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lafrexniere · 2 years

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Don't Puck With Us Pt. 1

This story was inspired by a series of dreams I had

Part 2 will be out soon hopefully

It’s the day of the 2022 NHL draft, you and your best friend have been waiting for this moment. After the two of you started your youtube channel where you interviewed the prospects remotely that would answer your emails and messages about nothing hockey related, but giving the viewers a taste of the players’ personalities, it was time to meet them in person finally. As well as interviews you and her would mess around on the ice having both played hockey growing up, doing different challenges and TikToks for your audience and to give the players a taste of what would happen if you were to meet in person on the ice.

The two of you started your vlog,

“Hey everyone, we are here in Montreal right outside the arena,” you start.

“We are very excited I think I can speak for both of us,” your best friend tells the viewers. You proceed to show the viewers your outfits as well as tell them who you are most excited to meet in person today. She was excited to meet Logan Cooley and Cutter Gauthier and you were most excited to meet Juraj Slavkovsky and Shane Wright even if he was a little rude in the virtual interview. It seemed more sarcasm than rude the first time you talked, but he didn’t want to keep in touch about meeting this day, with either of you.

The two of you entered the arena looking for your badges but had trouble finding them. You asked security about it and they didn’t believe you were really them, after showing them enough proof and getting recognized by a couple of fans who had purchased tickets, another officer handed you both your passes. You walked in and started recording again keeping your viewers updated while walking to your lower level seats with the other media channels present. You watched some players walk past the both of you to get to their seats and began to fangirl. You and your best friend squealed to each other after the short adrenaline rush of the players smirking at you both. The draft is about to start you record your reactions to each of the picks and are both shocked the Juraj went first. Your friend records you with your face in your palms repeating the phrase “Juraj to Montreal” causing you to almost miss the next pick. It was pick number three and the project first Shane Wright had still not been picked, you turned to look over at him sitting, he was struggling to keep it together.

“He’s pissed, like fuming,” your friend said with a shrug, “I don’t know how the interviews tomorrow are going to go.”

“We will see, hopefully, he doesn’t drop any further than this,” you replied. Just like that, he was drafted fourth by Seattle. Everyone was too stunned to have any reaction, including Shane himself.

The draft continued until the final pick and it was time to go back to the hotel, as everyone was leaving you bumped into a familiar figure and lost balance only to be caught by said figure.

“Sorry,” he said, you looked up to see Juraj staring at you, “You okay?”

“Oh yes, uhm thanks for catching me, gotta run, bye.” You waved as you both turned around to go your separate ways. You ran over to your friend screaming,

“Oh my gosh, you won’t believe what just happened,” “Where did you go you left me alone,” she pouted.

“Girly I just tripped and fell into Juraj and HE CAUGHT ME,” you quickly covered your mouth after that last part came out a little too loud. You both grasped each other’s hands and squealed. You both ran to your uber and you could not stop thinking about your interaction on the short ride to the hotel. You both went to the room and talked all about your plans for the interviews tomorrow while also sending a “checking-in” text to the group chat you had made with the top prospects you had planned on interviewing.

“Hey I ran into someone too, but it was when coming out of the bathroom, kind of embarrassing,” your friend told you.

“Well, who was it?” You were on the edge of your seat.

“Uhh Conor Geekie, you know that guy the Yotes drafted,” she said blushing.

“How did you bump into him coming out of the bathroom?”

“He didn’t check the sign until he saw me come out and turned around.” Her face was really red now as she let out an awkward giggle. You cackled,

“He really didn’t check the bathroom sign,” you began to cry you were laughing so hard. She began to laugh too,

“Thank god we aren’t interviewing him tomorrow,” she wheezed.

“Why would it be a problem if we were?” I was confused, was there more than just an accidental bump? She didn’t answer.

“Ahem,” you cleared your throat.

“Oh, he was just acting weird after that’s all.”

“What kind of weird?”

“He said, ‘I am so sorry this is so embarrassing can I do something to fix this like I don’t know something tomorrow?’” She quoted him.

“WHAT?!?” You yelled, then remembered you were in a hotel and had to be quiet.

“Typical teenage hockey boy, awkward interaction meant to turn flirty,” she laughed again. We were in for something unlike the other interviews tomorrow based on both our interactions with two players from the 2022 first-round draft class. You both calmed yourselves down after laughing about the awkward interaction with Conor and got ready for bed. You received confirmations from the players for the interviews tomorrow and also a confirmation on where the interviews would be taking place.

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You both woke up to the sound of her alarm, jolting up immediately out of excitement. It was interview day and you couldn’t wait to see Juraj again after your interaction and surprise him that you were the girl he bumped into.

