Chapter 27

I walk around to the passenger side of the car as LC walks to the driver side of the car. It’s going to be a little strange to sit shot gun in my own car.
Getting in, I buckle up.

“So let’s go driving. I’ll correct you if you make a mistake,” I say.

“Ok that’s sounds good,” LC says as she begins the car up.

I sit as she backs out of the parking space and begins to drive out of the parking lot.

“When we get down to the spot that we are going, I’ll switch spots with you, so it will be fair,” I say.

“Ok, which way do I turn?” Lc asks as she gets to the exit.

“To the left, like the way we go to the Lemieux’s house,” I say.

“So I get to drive all the twists and turns?” Lc asks.

“Yep,”
We both smile as she turns left and heads out onto the road as she turns left again down the twists roads.

“ So am I allow to talk?” LC asks.

“Yeah, as long as you drive and your eyes are on the road,” I say.

“Ok, so where are we going?” LC asks.

“To Southpointe,” I say.

“It’s that far?” Lc asks.

“No, its about 40 minutes away from here,” I say.

“Ah ok, so are we shopping down there when we are done?” LC asks.

“No, I’ll drive back up here and we’ll shop there. Then when we come home we can get some unpacking done before the game comes on,” I say.

“Ok sounds good to me. So what do you think thoses boys of ours are doing?” LC says.
“Who knows, they probably are taking their pre game nap since its about 3:30,” I say.

“Probably,” LC says.

As LC drives, I watch her skills behind the wheel which are not that bad. She’s a good driver but has a habit of not turning on her blinker before turning.

As we reach Southpointe, LC pulls into the parking lot.

“Park and we’ll switch places,” I say.
LC turns the wheel and pulls into a parking place by the building.

“So how did I do?” LC asks as she turns off the engine.

“You did pretty good but, not using your blinker everytime you turn. Other then that, you did pretty good. Now lets go get some grocerys for the apartment,” I say as I open the door and got out.
Walking over to the driver side, I get in and buckle up.
Placing my hands on the keys, I turn them.

“You ready?” I ask.

“Yes,” LC says.

I back out of the parking place and head out of the parking lot to head back to Sewickley Heights.

“So when am I going to be able to drive?” LC asks.

“How about every Thrusday after school,” I say.

“Works for me,” LC says.

“Alright,” I say.

“I can’t wait to see the game tonight and Colby,” LC says.
I smile.

“Your so in love with Colby,” I say.

“Your so in love with my cousin,” LC says.

“Not so in love with him. I still barely know him and its going to take awhile to love someone,” I say.

“Why? Did something happen?” LC asks.

“My ex, Ryan cheating on me with one of my best friends that lived in Columbus. Ryan lives in Columbus but, he was out here for college and that’s how I met him. I’m just afrreid of someone hurting me again,” I say.

“I know Sid and I know that he would never hurt anyone, expectally you. You mean too much to Sid,” LC says.

“How do you know that?” I ask.

“Because the look in his eyes that I see whenever he is with you. He has never had that look in his eyes before, even with another girl. It doesn’t matter if you take it slow with him, he will always be there for you. I know my cousin,” LC says.

“Thanks,” I say.

“I know he would have said something similar to that,” LC says as we laugh a little bit.

What LC just said about Sidney, makes me a little more confident that maybe the relationship might work between me and Sidney.

20 minutes of driving later, I pull into the Kroger’s parking lot.

“So are you paying?” LC asks.

“Yeah unless you want too,” I say.
We laugh.

“No you can pay,” LC says.
I park in a parking space as I turn off the car.

“So are we going to shop together or separte?” LC asks as I take my seat belt off.

“Doesn’t matter, we can do it by ourselves and meet by the front,” I say.

“I like that,” LC says as me and her both get out of the car.

“Ok, we’ll do that then,” I say as me and her both walk passed the cars and into the building.

As LC grabs a basket, I grab a cart.

“Getting a lot?” LC asks as I push the buggy in behind her.

“Yeah, I need a lot,” I say.

“Ok, see you in a few,” LC says as she heads to the right and me to the left to the produce department.

I pick up a lot of fruits and vegetables as I had to the different departments of the store.

“Hey Aaylah,” Nathalie says.

“Hey Nat, how are you today?” I ask.

“I’m doing alright today, the kids are home probably watching TV,” Nat says.

