Leaving It On The Ice ch. 30
Over the last few weeks now, everything's gotten rather hectic between practices, playing against other hockey teams, doing homework to keep up my grades up, and now that I got a job as a busboy at the campus pizzeria thanks to Hans putting in a good word for me. It doesn't feel like I have a lot of free time to much of anything since I'm too tired from work and practice that I haven't had a lot of time to spend with time with Anna and be the good girlfriend to her. I want to be able to buy her nice things enough she's not with me because of the things that I could buy her but I want to be able to get her something.
I'm working another late shift at the pizzeria as there's a few people here, just relaxing with their friends and grabbing a bite to eat as it's getting close to where we have to close it to public although we do still make deliveries for where students are having late night study sessions. Nala and Marshal still tease me and my girlfriend about what happened in my dorm before Simba showed me the fan fiction that two of them wrote about us as Harley Quinn and Ivy in an alternative universe and to make matters worse, it has a shit ton of reviews online.
No matter how much I asked them to take it down, they wouldn't as they continue writing the story and more than often using our lives as writing material but thankfully no one else has connected the dots back to the two of us. I was putting a pepperoni pizza in the oven as I turned around to see Anna standing at the counter with Ariel who had started showing as she was allowed to finish out the school year since she wasn't due to give up mid-July as far as I was told. Eric's doing his best to be a good baby daddy and take care of his responsibilities and making sure that the cheerleader has everything that she needs for when the baby comes by taking on a part time job as a pool cleaner. I've seen Ariel a lot more since she started having craving although she's more than often crying while she eats about gaining weight and that she's getting fat although I reassured on multiple occasions that she's not getting fat but helping ensure that the baby gets all the nutrients that it needs to be healthy.
"Hello ladies, what can I get you?" I asked smiling.
"One large pepperoni with mushrooms, sausage, and extra cheese" Ariel said tapping her chin in think if she wanted anything else.
"Want cheesy breadsticks with that? A two liter Spite?" I said jokingly.
"You read my mind" Ariel said grinning.
I chuckled quietly as I pushed in the taller redhead's order and tell her that it was going to be a ten minute wait as I was about to ask Anna what she wanted to order, she grabs me by my work shirt and pulls me into a heated, lingering kiss that sends shiver down my spine. The head cheerleader pulls back somewhat, looking at me through half-lidded eyelids then licks my top lip as I look around to see if my boss was around because the last thing that I want is to get fired for making out with my girlfriend during my shift.
"Anna, I'm at work"
"I know but I haven't gotten a chance to kiss in the last two days and you're addicting" Anna giggles.
"I know that I've been rather busy with work and practice but I promise to I'll find a balance" I said smiling apologetically.
"I know that you will but please don't overexerted yourself" Anna said stroking my cheek.
"I promise. Are you coming to the Friday night?" I asked curious.
"You know it, I wouldn't miss it for the world and I'll be in the stands, cheering for my sexy girlfriend" Anna said with a wink.
Anna has been to every one of my games including the away games even she refuses to tell me how she's managing it but she's probably the loudest one in the stand, carrying a sign that says 'GO Elsa! GO POLA BEARS!'. I'm makes happy that Anna cheering me on as the cheerleader has gotten very into the sport, yelling for someone to break a bone or lose a tooth when a fight breaks although it can be rather frightening at times. The team that we're facing this time is rather fierce as I heard that the school's star player has sent several opposing teams' players to the infirmary with excessive force but it's had to tell in a sport like hockey was counts as excessive force as the Grizzly Bears are so far undefeated.
I know that we're gonna have to step our game if we want to win as I pulled the pizza out of the stove, placing it in the container before grabbing everything that Ariel ordered as she gives me the money and I ring her up then puts her change in my tip jar. She waves as the head cheerleader follows her out but not without giving me a quick kiss on the cheek as she jogs to catch with her retreating friend when Hans comes around to close up the shops as our boss Gustavo calls us into his office. The two of us look at each other nervously, wondering what he could want with us before hesitantly poking our heads through the open door to see the overweight man sitting in his desk chair, gesturing to the two empty chair in front of his desk.
"D-Did we do something wrong, boss man?" Hans asked nervously. "Are we being fired?"
"What? Of course not" Gustavo said frowning slightly as we sigh in relief. "I wanted to let you two know that I have been reviewing your work over the last few weeks and I am very impressed with your work ethic as I don't normally see such hard workers in young people nowadays"
"Thank you sir" I said feeling rather proud.
"Which is why I'm promoting the both of you to manager, you'll still work the same hours as you normally do but there's a dollar seventy-five an hour pay raise. Would this be something you would be interested in?" Gustavo asked raising an eyebrow.
"Heck yeah, we're interested" We said grinning.
"Great, now get outta here and take the weekend off cause I know that you've covering for those slackers Seth and Tony" Gustavo said chuckling.
He didn't have to tell a second time as I couldn't believe that I just got promoted but Dad always told me that a little bit of work hard always pays off in the end as Hans walks me back to the girls' dorm. We agreed to meet up tomorrow with the guys to shoot some hoops as I walked to my room to find Nala and Marshall sitting in front of the TV watching Bob's Burgers as there's notes sprawled on the floor while the artist has her laptop in her lap.
"Aww the blonde half of our success" Marshall said grinning.
"You know that you two aren't right for you're doing. What if someone connects back to me and Anna?" I said glaring at the both of them.
"You'll be bigger stars than normal" Marshall said shrugging her shoulders.
"No one's connect the dots unless they're WAY in-between the lines and most people aren't really gonna bother with that crap and besides we didn't make Harvey and Ivy too much like you or they'll get too OOC" Nala said waving off my concern.
"OOC?" I asked confused.
"Out of character, it's say fan fiction lingo" Marshall said like it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"Whatever, I'm going to take a shower to get rid of the pizza smell" I said grabbing some clothes and towel.
"Oh yeah, I was gonna tell you that you smell delicious" Marshall laughs.
Nala smacks Marshall upside the head as ever since I stated working at the pizzeria, the pizza jokes have been rolling in and it was funny at first but now it's just getting rather annoying. I showered and re-braided my hair before walking out to hear the end of would-be writers' conversation about something doing prom-prosals for the sufficient others.
"Prom-prosals? What are those?" I asked curious.
"It's a proposal for prom and it's what you call when ask someone to go to the junior prom with you. It's the day after the hockey play-off finals, didn't you know?" Nala asked raising an eyebrow.
"What?! No! Fuck, it's two weeks and I haven't ask Anna to go with me yet" I said running my hand through my hair.
"Well you better ask her soon cause I already ask Liv to go with me" Marshall said looking at me upside down.
"Did you ask Simba already?" I asked turning to Nala.
"Last week but don't worry, you have nothing to worry about. Anna'll say yes when you ask her but I suggest that you ask soon though"
How am I going to ask her to the Junior Prom?
~Nicole The Dragon Rider signing off
End of ch. 30