Beauty and the Beast

For the next two games the Bruins would be having away games for November. And every Wednesday of the month there would be an away game. Meaning that the only friend that Elle was going to have for those days were Katy. After Halloween Elle and Milan had gotten closer to each other. Now they could have conversations, the conversations weren’t as the ones Elle had with Tyler but it was nice that they could finally talk.

“Make sure you keep this door locked all the time. If anything happens I mean anything call me. And here is your key, I kept forgetting to give it to you.” Milan said handing Elle her own set of key to his apartment. This wasn’t the first time that he was leaving, it was the second but this time he was going to be away for 3 days instead of the normal 1. Elle just nodded her head paying attention but barley it was still early for her.

“Thanks.” Elle said as she got the key from Milan. She was ecstatic that she finally got her own key. The whole time that Elle was there she depended on Milan to be home when she got back from hanging out with Tyler or Katy. To tell the truth Elle was a little nervous to be in the apartment alone for 3 days. With Milan she always found that she felt safe.

“Bye.” Milan said irrationally bending down to kiss Elle on her forehead. Elle was in shock that he had done so. It was Elle who was the one that had kissed him on the cheek a few nights ago and Milan kinda just stood there. Milan couldn’t believe that he had just kissed her on the forehead before he left for the trip. He’s never done something like this before and he wasn’t sure if she would be weirded out.

As soon as the door closed and locked, Elle broke out in a smile. For some reason the sweet, simple kiss on the forehead made Elle’s stomach do summersaults. Derek never had this effect on her not even when they first started to date. Not wanting to think way into detail of her relationship with Derek Elle went back in her room and fell asleep.

Elle woke up at around 11:30 am. She was still really tired but knew that she just couldn’t sleep in all day. Elle wanted to write more on the article she started on Monday, today was Wednesday and so she needed to get this done. Elle also had to read more of Dennis’s book. He really wanted her to finish it as soon as possible and right now Elle was only 1/4 done editing or correcting all the mistakes.

Milan was on a plane to Buffalo, New York. The plane ride was pretty fun considering he sat next to Marc and Nathan. Since Nathan has joined the team he and Milan got a long really good. It was still only the second month of the season not counting preseason and the two bonded well. That meant if they bonded good outside of the rink they would play good in the rink.

smack some butt out there :p Was the text message that flashed on Tyler’s screen. He couldn’t help but laugh out loud at it. Elle would send a text like this telling him to smack butt. His teammates were just looking at Tyler like he had grown three heads or something.Tyler didn’t care and just responded to Elle’s text saying i’ll try my best x)
Milan was desperately wanting to know who texted Tyler hoping that it wasn’t Elle. She hasn’t texted him at all since he left while it seemed that she would nonstop text Tyler. Milan would never admit that he was jealous of the kid but hey, he wanted Elle to text him and not Tyler.

“Let’s go out there and win!” Chara said before the guys started to lineup to walk out of the visiting locker room. They were in the town of Buffalo, New York so they were playing against the Sabres. In the first period they had a 3 goal advantage to the Sabres. In the second period the Sabres got a goal on the power play and the Bruins scored a goal as well. All of a sudden another puck goes past Tim Thomas making the Sabres the first team this year to score two goals on him. But just when it seemed like the Sabres could have a comeback Milan scored his fifth goal of the season.

nice goal (: Was all that read on Milan’s phone when he got back from his shower and interviews. It was a simple text but it made Milan’s heart beat that much faster. Tonight he scored a goal and he got a text message from Elle, he sure was a happy camper. Now all they had to do was win against the Capitals and all would be good for this away trip.

Elle had done a lot when Milan was away on the road. She cleaned up the apartment, read some more of the book and finished her article. When she cleaned the apartment Elle couldn’t help herself but go inside Milan’s room. She couldn’t clean every room in the apartment and not his. In his room he had pictures of him and this girl which lined his dresser. The pictures held a different looking Milan, a happy Milan who was always smiling and laughing. This was a definitely different man then who she has been living with for a few weeks now. What happened to this man?

“Katy, who’s this girl in Milan’s photos?” Elle asked calling up Katy. Not once has Milan opened up about this girl or mentioned her. If her pictures were all over his room then obviously she meant something to him. Elle wasn’t sure why she cared so much about the girl. But she just blamed it on the fact that Milan is never this happy so she was just wondering.

“Elle, how did you see those pictures? Did you go into his room?” Katy asked worrying, everyone knew that no one could go to his room. Katy was just hoping that Elle didn’t do anything in the room to mess up because if Milan knew that Elle was in his room. It didn’t matter no how much Milan liked Elle when he was mad he let the person know that he was mad. And sometimes Milan acted rashly when he was mad.

“Yea, I went in his room to clean up. It was a mess! But who was the girl? I mean Milan seemed so happy then.” Elle asked as she was getting ready to head over to Katy and Patrice’s house. She was going to watch the Washington game with her.

“I’ll explain when you come over.” Katy said. They both hung up as Elle finished getting ready. From Katy’s house Milan was going to pick her up since Elle didn’t have a car to drive. But it wasn’t like she needed a car in the first place.

