Falling For Hockey

Chapter Nine

"MERRY FREAKING CHRISTMAS! WAKE UP BITCHES!" Phillipe yelled, waking me up. I looked at the alarm clock beside the bed. It was five thirty.

"Shut up Meyers! It's five thirty!" Jeremy said pushing him off of the couch that they shared.

"But it's Christmas," he whined getting back on the couch.

I smiled. "Phillipe is right, it's Christmas! Let's celebrate!" I said getting out of bed.

"Yes! Someone understands!" he said getting up and hugging me.

"Well I haven't had a Christmas like this in a while, so I'm looking forwards to moments like this," I told him.

"Let's wake everyone else up," he said,  eyes glinting like a little kids.

I smiled and walked over to my bed where Thomas still snored softly. I brushed the hair away from his eyes and kissed his forehead. A small smile formed on his lips. I gently shook his shoulder.

"It's Christmas Thomas, wake up," I whispered.

He opened his eyes. "Merry Christmas babygirl."

"Merry Christmas."

Phillipe and I continued walking around the suite yelling at people to wake up.

"Damn New Brunswickers," Julien muttered.

"Oh come on you love us!" Phillipe cried.

"You're lucky I do."

Once everyone was up, much to their displeasure, I turned the tree lights on. The tree was overflowing with gifts.

"You guys! This is awesome!" I said turning to look at them all.

"We wanted you to have a great Christmas," Jake told me rubbing the sleep out of his eyes.

"This Christmas was great enough already with you guys here. Like seriously, I don't know how all of you guys fit in here," I said laughing as I felt tears prick my eyes.

"Can we open presents now?" Dante asked.

"Of course! I'll hand out the presents," I smiled.

I grabbed one of the gifts at my feet and read the tag.

"Mitchell, this one's for you," I read handing him the gift.

"Awesome! Can we open our presents now, or should we wait for everyone?" he asked.

"Let's wait," I decided.

Everyone had at least three or four gifts under the tree. I'm surprised it all fit!

I had received gifts from Thomas, Julien, Mat, Phil, and Mathieu.

Julien got me a Gauthier jersey and a stuffed goat. "So you'll always remember me when we're all making it big. I'm only a phone call away if you ever need me. I don't care if it's been days, weeks, months or years. Call me," he'd told me.

"Julien! I'd never forget any of you guys! I love the gift, and if I ever need you, I'll call," I told him, giving him a big hug.

"Didn't think you would, but I had to be sure," he said.

I opened my gift from Mathieu. Beats Pros stared back at me. I tackled him in a huge hug. I never realized that I wanted them until I had them. Nobody was going to touch these bad boys or I was gonna kill them with my bare hands.

I grabbed my gift from Phil. It was a larger box and it was quite heavy too. I opened it to reveal a whole bunch of large picture frames. Some of them already had pictures in them.