Sorry for the delay

Im so sorry to anyone who reads this anymore, I have been suuppeerr busy. I have started a new chapter, it's gonna be a little different and won't pick up where I left off. Sorry again and it should be up soon.

Chapter 40

I smiled as I saw Nick leaning on his car crossing his arms. He had the biggest smile I have ever seen.

"Hi!" I said excitedly and slid into his arms.

"Happy Birthday." He gave me a kiss and opened the passenger seat door. "Let's go a lot of stuff to do today." I got in the car and saw a CD case sitting on the seat, I picked it up and smiled at Nick.

"What's this?" I opened it.

"I made it a couple days ago, put it in."

"Oh I love this song!" I turned up Paper Gangster by Lady Gaga and began to sing.

"Yeah, I know you never stop singing this song." I smiled and gave him a kiss on the cheek.

"So where we going Romeo?" He placed his hand in mine.

"I spent all this time making this day a surprise, you think I'm going to tell you now?" He handed me a blindfold.

"Yeah right Nick!" I looked at him.

"It will be more fun if you put it on." He pushed the blindfold towards me.

"Fine." I tied it around my eyes. "I must say though this is a little creepy."

"Don't worry I'm only driving you to a creepy town where no one lives and no one will ever know where you are." He grabbed my leg. "Just don't panic!"

"Stop!" I laughed and smacked his hand. "You're so weird."
We drove for about 20 more minutes when the car came to a stop. Nick opened my door and helped me walk since I still had to keep the blindfold on.

"Alright!" He untied the blindfold and we were standing in a public ice rink, no one else was there. "Here is your first gift." He handed me a box and I immediately opened it.

"Ice skates with pink laces, how cute!" I took them out of the box. "You don't expect me to skate do you, you know how bad my balance is."

"Sit." He pushed my hips down on the bench and helped me put the skates on, after he finished he quickly put his on, grabbed my hand and helped me up. "Ready?"

"Not really." I wobbled a little bit then balanced myself using Nick's arms. "I'm embarrassed." I smiled.

"Why?" He walked me towards the ice.

"Because the last time I ice skated was when I was 12 and Johnny knocked me down by accident and I broke my nose, so I haven't skated since." He stepped on the ice and turned to grab my hands.

"You will be fine, I'm here." He winked.

"Okay." I slowly put one skate on the ice then the other. "Oh this isn't so bad." I spoke too soon as my ass landed right on the ice. "Dammit!"

"Give me your hands." Nick said while cracking up. "Just try not to fall this time."

"Don't jinx me, I just wasn't ready." I skated a little more and finally got my balance. "See I don't need your help!" He skated in a circle around me.

"Oh yeah?" He gave me a little push and I fell like he was knocking over a little kids building blocks. "Shit! I didn't know you would fall so easily."

"What you expect, Tanya Harding?!" I got up and he covered his shins with his hands.

"Just don't hit me, I need these!" I laughed and skated towards him.

"I wouldn't never think of it! you are too cute mister." I squeezed his cheeks together with my hands.

"Alright, alright." He pulled my hands off. "What are you grandma?"

"No you just so cute! A girl can't help herself!"

"Fine, Grandma." He grabbed my hands and pulled me along. He skated backwards ready to catch me if I were to fall. We skated around for a half hour barely saying anything but it was so much fun. He shook me ever once in a while almost making me fall. Once he did make me fall I took him down with me.

"The captain goes down with it's ship bitch!" I grabbed his shirt still laying on the ice.

"Yeah okay! what ever happen to save yourself." He grabbed the bottom of my skates and started dragging me around.

"Nick! I'm getting all wet!" I turned to lay on my stomach.

"Get up then." He laughed and kept skating.

"I can't!" I tried to get up but I was afraid I might accidentally kick him. "AHHH!!!"

"Okay baby." He picked me up and I smacked his chest. "Hey now!"

"Asshole." I smiled and pushed him.

"Fine, lets go to the next place." He helped me skate off the ice.

"What's next?" I sat on the bench and put my skate between his legs as he untied them for me.

"Stop trying to ruin the surprise!" He laughed and I switched out my skates.

"Sorry, I'm curious." He pushed my foot down and began to untie his.

"Let's go." He smiled and grabbed my hand and once again I had to put the blindfold on. This time it was a longer drive, I would say it took about 45 minutes. "Alright ready?"

"As ready as I can be." I heard him put the car in park and get out. He opened my door grabbed my hands and walked me into another building. "Are there dogs in here?" I asked hearing a bunch of barking.

"Take the blindfold off." I quickly took it off and saw Nick standing with a small German Shepard puppy. I loved German Shepard's and wanted one my whole life.

"Oh my god Nick! Is he mine?!" I walked over and petted his fluffy head.

"I was thinking ours, like our first dog together." He smiled and handed the puppy to me.

"He is so friggen cute! are you sure? I thought you didn't want a dog and he is defiantly going to get big." I lifted him up and looked at his belly. "Yeah he is going to get huge because he is a boy."

"So, this will be fun and you love German Shepard's so much it's worth it."

"Aww, Nick your so great!" I walked over and gave him a kiss, still holding the dog. "When can we take him home?"

"Today, I already got everything we need, it's at Ovie's house so you wouldn't see it." I could tell he was proud of himself. "But he also needs a name." I held him up again looking at his face. I looked at him for about a minute and looked at Nick.

"Rex?" I tucked him under my arm.

"I think it fits him." Nick walked over to the desk to get a packed and some tips. We headed to the car and I held Rex the whole time. I was so excited, but realized it was bitter sweet when I thought about school. I shook the thought out of my mind so I could enjoy this day.

"Nick, thank you so much." I leaned over and gave him a kiss. "This is better then anything you could of got me, most girls want jewelry, I want a puppy."

"Well, this is gonna be tough but I thought we could do this together, it will be a great experience, I mean...." I cut Nick off

"Nick, Nick pull over he is pissing all over my lap!!" Nick swerved to the side and I hopped out and of course when I put Rex on the ground he was already done. "Ewww."

"This is great." Nick said in mid laughter. "Welcome to the family!"

"Shut up Nick!" I couldn't help but laugh even though I felt so gross. "Can we stop home so I can change?"

"No I'm going to make you walk around in those pants the rest of the day." He rolled his eyes.

"Whatever!" I picked up Rex and put him back in the car. "Petal to the floor kid, this is nasty."

"I'm going." He grabbed my hand and kissed it. "This is just the beginning of the day though, I hope you know that."

Chapter 39

"Alright." I slowly lifted myself off the couch. "I'm gonna head over to Nick's." Josh looked over at me.
"With what car?" He smiled.

"Oh shoot, I really need to get a car." I sat back down. "I will just wait until his game is over than, can you put it on? I want to see the score."

"Way ahead of you." He already had the remote flipping through the channels. "Maybe we shouldn't put it on."

"Why?" I glanced at the screen, noticing the Caps were losing. "Oh that's not good."

"Eh it's the third period, I'm sure we can't do much harm." I didn't say anything, I just looked at Josh and laughed. The final seconds ticked down and the Caps left the ice after the defeat. We watched for a little longer. Nick all of a sudden appeared on the TV ready to give an interview. I sat up a little bit excited to listen. I was usually at the games so I had never seen him give an interview.

"So Nicklas." The interviewers started their questions. "You guys looked a little slow out there tonight, anything you could of changed?"

"Um yeah, we were tired, um, we gave up in the third and we can't do that, um and yeah I think we just need to be stronger in the third." I looked at Josh and laughed.

"I think hockey players favorite words to use in a interview are um and yeah." he smiled.

"Um, yeah I think your right." He laughed.
The interview continued for about 5 minutes, Nick said um and yeah about 20 more times. I grabbed something to drink and waited for him to call.

"So." Josh looked at me. "Are you living there now? you never sleep here anymore."

"I think, I don't know, he asked me to move in with him but I didn't give him a straight answer."

"Why is that?"

"This whole thing with coming to DC. and staying out here was temporary, I was never planning on staying here." I looked at my phone, no call.

"So you do want to go back home?"

"I want to go to CSU, badly."

"Then go." Josh said bluntly and firmly.

"It's not that easy, what about Nick?" I shot back.

"What about him, I know you love him but you need to put yourself first right now." My phone started to ring which to my delight cut off the conversation I hated.

"Hey babe, nice game."

"Don't lie." he sounded a little down.

"You will get em' next time!" I tried to cheer him up.

"Yeah I hope, where are you?"

"I'm at Josh's now, will it be to much to ask for you to pick me up?"

"Of course not, I will be there in like a half an hour, and also we don't have to leave till Thursday so I can spend tomorrow with you for your birthday."

"Okay sounds good."

"Alright see you soon."

"Bye." I hung up and walked up stairs to grab some more clothes to take over Nick's. I looked at Josh and he seemed a little aggravated. "Are you mad at me?"

"A little bit." He said under his breath.

"Why?" I shrugged my shoulders. "Because I can't make a decision?"

"No Kat!" He stood up. "You worked so hard for all of this, gone through so much and you going to throw it away for a guy again, you let men run your life."

"What happened to you being understanding and letting me make my own decisions."

"Yeah well if you stay here I think you are making the wrong decision."

"Whatever." I rolled my eyes.

"You think this is a joke?" I looked at him and wish he would just stop talking. "What are you going to do if you and Nick break up, you are going to have to live with yourself knowing you didn't take advantage of this."

"Josh!" I yelled. "Just stop! I can't choose right now it's too hard, honestly I don't know what to do. I have only known 3 days that I got accepted I need at least a week to decide what I'm going to do, seriously can you guys let me breath!"

"Yeah, I'm sorry." He hung his head. "We all just want what's best for you."

"I know." I gave him a hug. "But all this added pressure is not helping me decide." I turned my head as a horn beeped. "That's Nick."

"Alright, I will see you friday." I gave him another hug.

"Probably before that, I'm going to the hospital tomorrow."

