…………….A week later……………….
Joey had been in the hospital for six days and was getting tired of it, she had been in a sorta coma for three of those days the doctors said that it was from anxiety, Joey said it was shit and it probably was, but the rest of those days were spent with surgery consultations and surgery itself.
When Joey's parents decided they couldn't make it for her surgery Riley and Ryan flew in to take care of her.
"mmmmm" Joey mumbled as she began to come out of her anesthesia state from surgery.
"hey sweetie how ya feelin, ya look like death warmed over"
"thank you Riley for those comforting words" she answered sarcastically.
"honey just ignore him, he just don't know what to say when hes scared, sorry the old birds couldn't make it, but they said they love you" Ryan said.
"thanks, and thanks for coming you guys I was scared no one would be here when I woke up" she sniffled quietly.
"we would never do that to you" Riley said as he hugged her gently.
"you up for visitors London" O'rion called from the door.
"yea sure coach"
"good, we need to talk about you playing for the rest of the season, now I'm sorry Joey but its just not an option this is going to take weeks to recover and after that you'll need physical therapy and if we want you back next year we just cant take any chances."
Joey was furious, but not at coach.
"I understand"
O'Rion left and Portman came in.
"Go away" Joey said sternly.
"babe what did I do"
"you promised you wouldn't tell him and you did, now go away"
"Joey its not like he didn't suspect something when you passed out and you had surgery"
"whatever, you took away the only thing I had left, just get away from me and my life".
It was the last game of the season, the state championship game and coincidently it was against the Bears. Portman had tried countless times to change Joey's mind and convince her that she was being irrational, but he never succeeded. She knew in her heart that Portman had nothing to do with her not being able to play hockey but she had no one to blame, so she blamed the person she cared about the most.
It was the second period and Portman was using every excuse he had to hit any Bears player he could, and he finally got the one he wanted, one of the ones that hurt Joey.
"hey 21, wheres your girlfriend or did she finally learn that girls cant play with the boys"
Portman turned around and began beating the player as hard as he could, "no one hurts Joey you bastard"
A ref and Fulton came over and pulled Portman off the boy.
"intentional harm, number 21 out of the game" The ref called.
"it was worth it" Portman mumbled as he skated off the ice with blood dripping from his hand.
He walked back to the locker room and sat on one of the tables, he removed his helmet jersey and pads . he was facing the wall when he felt someone slap the back of his head.
"you freakin idiot what were you thinking how are we going to win the game with you in here and not on the ice" Joey said matter-of-factly .
Portman turned around and was met with Joey's smiling face, to him the most perfect picture in the world.
"why do you care"
"because not that I didn't love you bashing in that guys face, I would have much rather won the game"
"we could still win"
"true"
Joey then caught sight of Portman's hand.
"let me see your hand" she ordered sternly.
"why, what are you going to do" Portman questioned apprehensively.
"fix it if that's ok with you" She answered hobbling around(due to the immobilizer on her leg), gathering alcohol and bandages.
"fine"
She took his hand in hers and began to clean away the blood with alcohol.
"what did you do to it anyways" She questioned concentrating on his hand.
"I don't know I think his skate may have gotten me"
"oh"
"Joey" Portman began.
"yea"
"what are you doing"
"cleaning up your hand what does it look like I'm doing" she asked as she finished up wrapping a bandage around his palm.
"no, not that I mean, your talking to be and not yelling , I guess I just don't understand why"
Joey smiled and placed her handson top of his legs. "well I realized that I was wrong, I didn't blame you because I really believed it was your fault, I blamed you because it wasn't anyone's fault and I needed somebody to blame, but then I remembered that you were the first person there when I fell, and you were the one that carried me away , it was you that took care of me and I care about you too much to let you go because I was stupid, and I think that scared me too, I haven't really cared about somebody as much as I do about you"
"even David"
"yea even him, I think I'm falling for you Dean Portman and that scares the shit out of me"
"god Joey, you don't have to be afraid of me, I would never hurt you , I love you , I would never hurt something I love so much" .
"yea I gue… wait did you just say that you love me" Joey asked in realization.
"yea I did"
"oh my god, I love you too" She grabbed his neck and pulled him into a deep passionate kiss, and for the first time it didn't scare her.
THE END!
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