My Arranged Marriage to Sidney Crosby

Disclaimer: All characters that I came up with are mine. Sidney and Jordan and everyone else of the Pittsburgh Penguins are not mine, but Mario Lemieux.

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Chapter Thirteen

I was about to turn the water off, when I heard someone walk in. I took in a shaky breath, expecting to find Crosby. I turned the shower off and peeked my head out from behind the shower curtain. Instead of seeing Sidney standing there, I saw Jordan.

“Jordan?” I asked him.

“Why didn’t you tell me?” he asked.

“Tell you what?” I was searching his face. He didn’t look mad or upset just…confused maybe.

“You’re supposed to be marrying Sidney fucking Crosby and I fucking kissed you.”

“Jordan please just listen to me!” I exclaimed.

“Nothing you say will change anything.”

I went back behind the shower curtain. I couldn’t exactly just get out and confront Jordan. I reached my hand out and grabbed the towel that was hanging up next to the shower. I quickly wrapped it around my body and got out.

“Jordan, please just hear me out.”

He looked at me and shook his head. “No. You knew but you didn’t tell me anything. Why didn’t you say anything when I fucking kissed you?”

He started to walk away and I grabbed his wrist. I knew I couldn’t stop him, but I wanted him to know I wasn’t just toying with his emotions.

“That’s because we were both forced into this marriage.” I told him.

That stopped him. We were both standing in my room. He turned around and that’s when I took in his appearance. His hair was wet and his shirt was sweaty. Then I realized he had been at practice.

“What do you mean forced?”

“Well our parents are really good family friends. They had decided when Sidney and I were both really young that they wanted our families to be united so they wrote up a contract together and agreed to marry their two children.”

Jordan remained silent.

“Please. You’ve gotta believe me. You can call up my parents if you don't.”

“Jess, it’s not that.”

“Then what is it?” I asked. I took a step closer to him and tried to get him to look me in the eye.

“It’s the fact that I thought I found someone I really liked but now you’re off limits.” He finally looked down at me. I felt really bad.

“I’m really sorry I didn’t mean to lead you on or anything. I really like you too,” I turned around, “Ugh, I just wish I wasn’t in this stupid situation. My life would be so much easier.”

He turned me around and hugged me, “Well I’m sorry I blew up at you. And I’m actually really glad you let me kiss you.” He smirked.

I couldn’t help but roll my eyes at him while laughing. I hugged him back, ignoring the fact that he was soaked with sweat and didn’t smell all that great.

“And I would kiss you all over again if I had the chance.” He whispered in my ear. Tingles ran down my spine and I couldn’t help but shiver a bit. Jordan chuckled at me and I felt him start nibbling on my ear. I couldn’t help but moan a bit. Jordan began kissing my jaw line, he was kissing everywhere but my lips and I couldn’t stand it. The back of my head was telling me how so wrong this was, especially since Jordan knew about the arranged marriage and since Sid was in the other room. I ignored the voice and let Jordan continue. Finally Jordan kissed my lips and I responded right away. He ran his tongue along my bottom lip and I opened my mouth. His tongue entered and we battled for dominance. He won. He broke away and started kissing my neck, leading me to the bed. He sat down and I as well on his lap. It was getting intense but then I heard someone clearing their throat. I broke the kiss and turned in the direction of the person who had interrupted.

“What the hell do you two think you’re doing, eh?” Sidney yelled.

I tried to stick up for Jordan, “It wasn’t his fault. I kissed him first.”

“Stay the fuck out of this Jess.”

“Don’t tell me what the hell to do!” I yelled.

“It’s fine Jess. Don’t worry. This is between me and Sid.” Jordan said. I crawled off his lap as he stood up. He was taller than Sid by about five inches or so.

“You sure as hell bet it is.” Sidney said, not backing down. He looked so pissed right now.
Which, I could understand. I mean he had just caught his wife-to-be making out with one of his teammates and one of his best mates.

I mentally smacked myself. What the hell had I done? I had pretty much turned two friends against each other. Thanks to me they probably wouldn’t play as well together in their next game.

Both Jordan and Sidney were yelling at each other and I couldn’t stand it. I began crying. I didn’t know why I was, I really had no reason for it, but I couldn’t help it. I felt like one of those chicks. And I hated them so fucking much and I felt as if that was what I was turning into.

