Letting Love In-Ch35

Chapter 35:
“The first star of the game, Sidney Crosby. His three assists and pair of goals led the Penguins to their 5-0 shutout of the Rangers” the announcer said. He skated out on the ice and spun around. Before stepping back off the ice he whirled around to face the direction of our box. He pointed his stick up at us and I swear he winked at me. I smile spread across my face. I knew that was for me.
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“Good game guys” I said to each player that walked out of the locker room. I received hugs, high fives and hollers from each group of players. I was playing a game on my BlackBerry when the big group of media folk exited the locker room and went down the hallway. I figured it was all clear, so I picked up my purse and went in. Sidney was sitting in his stall with only his pants and shoes on. His head jolted up when he heard the door click shut.
I walked over to him and sat down next to him. “Was that enough points for you?” he asked. “Yeah” I said looking up at him. He smiled down at me and kissed my forehead. “Well I know it seems like I just got back, but we’re flying out to New York tonight. I shrugged, “It’s alright. I understand. It’s not like I have to tell you not to go.” He nodded. “I never gave this to you” he said and pulled out an envelope from the top of his bag. He handed it to me with a smile. It’s from Taylor. I opened the envelope and took out a piece of construction paper. “She made it in art class. The assignment was to make a portrait of a sibling, but she decided to keep you in it because I must love you a lot because I don’t call her much anymore” he said putting his shirt and tie on loosely.
It was a picture of Sidney and I. I’m not sure where it was from; Christmas maybe, anyway it was black and white with red and pink paper hearts cut out around it. It was adorable. “Keep it here” I said and put it on the top of his stall. “Alright” he said. Then he looked down. “I have to go now” he said. “Oh Sid, how am I going to live without you for 36 hours?” I whined dramatically, partly kidding. He playfully hit me on the shoulder and pulled me into a hug. I kissed his chest were his shirt wasn’t and I felt the goose bumps rise to his skin. “Don’t start now” he moaned. I snickered and kept kissing his neck. He tilted my chin up and kissed me hard. My stomach was filled with butterflies and I could feel my knees weakening with every brush of his lips.
“I really have to go” he said after pulling away from me, funny how he could only stay away for a millisecond. His lips were on mine again. I dropped my purse as he pulled me closer. His hands were working all over my body. He caressed my thigh and I shuddered with pleasure. He pulled away and looked at his watch, “10 minutes” he breathed. Then he took my hand and led me down a hallway. “This is going to have to do” he said pushing me into an equipment room. “This isn’t very romantic” I said as he forcefully took off my sweater. “I don’t care” he said, “9 minutes, times wasting.” I laughed and he pulled me close.
My jeans were off. His pants were down. He had me pinned on the floor. Being the gentleman that he is, he put down a clean towel first. I let him have his way with me. Two fingers were in and another was forcefully pressing on my clit. I was biting his shoulder to keep quiet while he was kissing my neck. He ripped his hand out of me and then entered me. There was no mercy. I was silently screaming in pleasure listening to the sound of skin slapping skin. My nails were digging in his back, and I was pulling him closer to me. Soon enough, I felt him shudder and his head rolled back, eyes closed tight. He was panting when his orgasm subsided. I was wrong when I thought he was done with me. His fingers went hard and fast inside and he kept rolling my clit, waiting for me to be taken over the edge. “Come on, come on” he muttered picking up the pace. He traced his tongue across my shoulder and my back started to arch. I was gone. I probably screamed, very very loudly. When I could hear again, he was laughing. “I love watching you do that” he said.
He had thrown his clothes back on, helping me to pull up my jeans as I buttoned his shirt. Then after a kiss he ran down the hallway. “I love you” he called. I went back into the locker room and picked up my purse. I walked to the car and Kevin and he drove me home.

