Forever - Christian Yelich

We're Really In This.

Brooklyn~ 

The team and I were off on another road trip for 2 weeks. This time, east coast style. Yankees, Phillies, and Nationals were up next and I think the team was more than ready. "Hey, Brooklyn, you ready for the road trip?" I hear as someone comes up to me. I look over my shoulder and see Ryan coming up to me slinging an arm around me. "Oh, yeah, I'm like a pro now," I say teasing back at him. 

We walk on the tarmac to the plane, "Hey, are you okay after that incident at the bar," I turn and groan at him. "I'm fine. I'm pissed at him. But, I promise, everything is fine," I tell him as we head up the stairs and into the plane. "Okay, I just wanted to make sure. You seemed pretty freaked out when it happened," I nod and head to my seat. 

I quickly sit down and put in my AirPods to zone out and take a break from the real world. I close my eyes and wait to take off. I feel someone sit next to me and I open my eyes to see Christian starring at me. "Yes?" I laugh. "What'd Ryan want?" I look toward him, "He was just asking if I was okay," I reassure him. 

I soon start to fall asleep and feel Christian guide my head to his shoulder. He then puts his head on mine and grabs my hand. I give him a light squeeze and I am drifting off to sleep as we head to New York City. 

I woke up and saw we landed but Christian was knocked out. I kiss his cheek, "Hey, we've landed. We gotta get to the hotel. You have an early game tomorrow," I say getting up and stretching. He wakes up and smiles at me. He gets up and grabs his stuff from the overhead bin and we head out the door. He grabs my hand as we walk to the buses and load them quickly to get to the hotel. 

Christian and I started sharing one room since it would be easier. We got to our room and settled in. Christian sits down on our bed and looks through his phone. I walk over to him and stand in front of him to get his attention. He looks up at me with his beautiful brown, tired, eyes, and smiles at me. He moves his hands and I get into his lap. He rests his hands on my hips and moves them around my butt and up my back. "Are we really doing this?" he questions. I slightly laugh and rests my hands at the base of his neck, once in a while running my hands through his luscious, dark brown hair. 

"We're doing this," I say and he laughs and leans us back. We start off kissing slow, his hands wander my body as mine stays at his neck while my thumb runs along his jawline. He breaks the kiss and flips us around and takes his shirt off rather quickly. He moves his hands up my shirt and lifts it over my head. 

We hear a loud knock at our door and we immediately jump at the sound. "Who the hell is that?" I ask shocked that we are being interrupted at such a late time. "I don't know, here's your shirt," I laugh and quickly put it back on while he goes to the door. 

"You guys need something?" I hear Christian say, a little less enthused than he was a few minutes ago. I shake my head and walk over to my suitcase. I happen to look over and see Ryan and Moose standing at our door giving us both weird looks. "Oh, no, we don't, we just wanted to see if you guys were busy." I walk over to them and squint my eyes at them. "Are you sure that's it?" I laugh. 

Christian wraps his arm around my shoulder and looks down at me, "Yeah, we're busy," he says and the guy's eyes get wide. "You two are disgusting," Ryan says. 

"Dude, you have three kids, what are you talking about?" Christian says as I walk back into my room as I hear my phone buzzing. The guys just laugh and start to leave our room. 

I look at my phone and see a text from my mom. 

Mom: I know you just left today for another road trip, but I just wanted to let you know that you're brother got into an accident. He is doing really well. Doctors think he should make a full recovery. There is no need to come home. Go be the wonderful Athletic Trainer you are. You make us proud every day. 

I smile at the last part and immediately call my mom to see what the hell happened. 

"Mom, is everything okay? What happened?"

Honey, everything is fine. Caleb was just in a little accident. He was turning left and a car didn't stop and hit him head-on. As I said, he will be completely fine. He just has a few bruises and cuts.

"Oh thank god. Can you tell him to call me whenever he can?" I've been super busy with work and life lately." 

Oh, I know honey, you and work. Also, when do we get to meet him? Oh god, I was not expecting that. Of course, I told them, but we've just not had time to "Meet the Parents". 

"Mom, it will happen when it needs to happen," I say smiling at Christian as he looks at me and gives me a reassuring smile. 

I'll let you go. I can hear that you are tired. Go get some rest. 

"I love you, Mom. Please keep me updated on Caleb."

I will, Brooklyn. I love you too

 I smile and hang up and wipe the tears that formed while I was on the phone with her. "What was that about? And I sense that at some point that conversation was about me?" I laugh and nod at his questions. 

"My brother was in an accident earlier today and they just wanted to update me and yeah, they want to meet you. Only if you want to, of course."

"I'm sorry about your brother," he says and I nod as he takes my hands. "Also, my mom wants to meet you too." 

"Oh, we're really in this now, aren't we?" I laugh as we savor this silly moment in our New York hotel room after being interrupted by the guys. 

"Yeah, we're really in this," he says leaning down kissing me.