“Guys! Just stop fighting with each other!” I screamed, more tears rolling down my cheeks, “If you two should be yelling at anybody it should be at me. Not each other! For fuck’s sake. I was the one who let Jordan kiss me. I fucking kissed him. And I won’t lie I liked it. But if you guys should be mad at anyone. It shouldn’t be at each other, but me.”

Both boys turned to look at me and they immediately shut up, hearing me out.

“I know I screwed shit up. I know. But really you shouldn’t be mad at each other.” I wiped the tears off my face and ran back to the bathroom, slamming and locking the door behind me.

I heard banging on the door, both boys wanted me to come out but I refused. After awhile the banging stopped and I heard the boys talking to each other about something. They didn’t seem to be fighting which was a good sign, but I refused to leave the bathroom.

The talking started to fade and I realized that they had left. I unlocked the bathroom door and slowly opened it. I saw no one and quickly went out to close the door to my room. Sadly, that didn’t have a lock to it. I unwrapped the towel from my body and threw on some black leggings and a long light blue shirt. I brushed my hair, throwing it up into a messy bun. I skipped the makeup and sat down on my bed.

I had screwed shit up royally and I knew there was no way I could go back in time to change what had happened. I felt like shit. I got up from the bed and walked to my door opening it. The coast was clear. I sighed. I had to change this.

“I will do whatever it cost to be a good fiancé.” I told myself. I heard the shower running in Sidney’s room and took this as my opportunity.

I ran down the steps and immediately got to work on making dinner. I used whatever was in the fridge. I saw the kitchen table in the dining room and put a candle in the middle of it. I got out some plates and set them down.

After about two hours, dinner was finally ready. Sidney still hadn’t come down from his room and I looked around, quite impressed by what I had done. I went back into my room, searching through my boxes. I immediately found the one where I had packed my dresses. I pulled out a one-shouldered, short silver dress and quickly put it on. I decided to put on some makeup and took out my bun.

I went out and softly knocked on Sidney’s door, “Dinner’s ready.”

“I’ll be down in a sec.” he said.

I simply nodded, even though I knew he couldn’t see me. I went back into the kitchen and lit the candle, turning the lights down a bit. I couldn’t believe what I was doing, but I had decided it was the best thing to do right now.

I had already placed the food on both our plates and patiently waited for Sidney to arrive. It didn’t take too long and when he entered the kitchen he turned on all the lights and walked over to the table, not bothering to even look at me. He grabbed the plate, saying thanks and went back up the stairs.

I watched him intently, until I couldn’t see him anymore. I sighed. I should have known my plan wouldn’t have worked out. I started to stand up to put away the food, but I heard Sidney come back in. I heard him gasp and turned around to look at him.

He was staring at me completely shocked. I gave him a small smile but then continued what I was doing.

“Did you do all of this?” he asked. He was standing right behind me now.

“No,” I told him sarcastically, “I had someone deliver it to the house.”

“I didn’t hear anyone at the door.”

“That’s because no one was here, but me.”

“So you did make it?” he questioned. I set my plate down on the table and turned to face Sidney. He was a lot closer than I had originally thought, but I held my ground.

“Of course I made it! What did you think all that noise was down here?”

“Is this a ‘you’re sorry’ dinner?”

“And what if it is?”

“Well, then I guess I should go back up and grab my plate to join you. I want to take part in this. It’s not every day I have the lovely Jessica Hunter apologizing to me.” He said and headed back up the stairs to get his plate.

I rolled my eyes and sat back down. That was the Sidney I knew.

“So, I’ve already had a few bites of my dinner,” I heard Sidney say, “So don’t take that as an insult. It’s really good too.” As he made his way over, he dimmed the lights.

“Thanks.” I said as he took a seat next to me.

“You’re welcome.” He said smiling at me.

We both took a bite of our dinner and it was really good. My favorite part of the dinner though was my baked potato. It was amazing. Normally I would burn them, but they had survived. When we were done, Sidney helped me clean up and we chatted a bit.

“Thanks for making dinner. You look gorgeous by the way.” Sidney told me and gave me a hug. He was about to pull away, but I held him in place.

“I’m really sorry Crosby. I didn’t mea-” I started to say, but was cut off by something soft on my lips. Sidney was kissing me. And this time instead of pushing him off of me I kissed him back.

I mean, I was going to have to spend the rest of my life with him.