𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 | 𝐣. 𝐡𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐞𝐬

𝟏𝟓 | 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐞 & 𝐣𝐚𝐜𝐤

𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐯

One Month Later

It's been over a month since Jack asked me to be his girlfriend and it's been one of the best months of my life. Whenever Jack isn't away for games or too busy with practices, he plans out cute elaborate dates for us that feel like they could come straight out of a book. More than half of Jack's fanbase had a positive reaction to us dating, while others said some pretty nasty things about us, or should I say me. Gabi's advice about ignoring the negative comments has kept me grounded and focused on my relationship with Jack.

When he's away for games, I could always expect something waiting on my doorstep from him. He'll randomly send bouquets with cute little notes or even send me food whenever I mention that I'm hungry, but too lazy to cook something for myself. As soon as he gets the chance to come over, he'll sit in my room watching me film. Jack claimed a spot near one of the windows in my room as his designated spot since he says it lets him get the perfect view of "seeing his pretty girl talking about what she loves". Occasionally, out of the corner of my eye, I'll catch him looking at me entranced by anything I'm saying to the camera. He looks so cute sitting there like a little kid watching his favorite TV show, eyes in wonder. At other times he'll start clowning around to my right, causing me to completely lose my composure and break out into fits of laughter.

Today Jack is coming over so we could film a video together. It surprisingly didn't take much for me to convince him to film a car q and a video with me. When I brought it up I was doubtful of what he'd say since I've seen a lot of his interviews with the media and he looks more than ready to leave every time. Emilie is out in the city for the next few days to do collabs with other creators leaving me home alone with Jack occasionally sleeping over to keep me company. As I finish putting my camera and dashboard tripod in my tote, the doorbell rings signaling that Jack is here.

I take a quick glance at my appearance in the mirror and tuck a loose strand of hair behind my ear before running out of my room and straight downstairs to the front door. Opening the door, I come face to face with my cute boyfriend with a boyish smile holding a bouquet of sunflowers mixed in with hot pink and white carnations in front of him. His eyes look bright and sparkling despite the cloudy snowy conditions forecasted for the day.

"Hey pretty girl," he holds the bouquet out towards me and I gladly take it in my hand and move in to smell the flowers. "I got you some flowers that reminded me of you." I sigh, taking in the smell and moving my eyes away from the arrangement to look up at Jack with a wide smile on my face. "Thank you, pretty boy." I take the flowers in one hand and give Jack a quick sweet peck on the lips. I moved away from the door and invited Jack inside for a bit while I put the flowers in a vase.

He follows me into the kitchen as I fill a vase with water and he wraps his arms around my waist with his chin on my shoulder, placing a kiss on my cheek. "How's my girl doing?" He whispers into my ear, a shiver running down my spine. "I'm doing great now that you're here and we get to spend the day together." I turn off the faucet and pull away from Jack a little to go in for a kiss. He must've been caught off guard as it takes him a few seconds to kiss back.

Pulling away, I ask Jack how he's been doing since just a few weeks ago, at the start of the month, he fell awkwardly in the third period in a game against Chicago. "I'm doing much better. I went to get checked out again yesterday and they said at this rate, I might be able to play towards the end of the month. I should be more than okay to play in the All-Star game." When Jack went down the tunnel during the Chicago game I worried since he'd been fine the whole game despite the intense tension in the arena between both teams. "I'm glad you'll be able to get back out on the ice soon. You'll come back stronger." Although he was bummed out at first, Jack has been in a great mood, itching to get back on the ice to play with his team.