Off Ice.

Chapter Thirteen.

Casey

I'm very impatient.

I've been hearing about how much Finn misses and loves Avery for the past two years all while she was sitting in my house, and I couldn't do anything about it. I couldn't even bring myself to meet her boyfriend because I knew I'd become a dick. I kind of wish I did, though. Maybe she wouldn't of had to go through all that she did if I vetted him earlier.

When Grace told me that he was sleeping with someone else, I genuinely felt my whole body become scorchingly hot. I'm not usually an angry person - I'm the one who calms everyone down and I think I'm pretty good at thinking things through and being rational. But Grace literally had to rip my car keys out of my hand that day. I was dead set on getting to that piece of shit.

I don't even know where he lives, but I would of found him. Whether it would of been at his apartment or that tattoo shop he works at, I would of found him. That I can guarantee.

I felt a bit guilty when Finn would call me and ask if I'd heard from Avery and if she was alright. She had suddenly stopped responding to him and I knew it was because she left Theo and quit her job, but I didn't want to tell Finn that. It's not my place.

But I also knew that he wouldn't want to hear that from me. He didn't even ask what specifically was going on, he really was just worried about her well being. He wanted to make sure she wasn't alone and that she was eating, and all.

You can imagine what he said to me when he did find out, though.

He showed up at my house the next morning and I guess he just really let the anger brew throughout the night, because I haven't seen him that livid in years. He told me all about how he stayed with her the night before - how Theo came over high out of his mind. I'm not even a little surprised that he does coke.

He kept calling himself an idiot. He thinks this is all his fault - that if he didn't leave her in the first place than she wouldn't be going through this. I can't say I don't see where he's coming from, but the only person who should be blamed in this situation is that rat Theo.

But he also told me that she hugged him and that she let him hold her. And not to mention that he's earned the privilege of calling her Aves again. I'm personally glad about that one because it's weird as hell hearing him call her Avery.

But now I'm impatient. I'm sick of waiting for them to stop fucking around.

We've all known that they are going to get back together. Cam, Grace, and I have talked about it pretty much since they broke up. There is literally no universe, no dimension or alternate reality, where Finn and Avery don't end up together. Those two people are the closest thing I think I've ever seen to soulmates.

We can't tell them that though, obviously. They need to figure it out on their own. Though, Finn definitely knows. He's never stopped loving that girl for a second, even though he was a complete dumb fuck.

But honestly, maybe they just needed time to themselves in the grand scheme of it all. Finn was overworking himself just first year, to the point where I had to sit him down and really get it into his head that there's no rush in becoming the best. He put an obscene amount of pressure on himself - every time the Sharks lost he was convinced it was because he missed a pass or made a turnover, even if that wasn't what lead to the goal. He'd only let up on himself if he had a perfect game, but not even Finn is capable of that.

And I know Avery was struggling to get settled too. That girl moved from Seattle, to New York, and then to Los Angeles within the span of a couple months. That is a whole lot of change for one girl, especially since she was only 18. Sure, she was definitely mature for her age but she was still young. A mature 18 year old is still an 18 year old. She still had to figure out college and her life away from her family. That's a lot to handle.