“Who is watching them?” I ask.

“Mario, he had a choice either here or watching and you can guess which one he took,” Nat says.

“Yeah,” I say.

“So where is Lauren?” Nat asks.

“She is actually shopping, like I am. We need food for the apartment,” I say.

“Ah ok, well I’ll let you get back to your shopping. I’ll talk to you soon,” Nat says.

“Ok,” I say, as I contuine on to walk through the store.

About 15 minutes later, I push down the last alise as I stop by the magazines.
I see one with Sidney on it and picked it up. On the inside was an interview with him and everything.
Smiling, I place it into the buggy as I head for the check out.

LC was waiting there.

“Finally your done. I’ve been here for like 10 minutes,” LC says.

“Well I had a lot to get, so your ready?” I ask.’

“Yep,” LC says.

“Let’s go to lane 11 and get checked out so we can go home,” I say as I move my buggy over to the lane.
I walk in first and begin to pile on my food to the countier.

“Do you have a Kroger’s card today?” he asks.

“No I do not,” I say.

“Use mine,” I hear a voice says as Nat walks away from her buggy to hand the cashier the card.

“Thanks Nat,” I say as I hand back her card.

“No problem. See you girls later,” Nat says as she walks out.

As I finish getting my food on, I place the magazine on the countier.

“You got a Sid mag?” LC asks as she places her food on the countier.

“Yes I did. It was an interesting article,” I say as LC smiles.

“So this is all together?” The cashier asks.

“Yes,” I say as I move my buggy up and the bagger began to place the bags into the buggy as I look at the total.
After he rang up LC’s food, I look at the total

$225.56

“I’m sorry,” LC says.

“It’s mostly from my food, LC. Not yours,” I say as I pull out my wallet from my pocket since my purse as at home.
Opening it, I place my debt card on the countier along with my driver’s lincese .

“Thank you,” he says as he hands me both cards back as I wait for a paper to sign.

He hands me the paper and it sign as I place my wallet into my pocket.

“Thank you and have a great day,” he says.

“Thank you,” I say as I begin to push my buggy outside.

“Thanks for buying food, Aaylah,” LC says.

“Your welcome but don’t get used to it,” I say as we laugh to the car.

“Need help putting it in?” LC asks as I grab my keys from my pocket to pop open the trunk.

“Yeah I can use some help,” I say as we begin to place all the bags into the trunk.

“You want to take the buggy back?” I ask.

“Sure,” LC says as she grabs it.

I close the trunk and head to the driver side of the car.
Opening the door I get into the car as I place the key into the engine.

As LC comes back, I just clipped my seat belt into the slot.

“That’s taken care of,” LC says as she gets in and buckled up.

“Ok. Everything clear on my right side?” I ask.

“Yep,” LC says as I put the car in reverse and back out of the parking place.
I turn it onto drive as I drive off out of the parking lot onto the road.

“Are we going the same way home cause I don’t remember any of this” LC asks.

“No, I’m going to go a different way home today,” I say as I turn right.

“This a short cut?” LC asks.

“It’s and easier way to get home,” I say, turning left.
The apartments complex is the next right.

Turning on my blinker, I turn into the back enternce of the apartment complex.

“We are home,” I say as I turn, then turn left again as I come in front of my building.

“Wow, that was fast,” LC says.

“Yeah, my mom actually showed me that since she lived around this area when she was younger,” I say.

“Why did she move?” LC asks as I turn and park my car into a parking place.

“To move to North Versailles with my dad since he had an house out there,” I say as I shut off the car.

“Ah ok, why did you move out here?” Lc asks as I open up my door.

“I lived with Vette for about 2 months, I wanted to get away from my mom and live on my own,” I say as I get out of the car and open my backdoor to grab my bag.

Closing the door, I head and pop open the trunk.

“So how much work do you have?” LC asks as she helps me grab the groceries.

“I have a good amount of work since I was out,” I say as I grab my water into my arms.
I had bags with both hands, my backpack on my shouder and my keys in my hand.

“You got a lot there,” LC says as she closes the trunk.

“Grab my keys from my hand and open the door,” I say as she uses her free hand and grabs the keys out of my hand.

I let LC lead as we both walk onto the sidewalk and head to the covered apartments.
As we reach the enternce, we head up the wooden stairs to the second floor and stop in front of my door.

I hear the keys jungle as LC open the door up.