"Okay, see you then." I grabbed my clothes and headed to the door.

"Bye Josh."

"C-ya."
I walked to Nick's car and got in. I threw my clothes in the back and leaned over to give Nick a kiss. His hair was all wet, which I loved.

"Did you want to do anything tonight?" He rubbed the back of my neck.

"It's up to you, you are the one that just had a hockey game."

"Mind if we just go home, I might fall asleep, I'm really tired."

"Yeah that's fine." I smiled as he headed down the street to his place. Once we got into the apartment Nick and I quickly put on some pj's and laid in bed. I was laying on my stomach, holding myself up by my elbows gently running my fingers through his hair. He quickly fell asleep, as I laid wide awake thinking of what I should do. It took me about three hours to fall asleep. Once I did I was out.

"Oh my god." I said to myself, waking up to the loudest alarm I have ever heard. I never set the alarm so it had to be Nick. I focused my eyes and realized it said 7:00. "Too early Nick!" I moved my arm on the other half of the bed to push Nick but he wasn't there. I rolled around smushing my face on a piece of paper. I sat up and saw lilies laying on the pillow, I picked up the note and read it.

"Good morning sunshine, I set the alarm early because I have a ton of stuff planned for today, call me when your ready, happy birthday, I love you." I smiled and stood up on the bed flipping through my phone seeing all the happy birthday messages. I listen to a couple voice mails, mostly from my family and my mom telling me to call her. "Ew 20, I'm two decades old." I said to myself and headed to the bathroom. I was ready in about an hour and called my mom before I called Nick.

"Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear Kate, happy birthday to you!" My mom always sang happy birthday to me.

"Thanks mom!" I laughed.

"I can't believe my baby girl is 20!" she let out a deep breath. "Wow I'm old"

"Oh don't start this!"

"Oh here they come." She started sniffling. "Here talk to your dad."

"Hey dad!" I was so happy, I just wanted to forget everything and enjoy this day.

"Hi sweetheart happy birthday, what you got planned today?"

"I don't know, Nick has something up his sleeve but he is keeping me in the dark."

"Alright well have fun, be careful and call us tonight, maybe we can do dinner again."

"Will do, love you."

"Love you too, bye."

"Bye." I ran to the living room and saw a new box of corn pops, my favorite." I poured myself a bowl and called Nick.

"Happy Birthday!" He screamed into the phone.

"Thanks, where are you, I was hoping I would wake up to you on my birthday."

"Hey I'm a busy man today, your going to have so much fun, you ready?"

"Yeah."

"Well get your ass down here and lets go."

"You are outside?"

"Yes, hurry up." I grabbed my coat and rushed downstairs, I was so excited.

Chapter 38

"Ugh!" Nick sat on my stomach to wake me up. "Get off I can't breath!" He laughed as he stood up.

"It's 5:00 aren't you going to dinner with you parents tonight?" I got up quickly and ran to the bathroom, not saying anything. "Nick!" I yelled from the bathroom. "Wake Allie up!"

"She is already back at the hotel." He opened the door and slid the curtain to the side.

"You took her back? and shut that it's cold." I smiled.

"Yup." He slid it back close. "She got up at around 4 and said she wanted to go back to the hotel, and you fell asleep so I just took her."

"Oh, okay." I peeked my head out of the shower. "Thank you." He walked closer so I could give him a kiss.

"Now hurry up, I have to leave soon too." He smiled and walked out of the bathroom. I finished up and walked into the bedroom to blow dry and straighten my hair, I threw on some skinny jeans, my Uggs, a turtle neck and a vest.I met Nick in the hall way and gave him a hug.

"I'm sorry I can't come to your game tonight." I took a deep breath in, smothering my face in his chest. He always smelled so good.

"It's okay." He laughed. "I wish I could go to dinner with you guys, you look so nice."

"Thanks, I don't dress up much but I thought tonight I should."

"Yeah, I like it." He kissed me. "At least you aren't wearing my clothes." I walked passed him and turned my head around to look at him.

"You know, you can borrow my clothes too."

"Yeah." He walked behind me and grabbed the pocket of my jeans. "Let me just try and fit into those, and then go out in public."

"I would love to see that!" I smiled and sat on one of the stools in the kitchen. Nick followed and slid his hands around my back as I wrapped my legs around his waist. For some reason I started to laugh.

"What is going on?" He looked at me and couldn't help but start laughing too. "Why are you laughing?"

"I don't know." I leaned into his neck and continued to giggle.

"Stop! why are you laughing?!" I gently smacked his chest.

"I was just picturing you trying to get into these jeans and then going to the rink and all the boys looking at you like your crazy."

"I would never even attempt to put those on."

"Yeah but the thought of it is funny." I wrapped my arms around his neck and jumped on him.
"You are so cute!" I grabbed his cheeks really hard.

"Ah." He pulled my hands off. "You are so hyper." He laughed.

"No I'm not." I said while laughing then I pinched his butt.

"Ouch, good god." I attempted to run but he grabbed me by my waist and I screamed.

"I'm dressed up don't mess up my make-up." I turned around and kissed his neck.

"I wasn't." He smiled and pulled me closer and picked me up. "I'm afraid to touch you, I might mess something up."

"I was just kidding." I scratched his back a little bit then hopped down, Nick picked up my phone as it started to ring and handed it to me.

"Thanks.....hello?"

"Hey hunny we are downstairs, we have Josh's car." My mom sounded the happiest she has been since she got here.

"Alright on my way down." I hung up the phone and gave Nick a kiss goodbye. "Good luck tonight!" I said as I opened the door.

"Thanks, bye."

I walked downstairs and got in the back of Josh's car. I leaned up to give both my parents a kiss on the cheek.

"Heya!" I was so excited to just spend a night with them.

"Wow I must say you are dressing more and more sophisticated sweetheart."

"Thanks mom, you guys look nice too."

"I am so hungry, I am ready to just stuff my stomach full." My dad started to rub his stomach. "Riley asked me to bring him a cheese steak back too."

"Is he allowed to eat stuff like that yet?" I stared out of the window.

"I'm sure he is, if not I will just sneak it in."

"Aw aren't you a good daddy." My mom rubbed his arm.

"Yup!" I yelled from the back and smiled at him.

We pulled up to the restaurant and waited about 20 minutes for a seat, not bad for D.C. My dad made sure to tell the waitress we needed a cheese steak to go when we all put in our order. She smiled and said that was fine and left to ring in our food.

"So hun, how you feeling?" My mom put her elbows on the table.

"Pretty good, I have to go down to the precinct Tuesday to talk to the cops again, but other then that everything is fine."

"So." My dad started as he twirled his straw. "When you coming home?"

"I don't really want to talk to much about it." I hung my head.

"Have you told Nicklas yet?" My dad continued.

"No I'm still deciding what I should do."

"Kate, you came out here for a reason and now you finally got accepted to CSU are you really going to throw it away on a boy?" My mom gave me those eyes only a mother knows how to do.

"He is not just a boy mom, he really cares about me. With everything that has gone on somehow he still manages to make me smile. Maybe I could go to school here or just take online courses." It was quiet for a second as the waitress dropped off our salads.

"So what happens if he doesn't stay in D.C. what will you do then, follow him around?" My mom started to shake her head. "I think you have worked to hard and you are too young to not take advantage of this opportunity."

"Your moms right." My dad chimed in. "You have wanted to go to CSU your whole life and now you finally have the chance. If Nicklas cares that much about you he will wait for you and understand."

"I don't want to talk about this." I looked down at my salad and didn't look up. We ate most of the dinner in silence. There was some conversation here and there but not nearly as much as we usually do.

"Do you want to come back to Josh's?" My dad asked as we headed to the car.

"Yeah sure." I opened the car door. "I should probably head back to Nick's when he gets home."

"Okay." My dad smiled at me.
Once I walked into Josh's house so many bad memories came back of Brian and Justin. I haven't slept there since the incident and it was just weird to see everything again. Josh walked downstairs and gave me a hug.

"Can I talk to you for a second?" I looked at Josh, and then my parents.

"Yeah, lets talk in the kitchen." He followed me and we both sat at the kitchen table.

"I don't know what to do, I'm falling in love with Nick and I don't want to leave but I also think my parents are right. This is what I have worked so hard for and I'm torn, what do I do."

"Honestly, you have been told what to do all your life, it's about time you started making your own decisions. I think you should talk to Nick about it, but really do what you think is best for you. You deserve it."

"Yeah I wish it was that easy."

"Well sleep on it, you don't have to decide now, and I got Stepbrothers yesterday and I have been waiting for you to watch it." He got up. "Shall we have some laughs?"

"Yes we should." I smiled and walk into the living room. He popped in the DVD and I made myself comfortable on the couch.

Chapter 37

I unbuckled my seat belt and began to climb in the back of the car so Allie could sit up front. "Nick! Don't push me!" I turned and looked at him while sliding through both the front seats.

"What??? It's funny."

"I could break my neck!"

"You are exaggerating." He turned and smiled.

"Yeah right jerk!" I pinched his arm.

"Ouch! that hurts so bad." He rubbed his arm. "You should cut your nails."

"Shush Nick I'm on the phone." I laughed.

"You are so mean to me." He shook his head and turned back around.

"Hey Allie we are outside."

"Okay I'm on my way down." She hung up and I laid down in the back.

"You can't tell me your tired." Nick turned back around and gently squeezed my leg.

"Nick babe, you don't understand before I met you I used to sleep till 2 in the afternoon."

"Well, I'm glad you get up early now. If you slept till 2 I would hardly get to talk to you."

"Awww!" I sat up and kissed him on the cheek.

"I know, I know, I'm adorable." He rolled his eyes. About 2 minutes later Allie opened the door.

"Front seat." I looked at her.

"Oh okay." She shut the door and slid into the passenger seat. "Where we going?"

"Out to lunch with a bunch of animals!" I sat up.

