Back at the party...

Chelsea was dancing with Rizzo. They made up and were getting along great. Rizzo was admiring Chelsea in every way possible and Chelsea was telling him that he was right about everything he said. Chelsea took a break from dancing to see her friends.

"Well, so far no sign of the babies!" said Chelsea, "I bet they chickened out! They are so…"

Tina started but was interrupted by something that caught her eye. In the door way of the room was Nadia and Sally, along with their dates, Vladislav Tretiak and Boris Mikhailov.

"I hate them!" said Chelsea.

Nadia and Sally looked around the room. Most of the people were staring at them because of their dates. No one had expected to see Soviets at this party. Vlad put his hand on Nadia's shoulder and said, "They'll stop staring. Don't worry."

Nadia blushed, then looked at him and said, "Why would I worry. I'm with you at a party, what could be better?"

He gave her a grateful smile and they followed Sally and Boris, who went to dance.

"I like your outfit." Said Vlad.

"Thanks!" said Nadia. She had her red coat on, along with a black scarf, her black and white skirt and red shoes..

"I never thought I'd see a you in a mini skirt." He replied.

She giggled. Just then, Eruzione and Jim Craig came over to Nadia and Vladislav.

"Hey, Vladislav." Said Eruzione, in a friendly tone.

Rizzo was a nice guy and didn't care that Vlad was on the hated Red Army team.

"Hello." He said in a rather surprised voice, "Your team has gotten a lot better since the last time we played you."

"Thanks, man." Said Jimmy, "I see your team is still doing good."

Vlad could tell that he intimidated Jim. He was the best goalie in the world and Jim was just a college goalie.

"Yeah, we're doing good so far." Said Vlad lightly, "Oh, this is Nadia."

"Hey Nadia." Said Eruzione.

"Yeah, I've known her for a while." Said Vlad smiling at Nadia and putting his arm around her waist.

"Well, we'd better get back to our dates." Said Eruzione seeing Vlad do this, "See ya, Vladislav."

Nadia smiled up at her 6-foot-1 boyfriend, "They seem nice."

"Yeah, they have never been a mean bunch of guys." Said Vlad, "Well, let's get out of here! I think our suite is empty right now!"

Nadia blushed and took his hand.

"We can talk there." She said innocently.

Meanwhile…

Eruzione and Craig went back to their dates after their talk with Nadia and Vlad.

"Well, that was cool." Said Craig, "It's not everyday that you get to meet a hockey legend."

"I saw you guys talking to his girl." replied OC, "She was hot!"

"Wait OC..." Said Tina, "Did you just call Nadia hot?"

"You know her?" asked OC.

"Yeah, we know her. She and her stupid friend Sally are in college with us!" said Chelsea, "Sally the sports freak is like 27 and little, slutty Nadia is 23."

"Just because Nadia can't get a boyfriend in the entire United States, doesn't mean that she should try in the Soviet Union!" said Halley in disgust.

Jim, who had his arm around Halley, pulled away.

"Hey, Halley. Those guys are just hockey players, most of them hate the Soviet laws!"

"But the scary thing is that they are only in college and they're dating Soviet men!" said Chelsea.

"Well Vladislav isn't in his 30's yet." Said Eruzione, "But Boris Mikhailov, who is dating your other friend, is in his mid-30's."

"That's so gross! Sally is dating a 30 year old!" said Tina, "And she is NOT our friend!"

"Ohemgee! That is so like Sally!" cried Halley, "I mean, after I saw Nadia and Vladislav at the pizza place, I—."

"What?" exclaimed Tina.

"You didn't tell us this!" cried Chelsea.

Craig, who had been thinking for a little while, finally said, "To tell you the truth, I didn't know that the Soviets were allowed to have girlfriends. I know that Vladislav is a nice guy, but I just can't imagine him with a girlfriend."

OC and Eruzione both nodded at this comment.

"I defiantly can't picture Mikhailov with a girl." Said OC and laughed.

"Yeah!" said Rizzo, laughing.

"But still, I just can't believe that a guy like Vlad can get a girl like her!" said OC, "I mean, I bet she's really good!"

Tina gave him an evil look and pushed away from him.

"Shut up!" she said, "It's over between us!"

"Okay." said OC, "Now I can go after Vlad's girl!"

Tina screeched with fury and stomped away.

The Soviet Hotel Suite…

Nadia and Vlad had found Sally and Boris and were now in the Soviet Union's team hotel suite. They sat on Vlad's bed.

"Can I trust you not to tell anyone this?" asked Vlad, "I've been holding this in for quite a while, because I could get arrested if I said this back home"

"I hope you can trust me. You've known me for quite a while."

"Okay… I wish I could play for the Canadian Blackhawks in the NHL! I'm sick of the Soviet government not letting me do anything except play hockey for the Red Army!"

Nadia looked at him, "Then why don't you quit."

Vlad laughed, "Are you kidding? I couldn't quit. I could get arrested! If they knew that I wanted to play in North America, my family and my friends could pay the price for me!"

Nadia gasped and fell over onto his hard body.

"I'm sorry, I didn't know!" She said quickly.

"It's alright. Wait, no it's not… it's not right that I can't leave! That means that in order for you and me to be together, you would have to move to Russia and live by all of our rules."

Nadia put her finger on his lips and smiled. He stopped talking and looked at her with wide eyes. Nadia stroked her hand through Vlad's soft, wavy brown hair. She was staring into his big brown eyes. They were very deep and Nadia had forgotten how nice they were until now.

'This guy is everything. I forgot how lovely he is. Too bad we can't…' She thought.

Vlad was also looking at Nadia. He looked at how nice she looked in a tube top and admired her graceful figure.

'Nadia is so beautiful…' He thought.

Vlad reached forward and put his hand lightly on Nadia's cheek. Nadia leaned forward to kiss him, but quickly stopped. She was afraid. Not of kissing him, for she had desired to kiss him since the first time she heard they weren't allowed to. She was afraid of distracting him and having him lose everything he had worked for.

"I'm sorry." She said quietly.

"No, I am." He said, "I know that I am supposed to stay focused and I didn't think. I just forgot because I was so excited about seeing you again."

"You should get some rest. The last thing you need is people scoring easy goals on you." "Yeah. Tikhonov wouldn't like that." Said Vlad, "Good night, Nadia." He kissed her on the cheek and she left.

Boris and Sally were lying on Boris's bed. Sally was snuggled up with him because she was incredibly tired. They had their eyes closed, talking about stuff.

"How long have you been team captain?" Sally asked.

"For the past 6 years." Replied Mikhailov, "Vlad's been starting goalie for a while, too. We've been friends for a while and…"

He stopped and lightly kissed Sally. For anyone watching this, it would have looked awkward to see one of the biggest Russians on the hockey team kissing a 27-year-old Asian American girl. She fell into it but quickly realized what she was doing and feared the same things that Nadia feared.

"Sorry… Good night." She said, quickly and left.

Boris felt very guilty for her leaving. He hardly knew Sally, but had a slight crush on her, and didn't want her to think he was awful.