That's Hockey Baby

Ch. 10: "I wasn't being a baby"

 I woke up the next morning in Nolan's bed. My head was on his chest and my leg was wrapped around his. We'd been dating for a bit but this was the first time we had spent the night together, usually I went home or to sleep in Ava's room or if I fell asleep first he'd go to Travis' room or the living room. I lifted my head slightly to see if he was awake and found him smiling at me.
  "Good morning sleepyhead." he said leaning down to kiss me.
  "I could get used to that." I smiled after we had pulled away. I tried to get up but he locked his arms around me.
  "Yeah, I'm not done with you yet." he chuckled before flipping to where he was hovering above me and kissed me again. I gasped as he started kissing down to my neck, his hand sliding up my shirt. I reached up and slid his shirt up over his head and he started kissing me again and I smiled into the kiss.
  "Hey you guys ever going to get up?" Travis said as he walked through the door and immediately stopped in his track and covered his eyes. "OH my God uhhhh" he turned around and walked out. Nolan quickly rolled off of me and we both busted up laughing. Typical Travis. I sighed and got out of bed, mood officially ruined and threw on some of Nolan's sweatpants and a tshirt and walked out to the kitchen to see Travis lightly hitting his head on the fridge.
  "You're going to give yourself brain damage." I said going around him and opening the fridge to grab the apple juice and pour me a glass.
  "He already has it." Ava came in with Carter following behind her. I just giggled. Travis looked at me and his cheeks were bright red. When Nolan walked in Travis shook his head and walked out. I sighed and followed him.
  "Look Travis.." I started but he cut me off.
  "I just wasn't expecting it Jaz. No biggie." he walked up the stairs to his room and I heard the door shut. I sighed again and headed back into the kitchen, wrapping my arms around Nolan's waist as we talked about what we were going to have for breakfast.

Me: Take me to luuuunch.
TPainintheass: no
Me: Travis! Please.
TPainintheass: make nolan take you
Me: But I miss you
TPainintheass: fine be ready in 10 minutes

