"Lets get this show on the road ladies!" I screamed up the staircase of our shitty college house stairs. I had been waiting on this weekend for weeks now. Finally! A weekend getaway with my favorite girls. Even if its just an hour away, it still is out of this smelly house and away from our boy roomates. We lived in a college kids dream house. It was a large white house, with a giant back deck great for our gigantic parties we were notorious for. My roomates and I were all attending West Virginia University. One of the most notorious party schools in the country. This house lived up to those expectations for many yeasrs. And is probably the reason we are all still here after 5 years!
"I just don't understand why we cant ALL go" Brad screamed from the game room.
"Yeah! He has a point, you do have your dad's box seats for a Pirates game and you choose to take the diva crew instead of us dudes! I mean come on Abbey!" Keith joked as he continued to play some stupid X-Box game. My three best friends and I met Keith, Brad, Josh, and Dylan our freshman year at WVU. We all got along so well, we spent almost every moment together in dorms. There was no relationships in the group, just friends. Once it came time to move out of the dorms, we knew our group had to move in together. That was 4 years ago, and here we all are still a happy little college family. Well, I guess the boys aren't too happy with me right now.
"Sorry boys, I only have 4 tickets and me and the girls need a weekend away from you stinky asses." It was the truth, I would of course brought them along if I had more tickets & another hotel room. 8 people in one hotel room just sounds unfun.
"Whatever!" Josh hissed as he threw down his controller
"Oh boys get over it! And seriously get off your asses and go outside, its SUMMER!" KiKi yelled as she came barreling down the stairs with suit case in hand. Kiki was my best friend. Her and I had been threw everything together. She always had my back, as I did for her. "…And don't yell at Abbey like that Josh or I'll do this!" as soon as KiKi got the sentence out she hit the glowing green button on the xbox, turning it off.
"BITCH" the boys all growled. This was classic KiKi, never give her or I shit. She was not someone to fuck with. She was just shy of 6 feet and had a very athletic build from years of intense soccer playing. That didn't stop the men from dropping at her feet. She was gorgeous, with curly black hair and a killer body, she was quiet the catch.
"Oh shit! We better get out of here before shit gets real. And I wanna get on the road" I made sure my voice was loud enough that my slow ass roomates upstairs would get the picture. I swear Emma and Allie would be late for their own funeral.
"Don't get your panties in a twist! Im coming!" Emma squeeked from upstairs. She was the youngest in the house, and quiet possibly the sweetest. She was like the kid we all had to take care of. She was constantly making bad decisions, but her sweet smile always seemed to get her out of trouble.
"I wanna get there early enough to tailgate before we go to the seats and pretend to be rich bitches!" I joked
"For real Abs, when you gonna come to terms with the fact that you ARE indeed rich" Allie mumbled as she struggled to make it down the stairs with a very large suitcase. She did have a point, my dad had got several very big promotions over that past few years and my family was finally well to do. Not that we ever struggled before, but now we live very…comfortably.
"Shut up Allie, and seriously did you have to pack that much. We're going to Pittsburgh for like 3 days. It looks like you packed for a month" I laughed as I examined her luggage realizing she had packed 3 bags. The duffle bag was still open and I could see atleast 15 different heels.
"Were going out to the hottest clubs tomorrow night, you know what kind of men go to those clubs! Not smelly college boys" Allie rambled…
"Hey we take offence to that!" Dylan interjected, but Allie kept going. She was the high maintenance blonde one of the group. It was hard for anyone else to get a word in around her.
"Shh Dylan! Anyways, REAL men. That's who. Mature. Hot. Well established men. And I don't know about youuuuuu guys, but I plan on hooking up with a few of them. Plus I couldn't decide what to wear so I just brought it all" she giggled as we headed towards my SUV. Finally!
An hour later we were sitting in tunnel traffic trying to get into the city. Love Pittsburgh. Hate the traffic. It wasn't that bad, we were having a good time rocking out to some classic Michael Jackson.
"Looks like yall took to damn long! The game starts in like 30 minutes were gonna have to go straight to our seats" I grumpled from the driving seats. Really I just wish they would for once been on time, but I know the traffic didn't help.
"Lets pick up some rich boys in the box seats ladies" KiKi said as she finished up braiding Emma's hair.
"Im Down" Emma and Allie agreed with her. Of course they would. They were quiet the man chaser. Always looking for a goodtime. Don't get me wrong, if an opportunity presented itself to me I sometimes had my occasional one night stand. But that stuff was really starting to get old to me. Sadly I knew most of the men in this area my age are just like my wonderful girlfriends here, and are looking for more of a one night thing rather than the long term thing. Oh well. I am on vacation. I thought to myself.
