Just Hold Me (Sidney Crosby) EDITING THEN CONTINUING

Chapter 6 - The Date

I picked out a pair of light blue skinny jeans, a black t-shirt, a gray hoodie with red lettering, and my matching red Converse.

I went to sleep and didn't wake until Marilynn decides to wake me up like an animal.

"What do you want?" I whine as she shakes me vigorously.

"We have to get ready for our day, you lazy ass!" Marilynn exclaims.

Marilynn starts to walk out.

"Asshole." I murmur.

I shoot up and look at my clock.

FUCKING NOON.

I jumped out of bed and grabbed my clothes. I ran to the bathroom and turned on the shower. I close the bathroom door and lock it.

While the water heats up I open my cabinet doors and pick out my sweetest smelling perfume and deodorant. I then undress and climb in the shower.

I use some Dove shampoo and start to wash my hair. Once I have it rinsed, I grab a body wash.

I scrub everywhere with it, and I shave my legs and under my arms.

I rinse off everything just once more to make sure there was no soap anywhere. I turn off the water and step onto my rug.

I dry off my body.

I put on matching underwear for once and start to blow dry my hair, occasionally brushing it out along the way. Once it was dry, I put my deodorant on. In my arm pits and about halfway up under each arm, the front of my stomach and sides, one stripe on my back, the insides of my legs, and the fronts, and the sides. I like to smell good.

I sprayed myself with my perfume from Rue.

I then put on my t-shirt first and then my skinny jeans, tucking my shirt in. I sprayed myself with more perfume.

I rubbed my feet with some deodorant and then slid on my socks.

I slipped on my hoodie and then my shoes and started to do my hair after putting on perfume once more.

I brushed it out as straight as I could, and straightened it.

I put on a medium brown colored eye shadow, my eyeliner, on the tops and lightly on the bottom, and my mascara.

After my makeup was done, I again sprayed some perfume.

Once I was done and was pleased, I walked downstairs to the Kitchen where Marilynn had my pancakes buttered and syrup-ed.

"What took you so long—mmm you smell good."

Then she took off up the stairs and I heard the bathroom door slam shut. I sat down and started to eat my pancakes.

I looked around, knowing I was forgetting something. My phone and my lip gloss. Ugh. Up the stairs I went. I grabbed my Pittsburgh Pirates phone cased phone and some pink sparkly lip gloss. I ran back down the stairs and finished my pancakes. I put the dishes in the sink and sat down on the couch.

I started to apply my lip gloss while unlocking my iPhone. I had a text message.

It was from Evgeni and it was in Russian. How had he gotten my number. Haha.

'Mne destvitel'no lyubopytno ob etom ya i tak Sid. Vam nravitsya yemu, kak on lyubit vas?'

I'm really curious about this myself and so is Sid. Do you like him the way he likes you?

'Nu, ya ne mogo tochno otvetit' na etot vopros pryamo seychas, no ya ozhidayu, ya budu v sostoyanii do segodnyashnego dnya. YA tochno ne veryu, chto lyubov's pervogo vzglyada vozmozhna, no ya dumya, ya mogu uznat'. Neuzheli on menya ili chto-to nravitsya?

*Evgeni's Point of View*

"WHAT'D SHE SAY?" Sid screamed in my ear.

"Pleave bock avay. Ya hurting ear." I say, trying to sound clear.

"Oh okay, sorry."

Sid was very excited over this girl and I've never seen him like this before. I think he might have a really strong feeling for her. In other words, I think his head is going to explode.

My phone buzzed and her long answer appeared on my screen.

"What'd she say?" Sid asked again, quieter this time as he peeked over my shoulder.

I read it out loud in English.

"Well, I can't exactly answer that right now, but I expect I will be able to today. I don't exactly believe love at first sight is possible, but I guess I can find out. Does he like me or something?" I felt good that I pushed every word out correctly. I coulda used that yesterday with the autographs. I text her back yes S and when I looked up, Sid's face made me forget about my 5 seconds of perfect English. I burst out laughing. It was priceless.

"Geno, what do I do? What do I tell her? Do I call her?" Sid asks nervously.

"Calm down Sid. It not like you never been on date before." I say.

Sid backs up.

"Not with THIS girl! She makes me so goddamn nervous!"

"How? You only see her one time in whole life and you practically had to pin her down to put name on shirt. Stop being so nervous. She just shy."

I don't know if that calmed him down, but I hoped it did.

"Okay. I have to go down to Starbucks and wait for her. It's 1:30."

"You're going in THAT?" I ask, disgusted at his over the years of aging and spaghetti stained white t-shirt. I toss him a sweatshirt of mine.

"Don't you dare take sweatshirt off. That disgusting. She never kiss you if gross." I say.

"Shut up." He says shortly.

I scoff.

"Pig." I say, trying to sound like a perky teenage girl. I stick out my chest and pretend I have boobs. I pretend to push them up and check my hair in an imaginary mirror that I snap closed and shove back into my jeans pocket.

Sid stares at me for a moment. Solid at first, but then eases into a big smile.

"Did you brush teeth? She won't kiss you with bad breath." I ask him.

He turned around, rolling his eyes and letting out a groan.

"Yes mother."

I dramatically let my mouth drop and walk over to him.

"Don't sass me Mister. I ain't takin' no lip!" I say, pushing my lips together and snapping my fingers in a star shape.

He shoots me a death glare and I grab my left peck and pretend he hurt my feelings, putting a pained expression on my face.

Sid laughed again as he slid on the hoodie and threw on a black Nike cap.

I walked over to him and lightly slapped his cheek, making him turn to me.

"Don't fuck up."

He smiled, turning around and grabbing his keys and saying goodbye as he headed out the door.

The last thing I remember hearing was his car pulling out of the driveway before I drifted off to sleep.

I'm taking advantage of this day off.