"Hey! those are my team mates!"

"Sorry." I smiled and winked at Allie, she laughed.

"So." She did her best to turn around and look at me. "What are you doing for you birthday this weekend?"

"Well of course hanging out with you! And someone...." I coughed and pointed to Nick. "Is going on a road trip because he plays hockey or something so he won't be here."

"Don't make me feel bad." He looked at me through the rear view mirror.

"I'm not trying to, just messing with you, plus all of my brother's are here for a little bit so we will probably be going out."

"You don't think that will be weird?" Allie said while looking in the mirror checking her make-up.
"No, not really. I'm not sure if Riley will be able to come so it should be fine."

"Well Johnny is still coming, so that will be weird. If Riley is going then I probably would just stay home." I raised my eyebrow and gave her a confused look.

"Why is that weird?"

"Because I still haven't told him, and you know so it would just be weird." I sat up a little more.

"What?!!" Nick hit the brakes a little bit because I yelled so loud. "What the hell are you talking about!!"

"Kate you told me your knew who the dad was??" She turned around a little more.

"I thought it was Justin! Oh my god." I was at a loss of words. "Johnny has a Fiance! holly shit Allie! He is getting Married in 6 months! I need a minute Nick pull over." He pulled over but the car wasn't even stopped before I got out. I walked in a circle, my fingers linked together on top of my head, I kept letting out deep breaths. Nick got out of the car and walked towards me.

"Kate." He walked a little closer. "Calm down, Allie is crying just calm down."

"You don't understand Nick, this could tear my family apart, Riley is still in love with her, Johnny is getting married, Shit."

"You just need to calm down, she is really upset, you have to remember she is pregnant. You haven't even heard he side of the story yet."

"Nick think about if your brother got me pregnant. That is exactly what is going on here."

"Don't turn this around on us, I don't really want to hear that, just get in the car and lets go." He sounded aggravated.

"Are you mad at me?!" I turned around so fast.

"I just think your overreacting.""

"Overreacting!!" I screamed, maybe I was but this wasn't the time to tell me that. "Let me explain, I'm closest to Riley, when he finds out he is probably going to want to kick Johnny's ass, Johnny is going to get mad at me because I'm going to side with Riley. Johnny's Fiance is going to leave him, my mom is going to flip. Brandon will side with Johnny because they are the closest, Chris will be stuck in the middle, my dad is going to hide in a corner!" I took another deep breath.

"Okay, okay I understand, just remember she is still in the car." I took one more deep breath and Nick took my hand and led me to the car. I got in the backseat and didn't say anything. "Okay." Nick started. "I'm going to take you two back to my apartment and I will go out to lunch so you have time to talk, alone."

"Okay." Allie wiped her eyes with her sleeve, I still didn't say anything. Nick pulled up to the parking garage. We got out and I gave Nick a kiss.

"Don't flip out on her." He looked at me. "Kate?"

"I won't." I said goodbye and we walked to his apartment. I didn't say anything to her. We got inside and I sat down and put my head on the table.

"Kate I'm sorry, just hear me out." I sat up quick to come back at her but I remember what Nick said.

"Okay." I put my head back down.

"I went to a party, Johnny was there we talked for a little bit then went our separate ways. Well we were both drunk when we met up again and he started to tell me how he thinks his fiance is cheating on him with her coworker. One thing led to another, it was just a drunken mistake."

"Okay." I didn't move.

"Kate we haven't talked since, he doesn't even know, honestly I don't think he remembers that night. I have no feelings for him whatsoever.

"Okay."

"Please say something other then okay."

"I just don't know what to say, I can't be mad at you for that. I'm just thinking."

"If it means anything, if this was Riley's baby I would probably be really really happy. I still think about him all the time." I got up and gave her a hug, I felt horrible for the way I reacted and I have been around Johnny when he is drunk, he never knows what he is doing. All I was hoping for was that Riley would understand too.

"I'm sorry I flipped, but this is just, well I don't even know." I shook my head.

"It's okay, and I'm sorry." She gave me another hug. We both sat down and had some cereal and talked about it a little more. About two hours later Nick slowly opened the door and peeked his head inside.

"Is it okay for me to come in?" He smiled

"Yeah." I put my finger up to my mouth. "Be quiet though she fell asleep about thirty minutes ago." He sneaked over to me sitting on the chair and gave me a kiss on the head.

"The guys missed you at lunch, they all thought you were coming." He said in a whisper.

"Yeah tell them I'm sorry and I'm coming for sure next time." I got up and gave him a hug. "Thanks for calming me down today and I'm sorry I snapped at you, I was overreacting."

"It's fine I don't mind." I turned around as I heard a huge yawn come from Allie.

"Hey, I have been up since 5 this morning and I'm so tired do you mind if I just sleep?"

"Yeah." I walked over to help her up. "You want to sleep in our bed?"

"It doesn't matter, I'm just so tired." I walked into the bedroom and handed her a big t-shirt and some shorts, she laid down and I went back out to talk to Nick. I leaned into him and he wrapped his arms around me.

"You feel a little better about all of this?" He ran his lips from my ear down to my colar bone.

"No, but it's nothing I can control so I just have to sit back and let this take it's course."

"Well cheer up tomorrow is your birthday and I'm expecting you to be happy." I smiled and kissed him.

"I will, I promise."

"Good." He picked me up and pined me on the couch.

"Don't you dare start anything silly mister!"

"I won't!" He kissed my neck.

"Watch it! I have to see my brothers tomorrow, better not leave a mark."

"What can I do??" He stopped and looked at me.

"Anything else." I laughed.

"Okay lets see." He ran both of his hands up and down my side and my hips. "I wish I didn't have to leave this weekend." He said in the middle of kissing my stomach.

"Me too."

Chapter 36

"Yo!!" Johnny and Chris walked in, Johnny with one of his Ipod headphones in.

"Chris." I got up and gave him a big hug "How's the baby?"

"Good, Angela is here with him now she is in the waiting room, for a 3 month old baby that thing can shit."

"Aw, I want to see him." I smiled.

"Well you are his Godmother you can hold him you know." He grabbed my head and gave me a noogie.

"One thing I don't miss about home." I pulled out of his grip. "Getting picked on like there's no tomorrow." Chris laughed and sat in my chair and Johnny leaned on the wall.

"So boys." Riley started "Guess what Kate told me."

"Riley!" I shot him a look.

"What, cats out of the bag now." He rolled his eyes. "Allie came to visit Kate, and she got knocked up."

"No fucking way!" Johnny blurted out, pulling his ear phones out. "Is it yours?"

"Nope, you know I haven't seen her in forever."

"I'm betting it's Justin." I sat on the bed.

"Yeah okay Kate, He is a douche and she lives no where near him." Johnny popped one of his headphones back in.

"I'm just saying, it's possible!" I shook my head. "Where is Brandon? if he was here we have the whole crew." I smiled.

"He took the girls to the park." Chis said in a blank tone, knowing it would upset me.

"They are here?" I hung my head.

"Yeah, they look good, they have your eyes you know."

"Chris don't." Riley sat up. "Lets talk about something else."

"Yeah I second that." Johnny raised his finger while flipping through his songs.

"Well I'm going to go see Angela, I want to see the baby, see ya buds." I got up to give them hugs. "Riley, call me when you get discharged I want to take you out for food."

"Yum, I want like 4 burritos." I smiled.

"Okay we can go to Chipotle or something."

"I wanna go!!" Johnny said in a whinny tone.

"We can all go, that way I can bring Nick and you can all really meet him." I headed out to the door.

"Yeah, sounds like your feeding him to the wolves." Chris pushed his chair around.

"Not really if you guys are nice to him!" I pointed my finger at all of them with a stern look.

"Hey." Riley put his hands up. "He is cool in my book, you should be giving Johnny hell!"

"Yeah Johnny!" I turned my head to look at him.

"Give me a break, I'm not that bad!"

"Just watch your mouth." I shoved his arm.

"Okay, Okay, I will be good.."

"Good, later guys." I waved goodbye and headed to the waiting room to see Angela feeding Christopher.

"Hey hunny!" She leaned up and gave me a kiss on the cheek.

"Oh my god, he is gorgeous."

"Oh that's right, you haven't seen him yet. Want to feed him?" I shook my head.

"Absolutely." I sat next to her as she handed him to me.

"So, how do you like it out here?" She rubbed my shoulder. "Heard you met a boy."

"Yeah it's nice, but I miss home a lot, mostly because of this, missing being at the hospital, seeing your nephew born. It really sucks."

"Kate it's okay, I barely even remember giving birth, 11 pounds of baby coming out a very small hole. I couldn't tell you who was in the delivery room or who the doctor was." I laughed.

"Yeah true, I know how you feel. Looks like he is falling asleep here." I handed him back to her. "So do you call him Chris, or Christopher?"

"No we call him James, since it's his middle name and it would get confusing when he is older, so you heading out of here?"

"Yeah." I leaned in to hug her. "I got to pick my guy up from practice."

"Okay Hun, you are coming home for the Baptism right?"

"Yup, I have my plane ticket already, Me and Josh are coming."

"Alright well I'm leaving tonight so I will see you then." She gave me another kiss on the cheek.

"Okay, bye." I walked out of the hospital to the car. I was a little more successful driving Nicks car, I didn't stall once. I got to the rink but they were still practicing so I decided to try and call Allie again. I got her voicemail and left a message.

"Allie, I'm sorry for what I did, it wasn't right but I'm worried about you and want to make sure you are okay. I'm not going to ask you why you lied, and I'm not going to judge you. I have been in a situation like yours. Please just call me back." I put my phone in my pocket and waited for Nick to finish up. I walked outside and leaned on Nicks car. Nylander walked up and gave me a hug.

"Where have you been stranger, you don't come out to lunch with us anymore."

"Yeah just dealing with some family stuff, how are the kids?"

