Left Behind // Jake Virtanen

Chapter 5

A few days later I'm laying in my bed not wanting to do anything. So I just lay there staring at the ceiling. After a while of laying there my phone starts ringing but I let it go to voicemail. I hear the tone letting me know that the person who just called did leave a voicemail. About a minute later a text message. That's when I decide that I should check my phone.

It was Jake who has called and texted me.

The text message said Hey Kelsey, its Jake. Call me please.

I checked the voicemail next "Hey Kelsey, Jake here. I was hoping you would of answered. I have a surprise for you. Call me."

After hearing the voicemail I immediately called Jake. He answered on the third ring.

"Hello" Jake answers.

"Hey Jake, It's Kelsey"

"How are you doing?" He asks like he has a smile on his face.

"I'm doing good. How about you?" I ask curious about what he is up to.

"I'm doing really good. Do you want to go to the Canucks game tonight?" Jake asks.

"Are you serious?" I start freaking out. "YES! I would love to go!"

"Okay awesome" Jake laughs "Just give me a second for my hearing to come back."

"I'm so sorry" I say covering my mouth.

"Don't worry I'm fine." Jake laughs.

"Okay good."

"So I am going to leave two tickets with your name on them at the box office. All you have to do is give them your ID and they will get them for you." Jake explains to me.

"Alright. I'm so excited" I say wanting to jump up and down.

"I have to get going but I will see you tonight."

"Yes you will. Bye Jake."

"Bye Kelsey."

I hang up the phone and scream in excitement. My heart is racing and my mind go blank. I just lay there with a smile on my face. I really can't believe that I'm am finally getting to go a Canucks game and it is Jake Virtanen who is inviting me to it. I really need to call Raquel right away.

"Hey girl! What's going on?" Raquel answers on the first ring.

"Not a whole lot." I lie "Do you have any plans for tonight?"

"No I don't. You wanna do something?" Raquel asks.

"What do you think about going to the Canucks game tonight?"

"You know that I would love to go but we both can't afford to go."

"Yeah but it won't cost us anything."

"What? How?"

"Virtanen is giving us tickets" I squeal.

"You gotta be kidding me!"

"No I'm being serious" I laugh "So will you come with me?"

"Yeah of course I will go with you" Raquel exclaims.

"Yay! I'm so excited" I say " See you later.

I spend the next few hours showering, doing my hair and makeup. I decide to straighten my hair and pull my bangs into a french braid. With my makeup I do a dark to light purple gradient, black eyeliner and mascara. This is the look I use so much I have it almost perfected. I top it off with a little bit of lip gloss.

I start going through all my clothes in my closet. I can't find anything that I want to wear. I settle with my favourite pair of jeans, gray and green underarmour hoodie and my Canucks jersey.

By the time I was ready to go it was 3:30PM and I still had to pick up Raquel. It take almost two hours to get to Vancouver so we need to get going. When I get to Raquel's house she says that she should drive because I'm way too excited to be driving. Honesty she is right.

On our drive to Vancouver we chatted, sung and sit in silence. Sometimes being just a little too crazy. It's all the things we do every time we are in a car. But this time is a little different because my heart is racing.

Traffic was heavy and with two wrong turns by Raquel we arrived at Rogers Arena at 6:10PM. People were already making their way into the building and we still had to pick up our tickets.

We were at the box office and the guy who was helping us was kinda cute.

"I have two tickets waiting for me. Kelsey Westbrook." I say handing him my ID.

The guy takes a look at my ID "Give me one second" He says before walking away.

He comes back and hands me my ID and the tickets and says "Enjoy the game."

"Thank you. We will" I smile back at him.

I take a look at the tickets to find out which gate we need to enter. It says Gate 2 which is just up the set of stairs in front of us.

Once inside the building we quickly found the washrooms then off to find our section.

"Kels?" Raquel asks.

"Yeah" I say.

"Have you looked which row we are in?" Raquel says staring at her ticket.

"No" I say looking down at mine. "Whoa! We are row ONE!"

"I have never been that close before!" Raquel freaks out.

We finally made it down to our seats. I look around and I'm always amazed of how big this building is. But this is the first time that I am ice level.

Looking across the ice I can see some of the Canucks. The warmup is about to start.