I was leaning against Travis' car when he walked out of the house with his hands stuffed in his pocket and he was looking down. He unlocked the car and I climbed in the passenger seat and stared at him as he pulled out of the driveway. We drove in silence to the resturant and Travis wouldn't even look at me until we got to our table. He sat across from me but I got up and slid into the spot next to him.
  "Spill T. What's wrong. It can't all be the walking in on me and Nolan this morning, because you didn't even act like this when you walked in on Ava and Carter, you should really start knocking." I rambled.
  "I just feel like everything is going to change. I'm like a 5th wheel now. Everyone has someone and I don't. Sounds selfish when I say it out loud." I threw my arm around his shoulders and pulled him close.
  "Look Travis, just because I'm with Nolan doesn't mean you're not still my best friend. I will always make time for it to be just us. I always have and I always will. Nolan may be my boyfriend but you're my best friend and nothing is gonna change that." I laid my head on his shoulder. "Now stop being a baby and be my TPainintheass again will ya? You're making me sad." He smiled and kissed the top of my head.
  "I wasn't being a baby." he pouted as I got up and sat on the other side so we could eat without hitting elbows.
  "You really were," I smirked. "But I understand. I remember when you got with Molly and Ava had that boyfriend back when we were younger, I thought I was gonna lose you both too, but I didn't and neither will you."
 We ate lunch and then went and walked around a park for awhile before heading back to the house. Everyone could see the difference in Travis' mood as soon as we walked through the door and it was like you could feel the breath of relief everyone let out. We all hung out in the living room that night, the boys laughing and playing games while me and Ava watched and sat on the opposite couch gossiping and scrolling through social medias showing each other funny memes we would find. Every once in awhile we'd have to show the boys because they were curious, but mostly they stayed engrossed in their game. They definitely needed some boy time. It was after 1 am when we all finally went to bed. I climbed into Nolan's bed in just one of his tshirts and immediately climbed up on the bed and over top of me, kissing me passionately.
  "Now where were we." he chuckled bringing his lips back down to mine.
 The next morning we got up and all decided we would go out to lunch as a group once the boys got back from practice and then we would hang out at the house until it was time to leave for the game. I kissed Nolan as he walked out the door and Ava did the same for Carter and then as Travis walked by we grabbed him by his shirt collar and kissed his cheeks. He shook his head as if he hated it, but the giant grin crossing his face as he closed the door behind him told me otherwise.
  "So what are we going to do until they come back?" Ava asked me and I shrugged.
  "Wanna go walk around the mall for a bit? Maybe get some Cinnabon?" she nodded excitedly and we both ran upstairs to get dressed. We spent a couple hours at the mall before heading home with our arms loaded with bags, we managed to pull into the driveway at the same time as the boys.
 The boys lost that night. From the middle of the 1st period you could see frustrations climbing as they couldn't even seem to get any shots on goal. Vegas ended up beating them 5-0 and the Flyers only had 20 shots on goal for the whole game. I was nervous as me and Ava rode the elevator down to meet the boys. I had never dealt with Nolan after a loss, but I had dealt with Travis and was definitely not in the mood to deal with that and Nolan if he was crabby too. We stood there nervously waiting for the boys to come out. Carter came out first and Ava gave me an encouraging smile as her and Carter walked away, you could tell he was upset because he had been the one in the net and he had gotten pulled in the middle of the 2nd period. I patted his back as they walked away and he gave me a sad smile. I waited awhile as everyone else came out before walking towards the room because my two boys hadn't come out yet and I was starting to get worried. When I walked in Travis sat in his stall with his head down, he still had all his gear but his jersey on. I couldn't find Nolan so I walked over to Travis and squatted down in front of him and lifted his head with my fingers.
  "Travis..." he shook his head.
  "I took too many penalties. I know better against them, their powerplay is too good." it was my turn to shake my head.
  "Those refs were soft. They called a lot of bullshit calls on you guys. Some were deserved, but towards the end you let your anger get in the way. You never would have slashed Stone if he hadn't tripped Haysey and didn't get called." he shrugged and I pulled him forward and hugged him to me. "You just gotta keep your head down next game. You guys are the best team you've had in a long time, I believe in this team more than I ever have. You just gotta keep the emotion out of it and you guys will be fine. Its one game. You guys still got this. Now please go shower you really stink." he chuckled and kissed the top of my head as he stood and headed to the showers. I sat down in his stall and waited for Nolan.
 Travis came out of the shower a short time later and I looked confused.
  "Was Nolan in there?" he shook his head no and I started to get worried. Where was he? I walked the halls looking for him and couldn't find him anywhere, so I walked back towards the ice where he was skating around shooting pucks angerly at the net.
  "Nolan!" I yelled to get his attention. He skated over to me with a very pissed off look on his face. I grabbed his hand when he got close enough. "Hey, we should go home." he shook his head
  "I wanna skate around longer. You can go home with TK if you want. I won't be too much longer." he skated away and I couldn't help feeling bad for him. He had tried so hard tonight. At least 8 of shots on goal tonight were by him but he couldn't seem to get anything passed Fleury. I sat down on the bench to watch him, I had texted Travis that I had found Nolan and we would be home shortly. I heard Nolan sigh before he skated back to me.
  "I thought you were going home with TK."
  "No you told me to go home with TK, I would prefer to stay here with you and help you feel better."
  "How do you plan on doing that?" he said, his sassiness was thick today.
  "Well come on I'll show you." I held up my skates that I had sitting on the ground. Nolan's eyes went wide.
  "You don't have to.." I shushed him and pressed my lips to his.
  "I want to. Now help me to the net." he chuckled and helped me to the net and I got into posistion like I was a goalie and he just shook his head, I could see the laughter in his eyes.
  "I'm not going to shoot pucks at you while you have no gear on Jaz."
  "You don't have to shoot them hard." he backed up a few feet and started lightly hitting pucks towards me, I jumped across the net dramatically pretending to try and stop them. All 8 he shot like that went in.
 "Woo Nolan 8 Jazzi 0 Shutouttttttt NOLAN WINNSS" I yelled and he came up and wrapped his arms around my waist and pulled me in for a kiss.
  "What would I do without you?"
  "Hmmm. I don't know, but you'd definitely be way more bored." I smiled at him and he nodded.
  "Now can we go home?"
  "Yes baby, lets go home."