"Good, good, you should come out to lunch with us today." I smiled as I saw Nick walk out of the doors.

"Yeah I should, I don't have to work today, I miss the guys."

"Okay it's a deal, we will see you there?"

"Yup, see ya." I popped the trunk for Nick and got into the passenger seat, he got into the driver seat and leaned over and kissed me. "Good practice?"

"Yup, good hospital visit?"

"Yup." I smiled. "I saw my Nephew for the first time."

"Oh really."

"Hold on." I cut Nick off and picked up my phone. "Allie! I'm sorry."

"It's okay.... I kind of understand where you are coming from."

"Allie I think I know why you don't want to tell me who the dad is, I know who it is and I understand."

"Really, you know who it is?"

"Yeah, I can tell."

"The thing is I didn't want to tell anyone because of what my family would say and what your family would say. This could tear everything apart."

"His name starts with a J doesn't it." I knew it was Justin but I didn't want to say it in front of Nick. Justin liked Allie just as much as me and she had told me he had been bothering her a couple months ago, I felt her pain.

"Yeah." She started to cry. "It's just hard."

"Allie don't cry, we are coming to get you I understand everything your going though."

"Okay, I'm just going to shower really quick."

"That's fine, we will be there in about 20 minutes." I hung up the phone and looked at Nick.

"Do you mind if she comes to lunch?"

"No not at all, is she okay?"

"Yeah, she just needs to get out." I opened Nicks glove box to put a paper from the Hospital in there.

"Don't open that!" Nick shouted and scared me so much I slammed it shut, but I did see a glimpse of a black ring box.

"Okay wow sorry." I looked at him.

"Did you see anything?" He sighed.

"No, I shut it too quick you scared me, what is in there?" I asked just to see if he would tell me.

"Nothing." He linked his fingers in mine and turned up the radio.

Chapter 35

I squinted my eyes as my phone laid on the table, vibrating. I sat up squishing Nick making him grunt. I rubbed my neck from the pain of the way we fell asleep.

"Hello?" I spoke in a barely understandable voice while Nick pushed my legs off of him and walked into the bathroom.

"Good morning Hun!" Allie was always so cheerful in the morning, I never understood how she could do it.

"Morning." I walked to the kitchen and chugged some of my soy milk and grabbed a box of cereal.

"So what we doing today?"

"Dunno." I poured a bowl of fruit loops. "I have to stop by the hospital today."

"Oh right."

"You should come." Nick came up behind me and gave me a kiss on the cheek and proceeded to take my bowl of cereal.

"Hey!" I grabbed it. "It's got soy milk in it you don't want that." He laughed and lazily walked over the the fridge. "Sorry Allie, but anyway you should come and see him."

"No, I don't think that's a good idea."

"Why not, you don't have to tell him anything." I sat in the dining room.

"Um hold on Kate let me call you back, I got to go real quick."

"Uh okay but.." Before I could finish she hung up the phone. "God she is acting weird."

"Shit!!" I turned my head quick and saw Nick shaking his hand.

"What did you do?" I smiled.

"I burnt my hand and my toaster strudel!"

"I will make you pancakes!" I walked over and pulled the instant pancake box out of the cabinet.

"Okay." He leaned in to kiss me but I pulled away. "Wow, grump."

"I haven't brushed my teeth, it's so gross!"

"Go brush your teeth then." He pushed me towards the bathroom and smacked my butt.

"You're a dick!" I stuck my tongue out as I closed the bathroom door.

"I thought I was cute and adorable!" He yelled.

"You are." I walked out of the bathroom with my toothbrush in my mouth. "And a dick." He walked over and started to tickle me.

"Stop Nick! I'm gonna choke!" He stopped and I wiped tooth paste on his face.

"Oh no you didn't." He wiped it off and looked at me, I swiped his hand away and put my leg up as he tried to go for me.

"Wait Nick, wait." I smiled. "Let me finish brushing my teeth and then you can do whatever you want." He looked at his watch.

"You got 2 minutes."

"Ahh!" I screamed and ran into the bathroom. I finished up and walked out, Nick was standing right outside the door waiting for me.

"Okay hold on." I laughed.

"Nope your time is up." He came towards me but I wrapped my arms around his neck and kissed him.

"Don't tickle me." I smiled.

"This is your one get out of jail free card." I walked in front of him to the kitchen as he grabbed my hips and slugged behind me. I quickly whipped up some pancakes for him and watched as he scarfed them down like he has not eaten in a week.

"Did you even taste them babe?"

"Yeah." He walked into the kitchen with a mouth full of pancakes and put his plate in the sink then kissed my cheek again. "They were good." He engulfed me into his arms and gave me a huge hug.

"Aw what was that for?"

"Just cause I love you, when do you have to leave?"

"I'm going to get changed then head over."

"Okay, tell him I said hey."

"I will." I walked into the bedroom and threw on a pair of jeans and Nick's abercrombie hoodie.

"Bye." I leaned in to kiss him.

"Bye, and you need to get your own clothes."

"Yours are so comfy though!"

"Fine, don't get it dirty."

"I won't, have fun at practice." I gave him another kiss.

"I will." He walked me to the door.

"Bye again." I smiled and hugged him.

"Bye, be safe."

I walked to Nick's car and jumped in. He had taught me how to drive stick but I was still a little bad at it. I got to the hospital only stalling once and walked up to the counter to get my visitor pass. I got to go right in to Riley's room since my family went back to Josh's to sleep.

"Hey kiddo." Riley smiled. He was sitting up in his bed watching TV and eating breakfast.

"Hey!" I gave him a hug. "How you feeling?"

"Pretty good, I didn't get much sleep but what do you expect, it's a hospital."

"Yeah that's true, you should have let me bring you breakfast, that looks like shit."

"Ah it's alright." He looked at his plate. "How did she look?"

"Who?" I sat down in the chair.

"Allie." I could tell by the look in his face that he has missed her.

"Good, I feel like I need to tell you something though." I knew that I shouldn't but Riley was my brother, He has always been there for me through thick and thin. He has always been honest with me and told me everything. All that was running through my mind was blood is thicker than water. He needed to know, he had a right to know.

"What?" He flipped through the channels.

"Well I haven't seen Allie since I moved out here, and well she looked very different."

"Yeah, how so?" He sat up a little more, getting very interested in the conversation.

"I don't know if I should tell you. It's probably not my place."

"I'm not going to force you, tell me what you want." Now I felt bad.

"She was pregnant." I looked down.

"Are you serious." He hung his head in his hands.

"Riley don't." I slid my chair over to him and rubbed his shoulder. "You're going to be a great dad."

"What?!" He picked his head up so quick.

"Well you have to know it's yours." I looked at him with a confused face.

"Kate, that's not possible. I have not seen her in over a year. After she dumped me she moved about 2 hours away and hasn't spoken to me."

"What?" I shook my head, my mouth wide open. "Why would she lie to me."

"I don't know, but to lie about something like that is a little fucked up, especially since you are my sister."

"Well wait a second Riley we don't know what happen we can't judge her. What if something bad happened and she was to embarrassed to tell me."

"I don't know, your phone is lighting up." He pointed to my pocket. I quickly opened it.

"Sorry bout that, I needed to talk to someone back home." She spoke with a soft voice. I walked out of the room.

"Allie why did you lie to me?"

"What are you talking about?"

"About Riley, I'm sorry but I had to tell him, he is my brother. Why did you lie?"

"You told him!" Her voice raised. "I can't talk about this!" She hung up the phone. I tried to call her back right away but she hit the ignore button. I felt terrible and just wanted to help her. Maybe she was going through something similar to what I went through and I just made it worse.

"That was a mistake." I sat back down in the chair.

"Something is going on with her, she needs some help." Riley leaned back on his bed.

"That's all I want to do, I want to help her. I'm a horrible person for doing that."

"No you aren't, just give her some time to blow off some steam and call her back."

"Good plan."

"Good, now want some eggs?" He smiled.

"No thank you." I smiled back.

Chapter 34

"Allie! I can't believe it!" I gave her a huge hug "Oh my god you're pregnant." I looked down to see her very pregnant belly.

"Yeah." She smiled "A little over five months now."

"Holy shit, you were not pregnant when I left, I have been here for three months." She laughed and sat down. We could easily talk since we were so early so no one was really in the arena yet.

"Yeah I was, but I was only two months so yeah, couldn't really tell." I grabbed her hand and looked at her. Me and Allie were inseparable back in Denver. It was always me, Brian, Allie, and Riley. We did everything together. Riley and Allie had dated for about two years and broke up. I always wanted them to stay together but you can't force feelings. They still talk but they aren't as close as they were before. I still hope that they would get back together.

"Why didn't you tell me! who is the father?!" I felt like I was in my senior year of high school again. Sitting with her made me miss Denver so much.

"Um, I don't know. When I first found out I was wondering if I should have an abortion, so I didn't tell anyone. I just needed time to be comfortable with this to tell people. The father......well It's complicated."

"Allie your my best friend you can tell me anything." I looked at her but she looked away. "It's not Riley......Is it?!"

"See the thing is, I haven't told anyone who the father is, not even him so I'm not to comfortable with spilling the beans quite yet." She looked back up and I could tell.

"Sweetheart I can read you like a book, I won't tell him but I think you should."

"I'm just nervous, I found out what happened and I don't want to drop this bomb on him." Just as she said that her phone started to ring. She pulled it out of her pocket and quickly hit the ignore button.

"Who was that?" I said being very curious.

"No one, some guy I met in a bar a while ago. I gave him my number and he just recently started calling me, I try to never answer."

"Is he weird?"

"I just don't want to start anything until I get this figured out." She pointed to her belly.

"That's a good idea." I looked over at her again and she looked a little down. "Why don't we get off this subject and enjoy ourselves."

"Okay deal, so tell me a little bit about your new boy, he was very nice on the phone."

"Okay so like, he is so sexy and well like he is amazing." I bobbed my head back and forth.

