Forever and Ever;;26

The guys were headed to Nashville for games three and four. Jimmy asked me to come with but I decided not to. I wasn't interested going to Nashville to sit by myself surrounded by hillbilly fans. No way.





During game three at sat at Morgan's with a bucket of popcorn in my lap. Listing to Ally cry in the other room. I turned up the TV which displayed the ugly truth. Nashville won. We had lost big time. 3-5. Not a great way to begin the playoffs. It was only game three. Maybe the wings weren't going to win a cup this year. Or maybe I was over reacting.

But then again... maybe I wasn't because we lost again this time 3-2.
***
That night Jimmy got back really late and I tried to stay up to see him. I turned on the TV and they were playing re-runs of last year's playoffs. I tried to figure out what we did wrong. Why we didn't win. My train of thought was interrupted by Jimmy coming through the front door banging his bags around as they hit the walls. He smiled at me just slightly before I went over to him. Standing on my toes his lips pressed against mine.
"I missed you." He said.
"Missed you too. How was Nashville?"
"Terrible..." He shook his head.
"How could we let them come back like that!" He raised his voice.
"I'm going to bed. Night."
"Yeah I'm beat."
"What ever. You didn't even play."
I must have hit a sore spot. Jimmy loved laying in the NHL but hated being a back up.
"I'm sorry Jimmy."
"Its fine."
***
That next morning I sat on the couch going through old pictures and videos on my laptop. I turned my attention up to Versus on the television. They had recaps of the Nashville & Wings games. I sighed as Brian Engblom talked about the wings not winning the cup this year if they kept playing like that.
I jumped as I saw Jimmy out of the corner of my eye.
"Why are you watching this shit?" He picked up the remote and turned to the news.
"Its not shit Jimmy."
"They think we can't win it. That's shit."
He sat down next to me and took the computer on my hands. It just so happened that the video Jimmy had taken of me on the wedding was on the screen. He pressed the play button as I tried to take it out of his hands.
"Nooo let me watch this!" He grinned.
"No that's terrible."
"Nah it's hot."
Finally the movie ended. And I switched to the one of Jimmy, Meecher, and Aaron going at it to 'I like Big Butts and I can not lie'.
He muttered a "Oh god"
"God Jimmy you don't even like that with me."
"I don't even remember that, okay"
It reminded me that I had been a bitch to Aaron the other night. I needed to talk to him.