I Love You, Mat Barzal

Part 2

I pulled up to the rink with Emma in the passenger seat of my car. We strolled inside and saw a beautiful lobby area, we took a peek at the ice and saw my brother and all of his teammates. 

"Which one is your brother?" Emma asked me, her face nearly pressing against the glass.

"Number 41" I replied.

"Mmm...tall..." she smirked through her words. I shot her a confused look, she shrugged at me with a bashful look and went back to watching my brother's practice. Emma and I walked into the rink and were hit with the chill of the cold radiating from the ice. Emma folded her arms across her waist. As the coach blew his whistle, all the players began to skate into a circle and took a knee. The coach talked for a few minutes and the players skated away banging their sticks on the ice. Noah saw me and Emma standing by the glass and he threw a shoulder hit into the glass in front of us. Emma jumped and began to giggle like a child.

Noah walked up to us and started to tell us about his team. The other players all walked into the locker room to get changed. One of the last players skated off the ice and walked right up to me, Emma and Noah. 

"Hey Noah, some of the boys and I are going to Palik's  house to have some beers. You wanna come?" The tall boy took off his helmet and unveiled the most beautiful face I've ever seen. My eyes went wide as I looked at Emma. She got the hint I was trying to drop to her and winked at me. Noah continued to talk to his teammate, then suddenly his teammate looked past Noah and at me. 

"Uhm, bud is...uh...is this your sister?" The teammate motioned toward me.

"Oh yeah. Mat, this is my sister Juliette and her friend..." Noah struggling to remember Emma's name.

"I'm Emma" She chimed in, giving a disappointed look at Noah. He gave her a pat on the shoulder. Mat looked at me, kind of ignoring the two next to us. He reached for my hand and shook it.

"Juliette, what a pretty name." He smiled at me. I shot a smile right back. "You know it's mostly just guys going to Palik's house, but I'm sure they wouldn't mind a few girls going to hang out. I mean, I'm sure some of the other guys would want to bring their girlfriends anyway."

"Wow that's really sweet, we'd love to-" I started but was soon cut off by Noah.

"But they can't, Juliette and Emma have some things they have to finish up at home. So they can't make it but I'll be there. No worries." he fist bumped Mat as Mat began to walk back to the locker room.

"I don't have anything to do..." Emma said to Noah, obviously confused. I folded my arms and looked at him, waiting for an explanation.

"I just don't want you hanging out with my teammates, Jules. You get that, don't you?" He put his arm around me.

"No, I don't. Why wouldn't Emma and I be able to hang out with them. I've hung out with your friends plenty of times before." I asked, not letting this go.

"Jules, look. This is a new town, with new people. I'd like to not only have my own friends but also the guys you hung out with were my old childhood friends. I could trust them with you. I'm not saying the guys here aren't good guys. I'm just saying I trusted my old friends way more than these new people." I just nodded as he gave me a hug and walked into the locker room with the other boys.

Emma and I walked out of the rink and back to my car. 

"Noah's teammate was pretty cute, and he looked like he had his eye on you." She hopped into my sedan.

"Yeah but he's untouchable now. Noah pretty much said I can't have him." I sighed.

Emma looked at me dead in the eye and said, "Oh no honey. It means the exact opposite, it means you're gonna have to work for this one. You can still hang out with him but now you have obstacles..."

~~AN

So we're getting to meet my lovelyyyy. 

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