"What was that!" she laughed.

"I apologize, I haven't had girl talk in so long, it had to come out before I exploded."

"Well I hope that is all you had left because that was bad."

"Okay." I laughed. "I promise no more."

"Well." She said in a chipper voice. "What's he like!"

"Different, I mean he is not my type at all. I like the bad boys, tattooed up, piercings, rockers, assholes, but he is nothing like that and I think that's why we get along so well. He is just showing me a whole different side of guys and I love it."

"And the sex?"

"Allie!" I said in a shocked voice. "none of your business! How do you know we have even done anything."

"Please girl! You spend the night over at a blond swedes house! Something is bound to happen."

"Whatever! new subject! Have you been dating?"

"Right." She said sarcastically. "I seduce them with my belly, they find that so hot."

"Oh right, I'm sure some guy has a pregnant girl fetish though." I tried to lift her spirits.

"Yeah! freaks!" She laughed.

"Okay maybe your right, but once you have the baby you will be able to date sooner or later."

"Yeah I'm hoping." She rolled her eyes.
We kept the conversation up until the boys came out to start the game. Allie is a huge hockey fan so she was up and down. I kept pulling her down and telling her she shouldn't be jumping up and down. She told me she was fine, but I kept doing it anyway. We had an amazing time, and I had missed her so much. Once the game was over I helped walk her to Nick's car. We sat in there and chit chatted some more until a knock came on the window that almost made me pee my pants.

"Nick!" I opened the door and yelled. "She is pregnant! you could have made her just have her baby!"

"Oh, sorry I didn't know." He was so sincere.

"It's fine." Allie laughed. "It's not like I'm eight months."

"So." Nick slid into the car. "Were do you ladies want to go?"

"Food!" I said rubbing my stomach.

"I would love to go but I'm going to have to take a rain check, I'm so tired." Allie said while putting her hand over her yawn.

"Oh okay, are you staying with us?" I looked at her.

"No, Nick set me up in a hotel."

"Well you can stay with us, it's fine." I would be more comfortable if she came with us.

"No way, I don't want to intrude." I rolled my eyes at her comment but before I could answer Nick turned around.

"It's fine you can stay with us, really."

"No no, I have all my stuff at the hotel anyway, really I will be fine. I will call you in the morning."

"Alright." I smiled. "How did you get here?"

"I took a cab, I can take another one, I don't want to hold you up." Nick spoke up again.

"That's crazy, we will take you. It's not out of our way."

"Yeah what he said!" I laughed. "You are no burden to us." She laughed and agreed and we drove her to her hotel. She gave me and Nick a hug and said goodbye and headed inside.

"Thank you for this." I gave Nick a kiss on the cheek. "I have missed her so much."

"It's no problem, I like meeting people that know you. She is very nice."

"Yeah she is, she was acting kind of funny though."

"How so?" He parked the car and we headed up to the apartment.

"I don't know, she would jump at the chance to stay with us, she was a little distant. It was just not like her. She is usually very loud and outgoing."

"Maybe she is just dealing with a lot with the pregnancy and stuff." He kicked off his shoes and immediately when to the refrigerator.

"Yeah you're probably right." I walked to his room and threw on one of my tank tops and a pair of his boxers. I walked out to the couch and turned the TV on.

"Good god." He handed me a sandwich

"Oh thanks! And what was the good god for?" I took a bite.

"I'm going to have to buy some more boxers, that's all your wear around here." He sat down next to me with his sandwich and a bag of chips.

"They are comfy." He opened the bag of chips." Ohhhhhh." I leaned on him. "Give me some." He leaned the bag towards me and I took a hand full.

"I must admit though you look cute in those." He kissed me on the forehead.

"Cute!" I imitated his voice. "I wanna be sexy!"

"You are done." He threw his sandwich down and picked me up.

"Put me down you ass!" I grabbed my sandwich before he started to walk with me. "I'm so hungry!" He hoisted me up some more on his shoulder which made me drop my sandwich. "Dammit!"

"Calm down I will make you another one." He threw me on the bed.

"You better!" He leaned down and started to kiss me. "Nope, can't happen." I sat up.

"What?" He stood up

"This, we have nothing here." I got up and walked into the kitchen to get some more food.

"What don't we have?" Nick followed

"Um protection, duh! and I'm not having another scare."

"Oh I forgot." He grabbed the chips and started to munch.

"Yeah cause you never buy them because you think someone will recognize you!"

"Oh well, lets just watch a movie." He smiled.

"Nick." I walked over and kissed him. "You are a girls dream."

"Yeah." He pumped up his chest. "I already know I'm God's gift to women."

"Get over yourself." I smacked his chest.

"You love me."

"Yeah, I do."

We both laid on the couch and watched Anchorman. I quickly fell asleep but woke up every once in a while to his quiet laughter.

Chapter 33

I stood next to him in the elevator while we headed to the garage to go to the game. He stood still and didn't say a word. I leaned over and gave him a kiss on the cheek but he didn't move.

"Okay." I folded my arms. "Why are you mad at me?"

"I'm not mad at you." He said abruptly stepping quickly out of the elevator and unlocking his car door. I hoped in the passenger seat and turned to look at him.

"Yes you are." He rolled his eyes and began to drive to the exit.

"Why don't you want to move in? I don't understand, you seem happy, I'm happy. I'm sorry it just doesn't make sense to me." I turned back to face the front and put my foot up on the seat resting my chin on my knee.

"I don't know."

"Yes you do." He said loudly. "You know, you just won't tell me, you never tell me anything."

"Why do we always fight now?"

"I'm not trying to fight with you, you are just not open with me. Tell me honestly how your feeling for once."

"I'm scared, happy now?" I looked down.

"What are you scared of?" He turned and looked at me with a confused face.

"Nick, seriously, like I said before you're a big hockey player, you travel all the time to different places, you're young. Honestly you can find a better girl in a heartbeat and I find myself counting down the days until my heart gets broken."

"That's not true."

"From what I see girls throw themselves at you."

"So what, that doesn't mean I want them. Kate I'm perfectly happy and set, I wouldn't have stuck around this long if I didn't love you." He sighed. "And you give me hell for not trusting you?"

"I trust you!" I said abruptly "I just don't think your ready for a relationship like this."

"And you are?"

"What do I have to lose?" I flipped open my phone and texted Josh. "All I ever had was Brian, I don't have guys gushing over me."

"Are you serious!? Every time I go out with you guys stare at you all the time! It drives me crazy."

"I never notice that."

"Because your so oblivious, not saying that to be mean but that's what I love about you. When your with me you only look at me it's like no one else is around us, I give you that same respect. I don't care about those girls that know nothing about me and only want to be with me because of what I do. I want you, that's it." I tried to hold back my smile. I stuck out my pinkie.

"Pinkie swear." I smirked.

"Pinkie swear." He pulled me in and kissed me.

"Nick!" I pushed him off of me. "Road hun!" He swerved a little and started to laugh. "Not funny! be careful!"

"Sorry." He smiled.

"Yeah just don't let it happen again." I linked my arm in his.
We pulled up to the arena and Nick walked to the back of his car to get his hockey bag. As he shut the trunk someone came swerving into the parking lot music so loud.

"Slow down Green! your gonna run someone over." I shouted over to him.

"Whatever." He slowly walked over. "You Americans just don't know how to drive." He laughed and leaned over to give Nick a high five.

"Sweetheart at least I can control my car when I'm speeding, and I don't make up the size for certain things by getting a big car" Nick popped out from behind me.

"Dayyuumm!"

"Wanna race! I will show you what's up!"

"Get outta here!" I smiled.

"Give me a hug." He always had the biggest bear hugs. "Just don't make me hate you."

"I don't think you could ever hate me."

"Just watch you hands bud." Nick started to walk to the doors and grabbed my waist and Mike followed.

"Hey." He put his hands up. "I got my own chick, at least she knows her place."

"I will slap you!" I turned and smiled.

"I'm ready." He put his hand up.

"Maybe not Bruce would kill me."

"It wouldn't be the first time I have been slapped." Mike chuckled.

"Yeah I saw that!" Nick put up his finger.

"I can believe that."

"It wasn't my fault." Mike said in a whinny voice.

"I'm sure." I said sarcastically.
We walked up to the dressing room and Nick threw his back in the door way.

"I guess I got to go to my seat now." I smiled and hugged him.

"Oh god I got to get in there before this shit starts." He walked into the dressing room.

"Shut up your just jealous!" I yelled.

"Hey." Nick kissed me. "When you get out there I have a surprise for you."

"Yeah Riley told me." I covered my mouth forgetting Riley told me not to say anything.

"What!"

"He didn't tell me what it was but he only told me so he could get me to leave."

"Alright good, but anyway enjoy yourself, and I will meet you outside." He handed me his car keys. "You can just wait for me in there or listen to music, whatever." He gently grabbed my neck and kissed me.

"Bye." I kissed him back "Score me a goal!"

"I will try." He smiled and walked into the dressing room.
I made my way to my seat and headed down the steps.

"Kate!" I looked to see someone waving at me.

"Oh my God!! No way!!" I rushed down the steps.

Chaper 32

We drove to his place in silence. All of the feelings that I should have been feeling earlier all of a sudden just smacked me right across the face.

"Do you need to stop home?" Nick looked over at me as he parked the car.

"No." I said in an annoyed tone. "I think I have all I need here." I got out of the car and did not wait for him to get out. I walked over to the elevator and leaned on the wall.

"Maybe I should take you back." He stood next to me and waited for the doors to open.

"I'm fine." I leaned into him and he wrapped his arms around me. "I'm sorry I'm being bitchy, thanks for coming."

"It's okay, you are going through a lot. I understand." I shook my head.

"No it's not, I don't want to be that girlfriend that is always crabby." He gently wrapped his hands around my waist.

"Kate." He kissed me. "It's okay." He pulled me into the elevator.

