Hustle and Heart

Ch.9

*Brianna's POV*
I honestly didn't know what to say. Carey Price, once again, had bumped into me! Should I be mad? Should I accept the offer? I mean he is extremely attractive... I can't! He's my opponent! He's the man who blocks all shots. He is better then Ben, for god sakes! I hate saying it but it's true! I was slowly stopped when I heard a man yell over at Carey.
"Come on Carey! We have to go!" I look over to see who said that and it was P.K Subban.
"Uh yea. One sec P.K!" Carey shouted over to his teammate. "So what do you say?" He looked over to me with his charming smile.
"Uh sure! I'll give you my number and I'll text you when I'm free!" I said a little unsure.
"Sounds good." Carey said with the cutest smile. I quickly gave him my number and started to walk away when Carey pulled me over to him and whispered in my ear somewhat flirty...
"See you on the ice." I can't believe what just happened. What have I gotten myself into...
***
I woke up, still a little shocked at what had happened last night. Carey did text me like he had promised and we talked almost all night... No one knows about it and I plan on keeping it a secret for as long as I can. I had an afternoon practice from 12-1 and it was 11 right now. I quickly got ready for practice and jumped into my rental car to make my way to the arena.
***
It was about 1:30 when I got back from practice, and surprisingly I did not run into Carey. However, let me tell you, practice was rough today. I played horrible and Coach made sure to let me know. I wasn't making anything, I was missing all of my checks and I was failing at the face offs. After such a rough day at practice, I decided to enjoy myself at the hotel pool. I went into my suitcase and picked out an all black leather bikini, some black flip flops and a quick outfit. (Outfit above). When I made my way down the hall to the elevator, I saw Steven, Ben and Ryan. I invited them to join me at the pool and told them to let all of the guys know. I was laying my stuff down and taking off my shorts and t-shirt when all of the sudden I was pushed into the pool. I quickly came up shocked to see a grinning Ben and Kucherov. I flipped them off and said,
"What the hell!"
"That's for sucking at practice today!" Kucherov said in his cute accent.
"Well I am sorry." I said clearly pissed off.
"Hey, don't get all pissy with me sissy." Ben said. Ugh he makes me want to just lay him out with a body check. I swam over to the ladder to get out and just tan like I was going too. I dried myself off and laid down on a pool chair, playing on my phone.
"Whatcha doing?" Someone said. Scaring the absolute piss out of me. I turned around to see Tyler laying down on the beach chair next to me.
"Tanning and playing on my phone. You?" I said, completely chilled.
"Uh absolutely nothing..." He was however, interrupted by a young fan. It was a girl. She was about 6yrs old and was completely adorable. She walked over to me shyly and asked,
"Can I have a picture and autograph?" She said.
"Yes of course! Do you have a pen?" Her mom pulled out a pen, very quickly.
"Thank you!" I said while signing her book she brought over.
"Picture to, right?" I said.
"Yes please." She said. She pointed towards her mom. I smiled and snuck my arm around her waist. We also took a silly picture. We both went for the duck face.
"Thank you so much!" She said.
"You are absolutely welcome!" I said.
"You know, you are my role model. I want to someday play in the NHL." She said. That made me tear up. The fact that I make this much of an impact on my fans is incredible.
"You know, you can do anything you want too! But know, when I'm retired, I expect to hear your name being announced on the big speakers!" I said. She flashes me the biggest smile I've ever seen and slowly said okay. Her mother thanked me and I carried on my conversation with Tyler.
"Well what I wanted to know was if you would give me one chance. One date that's all." Tyler said with confidence.
"Uh yea, sure!" One chance Brianna. That's it, one chance.
"Okay, well I will text you the details!" Tyler said so happy.
Once he walked away, I slowly groaned to myself. I can't possibly like Tyler. I won't let myself. Just then, I got a text. I thought it would be Tyler with the details of our date but, no. The text was from Carey. It read...

Hey, I'll see you at The Coral Reef Restaurant at 4 on Tuesday.

I read this text slowly... I couldn't say no... I simply texted him back with an okay see you then. I thought to myself though, what the heck am I going to do?

*Authors note*
I love were this story is going!! I see a bright future ahead!