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I wasn’t awake until around 10:00. I decided to go to the grocery store for Amanda and Nancy. I had nothing else to do, and I had to get more food for Dot anyway. It took me a good hour to pick out all the food for the week’s meals and while at the register with Kevin, my BlackBerry began to ring. ‘Sidney’ the caller ID said. I picked up the phone:
“Hello” I said. “Hi. What are you up to right now?” “I’m actually at the grocery store with Kevin. I figured I’d do Nancy and Amanda a favor, they really need to relax.” “Wait. You are actually at the grocery store? That is the one store I could never picture you in.” He was laughing, but I really didn’t appreciate his humor. “Ha-ha, you are so funny. I only came here to buy raw meat that I could put all over your bed” I said. His laughter stopped. “You would never. For two reasons” he said. “And those are?” “One, you don’t have the balls to do that. Two, you know I wouldn’t clean it up before I took complete advantage of you.” I gasped. The cashier gave me a funny look, I think my phone volume was turned up a little too high. “Um… I’ve got to go. Call me later” I said, I could feel the heat growing on my face. “Cashier heard eh?” he said. “Well I hope they hear this too. I am in love with the most beautiful girl in the world” he yelled. “Aw, that is sweet. But I don’t think you should be referring to Colby as a girl, he might get a little angry” I said. His sigh was all I heard before I hung up.

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I was home alone by myself. My parents and aunt had to bring my cousins and brother to some “Family Spring Dance” at their school. I said ‘hell no’ to that invitation and happily stayed home by myself. 7:00 rolled around and I was sitting on my bed with a bowl of popcorn wearing Sidney’s shirt and sweatpants. I was cheering the whole time. I felt like such an idiot. Here is this girl, in an empty house, screaming at the TV.
I was around the 12th minute played when he got hit. The camera showed him getting hit, but then it followed the puck down to the other end. The whistle was called a few seconds after that. He was still on the ground. My heart was sinking and I was yelling. “Get up Sid! Shit. Shit. Get up babe! Be a man!” He slowly got up and was escorted down to the dressing room. During first intermission the stupid lady reporter said that he was resting an ‘unknown injury’. I called bullshit on that quickly. He came back for a few minutes in the second, I felt a lot better. But then he left again and I felt really worried. He really isn’t the guy to skip out because of a bruise. At the end of the 2nd intermission the lady announced he had a ‘lower body injury’. “Shit” I yelled.
I spent the rest of the game wondering what could be wrong. His knee could be hurt, ankle, foot. Or worse, he could have hurt his member. That would suck… I was planning on having a few hot kids. Anyway... they lost the game. It sucked. The whole night sucked. I tried to fall asleep knowing that he would be alright. I clutched my BlackBerry in my hand under my chin, just in case he called.
He didn’t call. Instead he showed up around 3:00 in my room. He kissed my cheek gently and I woke up. “What happened? Are you alright?” I said sitting up. I saw he was shirtless and had a bag of ice on his shoulder. “I’m fine” he said taking my head in his hands. “I just got hit and my shoulder popped. Now I didn’t mean to wake you, so go back to sleep.” He was running over my cheek with the pad of his thumb. “But I don’t want you to stay awake all by yourself when you’re in pain” I mumbled, I was still half asleep. “I’ll be fine” he said. He lay down next to me and I made sure to be gentle while putting my head on his chest. He bent down and kissed my forehead. His steady heartbeat and breathing lulled me to sleep.

*

I woke up and he was awake. The TV was on, but the volume was barely audible. I sat up and looked at him. He looked tired. “Did you sleep at all?” I asked rubbing my eyes. “Yeah, I slept until about 6:00.” I looked at the clock, it was 8. “Why didn’t you get up?” I asked. “Didn’t want to wake you” he said staring at the TV. “How are you feeling?” He reached over and kissed me. “Better now”, he waggled his eyebrows and smiled a goofy grin at me. I hit him in his good arm. “It is really cruel to hit a cripple” he whined. I stuck my tongue out at him and he did the same. “Come on crip, let’s go take a shower” I said getting off the bed and pulling him to follow me.

I took out two towels from the closet and Sid made the familiar trip down the hall to the bathroom. I put the towels on the warmer and turned to face Sidney. He was trying to take off the wrap that was around his shoulder. I stood and front of him. “Let me do it” I said. He nodded and stopped trying. I carefully peeled off the plastic and took out the bag full of ice, well now it was warm water. There was a huge bruise on his shoulder. I winced just looking at it. “Nice. It’s not as bad as I thought it would be” he said. “What?” I said in disbelief. He shrugged and reached for my shirt. I started the water, stripped and got in the shower.