"Okay, but I'm sorry anyway." I smiled at him.

"Whatever.... I don't except your apology." He didn't smile or look at me.

"Nick? Are you serious?!"

"You're right. You are being really bitchy." Finally he laughed after trying to hold it in.

"Oh my god." I shouted. "You are so mean!" I playfully shoved him.

"All I was looking for was that right there." He pointed to my face.

"What?" I wiped my cheeks with my sleeve thinking I had something on them.

"That smile, I haven't seen you smile this whole day." I smiled again and leaned into him.

"Awwwwwwwww!" I kissed him. "You are so friggin cute!"

"Alright I am never saying anything like that again. I'm not cute." I grabbed his shirt to pull him down to me and kissed his neck.

"Get over it, you're cute." He smiled as the doors opened and grabbed my hand as we walked to his apartment.
When we got inside I hopped in the shower real quick then got changed. I was dying to know what Nick was up to and what his surprise was but I didn't say anything. I curled up next to him on the couch and rested my head down. He kissed my forehead and ran his fingers through my hair.

"What time do we have to leave?" I spoke softly into his chest.

"Um." He turned to look at the clock shifting me into a very uncomfortable position. "Like and hour." I readjusted and looked at my phone.

"I was hoping Riley called."

"Why don't you just call him?" He ran his fingers up and down my neck.

"I don't know." I sat up. "I shouldn't have left, was that bad of me? I'm a horrible sister! God why can't anything go right."

"Hey, hey, hey breath girl." Nick got up and got me a glass of water. "Josh asked me if I would take you with me and I'm sure Riley is okay."

"Why would he ask you to take me." I put the water on the table and looked at Nick. "I mean I should be there, Jesus I can't even think straight." I got up and walked to the cabinet and took some Motrin. Nick walked up behind me and pulled me into a hug.

"You can't freak out if I tell you why they wanted you to leave." He looked down at me.

"Oh what the fuck is going on now!" I buried my head into my hands. "I can't deal with this anymore."

"Kate." He pulled my head up. "It's nothing bad its just that Riley still needs to talk to the police some more and he agreed to have Brian there too, so they both can talk to the cops."

"Why won't anyone ever tell me what's going on? Why wouldn't they tell me that."

"It's just to keep you safe." I rolled my eyes and walked into the bedroom and laid down. I pulled the covers over my head, but of course Nick followed and sat down next to me.

"Talk to me." He pulled the covers off of me.

"I'm just tired of never getting the truth." I pulled them back over me.

"I am telling you the truth." Instead of pulling the covers back off of me he slid under and met me face to face.

"Stop." I smiled. "Get out of here."

"Why?" He poked the side of my stomach.

"Ouch! That hurt." I pushed him a little too hard and he rolled off the bed taking me with him because of the covers.

"Wow! where did that come from?" He picked me up and threw me back on the bed.

"I'm not that weak!" I put my feet up trying to stop him from climbing on top of me.

"Come here!" He grabbed my foot and pushed it down and laid on me. "I will tickle you!"

"No! No! okay I forfeit!" I picked up the corner of the sheet and waived it as a white flag. He stood back up but I pulled his arm.

"Where you going?" I smiled.

"I don't know I get the feeling that you don't like me today." He laid next to me.

"Your right." I rolled on top of him. "I love you." He smiled and put his hands on both sides of my neck gently rubbing my cheeks with his thumbs and kissed me. He stopped and looked at me.

"I got an idea." He got up and walked into the living room. I followed slowly behind while he searched through a drawer in the kitchen.

"Here." He handed me a key. "So you can just come over whenever you want or stay over night, I mean you can bring some more stuff here too, only if you want." I looked down at the key then looked at him.

"Are you asking me to move in?"

"Not necessarily, well if that's what you want." He fiddled with his finger. "No not what you want, I meant what I want, yes I want you to move in." He noticed that I was thinking hard about it. "Just think about it, you don't have to tell me now, but keep the key."

"Okay." I walked over to my purse and put the key on my keyring. I was shocked and had to take a minute to let it sink in that he asked me to move in with him. "Really?" I turned and looked at him.

"Yeah, but if you don't want to it's okay."

"No I want to, it's just I think you might be making a mistake." He tilted his head and raised his eyebrow.

"I think I know what I'm asking you." He walked over to me and kissed me. "Why would you think that."

"Well first we are both young, and you are professional hockey player, you travel everywhere." I felt myself digging this hole deeper. "I just don't see you settling down this soon."

"Kate you mean the world to me, I don't want anyone else." He shook his head. "What do you want?"

"All I'm saying is think about this, and I will too. Can we talk about something else?"

"Yeah." He walked passed me and sat on the couch, He let out a sigh and turned the TV on.

Chapter 31

"How's it going?" I walked into the room and smiled at Riley. Josh sat in the chair and I sat on the side of his bed.

"Pretty good." He attempted to laugh. "I'm a little woozy."

"Yeah you look rough dude." Josh joked, trying to lighten the mood.

"Yeah, maybe it was because I was stabbed, or maybe it's just this food it's horrible." Riley cracked a smile and looked at me.

"Josh do you mind if we have a second?" He turned and looked at Josh.

"No problem, take all the time you need." Josh got up and shook Riley's hand then left the room.

"I'm sorry."

"Kate don't even start that shit I don't want to hear it." He tried to sit up.

"Just stay still." I pushed his shoulders back. "You gonna just hurt yourself more."

"I'm fine." He cringed as he sat up some more. "Brian's not your problem."

"What are you talking about, they put you on some morphine?!"

"He told me what happened, Justin is just using him to get to you. Brian said he hasn't talked to Justin since he got out of prison." My face turned to complete shock.

"Are you crazy? seriously maybe we should talk about this when your not on all these meds." He rolled his eyes.

"Listen, I'm fine and I'm telling you the truth. Look I don't know what Josh told you but that wasn't me and Brian fighting outside."

"Riley he saw you. I'm sure Josh knows what you look like."

"He is lying! He wants to protect you from Brian so I understand why he would lie to you but seriously listen to me and believe me."

"Okay, Okay. Then what really happened?"

"I came home and Brian and Justin were on the lawn fighting hard core. Brian was screaming for help so I helped him. Justin stabbed me and ran off and Brian and Josh both helped me to the hospital. Josh told him he should leave before the family got here."

"Riley he is doing that on purpose to throw you off! He threatened me not to long ago, he told me to watch my fucking back!"

"Kate he said that because Justin is obsessed with you! He has been following you every where and that is why Brian has been going crazy he is trying to protect you! I know this sounds dumb but he loves you!"

"You have gone mad!" I got up to leave.

"Wait just one more thing, please don't leave like this."

"What?" I turned around

"He loves you and I'm not saying get back together with him, I think he is a bad influence but the fact of the matter is that he is trying to help you and yes he loses his temper, all I'm saying is get Brian off your mind and worry about Justin because he is your problem."

"I don't know what you want me to do! It sounds like you want me to forgive him." He rolled his eyes again.

"Kate I'm not saying it like that. I'm trying to put you at ease."

"Well did you forget about the time I called Brian and Justin answered. Thanks for trying to tell me the truth but I don't believe it."

"I'm just doing what I think is right. Instead of worrying about both of them all you have to look out for is Justin, that is all I'm trying to say."

"Okay thank you." I sat down. "Now can we talk about something else?"

"Yeah." He smiled. "How's Nick?"

"Fine he is here too, I didn't tell him he just found out and showed up."

"Really? Has Johnny given him a black eye yet?" He laughed slightly but tried to hold it in from the pain.

"No!" I shot back. "He has actually been really nice to him."

"Calm down I was just kidding." He smiled.

"I know I'm not stupid. How does your stomach feel?"

"Well." He looked at it. "Right now it feels like a little kid is poking me with a sharp stick and won't stop."

"Want me to ask the nurse if they can get you something."

"I'm on all sorts of drugs, they can't possible give me something else." He shifted some more. "Oh you better get going your going to need to change and everything."

"What are you even talking about Riley?"

"Don't you have a game tonight?" He smiled.

"Are you serious, I'm not going."

"Yes you are."

"No I'm no..."

"Yes." He cut me off. "You are."

"Riley really I go to all of them I can miss one!"

"Okay don't tell Nick I told you but he has a surprise for you he has been so excited and you need to go to the game."

"Ah! what is it!" I sat straight up in my chair.

"I can't tell you! You have to go to the game!"

"I can't leave." I slumped down.

"Kate for the last time I'm fine! He said it was an early birthday present you have to go because he flew someone out here." He pulled me over to him by my arm and kissed my head. "Get out of here." I looked at him and started to leave.

"Please call me."

"Get outta here!!" He laughed and I smiled as I headed out.

"See ya kid." Josh hugged me and walked into Riley's room.

I walked back out to the waiting room and handed my visitors pass to my mom.

"You leaving?" She got up and took the pass.

"Yeah, He said it was okay, plus I think he wants me to leave."

"Is he mad at you?!"

"No, no he just wants me to go out."

"Okay bye sweetheart." I said goodbye to all of my family and walk with Nick to his car.

"How was he?" Nick looked over at me as he started his car.

"Fine." I wiped my tears as they started to fall. "It just scares me."

Nick turned off the car and got out and headed to my side of the car. He opened the door but didn't say anything he crouched down and pulled me into his shoulder and just let me cry.

Chapter 30

I sat quiet. The officer was staring at me waiting for me to answer. After about 10 minutes he put his pen down and linked his hand together.

"Ms. Patrick, I know it might be hard to discuss these things but if you tell us all the details we will be able to do something for you. You can't hold out on us."

"Yeah well no offense but I have trusted the justice system one to many times and pretty much got stabbed in the back." I crossed my legs.

"What is it a traumatic experience, is that why you don't want to talk about it? When can set an appointment with a therapist."

"It's nothing shocking. I just feel the need to protect my family and if I open my mouth I don't know what will happen."

