Physical Therapy

(Roxy’s POV)

The rest of the day went smoothly I talked to Dan he told me I was going to be working with Jordan for the day. We worked in comfortable silence just talking about our lives and what he should be doing to help his hand. At the end of the day we went our separate ways and the way he said see you tomorrow with a smirk, made me on edge like he has something planned.

The next day started like any other, got up, took a shower, got dressed, had breakfast, and drove to work. Sarah and I parted ways when she went upstairs and I went to the internal hallways of the arena.

On my way to my office everyone was smiling at me and saying good morning. This wasn’t weird, what was weird was the way they were smiling like they were waiting for something to happen. That is when I started to get paranoid, looking around all the time waiting for someone to pop out and scare me or something like that.

When I got to my office I tried to open a drawer and it would open, I tried all my drawers and none of them opened. If this is the best they got then that is just sad.

I yelled out the door knowing someone was listening “Is this all you got?”

Someone laughed and said “Maybe, you better just watch your back today” I recognized the voice of Jordan.

“Bring it on!” I yelled back “I can take it!” I told him as he walked in my office.

“Sure you can” Jordan said back, walking out of my office smiling.

The day went on and I kept an eye out for anyone waiting to prank me. The one time I had to go to the bathroom I left my desk for less than two minutes.
Walking back I noticed my door was not how I left it. So I snuck up and tried to look inside without moving the door too much, that is when I noticed the bucket.

“Really? Amateurs” I said out loud to no one.

So I kicked open the door and jumped away so whatever was in the bucket wouldn’t get me. It was dirty water. That would have not gone over well if that went down the way they wanted it to.

“Nice try” I said loud again all I heard was a groan then footsteps walking away defeated.

When I got into my office I went to check my phone but noticed it was in Spanish. So I gingerly walked myself to the locker room here I knew most of the guys would be. As I walked in a lot of them looked up waiting for me to blow up or something. I held up my phone and smiled at them.

“Do any of you know Spanish?” I asked in a sweet voice. I got a collective “No” and all their smiled got even wider. “Oh, pity” Then I started speaking in Spanish really fast and watched all there smiles drop. I wasn’t making any sense but they didn’t know that. I think I was talking about rooms in the house, my family and how to ask to go to the bathroom.

“It was a good idea in theory but not in reality.” I told them walking away and hearing a “she is better than we thought” I smiled at that.

The rest of the day went on with only a couple more small pranks but nothing I couldn’t handle. I thought the day was over but as soon as I walked out of my office I heard it, coming from the workout room. The song Roxanne by The Police blaring from the speakers. I readied myself before walking into the room ready for anything but when I walked in no one was there so I just stood there and waited for someone to show up.

No one ever did so I walked back out into the hall and said “You think I have never heard that song before? You are sorely mistaken; my nickname was practically Hooker growing up because of this song.”

When still no one came out and laughed, I just walked away to go meet Sarah to go home. After we met up we walked to our car and that is when I knew I had gotten pranked, and bad.

There sat our car wrapped in TOILET PAPER!!

“ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME!!” I yelled and Sarah just stood there and laughed. “OK YOU GOT ME, ARE YOU HAPPY?” I yelled out loud knowing they were close by, wanting to see my reaction.

“FINALLY, WE GOT YOU!!” I heard and turned around to see most of the guys standing there laughing their asses off.

“It took you long enough” I said back while walking over to them. “Now who took part in this?”

“Everyone” said Max “Why?”

“I just wanted to know who I need to get back when the time comes” I said “Now who is going to clean this up?” I asked walking back to my beautiful black Mustang that is now covered in toilet paper.

“Um, you?” said Brent laughing

I just looked at them and waited for someone to volunteer “Uhh, I’ll help, but not by myself” Jordan said “Come on Geno you can help us clean this up” he said taking him by the arm. So it was me, Sarah, Geno and Jordan cleaning up all the toilet paper.

“I am just happy it didn’t rain or I would have shit bricks” I said to them “you guys would be so dead and I would put you through hell every time I saw you” I said warning them not to get on my bad side.

“I would listen to her,” Sarah said seriously “you do NOT want to be on her bad side…it isn’t pretty”

“You saying I’m not pretty?” I asked her jokingly.

“Have you seen yourself?” Jordan asked “You are so hot” he said while smiling. I knew he was messing with me but it felt nice to be appreciated.

“Well thank you” I said to him while I curtsied “Have you met my sister?” They shook their heads no, “Well this is Sarah, Sarah this is”

“Jordan Staal and Evgeni Malkin, I know” She said looking at me like I was an idiot.

“I was just trying to be polite, unlike you” I said sticking my tongue out at her. “Now you sound like a stalker” I said smiling and turning to the boys. They were just looking back and forth like a tennis match.

“I’m not a stalker, just informed” she said looking at Jordan and Geno.

“Just Jordan” he said while shaking her hand and smiling politely.

“Geno, no Evgeni” He said smiling. Sarah looked at me and smiled like the Cheshire cat and all I could do was roll my eyes at her and shake my head.

“Well thank you boys for helping us clean this up” I said smiling “I will remember that when I get you guys back and you should know I am a prankster at heart. Feel free to warn your friends.” I said as we got into the car. Rolling down the window I said “Oh and don’t ever touch my car again if you want to keep your hands” then drove away with a smile on my face.

Sarah couldn’t wait until we drove away to tell me how cute Geno was. That just brought back the memory of him having a girlfriend and us almost kissing. I must have had a face because the next thing out of her mouth was “What’s wrong?”

“Nothing” I tried to lie. It didn’t work well

“Yeah right, I thought you liked him?” she asked

“I do, well did”

“What happened?” she asked

“He has a girlfriend” I said sadly. She didn’t say anything so I looked over to see her angry. “What’s wrong?” I asked “Why are you mad?”

“I saw the way he was looking at you, he likes you. He has a girlfriend and he still likes you…he can’t have it both ways.” She said angrily.

“Please don’t blow this out of proportion” I asked “It’s not like we are in love and he has been hiding this girlfriend from me…we just met. It was just a crush, I will get over it.” I told her ending the conversation.

“Whatever I saw how you looked after you met him…you really like him and still do” she said “So what are you going to do about work?”

“What do you mean?” I asked “I am not going to let this affect my job; this is the best thing that has happened to me in a long time. They are going on the road in two days anyway, I will have a day off so I was thinking of going to get my hair cut and nails done, maybe some shopping, the works” I told her liking the idea the more I thought about it. “It’s not like they will need me, they will be in LA.” I told her.