde hair. My oldest brother, Henry is married to my beautiful sister in law, Lucy and they have been married for almost 6 months. Henry also went to McGill and know he is a University Professor for McGill teaching law. My other brother, Christian just got engaged to Paige, who met while studying at McGill. Paige is from Ottawa, Ontario so she knows some french but usually Christian and her talk english. Christian graduated the past year and is now in med school, Christian was the only that got my father’s science gene. Paige and Christian have decided to wait until next spring to get married.

Now lets get into my life.

It being Friday today and my last midterm is now over for first semester, I got my coat on and left for my apartment. My roommate Sara, finished her last midterm earlier this morning and is at home and we are planning to go out tonight to celebrate and let loose after a stressful couple of weeks. I am in my last year of getting my Bachelor of Social Work, it was a three year program and you are probably doing the math that I am 21 and in in the third year of University. Well when I graduated high school I took the next year off and deferred from McGill to travel. I have no regrets as I backpacked through Europe for 6 months, the other 6 months I worked at the high school with my mom or helping out with the guidance office.

I get into my blue Honda Civic and start to drive to my apartment. The Montreal traffic is really bad with it being Friday and 4 pm right now. I am used to the traffic though, I have been experiencing it basically all my life. On a good day it usually takes about 5 minutes to get to my apartment because I wanted to be able to walk to classes on nice days in the spring or fall. But with it now being November, it has gotten too cold to do that.

It took me 15 minutes to get home this time, which isn’t that bad, but that means I lost 10 more minutes worth of gas. Sara is on the couch watching netflix when I get home and I quickly put my things in my room and grab a clementine from the kitchen before joining her. She was watching How to Get Away with Murder. We were addicted, but I had already finished all the episodes on netflix.

**(as most of us are not bilingual in french, most of the conversations between Sara and Lydia and others will be spoken in french but written english, Brendan and Lydia’s will be english as I don’t think Brendan can speak that well.)**

“How was the midterm?” Sara asks.

“Easy, I thought it was going to be harder than it was.”

“Thats good. Are we still celebrating tonight?” Sara dances in her chair.

“Yes, Yes.” I smile at her and dance from where I’m sitting.

“After this episode I dibs on showering. Pizza or sushi?” Sara looks on her phone for the take out numbers.

“Hmm, sushi!!” I cheer.

“What rolls do you want?”

“California, dynamite, and green dragon.” I smile at my best friend. We probably have sushi way more than we should, but its so good and so cheap from where we buy it. (Student problems)

“This is why were best friends, I want the same.” Sara puts her arm around my neck. “So guess who called me today?” Sara says.

“He did!!” I cheer.

“Yeah he’s getting called up because Price is injured.” Sara tells me and I almost fall out of my seat. My love and husband (not really) Carey Price is injured!! But who we are talking about is Dustin Tokarski, who was Montreal’s backup for last season before Mike Condon came in this year and took his spot. Dustin has been down in St. John’s in the AHL. Sara and Dustin were on again off again boyfriend and girlfriend last season but when the Canadiens lost in the playoffs, they decided to stop seeing each other as it was never serious for them. I think Sara really loved him, but with him traveling all the time, they fought a lot because they never saw eachother. Sara took the breakup really hard and I hoped that Dustin and her could talk about things when he’s in Montreal. I could never date an NHL player, I think I’m too insecure and get jealous too easily for it. Dustin used to live in our apartment building and I’m pretty sure some other young players live in here too, but I have never seen them.

“Are you gonna see him?” I ask.

“He’s staying with his teammates in this building, so he said he would try to come down sometime today.”

“Are you nervous?” I think she is, but maybe not.

“Very, like I might puke. I can’t stop thinking about what he is going to say.”

“He probably just wants to catch up, see how you are doing. I wouldn’t stress.” Just then there is a knock on our door. “I’m going to shower, I will let you get it. Goodluck, babe.” I give my best friend the thumbs up and head to my room to get all my stuff for the shower.

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“Hey Lydia. It’s been a while!” Dustin gets up from the couch and walks over to give me a hug. I have gotten out of the shower and put on some leggings and a Canadiens t shirt and braided my hair back. It gave Sara and Dustin a chance to talk for a while.

“Hey Dustin, how’s St. John’s?” I smile and return his hug.

“Good, its a change from last year.” He smiles a little, it looks a little sad.

“I bet, but you will be back to Montreal soon!” I try to lift his spirits.

“Thanks Lydia. Any boys I need to scare off while I’m here?” Dustin asks. Dustin became one of my closest friends and almost like a brother when he started dating Sara.

“Sadly no. I would have enjoyed the comedic relief.” I chuckle. “Do you want to stay for dinner? We’re having sushi.”

“When aren’t you guys having sushi? And no thanks, I think the boys from upstairs are taking me out as a welcome back present.” He replies.

“Is that where you are staying?” I ask.

“Yeah with the gally’s.” Sara met most of the team when she was dating Dustin, I didn’t meet a lot of them. Only P.K and Carey, who Dustin knew were my favourites. I had never met the Gally’s as they call them. They are Alex Galchenyuk and Brendan Gallagher.

“Oh cool! Well I’m going to order the sushi. It was good seeing you again. Good luck here.” I wrap my arms around him.

“I missed you.” He whispers in my ear.

“I missed you too, Dustin.” I whisper back and pull away to head into the kitchen to order Sara and I’s dinner. I really hope their conversation went well between those two.

I call the sushi place and order our food. I hear the front door close and I figure Dustin has left. Sara walks in and has a sad smile on her face. I walk over and wrap her in a hug. “I know how hard that must have been.” I say sadly and rub my best friend’s back.

“I missed him a lot more than I thought.” She sniffs.

“Hey no crying! What did you guys talk about?”

“He told me about St. John’s and how much he missed Montreal… and me” She whispered the last part, thinking I couldn’t hear her, but I did.

“How do you feel?” I ask.

“Like I need to drink.” She chuckles.

“Tonight Sara. First sushi, whenever it gets here.”

“He tried to kiss me, but I dodged it and he kissed my cheek.” Sara sobs. “Should have I done that?” She looks up at me.

“Depends, did you want to kiss him?”

“Yes, but I was afraid that all the old feelings would come back, which is also all of our fights plus our great parts.”

“Did he look hurt when you dodged this kiss?” I ask.

“A little, it was when he left. He nodded like he understood though. It was confusing because when you were in the shower, he said how sorry he was about us and that he thought we should be friends. I hate boys.”

“Me too babe. At least we have each other right?” We both laugh. “Now go shower because we get to dance our butts off tonight.” I tap her butt on her way out of the kitchen. I head to the living room to put on some music through out our apartment. I dance around waiting for our dinner to arrive so we can have a great night out.

Notes

Hello, I'm back with a new story:) I hope you enjoy, I love this one already!! Comments, votes, and subscribes are really appreciated!!

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Comments

So good; can't wait to see where this goes

@Flyers_girl
thank you!! Stay tuned for more :)

captaincrosbyy captaincrosbyy
11/24/15

I like the start of this! I can't wait to see where it goes.

Flyers_girl Flyers_girl
11/15/15