Together Again II Mat Barzal

Twenty-Six: Mat

 I woke up at around 9:00 to Shreya putting on the TV. Bela was still sleeping next to me.

"No Raven's Home? What kind of bullshit is this?" She said to the TV.

"Are you okay?" I asked.

"Uh, no," Shreya said. "Disney Channel is showing Disney Junior stuff,"

"Oh, wow, that's a predicament," I said sarcastically.

"It is!" Shreya said. "And it's not even the good one's, it's the stupid Mickey and the Roadster Racers,"

Though she was upset, she didn't change the channel. I found myself staring at the TV for about an hour before Bela woke up.

"Mickey and the Roadster Racers?" She asked, rubbing her eyes. "What the hell happened last night?"

"Nothing," I said, stroking her hair. "We're all fine,"

Shreya noticed that we were watching the Mickey show that she claimed to hate. She turned off the TV.

"So, we're not gonna watch Mickey all day," Shreya said. "What are we gonna do?"

"Manhattan is nice," Bela said. "Wanna walk around the city?"

"That'd be cool," Shreya said.

"Yeah," I agreed. "Sounds good,"

I got dressed then drove the girls to their places. When they were done getting ready after about an hour each, I took them to the city. We walked around for a few minutes before Shreya and Bela spotted the M&M's store. They looked at the store, then each other, then glanced at me. They both had puppy dog eyes and pleaded to go.

"Yeah, let's go," I said. They dragged me into the M&M's store, then the LEGO store. I got us a big bag of M&Ms to share and we finished all of them in half an hour. Well, those of which Shreya didn't drop on the floor. Eventually, we made it to the Giant Toys R Us and Bela convinced me to get her a stuffed animal and ride the Ferris Wheel.

After that, we went to a small cafe for lunch. We ran around the city for a while and hit a few more places. We found this one store with NHL gear and jerseys.

"Hey, that's my jersey!" I pointed to it in the window. Bela hugged me and smiled.

Shreya and Bela got tired after a while, so we decided to go back to Bela's place and help her pack.

"So you're really moving to Long Island?" I asked.

"I already found an apartment in your building," Bela said.

While she folded her clothes in her suitcase, Shreya and I cleaned out her desk. The first thing that Shreya found was the bracelet on top of the desk. She smiled as she picked it up. She put it next to the picture of the three of us from high school.

"Can you believe that was us four years ago?" I asked, picking up the picture.

"It's crazy," Bela said. "High school was so long ago,"

I started putting more things in small pencil bags.

Pretty soon, Sarah and Connor came into the room.

"Packing already?" Sarah asked Bela.

"Yup," Bela said. "To Long Island I go,"

"Hi, Shreya," Sarah said. "Hi, Mat,"

"Hey," We both said.

Connor stood in awe as he saw me.

"You're back!" He said.

"Hey, Connor, what's up?" I asked.

"Nothing much," He said. "Except the fact that one of the Islanders finest is standing in my presence,"

I laughed and shook his hand.

"It's been a while," I said.

"Yeah," He said. "A long time,"

When we got everything together from Bela's place, we said goodbye to Sarah and Connor and packed my car and hers.

We met Bela's parents and Zoe for dinner at a nice restaurant.

"I packed up all my things, I'm leaving tomorrow," Bela told her parents.

"Back to Canada?" Zoe asked.

"No, sorry Zo," She said. "I'm going to Long Island,"

"Oh," Zoe sighed.

"I'm gonna visit, though," Bela said.

"Me too," I said. "Whenever we have games around I'll go meet up with you,"

Zoe smiled.

"I'm glad that you two are finally together again," Mrs. Matthews said.

"Me too," I smiled and held Bela's hand.