I make the Maple Leaf players sound kinda bad in this chapter I have nothing against them and I'm sure they're nice people but, it fit in with the story, please forgive me.

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The next day Dylan had practice and Marco went with him. When they got there Dylan left for the locker room and told Marco to go sit in the stands. Now, Marco didn't particularly like hockey but, he got to see his boyfriend doing what he loved most besides him of course. He was daydreaming about Dylan when he got snapped out of it by a security guard asking him what he was doing there.

"I'm here to watch the practice" Marco replied gesturing towards the rink.

"Well the practices are restricted from the public sir, so I'm going to have to ask you to leave" the burly guard replied.

"But, I'm with one of the players" Marco said urgently.

"Family, wives, and girlfriends only sir, your not one of their brother's are you?" the man asked. Marco thought about this, if he said yes then he would have to show ID and his last name wouldn't match with any of the players and besides none of the players were Italian. On the hand he could tell this guy he was Dylan's boyfriend, potentially see the practice but, ruin Dylan's career. Either way he would be defeated so he allowed himself to be escorted from the building.

As luck would have it, it was raining outside. So Marco found a bench to sit on that had some shelter, only some and for the next hour and a half he waiting in the rain until the players had a break and Dylan went looking for him.

"What are you doing out here? Don't tell me you've been out here this whole time" Dylan surprisingly said.

"Yeah, I have. I wasn't allowed in to the practice because apparently the NHL is too closed minded to think for a second that maybe all their players aren't big macho men that all have sluttish girlfriends!" Marco replied shivering because of the thin t-shirt he had on, "and I couldn't get the keys for the car from you and there isn't a single pay phone around here...and I didn't know what..to..do"

All Dylan wanted to do was pull his shivering boyfriend into a hug and tell him that everything was all right but he knew he couldn't. He knew there were people around that were watching and that anything and everything could be misinterpreted. He brought Marco inside and told him to wait for him to get the keys. He gave Marco the keys and said he could go home but asked that he was back by 5 to pick him up.

"I know this is hell, but I'll make it up to you later, I promise" Dylan whispered in Marco's ear. Then Marco headed off towards the car anxious to get in the heat.

When Marco got home he poured a hot bath and put in some of his favorite bath salts, lavender rain. He was in heaven but soon realized it was almost 5 and quickly got changed. He was a little late but the players were just coming out when he got there. He got out of the car and started walking up towards Dylan and forgetting himself almost hugged him and if it wasn't for Dylan who noticed what he was doing he would have.

"Who's this Michalchuk, your boyfriend?" one of the players sneered.

"Ha ha very funny guys, this is just my ride home, come on Marco" Dylan said uneasily.

"You'll have to bring in your girlfriend one of these days" another player said.

"What makes you think I have a girlfriend?" Dylan replied.

"What a big stud like you and you don't have a hot chick to cook your meals for you?" the first player added. Dylan gave Marco a pleading look and Marco silently replied saying it was ok.

"Oh well yeah I have a girlfriend, I was just wondering how you, ah, new" Dylan lied going totally unnoticeable to anyone but Marco.

"Well that's great, bring her by sometime, or better yet why don't you have dinner with Lia and I sometime?" the first player to speak asked.

"Great" Dylan replied weakly "Come on let's go Marco."

They got into the car and were silent all the way home.

"I'm totally screwed" Dylan said quite loudly as soon as they walked in the door. "But first" he said, "I owe you something." He went over to Marco, leaned in and kissed him lightly on the lips.

"Thanks" was all he said. Marco said that it was ok by pulling him into the kiss again.

"All right now that that's done, where am I going to find a girl, I mean I don't have any friends who are girls or at least any girls that are friends with me, that are only friends with me because I'm gay, I can't ask them out" Dylan stopped to take a breath and think, "Well, I guess there's Paige but, going out with your sister is the lowest of the low", now he was just rambling.

Marco grabbed his shoulders to calm him down, "It's going to be ok, we'll find someone, I promise."

"You're the best" Dylan whispered as he pulled Marco into another kiss.

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