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5.Thursday (1 week since the club)
“Who is lover boy?” Abby asked as we were having coffee before she had to go to work and I had to go to school.

“Huh?” I asked playing dumb with her which worked sometimes.

“Don’t play dumb with me, Sam said something about a lover boy!” She said smiling at me. Abby was 28 but acted like she was a 20 year old sometimes.

“Lover boy is just some guy I met one night.” I said playing this whole thing like it was nothing.

“You can’t just leave it like that! Tell me more!” She said getting a little too excited which freaked me out.

“De-cafe for you from now on. I don’t think I’ll ever see him again anyway. He needs to find me.” I said taking a sip of my hot chocolate.

“He’s going to come and find you.” Abby said smiling at me pointing her finger like she knew that he was.

“Sure. Patrick comes back in a week!” I said being excited partly that he was coming back and someone else.

“Why are you so excited?” She asked raising her eye brow. She always told me that I should date one of the players, little did she know I really did want to date a certain one.

“Because you’re finally going to stop mopping around, and don’t say you do not because you do!” I said pointing my finger at her this time. Whenever Patrick would leave she got all sad.

“Shut up. You’ll understand when you date a hockey player.” She said and from there we just started to talk about various things. From how work was going and random things like that.

Abby is a nurse working for a pediatric doctor. Her and Patrick have been dating for about 8 years. Well more like they lost count because it’s been so long but they still love each other. Actually Patrick wanted to propose to Abby when they went on the olympic break.

“Well I have to go work. See you later.” Abby said hugging me before she left to work. I then gathered my things and went to school.

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“You saw her again?” Sharpie asked me as we were sitting on the bus on the way to the next game.
“Yea and he didn’t do anything about it.” Kaner said turning back to talk to Sharpie.

“Tazer, tazer, tazer you seriously need some game.” Burish said butting into the conversation. I just rolled my eyes at them.

“Can we please not talk about my personal life?” I asked putting my earphones in and turning up the volume.

“Loosen up dude, we’re just having some fun.” Kaner said pulling his PSP out started to play some game.

We pulled up to the stadium and soon filed out of the bus. We are on two week road trip and so far about a week has passed by. Tonight we’re going to play against the Flames and hoping for a win.

“Let’s go out there and beat these guys!” Sharpie shouted before we made our way to the ice.

The game was good and intense just like always and we ended up with the win. The final score was 3-1. Kaner, Eager and Keith all got the goals. Niemi was a great goalie like usual even if people questioned his ability. After the game we all went back to our rooms to rest since most of us were tired.

“Hey Kaner have you seen my other duffle bag?” I asked looking around the room to find it.

“No but it should be around here somewhere.” He said and then we went around the room looking for my duffle bag.

“I think Sharpie and Burish took it.” Kaner said after we couldn’t find my duffle bag. I couldn’t help but shake my head at their practical jokes.

“Hey Burish have you guys seen my duffle bag?” I asked Burish lying on my bed.

“Sharpie lost his too? Well then I guess we have to go and find whoever took it.” I said hanging up my phone. I couldn’t believe that Sharpie and I both lost our duffel bags.

“You really think Sharpie lost his? It’s probably in their room.” Kaner said lying on his bed flipping through the channels.

“Your right.” I said grabbing my phone since I was going to call Boley to see if he stole my bag.

“I’m always right.” I heard Kaner shout out just as the door was closing. I rolled my eyes at him. So there I was in the middle of the hallway with no shirt on and Burish with a video camera.
“What is this?” I asked laughing while on the phone with Boley.

“Just seeing whats going on. You wanna knock on the door?” Burish said with some sort of a straight face.

“What are you doing with that thing?” I asked walking closer to him and my mom still didn’t answer her phone.

“Just a video for the website.” He said backing up into the door and facing the camera away.

“What website?” I asked amused by this whole camera thing.

“For the Hawks website.” Burish said and I couldn’t help but laugh knowing that him and Sharpie did something.

“Where are you Boley? Someone stole my bag.” I said into the phone when Boley finally picked up his phone. All I got was a nope from him. So I went into their room.

“Where is it? Ohh yea someone took your bag. Good one.” I said sarcastically to Sharpie as he was just laughing the whole time at me.

“I told you.” Kaner said smugly as I walked inside the room with my duffel bag. I was glad that they pulled some prank on me during this trip. It was a good way to get Arabella off of my mind for that time being.