“Today’s the day,” she exclaimed, “cmon we gotta go get breakfast we are on a tight schedule.” You both got ready somewhat quickly while also trying to look professional. You both went down to the lobby, got a quick caffeine boost then went to your meeting point. You were surprised to see the five boys already inside on the couch where one interview would take place while another interview happened in the room across from this one. You both proceeded to introduce yourselves,

“I’m Y/N and this is F/N,” you began.

“We are going to get to know you guys a little today for our youtube channel before we go into the on-ice portion of our video tomorrow,” she continued. The five boys nodded in understanding.

“There are three rooms here, one for one of us to interview in, one for the other, and then a waiting room for those not getting interviewed. I know this seems like a lot for just one silly little video, but trust me when you guys see the result it will be worth it.” You paused after that statement, looked at the row of boys on the couch, and noticed Juraj paying closer attention to you speaking than the other four, Cutter was smirking at your friend, and she was smiling back at him. I pulled her over to the side where she then whispered,

“He’s staring at me, and he’s really cute,”

“Who? Cutter? Oh yeah, he is,” you both quietly giggled,

“Well look, Juraj is staring at you too, you think he remembers you from last night?” You knew for a fact he did based on the way he was looking at you, it was the same way he gazed into your eyes when he caught you last night. You shrugged as a response to your friend.

“Best for last?” you asked, “That way we have more time with the ones we think may like us?” She liked that idea, you both picked each other’s players first. In your interview with Cutter after you asked the questions and you ended your recording he asked if he could ask you something about your friend, the question being “is she single?”

“She might be,” you told him trying to mess with him.

“Y/N, can I get a definite answer before I do something really dumb when I go in there with her?” He seemed so sweet, you just wanted to test and see if he could make her happy. You asked him a series of questions similar to what a father or brother would ask when his daughter or sister brought home a new guy. He passed your test, meanwhile, in the other interview room, your friend was doing the same thing with Juraj for you except she was more strict about it. The boys in the waiting room were wondering what was taking so long, especially Shane, he was getting impatient. He knocked on the door to the room you and Cutter were in, you opened it immediately so he didn’t think anything fishy was going on if he got no answer. Shane had volunteered himself to interview with you next. He kept his answers to the questions short and self-centered, unlike the other guys. He left the room immediately when finished, you worried you upset him when asking about how he felt going fourth instead of first, his mood, however, stayed the same throughout the interview even before you asked that question. You both finished interviewing the others and it was finally time for both of you to be alone with your draft crush. You quickly set up your camera to start recording,

“Come on in,” you tell him. He smiles a sweet smile, a cute smile. Why were you thinking that right before the interview started, you were going to be distracted by his looks while talking? “Focus Y/N Focus,” you thought to yourself as he took his seat. You proceeded through the interview asking a few questions you did make some slip-ups when asking questions for example,

“Is there something that you will really kiss- I mean miss about your home when moving here?” You found yourself making simple romantic errors in questions but after each one he grinned and even got a little red. At the end of your session right, as you were about the video and he thought you did, he asked you something.

“Look Y/N this interview has been really nice, but I think we should really get to know each other better, just us, maybe dinner tonight, I can drive rental car to hotel to pick you up if you like, you don’t have to say yes, you are just very nice and pretty.” You paused before responding then walked over to him when he began to turn around,

“Juraj wait,” he stopped. “I would love to.” He smiled and told you he would text you later when he was ready to pick you up and fist pumped to himself as he walked out of the room. You rushed back over to your camera after you closed the door,

“Ok I had to cut the clip but I can leave in a little sneak peek but Juraj just asked me on a date,” you blushed into the camera, “Let’s see what F/N did in her interview with Cutter.” You ran into the waiting room to see the boys all gone then ran towards the other room where your friend was, you stopped when you still heard talking from the room, a muffled voice. You pressed your ear against the door to hear the voice was Cutter, you couldn’t quite make out what he said but he opened the door and almost knocked you over out of excitement.

“Oh Y/N I am so sorry, wait what were you doing there,” he was puzzled.

“Uhh Uhhh none of your business I was just waiting and didn’t want to interrupt anything geez,” you were rambling to buy your friend sometime to record what she would be telling the viewers happened after the interview. Cutter still wouldn’t leave though, he kept stalling talking to you even when you tried to shoo him away.

“Why are you still here don’t you have somewhere to be?” You ask him more sternly after he has ignored your other cues trying to get him to leave.

