Sweet Caroline (Corey Crawford)

Change Of Plans

Corey

"Why would you make plans tonight if we already had plans to go to this game for weeks" I ask Julie as she sits in my apartment. She continues to put on makeup totally ignoring how upset I was right now.

"I'm sorry, but some of my friends are in town for tonight only" she claims putting in the earrings I finally decided to get her. She loved them but it kinda backfired on me because she's wearing them to ditch me.

"So what, am I supposed to go to the Bulls game tonight all by myself" I ask.

"Ask one of the guys to go with you" she says.

"That's not why I bought these tickets. I got them because you don't like hockey but I still wanted to make memories together in the United Center" I insist.

"I'm sorry... I don't know what to say" she claims.

"Can't you just go out after the game" I ask.

"No. We planned to start drinking at 6" she explains and I sigh. It was hard to make this work out when only one person was trying.

"Okay, I guess I can see if someone else wants to go with me" I shrug.

"Awh you're the best. I love you" she claims as she presses a kiss to my cheek.

"Love you too" I mumble as the door closes behind her.

I call Bicks to see if he was free but he was with his fiancé. I call Kaner and he was already drunk so I wasn't about to go down that road. I was trying to keep the beer away for a little, my judgments didn't need any more impairment.

And as much as I didn't want to do it because I know it'll cause a fight in the end, I end up calling Caroline. She picks up quickly and I find myself kind of being nervous.

"Hello Crawford, what can I do you for" she asks.

"Are you busy tonight" I ask.

"No, not really. I was just watching some film and writing down notes" she explains. Such a hockey nerd.

"Well I was supposed to go on a date with Julie but she ditched me so I was wondering if you wanted to catch a Bulls game with me" I ask biting my lip.

"Really, basketball" she asks and I laugh.

"She doesn't like hockey" I explain.

"Oh, that's kind a hard to hear and I'm not even in that relationship" she admits and I laugh.

"What, you couldn't date a guy who didn't like hockey" I tease.

"Absolutely not" she laughs.

"Fair enough" I nod. "So what do you say? Want to watch some hoops" I ask.

"I don't know, I feel weird taking your girlfriends date" she claims.

"Please. I don't want to go alone and I spent way too much money on these tickets for them to go to waste. If you want we can sit there and talk about hockey the whole time" I insist.

"Crawford" she sighs.

"Pleaaaaase" I beg.

"Fine, I will come with you" she gives up and I smile big.

"Really" I ask.

"Yeah" she agrees.

"Awesome. I'll pick you up at 5:30" I say.

"Alright, I will see you then" she replies.

"Bye Caro" I smile.

"Bye Crawford."