"Really girls. Can we just go enjoy some beer and baseball" I tried to talk them out of there ideas, even tho I knew it was a long shot.
"Oh Ab. Stop being such a prude these days. Live a little. We do plan on doing the whole beer and baseball thing, but if another set of balls come my way, I wont be complaining" Kiki joked as the rest of the girls giggled.
Its good to be back. I thought to himself as the limo full of his friends pulled in front of PNC Park. Camp started in 2 weeks, and he was back in the burgh to report for the first few workouts. This time was mostly used to start bonding the team. Being the team Captain he felt it necessary to participate in all the events even if some guys sat out. Today was the beginning of all the activities, a trip to the ball park to watch the Pirates take on the Phillies.
"Its great to have you back captain" Marc Andre said as he smacked my back with a friendly punch. "I think everyone agrees on that"
"Yeah. Its great to be back man." Sid said quietly as he looked around at his team mates James Neal, Evgani Malkin, Kris Letang, Tyler Kennedy, and of course Fluery. He really did miss those guys. I missed all this stuff last year due to concussion symptoms I couldn't seem to shake. Instead of being outside enjoying my team mates rowdy company, I would have been locked in a dark cold room trying to keep my food down, and not to get dizzy every 10 minutes. It was pure torture for someone like me, who's so active in everything I do.
"To the Kid!" Neal screamed as he held up his beer for a group cheers
"TO THE KID" the group hollered and slammed together there beers.
"Thanks guys, but don't cheers to me. Lets cheers to bringing the cup back next year. We will never let what happened in the playoffs happen again, right" Sid demanded as he watched the looks on everyones faces turn. It may be July but the sting of the horrible lose to Philadelphia was still very present in everyones faces.
"Leave it to the captain to be talking about hockey right before a baseball game" Kennedy joked and chugged some more beer. I can already tell its gonna be a longggg game. Everyone was very intent on getting very drunk. This was something I did not do very often, I have an image to uphold and a reputation. However, today was slightly different. I missed this so much last year, a few beers couldn't possibly hurt I thought and chugged along with the rest of the guys.
As soon as we were done chugging out beers our limo pulled up to a private entrance. Another perk of being me, no lines for anything. We had borrowed the private Lemieux box for the special occasion. A private waiter greated us at the door with glasses of Champaign on a tray, and buckets of beer were already set up all around the luxury box.
"Man this is the life" I said as I take my seat and grab a cold beer. This city had really grown on me. I loved supporting the other teams, even if it was the Pirates who were notoriously horrible. I was happy to hear they were actually in first place this summer! Yep…definitely gonna be a good day!
"No man, THAT is the life" Neal said as he stared down at the clear glass wall separating our box and the next. There were 4 very attractive girls, who looked to be similar to my age or maybe younger, dancing around laughing and giggling. That's when I saw a set of dark eyes that looked like they were staring right into my soul. We had made eye contact and neither of us seemed as if we could pull ourselves away. Her smile was contagious as I could feel my lips start to twitch with a grin. Suddenly there was a hand on my back and a voice of reason.
"Guys we didn't come to pick up girls for once. We are here to bond, drink some beer, and watch this game. Right Sid?" Fluery lectured as all the other guys, including me sadly, were still staring at what looked like to be the most care free group of girls I've ever seen. About this time I would usually agree with Fluery , and make sure the guys did too. He had a girlfriend at home and didn't want to get in trouble, and I just avoided the female race all together. I would have the occasional puck bunny romp to let off some steam, but never did much communicating with females. There would be a time for that after hockey, right now a girlfriend would just complicate things even more than they already were. I was okay with this until recently I wondered what it would be like to have someone to come home to. Share a bed with. Laugh with. My thoughts were interrupted with Fluery trying to talk to me out of what he surely could see written all over my face.
"Right Sid?" Fluery said again with a sterner voice.
" I don't know man. We could just invite them over here, talking to some pretty girls during a baseball game is pretty harmless right" I said and noticed that half the guys had now started staring at me. In shock im sure. I don't think me and the boys had ever been on the same page about situations like this. But that long flowing curly brown hair, and those juicy looking boobs, and that ass. oh my that ass. She had to be near me. I had to talk to her.
"You heard the captain!" Neal exclaimed as he got up from his seat heading towards the girls next door. "I call the blonde!" He smirked right before he knocked on the big door separating the suits.
