"Just breathe, baby. I promise I won't let you fall." Mitch promised me and I nodded begrudgingly. I walked onto the ice, immediately grabbing for Mitch's hands. "Baby don't worry. I promise I won't let you fall. Please just, breath. If you fall, I'll buy you that dress you've been eyeing for months, okay?" He wagered with me and I gave in. "Okay, now hold onto my hands." I grabbed his hands immediately and he moved slowly backwards, pulling me with him. "I'm gonna let go, okay?" He waited for my approval and I shook my head. "No. Hold on to me, please." I gave him the puppy dog eyes and he frowned. "Please, sweetheart. I won't let you fall, I've already established that. I just want you to love skating and hockey as much as I do." He frowned and I sighed. "I'm just scared. I feel like your fans think I'm a puck bunny because I don't know how to skate. They probably think I'm some dumb bender bandwagon that doesn't know what a power play is." I finally admitted my worst fear that I had been keeping inside for the 2 years me and Mitch have been dating. "Do you really feel that way?" He whispered out and I nodded. "I'm just so scared of failure, Mitch. I'm scared and I don't know how to make my fear go away. It's like you and how you want so badly to be the star in the NHL. I want to be liked but some people just scare me." I admitted and he pulled me into him. "I promise you, baby girl they won't feel that way. And if they do, who the heckcares? I love you and that's exactly what they don't want. They want me to feel that way about them. Well guess what baby girl, you've had my heart ever since we got paired together for that project. You've had my heart ever since I came over when you said you were gonna work on the project and then went to the bathroom and you hid behind the shower curtain and watched One Tree Hill. You are the one I love, baby girl. Just do it for me, baby. You can do it, I have faith in you." I smiled big at him and nodded against his chest, pulling away from him in a hug and grabbed his hands, skating across the ice. We skated around, Mitch moving backwards much quicker this time. "This is nice." I admitted and he grinned. "I'm glad you think so, love. Have you talked to Dylan since conference ended?" Mitch asked curiously. Dylan Strome just happened to be my twin brother, him being the reason that I met Mitch. Dyl has always been here for me and always been my best friend, so I try my best to do whatever I can for him. After the Knights swept the Otters in what was indefinitely Dylan's final season in an Otters uniform, and if it isn't mark my words that the Arizona Coyotes are one of the stupidest organizations in the National Hockey League, Dylan had been feeling pretty down, inevidently. I had made it a point to call him almost every day. I had seen him the day of. I flew out with the team to go to Erie seeing that I moved out to London two year to go to Fanshawe, which is actually where I met Mitch. Me and Dylan were touring campus and he had mentioned that one of his good buddies Mitch lived out here. I had never met Mitch until I came out to London, and 2 years later here we are. But when I realized I hadn't called Dylan today, I started panicking. "Mitch I haven't called Dylan all day. Dang it Mitch, I need to call him. Mitch we need to go, you saw Dylan after the game, I have no idea what thoughts could be running through his head right now. Mitchie we have to leave, maybe we should go out there." I started panicking and Mitch pulled me into him, rubbing his hands up and down my back trying to calm me down. "Baby, Dyl is gonna be okay. We can call him when I leave. I'll text him right now and tell him you'll call him when we get home. Don't worry love, everything's gonna be okay." He cooed and I nodded against his chest.
"I'm sorry, I'm just worried about him. I never know what he's thinking and whatnot." I admitted and he nodded. "It's okay to worry about the people you love. I worry about you tirelessly when I'm away. Now let's continue our date, okay baby?" He asked and I nodded. I pulled away from him and he pulled my phone out of my bra and started skating away. "Mitch stop!" I chased slowly after him. "Haha!" He chanted and I stopped. "Wait, I just skated by myself! You were just tricking me to get to me to skate by myself!" I accused and he shook his head. "I didn't even realize you did it by yourself, I just wanted to be on your snap story. You skated by yourself!" He ran over to me and picked me up and spun me around. "Hey Dvo, come take a picture!" Somehow, the doofus who goes by Christian Dvorak comes out from who knows where and walks onto the ice, grabbing my phone from Mitch. I started to smile, but then Mitch picked me up and rested his forehead against mine, looked into my eyes and smiled. "Oh way to make a single guy just wanna cry!" He joked and we laughed. Mitch set me down and grabbed my phone back, giving it to me so we could look at the picture. "These are beautiful, thanks Chris." I thanked him and he smiled. "Get married already! I'm sick and tired of seeing you without a ring on."
this is awful but I've been so busy lately, I apologize throughly. please check out my new book "100 reason to be happy for" and comment what you think :)
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