"So he threatened your family?"

"I'm not saying anything, it's my right." He stood up and walked to the door but stopped before he opened it.

"Yes it is your right, but if you tell us what happen it's his word against yours and I think it's safe to say a jury will take your word over his any day. This is your chance to protect your family." I sighed as the other officer got up to follow him.

"Wait." I put my head down. "You have to promise me something will be done." I looked up at both of them.

"If you give us the honest truth we can help you." They both sat back down and he picked up his pen again.

"Okay well, I was walking home from my AA meeting. My sponsor usually walked me home but he had to leave early because his wife just went into labor. I was about 4 blocks away from home when Justin pulled up and threw me in his car. I didn't have the chance to fight seeing that he had a gun. He took me to his apartment he had got about 2 years after he got out of prison. Pretty much he gave me a beat down, broke one of my ribs and kept me there for about 4 hours. Right before he threw me out he put the gun to my head and said that if I can't keep my mouth shut or in anyway hurt Brian he would hunt ever member of my family down. He said he start with Riley since we were the closest and well you see how that worked out."

"Why didn't you tell someone about this." I rolled my eyes.

"He was out of prison in a year after what he did! I wasn't taking that chance again."

"Nobody noticed your broken rib or your bruises?"

"I went to the hospital myself and was a self pay patient. The police came to talk to me but I told them I was rushing to my AA meeting and flew down 2 flights of stairs, plus all the bruises were on my stomach."

"Your parents didn't ask where you where?"

"Told them I was with Brian." I leaned my arms on the table. "I pretty much thought everything out carefully so no one would notice anything, I even pretended I was sick so my mom wouldn't ask why I wasn't getting out of bed."

"Okay." He was looking down at his paper jotting everything down. "Alright we are going to try to talk to your brother right now. We are going to need you to write all this down at some point so don't go any where far."

"I wasn't planning on it." He smiled and walked me out of the room. I headed back to the waiting room. Nick was still there and to my surprise Chris was sitting next to him and they were talking.

"Hey." Chris got up and hugged me. "You alright, what did they want?"

"They needed to ask me questions but I'm fine, nice to see you."

"You too, I'm going to the cafeteria, want something."

"A coffee would be great, with soy milk if they have it, if not just black."

"No problem." He kissed me on the head and him, Brandon, Johnny and Josh all walked to the elevator.

"How you doing?" Nick pushed a loose piece of hair behind my ear as I was sitting down.

"I'm fine, I'm just kind of in my own world right now." I laid my head down on his lap. "Where are my parents?"

"They went to Josh's house to get some Of Riley stuff." He ran his fingers threw my hair.

"I'm sorry about this." I sat up and looked at him. "This is just crazy."

"Why are you sorry, just stop saying that."

"Because when you met me you didn't even know what you were getting yourself into. I feel that you feel obligated to be here or even to stay with me because you feel bad. If you don't want to be with me just tell me please, I will understand."

"Kate you are nuts right now. If I didn't want to be with you I wouldn't, If I didn't want to be here I wouldn't. I love you and I want to make this work." He kissed me. "Plus if Justin and Brian just go the fuck away I think we be the perfect couple." He smiled.

"Thanks." I rested my head into his chest. "They are processing my restraining orders."

"Really?" He looked down at me.

"Yep, but I don't know what they will do and Johnny just told me that everyone wants me to come back to Denver." I sat back up.

"Yeah? are you thinking about going?" He sounded very disappointed.

"I don't know. I mean I know I need to go back for at least 2 weeks when Riley gets better, but I don't no if I want to leave Arlington."

"Why don't you want to leave." He grinned.

"Well I'm not sure" I said sarcastically. "You see I met this boy, he is kind of an asshole but he is pretty hot so I'm thinking I should stick around for a bit."

"Oh Really, he sounds like an amazing person."

"I don't no about all that!" He laughed as he gave me another kiss. I laid back down on his lap.

"Well there is your whole Irish clan." Nick laughed as I got up and saw all the boys walking off the elevator with a shit load of food and drinks.

"Jesus guys! You think we are going to be here for a month?!" I leaned up and looked in one of the boxes and took a donut. "Want one?" I looked at Nick.

"Got any muffins?" Johnny chimed in with a face full of donuts.

"We got muffins, eggs, bagels, donuts, cereal, name it we got it!"

"Toss me a muffin." Nick said laughing at Johnny.

"They didn't have soy milk sis." Johnny handed me my coffee.

"That's cool." I took the coffee and screamed when I pretty much burned my tongue off.

"Let it cool down wild child!" Chris said as he started laughing. I looked over at Nick.

"Isn't my family crazy?" He smiled.

"I don't think that explains it."

"I will take that as a compliment." Brandon looked over and smiled.

We all pretty much ate everything that they brought up. It was about 3:30 when the doctor came out to finally talk to us.

"Well everybody." She seemed nervous talking to all of us. "He is awake and the blood transfusions went well, we can allow 2 visitors at a time." We all looked at each other.

"I think Kate and Josh should go first." Johnny stood up.

"Yeah that sounds good." Josh walked over to me.

"You good to go?"

"Yeah." I sat my coffee down and gave Nick a hug.

"I might not be here when your done, I can't miss my game."

"I would never want you too, and it's fine." I gave him a kiss.

"Good luck."

"Thanks." I followed Josh to Riley's room.

Chapter 29

My hands shook as me and Josh walked through the revolving doors of the hospital. I walked up to the counter to get a visitor sticker. I turned around to sit in the waiting room and saw my whole family. Brandon was the first to come up and hug me.

"How is he?" I looked up at him my eyes were full of tears.

"Okay, he is in the process of his second blood transfusion." He walked me over to were our parents were sitting they both got up to give me a hug and so did Johnny.

"Where is Chris?" I looked around to see if he was here.

"He is on his way now. He couldn't make the flight that we took." Johnny got up and grabbed my arm and walked me outside.

"Me, Brandon and Josh have been talking. We want you to come home. Brandon has already talked to some administrators about getting you in to CSU. The whole family would just feel more safe if you were around us." I crossed my arms and looked at the ground.

"Johnny, honesty I am so out of it right now. I'm not thinking strait too much is going on for me to even think about this. Can you do me a favor and talk about this later?"

"Yeah just keep it in the back of your head." He leaned against the wall and lit a cigarette

"You still smoke those cancer sticks?"

"Well I do now...I quit for awhile." We chatted for a little bit when my dad poked his head out of the door.

"Kate." He walked closer. "The police are here, they want to talk to you." I sighed and walked into the waiting room. I his hand as he took me to an isolated room and sat me down.

"Ms. Kate Patrick correct?" He had a pen and a paper. He wasn't looking at me.

"Yes."

"19 years of age?"

"Yes." I put my hands on the table and took a deep breath.

"Okay, can you tell me a little about your relationship with your x-boyfriend?"

"Um, we grew up together and our families were really close. I started to date him when I was 16 and we were together for 2 years."

"Okay. Has he ever physically abused you?" I felt like I was back in the courtroom when I tried to get the retraining orders.

"No."

"Mentally?" Nobody ever asked me this before and as I thought about it Brian always messed with my mind.

"Um I guess I'm not really sure."

"Just tell me some things he would say to you that would hurt you." He finally took his eyes off the paper and looked at me.

"Well, he always told me I was a bitch, he would tell me I was never good enough for him. When we got into heated fights he would threaten to hurt me but he never went through with it."

"Okay." He paused his questioning to write down all of what I had just said. "Tell me a bit about his older brother Justin."

"He is scum. He never treated anyone right, he had horrible manners. When we were younger My brother Riley and him never got along. They always fought." Before I could finish a knock came at the door. The officer walked to the door and slightly cracked it.

"What's up." Another officer walked in a little bit.

"He is awake and conscious we should probably get what we can now and finish with her later."

"My brothers awake?" I stood up "Can I see him please."

"Ms. Patrick we are going to have to talk to him first then we have to finish up with you. It might be another hour or two before we can let you see him. You can wait with your family and we will update you as soon as we can."

"Okay." They walked me back to the waiting room and headed back to see Riley. I sat down and buried my face in my knees.

"Everything will be okay." I felt my mom rub my back.

"This is my fault, Brian and Justin want me and Riley was just in the way...I should have been home."

"Kate don't you dare blame this on yourself! Could you imagine what they would have done to you! Riley is your brother and he was doing what he had to and I don't think he will ever regret this nor will he ever want you to blame yourself." I didn't say anything I just leaned back and closed my eyes. I fell asleep for about 20 minutes when someone smacked me on the leg to wake me up.

"Nick? what are you doing here?" I gave him a hug.

"Well Josh left a message on my answering machine last night and I didn't check it till now. Why didn't you tell me."

"I just don't want you to have to worry about this or think that you need to do anything. You have other priorities right now."

"Well my girlfriend is a pretty big priority to me."

"Yeah but you have a game tonight."

"And." He stood up to take his jacket off.

"And you need to be thinking about that!"

"I am but you don't understand that when I get on the ice everything that I have been thinking about earlier in the day floats away. I'm fine don't worry about it."

"Okay. Well while your here, Nick this is my Mom, Dad, Older brothers Brandon and Johnny. Chris is on his way." He got up and gave my mom a hug and kiss on the cheek and shook My dads hand and Johnny and Brandon.

"It's nice to meet you all. I'm sorry that it's because of these circumstances."

"You too Hunny." The officers walked back out and asked me to follow them.

"I thought you needed to talk to my brother?"

"He fell back to sleep so the sooner we finish with you the better."

"Alright." I got up and turned around and gave Nick a hug. "You okay out here by yourself? You can leave whenever you want."

"I'm Fine. It will be nice to finally talk to your whole family." I gave him a quick kiss and followed the officers back to the same room.

"So Ms. Patrick we have some good news."

"Yeah?"

"We are in the process of approving your restraining orders." I raised my eyebrow

"Are you serious?! It's a little late don't you think?"

