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I chuckle and give her a kiss before resting my forehead on hers. “Like what?”
She thinks about it as we glide over the ice. “Well, first, I want you to come back.”
“I can definitely do that for you,” I laugh.
“You could bring me something from there, take pictures, be sure to miss me, and have fun with your parents. Nothing out of the ordinary.”
We come up to the net, and I lift her up to sit on top of it, placing myself between her knees as I hold onto her waist. “I can do that. Do you remember what you told me the last time you were here?” She wrinkles her nose and shakes her head. “You said, and I quote, 'And no funny business'.”
Lucy giggles, trailing her fingers over my chest. She's in a laughing mood tonight, not that I'm complaining. Happy and carefree are two emotions that fit Lucy. “I don't think I've said that tonight,” she whispers. She wraps her arms around my neck. “You said you were going to miss me, right? Maybe you could show me what I have to look forward to when we get back?” Her words are so softly spoken, and her cheeks are ridiculously red. I love that she's being subtly suggestive, and it still makes her blush.
“Is here okay for you or are you going to make me take you back to the house?”
Instead of answering, she presses her lips to mine to show me what I'll be missing in the Bahamas.
MADDIE HAS BEEN avoiding me since that night. She'll answer texts, but that's it. She claims she's too busy studying for finals. And now that finals are over, she's headed home a day early. Before the game tonight, I decided I needed some peace and quiet to think, so I came to the rink. At the sound of footsteps, I look over my shoulder to see Neil. His eyebrows lift in surprise.
“What are you doing here?” he asks the question I was thinking.
“Need to get away. Girl problems. You?”
“The same,” he says, sitting next to me on the bench. Neil rarely speaks of his girlfriend, so I'm a bit surprised he even said what he did.
Before I hand him a beer from the six pack I bought, I ask, “Are you going to act like a dumbass again?”
He shakes his head, and I give it to him. We both take a drag, and before either of us can say something else, more footsteps sound. Grant appears seconds later, looking much like Neil did.
“Girl problems?” Neil questions as Grant takes a seat on the other side of me as I hand him a beer.
“Not really.”
Neil swallows a sip and says, “I can bet that mine is worse.”
I give him a sideways glance and laugh, shaking my head at the seemingly absurdness of it all. “Are we seriously about to discuss this?”
He nods. “You're up first.”
“I'm in love with Maddie,” I say simply.
Grant and Neil chuckle. “We know that,” Grant says. “What's the problem?”
I sigh. “She's my best friend's little sister, he's not talking to me, and I need him to. Have you noticed Maddie's lost a bit of weight?” They nod. “Long story short, I need to make Dave talk to me, so I can talk to him about that.”
Neil slaps my shoulder. “Then it looks like you better be calling him until he answers.”
“Yeah, and if he doesn't answer, find another way to get up with him,” Grant adds.
“That's what I've been trying to do.” I turn to Grant. “No problems at all?”
“Nope. What can I say? Lucy's amazing.” A sly, stupidly happy grin lifts his lips.
Neil laughs. “You shouldn't even be allowed to drink then. Looks like it's my turn?”
“Yeah, Neil. You said you had girl troubles too,” I say.
He shakes his head and takes a deep breath. Then he mutters, “I'm going to be a dad.”
My jaw falls to the floor as Grant and I openly gape at him. Wow. That's huge. “Holy shit,” I voice my thoughts.
