I'm soooo sorry I've taken this long to update! Thanks to all my reviewers- I really appreciate it, and love to hear your opinions on the story so far. I've been working on her trip to NC for the past few days and I will hopefully have that up by the end of the week. Thanks again everyone!
The next day at practice Herb asked me why I had stormed out of practice and why the two of us never came back. I made up some lie about how after we ran out at practice I stormed out to the parking lot, and Dave demanded to take me to the doctor because I threw out my back. My back was an easy scapegoat I mean it's not like any of them ever knew how much my back truly hurt, or when it hurt.
Sadly, I didn't get to see the ice the rest of the week, let alone skate on it. I was in the office the entire time from eight in the morning until about five at night. It was my job to set up transportation and hotel reservations for every game. It was really hard to try and communicate with people when you have no clue what that person is saying. But, I had patience considering I had dealt with this before.
It was Friday at around three, practice was just about to end. I was working on hotel reservations for the Harvard game and the manager of the hotel was really starting to frustrate me.
"Well you haven't been able to give me a straight answer at all. I've asked you at least twenty times if it's alright to…" He cut me off. "You know I'm sure there are a lot of hotels… no sir, I didn't say that I'm canceling the reservations. I did not say that… But, I… please don't hang up on me… sir?" I sat there my mouth was open, and slowly hung up the phone.
"Having a bad day?" I heard. I looked over to the door and saw Rob.
"He hung up on me…" I said.
"He really hung up on me," I repeated.
"Seems that way..." He laughed.
"So what are you doing tonight?" He asked me.
"Staying in, I'll probably pack some."
"For what?" He asked me.
"Going to North Carolina in a week… if you're lucky I'll bring you back something." I said winking at him. He waited for me and I gave him a ride home. The two of us ended up hanging around my apartment. We got take out food and just talked while I attempted to pack.
"I'm sorry we haven't really hung out lately." I told him, taking a break from packing, we were eating Chinese food.
"We've both been busy." His reply was simple.
"Yeah, but I miss talking to you. I haven't seen you for close to six years Robbie. Having you a few doors down the hall, and not talking is a lot different than being thousands of miles apart." I told him.
"Things change Hails…" He shrugged his shoulders.
"What's new with you lately?" I asked.
"Nothing, Kelsey's birthday is next week." He said.
"I'm planning on taking her to dinner, but I want to try to think of something else to do for her." He added.
"Kelsey…" My mind was drawing a blank.
"Kelsey Latrobe... we've been going out for a month." He said.
"I knew that… I really did know that." I said.
"Why don't you take her to like a play down at the theater? I mean in high school she always liked that kind of thing." I suggested.
"She would love that." There was now a silence between us.
"Have you ever thought about that night…?" I asked, giving him a look.
"How could I forget?" He replied.
"Do you ever regret doing it?" He asked.
"Not really. I don't think I ever really did regret it." I paused, letting silence fill the room again.
"I mean… it just seemed natural. I always thought that my first time would be with you." I admitted, glancing at him from across the table.
"I agree." He smiled.
"God, we were young…" I said.
"Junior year… we were what? Sixteen?" He guessed.
"Doesn't that seem like forever ago? I mean we're twenty-two now." He laughed.
"Do you ever think it'd be weird if we did it again?" He asked. We glanced at each other and just started laughing.
"You're the brother I never had." I told him.
"You're the sister I never… ok you're the sister I've always wanted." I laughed. It was good to hang out with each other that night.