“I’m so glad to be home,” I say as I walk in behind her.
As soon as I get into the apartment, I drop the bags by the kitchen table.

“It’s so good to be here,” LC says as she begins to put up the food.

I join her and help her put up the food in the proper spot.

After everything was put away, I pick up my backpack and lift it onto the table.

“You going to do homework?” LC asks.

“Nah, I just wanted to put it there cause I have do some tonight, probably after the game. Ready to go unpack your things?” I ask.

“Yeah, so are we going to get the boxes out of the room before we bring more in?” LC asks.

“Yeah, that’s a good idea and it might be easier,” I say as LC and myself head back to her room to begin unpacking.

As we unpack for a little bit, my stomach begins to growl.

“You want to order a pizza for dinner?” I ask.

“Yeah, I want extra cheese please,” LC says.

“Alright,” I say as I walk out of the room and into my kitchen to order the pizza.

Picking up the phone, I dial the pizza place.

“Pizza Hut, may I help you?” a guy says.

“Hold on a minute,” I say as I cover up the phone.

“Hey LC, you want to share a large pizza?” I ask.

“Yeah, I think we can finish it,” LC yells back.

“Ok, I would like a large cheese pizza,” I say.

“Will that be it for you today?” he asks.

“Yes,” I say.

“Is this for delivery?” he asks.

“Yes,” I say.

“Address?” he asks.

“1287 Sewickley Lane, its apartment complex,” I say.

“Alright, the total is 10.15 and it should be there in 20 minutes,” he says.

“Thank you,” I say as I hang up the phone, walking back into the LC’s room.

“Should be here in 20 minutes,” I say as I begin unpacking again.

“Alright, how long until the game comes on?” Lc asks as I place her clothes in the closet.

“In about and hour and a half, are we unpacking after we eat?” I ask.

“Nah, we can finish tomorrow or whenever,” LC says.

20 minutes later, I move the rest of the boxes into the room as the doorbell rang.

“It’s the pizza,” I say as I exit out of the room and walk to the door.
As I open it, I pull out my wallet , grabbing 11 dollars out.

“$10.15,” he says.
I hand him the 11 dollars.

“Keep the change,” I say as he hands me the pizza.

“Thank you,” he says.

“Have a good night,” I say as I close the door but as I was closing it a women walks up with flowers in her hands as she walks over to the door.

Placing the pizza on the table, I re-open the door.

"Hello," she says.

"Hi, who are theses for?" i ask.

"For Miss Aaylah Thomason and Miss Lauren Crosby," she says.

"LC, come here," I say as I hear Lc walking.

"what is it?" she asks.

"Are you Lauren?" the lady asks.

"Yes, why?" LC asks.

"These's are yours," she says as she hands LC dozen red roses.

"thank you who are they from?" LC asks.

"I can not say. Here are your's Aaylah," she says as she hands them to me.

"Thank you," I say as the lady walks off.
I close my door.

"I wonder who they are from," I say as I seen a card on the side.
I grab it and open it to relive a note.

Aaylah-
I miss you while being on the road. Even though we are taking it slow I still miss you.
I'll see you tomorrow

Love, Sidney

"Aww," I say.

"they are from Sid?" LC asks.

"Yep, yours from Colby?" I ask.

"Yep, his note is so beauiful," LC says.

"Give me them and I'll place them into an glass," I say.

"Ok," LC says as she hands me her red roses as I walk into the kicthen.
opening the cover, I pull out my tall glass and fill it with water.

As I get it close to the stop I shut off the water and place both dozen of roses into the water.
You can tell and different between roses, LCs are red and mine are white.

"there," I say as I pick up the cup and place it in the middle of my kicthen table.

"Thats beauiful, so are we eating at the table?" LC asks.

"Yeah, lets eat at the table tonight," I say as I pull out and chair.

"Want a water?" LC asks as she heads into the kicthen.

"Yes please," I say as I open up the box and pick up a piece of pizza

"Here," Lc says as she puts the bottle on the table.

"Thank ya," I say as I take a bit of the pizza.

"Could the flowers have been their surpise?" LC asks.

"It could be," I say as I eat more pizza.

10 minutes later, we finish eating.

"wow I cant believe out of me and you we ate that whole pizza," LC says as i get up.

"I cant believe it neither," I say as push in my chair.

