By Chance

Chapter 2

"I have a non fat soy latte with a shot of espresso for a Jonathan."

"That's me." I look up to meet a brown eyed boy.

"Oh wow, uh you're Jonathan Toews." I say shyly hoping I don't raise attention to us.

He looks at me with a smile on his face, " haha, yeah that's me, I take it you're a fan of the hawks?"

"Huge! And you are so good it's unreal." oh wow I'm babbling god Mel.

Jonathan meets my eyes again, "Well..."

"Oh I'm Melanie, but you can call me Mel."

"Well Mel, it was great meeting you and I hope to see you around."

"Bye Jonathan."

Did that just really happen? ohmygod it did.

After work I walked home it was beautiful out and summer was just beginning but here I was in Chicago with no friends and probably going to work my summer away and Caribou.

When I got home I immediately went onto my MacBook and skyped my best friend from home Payton.

"Pay you will never believe the day I had."

"Okay what happened?" she says with a smirk, she probably thinks I spilled on a customer or something, but that happened only once.

"Pay I MET FREAKING JONATHAN TOEWS AT WORK TODAY. WE TALKED FOR LIKE A MINUTE AND HE SAID HE HOPES TO SEE ME AROUND!!" I say with a dorky grin on my face. Pay just laughs at me. "okay Pay don't get overly excited for me! But I just really needed to tell you that and that I'm loving Chicago, but I'm tired so I'll call you later love you boo!"

"Love you too Mel!"

I crawl into bed after a long day of work and I find my self smiling like an idiot. Mel you just met him that's all he's probably going to forget about you. But I still couldn't wipe that smile off my face.

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I look around at all the boxes laying around my apartment. I really need to unpack I've been here for 5 days now. But the procrastinator in me says eh I'll get it done later.

I have a day off from work today so I decided to go get some caribou and then go walk around.

"Hey guys, I'll have Sparkling Green Tea Lemonade with a shot of Raspberry." I hand them over my money. "keep the change guys."

As I turn around I walk right into someone "umph" I look up to the same pair of brown eyes I met a few days before.

"It's Mel right?"

"Yeah," I say blushing a little "sorry I ran into you, I should probably pay more attention." I say with a laugh at the end.

"Hey no worries." he said with his killer smile. I walk over to get my drink and he follows after he orders.

I get my drink, and start to head out, "you're just going to leave me?" He says looking flabbergasted.

"Uhh, no?" I lied. shit Mel shit what am I doing.

"Where are you headed?"

"Just to walk around I just moved here from Minnesota so I'm just going to take a walk." We are outside of the shop now with all the hustle and bustle of people.

"Mind if I accompany you?"

Smiling I say, "I would be delighted." and he takes my arm and hooks it in his. I couldn't help but giggle.

We walked for a while arm in arm silently. Not that I minded though.

"So Minnesota?"

"yes Minnesota, born and raised."

"I could tell you had an accent." He says. I just laugh.

"I do not have an accent."

"Say Minnesota again."

"Minnesota."

"Minnesooota"

"Stop." I say whacking his arm playfully as I'm laughing. "Okay so I may have a slight accent but you do to there Mr. Canada ey." I say poking fun at him. The banter just continues the rest of the walk. Jon is the easiest person to talk to.

We walked for almost two hours together, Jon showing me places he loves. After that he walked me back home.

"Well this is it." I say as we reached my building. "I had a lot of fun today, and thanks for showing me around a bit." I say with a smile I on face.

"Hey it's my pleasure. Plus you're great company and your very pretty so it's a win, win for me." he says with a blush creeping into his face. Just as one is creeping into mine. "I hope we can do this again, like hang out again."

"Me too, it's nice to think I have at least one friend here in town." I say with a small smile.

"Wait, you don't know anyone here?!" He was just shocked.

"Well my Aunt lives 40 minutes outside of the city. But yeah I don't know anyone. or I didn't know anyone." I said looking at Jon.

"Here, put your number in." he said handing me his phone. "I'll call you later." and with that we hugged goodbye and I walked up to my apartment.

Once I got up there,my phone started ringing. Unknown caller.

"Hello?"

"Just making sure you didn't give me the wrong number." I hear Jon's voice. I go out onto my small balcony, and see that Jon is still standing their.

"Goodnight Jon."

"Goodnight Mel."

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A/N

Okay so these first few chapters might be a. Little boring but they are def needed for the story to progress. again tell me what you think and don't me shy!!!! 😘