"Well late is better than never, so where were we?"

"Justin." I rested my elbow on the table.

"Ah Justin yes. Okay now has he ever abused you?"

"Besides the rape?"

"Yes."

"Um.....yeah he has." I had never told anyone that after Justin got out of jail he came and found me one night. I never wanted to talk about this.

"Okay please explain."

"Do I have to?"

Chapter 28

I woke to the sound of the shower running. I slightly opened my eyes, just enough to see the clock. I rolled over and went back to sleep.

"Kate? Kate wake up." Nick was gently shaking me.

"What?" I looked up at Nick, dressed only in a towel. He laughed.

"Well good morning to you too. I have to go to morning skate you can stay as long as you want."

"Where are my clothes?" I looked under the covers.

"Um, pretty much everywhere. Do you want me to find them?" He opened his drawer and threw on some workout clothes.

"No." I said groggily and curled up in a ball. "Can I just have one of your shirts?" I poked my head out of the covers and smiled at him.

"Sure but why?" He rummaged through his shirts.

"They're really comfy, while you're at it throw me a pair of your boxers." He laughed.

"Are you serious?" He turned around and looked at me.

"Well I'm not wearing yesterdays underwear!"

"You know if you don't want to wear any underwear at all it's completely fine, I mean I won't judge you." He grinned and threw the shirt and boxers on the bed.

"You are getting more and more perverted every day I know you." I put the clothes on, gave him a kiss and walked into the bathroom.

"It's your fault. I was never like this before I met you." I quickly popped my head out of the bathroom and pointed my toothbrush at him.

"You are a liar!"

"What did you say?!"

"You heard me." I screamed as he ran towards the bathroom and I shut the door as fast as I could.

"Let me in! You are going down!" I pushed against the door, but it was no match I could not hold him back.

"Nick!" I yelled as he grabbed me. "Don't do anything you will regret!" He pushed me up against the shower door and pretty much put his tongue down my throat.

"I don't think I regret that." He pulled away.

"Me neither do it again." I pulled him in and kissed him back.

"Okay." He let go of my kiss. "I really need to go, I'm already late." He walked into the kitchen and I followed.

"Kate look." He laughed and pointed at the sink.

"What?" I walked over and looked. "How did my bra get in there?!" He picked it up and handed it to me.

"Well you did launch it like nobody's business."

"Whatever get out of here! your late." He pulled me into a hug and kissed me.

"Wait how long will you be?" I looked up at him.

"Probably like 3 hours." He rubbed my back "Bye babe."

"Bye." I kissed him again. "See you at the game." He walked out and I made myself comfy on the couch and turned the TV on. After about 2 and a half hours of watching it's me or the dog I walked into the kitchen to get some food. I almost bust my ass when I slipped on my jeans. I picked them up and threw them on the counter.

"Oh my phone." I said to myself as I saw it sitting in the pocket. I grabbed it an opened it to see 13 missed calls from Josh. I quickly called him back.

"Hey Josh what's up?" I spoke, my voice was a little shaky. I was nervous because he had called me so many times.

"Kate where are you?" He was very serious.

"What is going on?"

"Where are you!" The volume in his voice was rising.

"I'm at Nick's. Josh what the fuck is going on!!"

"Do not go anywhere I am coming to get you." He hung up the phone I immediately called him back.

"If you do not tell me what is going on I am driving over right now." My voice was firm.

"No stay there."

"Then tell me what the hell is going on!" I could hear him take a deep breath.

"Riley is in the hospital." I sat down on the stool in the kitchen and thought about what he just said. "Kate did you hear me?"

"Tell me everything right now, what happen, why it happened, what hospital is he in, if he is okay. Tell me now."

"Kate calm down and take a breath. I don't want you doing anything stupid."

"Just explain, please."

"He came home late last night, I was asleep but I heard some shouting outside. I walked downstairs and opened the door. Riley was on top of Brian beating the shit out of him. I ran to grab the phone and call the police and the next thing I know I see Riley on the ground holding his stomach. I ran over to him and saw blood everywhere. He told me Justin came out of no where and stabbed him. He is okay but he lost a lot of blood."

"Call me when you get here."

"Don't go anywhere!" He stressed one more time.

"I won't"

I paced around the apartment. So many thoughts were running through my head. I was in the bedroom when I heard the door open. I rushed over and saw Nick. He threw his hockey bag on the floor and gave me a hug.

"I thought you would have went back to sleep."

"Nope."

"Whats wrong." He pulled back and looked at me.

"Nothing why?" He pushed my hair back.

"You just look like your going to kill someone."

"No everything is fine, but Josh called I'm going to have to go to work tonight. He is picking me up now and I won't be able to go to the game." I thought it would be best to keep this from Nick. He needed to focus on other things other then my problems right now.

"Oh that sucks." He walked over and sat on the couch. "Wanna sit with me before you have to go?" He turned around and smiled.

"Um I can't really sit right now. For some reason I have a lot of energy." Before Nick could say something My phone started to ring. "You here?! I'm on my way down now." I planted a quick kiss on Nick and flew out of the apartment like it was on fire.

Chapter 27

I leaned on the wall and watched Nick as he paced back and forth. He hadn't said a word to me nor did he look at me. "How long has it been?" He finally glanced my way.

"Two minutes." I put my hands on my knees and slid down the wall to sit. "I'm not pregnant."

"How do you know?!" He barked back at me and I got aggravated.

"I'm going to let you two talk I will be downstairs." Josh gave me a look and walked down the stairs.

"How the fuck do you think I know Nick? I have been pregnant before remember? I think I know how I'm suppose to feel." He crossed his arms and walked around a little more.

"I'm sorry." He sat down next to me. "It's just all these thoughts are running through my head like what's going to happen to you, what your family is going to think of me, what my family is going to think of me. I don't know it just scares me I'm sorry." I looked at him and leaned my head on him.

"I'm just worried about what's going to happen to us." He scooted away a little bit and gave me a shocked look.

"Kate do you think I will leave you if it's positive?" Before I could answer Josh walked upstairs.

"It's been 5 minutes." He was looking at his watch. I sighed and stood up and walked to the bathroom. I put my hands up when they followed behind me.

"Can I look at it first? Alone." They looked at each other. Nick spoke first.

"Yeah sure, we will just sit out here." They both sat down. I walked into the bathroom and stared at the test from a distance before I walked towards it. I looked at it for about a minute, turned around and sat down on the floor.

"Kate can we come in?" Nick came to the door. I took a deep breath and nodded it. Nick didn't even look at the test, he looked at me and knew. He wrapped me in his arms. Josh walked over and threw the test in the trash.

"No more scares miss lady! Always use a condom!" Josh rubbed my head and walk out.

"Are you relieved?" I looked up at Nick and smiled.

"A little but you know I would have taken care of you if you were pregnant." I kissed him.

"Yeah I know, oh and one more thing....I told you so." He smiled and walked into my room, I followed him. He sat on my bed and put his shoes on.

"Where you going?" I sat down next to him.

"You should get changed. I want to take you somewhere."

"Where??" He smiled and walked to my closet.

"It's a surprise, but you should wear something warm." I walked behind him and wrapped my arms around his waist.

"Okay but where are we going?" He turn around and shut the door and threw me against the wall.

"Surprise Kate!" He kissed my neck.

"Okay okay." I pushed his hair back and changed into some jeans and hoodie. I looked at him for approval. "Warm enough?"

"No put something on under that." He grabbed a smaller sweat shit out of my drawer and threw it towards me. "I will be downstairs waiting." I quickly threw on the sweat shirt and put some make up on. I walked into the living room to see all the boys watching TV.

"Ready?" Nick stood up and put his coat on.

"Yeah, do they know were your taking me?" I pointed to Josh and Riley.

"Yup!" Riley turned around. "And I hate you I'm so jealous!"

"What is going on!!??" I screamed and they all laughed. Nick grabbed my hand and walked me to the car. He started the car and headed down the street.

"Shit Nick how long are we going to me out?" I looked at my watch.

"I don't no why?"

"The broncos play today at 7. Me and Riley were going to watch the game." He laughed. "What?"
"Nothing." He had a cute grin.

"Wait a second." I turned by body towards him. "They play the Redskins today." He kept smiling "Nick is that where you're taking me??!!"

"Oh do they?"

"Don't lie you know!! Is that where we are going??!!" He pulled me into his chest.

"I can't get anything past you can I?" I screamed from excitement.

"Oh my god Nick! I can't believe you!! What even made you think of this?!" I grabbed his face and kissed him.

"Careful, driving here." He smiled. "Remember when we first met you told me that you were more of a football fan then a hockey fan. Well sometimes I listen to you when you talk."

"Thank you Nick! You are amazing."

"Tell me something I don't know." He pulled into a parking spot right near the stadium, apparently he told them that he was coming to the game and they reserved a spot for him. We walked to our seats. They were front row right on the 50 yard line.

"Good seats?" He looked at me.

"Nick I'm speechless." We sat down and waited for the game to start. I was crazy screaming and shouting.

"I'm really surprised you can scream that loud." Nick looked at me and smiled.

"When it comes to football I scream so loud I lose my voice."

"So that's all I need to do! Bring a football into the bedroom. Hmmmm." I smacked him playfully and he wrapped his arm around my shoulders.

"You are such a perv!"

"You like it."

"Maybe." I kissed him and got up to get a drink.

The game was amazing. I felt like I was on the field. The broncos lost but I was just so happy to go and of course Nick rubbed it in my face. We got home and it was about 11 and Riley was out and Josh was asleep.

"Want to go back to my place?" Nick stood at the door.

"Yeah." I followed him out the door and hopped back into the car. He leaned over and kissed me for what seemed like 5 minutes.

"What are you doing?" I looked at him and smiled.

"What does it look like I'm doing." I unbuckled my seat belt and climbed on top of him I put the seat back and kissed him.