Katy explained to Elle that the girl in the photo was a girl named Brittany. Milan and her dated for awhile when he met her in Vancouver. Brittany played on the soccer team at her college. From the stories that Patrice told Katy that after awhile of Brittany dating Milan she started to turn superficial. Brittany went from liking Milan to liking the money that Milan made. Soon she turned so superficial that she dumped Milan because of his hunched-back.

“Hunched back?” Elle asked wondering what Katy was talking about. Elle figured that Milan just hunched over because he had bad posture. Plus his hunched back wasn’t even that bad like it was noticeable but not that much. She guessed that she didn’t notice it as much because Milan didn’t make it obvious.

“Yea, its a condition that he’s had since he was a teenager.” Katy replied sitting down with Elle on the couch with a bowl of popcorn. All talk about Milan finished and the two just watched the game. Washington beat the Bruins 5-3 which was a disappointing lost, Tyler had gotten a penalty and Elle found it so weird that he was sitting in the penalty box.

The two girls fell asleep on the couch when Patrice and Milan arrived. Milan couldn’t help but smile at the sleeping Elle on the couch. He gently picked her up causing Elle to stir in his arms. She cracked open her eyes to see Milan’s smiling face looking down at her. He whispered to go back to sleep and Elle curled closer into his warm chest. Milan said bye to Katy and Patrice. He bridal style carried Elle to his car.

Back at the apartment Milan set Elle down in her room and tucked her in. He went into his room to notice that it was clean. Well the whole apartment was actually clean but he knew that he told Elle to never go in his room. Looking at his dresser he saw that the pictures were picked up and cleaned. The room was in different order in a sense that the room was intact the same way Brittany had it. For some reason this pissed off Milan and he couldn’t hold it in.

“I thought I told you to never go in my room!” Milan shouted turning on the light in Elle’s room. Elle jumped up at the voice of Milan yelling at her, she quickly got out of bed and started wide eyed at Milan. Elle couldn’t believe that he was yelling at her, she never imagined that Milan would yell at her. “Get out.” Milan hissed walking back into his room hearing his front door slam close.

Elle didn’t need to be told twice to get out. She put on a thicker jacket than normal and ran out of the apartment. Elle was nervous about going out into the early morning like this, it was early like as 1 in the morning. Once out on the streets she just started to walk around not knowing where she was going.

It’s been half an hour since Elle left the apartment and Milan was worried. He couldn’t believe that he had kicked her out of his apartment. Especially at a time like this Milan got into his car and drove around. He hoped that nothing happened to Elle and that she didn’t get to far from the apartment.

“What’s a pretty little lady doing out so late at night?” A few guys hollered at Elle as she was walking down the sidewalk. Elle just kept walking keeping her head down and hoping that the guys wouldn’t bother her. The next thing she knew was that the four guys were surrounding her. Every where she turned one of the guys stopped her, now Elle was getting scared.

Milan was driving and he saw a group of guys surrounding a girl. Looking closer the girl just wasn’t any random girl; it was Elle. He pulled to the side and as soon as he parked his car he pretty much ran over to where the guys were. They were three scrawny guys which eh could easily snap in half; but there was one big burly one who would give Milan a harder time.

“Leave the girl alone.” Milan shouted out at the guys his hands turning into fist. The next thing he knew one of the guys stepped forward and kissed Elle hard on the lips as the other guy held her.

Let’s just say that Milan went animal/ape/beast shit on the guy’s butt.

“Keep still, let me clean your cut.” Elle said dabbing the cut Milan had received on his face. His knuckles were bruised and Elle wasn’t sure if he would be able to play later on today. Never in life has a guy stood up for Elle like that, never in her life has a guy stood up for her. It made her feel special, it made her feel like someone cared. “It hurts.” was all Milan could grunt.

“Well if you hold still then it wouldn’t hurt.” Elle countered back at Milan. She got up tot throw away the bloody napkin and went to get a band-aid.

“If you didn’t get in a situation like that then I wouldn’t have these!” Milan shouted back at Elle but not as bad as before.

“If you hadn’t yelled at me and told me to leave then I wouldn’t have been in that situation!” Elle shouted back at him. Never before has Elle ever shouted at someone and now she was shouting at Milan.

“Well, you shouldn’t have been in my room.” Milan shouted back after thinking of what to say back at her.

“Well, you should learn to control your temper.” Elle said a little softer. Milan didn’t know what to say next so he just shut up. Elle finished cleaning his cuts and putting the band-aids on the cuts that he had. Thankfully he didn’t look like the guys after Milan was finished with them. For sure they needed stitches and would have to go to the hospital.
“Thank you for saving my life.” Elle whispered up at Milan. He looked down at Elle and something sparked within him; courage. Milan leaned down and kissed her. It was a soft, hesitant kiss but it was perfect. At first Elle wasn’t kissing back but she was now. The kiss was pure bliss. Soon Elle came to her senses, she had a boyfriend.

“I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have. I have a boyfriend.” Elle said standing up and ran to her room crying leaving Milan dumbfounded. Elle couldn’t believe it, she could have possibly fallen for Milan.