No Romance (Brendan Gallagher)

Hopefully no more than friends

Quincy's POV

I wake up in a unfamiliar bed and room, this most defiantly is not my hotel. I slowly inhale and stretch my arms out above my head, rolling over. My eyes immiediently fall on the body lying on the couch, their arm dangling off the side and one leg on the back of the couch with their blanket a mess. I slowly sit up in the bed and look at the bedside clock which reads half past 8. I decide to get out of the bed and wake up the person on the couch so I quietly throw the covers off my body and tiptoe out. I reach the couch and get a good glimpse of who the person was, Brendan. His mouth was open slightly and the blanket was only half covering his broad and shirtless torso.

"Brendan!" I say a little loudly as I smack him with a pillow that I got from the bed that was presumably his.

"Yes!" Brendan answers sitting up quickly looking awake.

"It's 8:30," I answer as I stand with the pillow pressed against my chest.

"Oh okay, thanks. You fell asleep last night and so did Caden so I just let you guys sleep here, hope that was okay. I gave you my bed obviously so you wouldn't have to sleep on a couch like Caden or the floor like poor Alex," he chuckles as he gets up to put on a shirt.

"Wow thanks Brendan you didn't have to do that," I say graciously as I put the pillow back on his bed and pick up my vest from his floor.

"It was no problem," he answers as he puts a random shirt on. I stand there awkwardly for a moment as I watch him bend over to find a pair of shoes in his closet and then him slipping on a pair of moccasins.

"Let's go wake the other guys up," he says once he's finished.

"Let's be quiet and see if they're up," I reply with a smirk, a plan forming in my head.

Brendan nods his head as we tiptoe out of his room and down the hall to his guest room which is where PK and Alex are supposed to be. We enter the room and see poor Alex sprawled on the floor and PK sleeping like a king in the guest bed which he has all to himself.

"What should we do to wake them up?" I question in a whisper.

"We'll do to them what you did to me; slap them with pillows," he answers with a grin of excitement. We sneak back to Brendan's room and come back with an armful of pillows. I motion for him to take Alex while I walk over to the bed with P.K in it, I hold up my hand and count down from 3 using my fingers. On one we both start whacking them with pillows while shouting "Wake up, wake up!" The guys immiediently get up with a look of bewilderment and annoyance on their faces.

"Stop it!" PK shouts as he blocks my shots with his arms and hands. Me and Brendan stop hitting them and back up towards each other, high-fiving one another with a laugh.

"Thanks a lot guys," Alex says slowly getting up off of his bed on the floor.

"Yea that's not how I like being woken up in the morning," PK grumbles as he throws the covers off his body.

"Oh we're so sorry King Subban," I say with a mock bow.  We all laugh and head out of the guest room so we can go wake up Caden, in a little more friendly manner.

"Caden get up," I say as I shake him awake because the other guys are already heading into the kitchen.

Caden slowly opens his eyes and sits up, "Man i'm tired."

"I know but it's almost 9 and we probably should get going soon so we can move our stuff to your apartment today before afternoon skating practice," I answer as I try to pull him up off the couch.

"Yea you're right," he replies as he gets himself up off the couch since I was no help. We both head into the kitchen where everybody else is starting to get food out.