About the Boy || Cody Bellinger

Fifteen

Madeline's POV- June 2017

"Mom, I'm home" I said as I made my way inside the house.

I closed the front door and smiled at Poppy who made his way over to greet me. He trilled as I reached to pick him up.

"Hi baby, did you just wake up from a nap?" I asked as I kissed his forehead.

I walked into the living room and looked around for mom.

"Mom?" I called out.

I knew she was home, her car was out front.

"I'm outside honey!"

I set Poppy down before making my way towards the kitchen. Opening the sliding door, I stepped outside.

"There you are" I said.

Mom was looking through a medical file, while taking in some sun.

"Madeline, when you said you were going to cut your hair I thought you were going to cut about an inch or two not a whole foot"

I ran my hand through my now short hair and shrugged.

"It will grow back" I replied.

She sighed and smiled.

"Are you going to keep it your true hair color?"

"Yes" I answered.

The last time I cut my hair this short I had my hair dyed brown. Over the years I had learned to embrace my dark (almost black) hair.

"Cody sent me a text about an hour ago"

"Did he now?" I asked.

She nodded.

"Yes, he asked if you were coming to tonight's game"

"And what did you tell him?" I wondered.

"I told him you were having lunch with some of the girls and heading to the game after"

"Ok, good" I answered.

"Did he think you were not going?"

"The NHL awards are tonight" I stated.

She hummed and nodded. I was supposed to be Auston's date, but I told him I couldn't go about a week ago. From the looks of it, his date was going to be his mom.

"Have you talked with Auston?"

"I have not, I decided to give him space" I replied.

"Well Cody wants to take you out to dinner tonight"

I raised an eyebrow.

"What if he asks tonight?"

Cody was going to ask me to be his girlfriend. Although my parents were divorced, I was still raised in a traditional home. That meant that Cody had to ask my parents if he could ask me to be his girlfriend. He even included Mike and Malin when asking, which apparently earned him more 'brownie' points.

"You're going to say yes, correct?"

Apparently I did not reply fast enough because she frowned a second after she asked.

"Madeline, you like the boy so why are you making things more complicated than they should be?"

"You do realize I will be moving to Toronto for school in September?" I asked.

"That's in three months Maddy, when the time comes you and Cody will talk about it"

My phone chimed.