“Not until she’s done,” he points to your friend, “we are going to grab a bite and uhh talk after or something I don’t know we didn’t work out the details.” Your jaw dropped. Both of you somehow landed dates in just a day. She began to walk out of the room,

“Can I just have a second with her before you guys go?” Cutter shrugged then flipped his fluffy dark brown hair,

“I don’t see why not.” You walked into the room right as she was about to step out and closed the door trapping her in there.

“What?” she asked sounding a little annoyed.

“YOU HAVE A DATE!” You screamed, she covered your mouth to cut you off.

“Shhhhh I don’t want him to hear it called that, it’s just us ‘hanging out’ getting food, I don’t know.” She stopped then changed the topic of conversation to you, “What about Juraj huh did he say anything?”

“I’ll show you later but you have to go, if you beat me back to the hotel room don’t worry I’m just out with…a friend… yeah a friend.”

“Okay, right just a friend that TOTALLY isn’t Juraj.” You rolled your eyes then opened the door and shoved her out, “I have the cameras, you go on your- I mean you go hang out.” You winked at Cutter you both knew what it really was and even your friend did too, she just didn’t want to rush into it.

The two of them left, leaving you to have the uber all to yourself. Your driver dropped you off in front of the hotel offering help to carry your things. You passed on the offer and wobbled into the lobby with your priceless tech in each hand. You felt a buzz in your pocket but couldn’t check who it was, you felt another and another one after the other as you made your way to the elevator. You assumed it was the group chat and you assumed correctly. When you got to the room you put your items down and then whipped out your phone eager to see what was keeping you in suspense. You were let down when it was a text from Simon in the group chat saying that today was good and that he couldn’t wait for the on-ice things tomorrow. Juraj answered with a thumbs up and you answered with It will be some fun. You were hoping that text would spark Juraj to text you separate from the group chat, but didn’t get anything from him until an hour later telling you he was on his way to pick you up.

Wait are we going somewhere fancy? Should I change? He didn’t answer. It was a special weekend filled with special occasions making you second guess yourself. You quickly changed into a dress you had packed just in case there was some fancy place you needed to be, you were thankful you did. When you got to the lobby Juraj was waiting there dressed in a shirt and tie waiting for you. He was stunned but tried to hide it even though it was impossible for him.

“You look beautiful Y/N you really do.” You blushed, heart-melting and brain turning off.

“You look beautiful too,” you giggled gazing into his eyes then realized what you just said.

“Thank you” he laughed.

“Sorry I meant handsome,” you giggled again this time out of embarrassment.

“I know what you meant, anyways shall we go?” He held his arm out for you to hold while walking to his car. He opened the door for you, “Wow what a gentleman” you thought. You didn’t think anything could possibly go wrong with this date other than you embarrassing yourself in front of him again. You decided to remain silent in the car until he put on music. He somehow knew what was your favorite style to listen to and was humming along to a song he put on, you knew the song well and hummed along too. He noticed and glanced over at you,

“You like this?” He asked, you nodded. You thought being quiet would keep you from embarrassing yourself, but you not responding made Juraj confused and sad. He wanted this night to go well just as much as you did. You looked at him, thinking before you started,

“Yeah, I really like this kind of music tbh,” you said quietly.

“Yeah me too” he answered. This was kind of awkward but you were hoping when you got to dinner it would be better. I wonder how F/N is doing? You thought.

You arrived at the restaurant you would be eating at, Juraj got out of the car and opened the door for you. When you went inside and sat down at your table all the tension and fear went away. You both began talking about your lives and just began getting to know each other, and it was actually really fun. You had more in common with each other than you both thought. After you finished dessert you figured it was time to leave, even though you didn’t want to go. You both walked back to the car as Juraj opened the door for you again and closed it behind you. You were both sad you didn’t want this night to end. Juraj pulled in front of your hotel and paused as you opened your own door.

“I had a really great time tonight, thank you.” You told him.

“Yeah me too, just one thing before you leave,” he smiled. You closed your door, he reached his arms out for a hug. Oh, just a hug, you thought. You put your arms around him as he pulled you in close, you pulled away then his hand moved from your back up to your cheek. You began to lean in, slowly closing your eyes as he did the same. You kissed, and fireworks went off in your heart. He pulled away this time, and just looked at you smiling. He leaned in once more and pressed his lips on yours. You were extremely happy when you pulled away,

“Good night Y/N,” he said softly, “I’ll see you tomorrow.” You had completely forgotten you were supposed to do the on-ice video tomorrow.

“Good night Juraj,” you said slowly stepping out of the car, sad that this night had to end, but you were excited for what lay ahead tomorrow.

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