"So what time is it?" LC asks.

"6:25," I say as I walk into the living room.

"30 minutes," LC says as I hear two songs coming on.

"The boys," LC says as she walks to her room as I jog to my room.
picking up my phone from beside Sid's keys, i flip it open

"Hello," I say.

"Hey," Sid says.

"Hey, how's new Jersey?" I ask.

"It's going alright. Did you get the flowers?" Sid asks.

"Yes I got them and i love them. White is better then red," I say as me and him laugh a little

"I figured that you might want something different then the red," Sid says.

"Well you were right, anyways how can you be talking to me while your on the ice?" I ask.

"Me and Army headed back to the locker room a little bit early to call you and LC.
Speaking ok LC, how is it going with her?" sid asks.

"It's going good. She is a great roommate," I say.

"Good, well I got to be going. Will you be up like 30 minutes after the game?" sid asks

"Yeah, I plan on getting some homework done for class," I say.

"Well expect a call around 10:30 or so," sid says.

"I will. Good luck tonight," I say.

"thanks, talk to ya in a bit," sid says.

"bye," I say as I hit end and place the phone back down by his keys.

I walk back up front and LC was still on the phone as I take a sit on the couch.

"alright I love you too bye," LC says as she closes her phone.

"I guess that was the boy's surprise," Lc says as she places her phone down.

"yeah I'm thinking the same thing," I say.

"So now what do we do?" LC asks.

"Watch TV until the game comes on," I say as I get up from off the couch and go over to the computer.

"I can watch it?" LC asks.

"yeah you dont have to ask," I say as I log into my AIM account and as I do and Im pops up.

Genosgirl71: hey Leah, its Vette
Pittbabe88: Hey, why dont you call?
GG71: My cell got shut off and my phone bill is too high right now
PB88: Oh ok, wait i justed talked to you yesterday. What happened?"
GG71: I didnt pay my bill on time. atleast I have internet still lol
PB88: Yeah ain't that the truth
GG71: so how was the move?
PB88: It went well actually, we did some unpacking today and now just chilling waiting for the game to come on
GG71: Oh ok, so yo have alot of school work?
PB88: Yeah but its due like in two weeks, so im not in too big of a hurry.

20 minutes later..

PB88: I'll talk to you tomorrow.
GG71: Alright have fun watching the game :) and say to hi LC for me

I then hit and logged off of my computer as i walk over to the couch.

"5 minutes!," LC exclaims as I sit down on the loveseat.

"Yeah I know. You know if I never would have went to the game with Vette, i probably wouldnt be here with you as a roommate right now," Isay.

"Im glad you went to that game," LC says as she changes the channel as she stops on FSN, which has the game on.

"Dan will talk to Sid the kid when we come back," Steigy says.

"Your lucky they are interviewing Sid," LC says.

"Hey, colby might get interviewed during the game. You never know," I say.

"Yeah your right. I wonder if Sid will say hi," LC says.

"Nah, I dont think so," I say as it came back on.

"You've been winning alot here lately at home, can you beat the Devils on the road?" Dan asks.

"I think we can, we just have to work together," Sid says.

"Thanks Sid, next up is Penguins Versus Devils," Dan says as an commerical came on, like before every game whenever Mario was still playing. It was an engery commerical

Then the commentiers begin to talk as the game begins.

Right out of the get go, Colby scored a goal.

"Army," I say as I clap.

"WooHoo, my baby scored!!"LC exclaims

AS the game went on, Sid and Ryan Whitney scored and #3 went down by a check into the barer.

"Dan will talk with Colby Armstrong when we return,"

"they're going to talk to Colby," LC says in excitment.
I just smile.

As it came back on, LC's face is glued to the Tv.

"Congrats on your goal, did you think that it would have went in by the way you shot it?" Dan Potash asks.

"I didn't think that it would have went it but it did," Colby says.

"Good luck in the second," Dan says.

"Thank you," colby says as she walks off.

"He did well. He sounds happy," LC says as she gets back onto the couch.

A few minutes later,

"Well we have a report that Mark Eaton will not be back out for the rest of the game. He injuired his knee,"

"That sucks," I say as I see number five is getting on the ice for Eaton as the second was about toe begin

"yeah it does, he was doing good," LC says as the second period begins.

I watch the screen and look at sidney when he is on the ice and off the ice. He is the only player I am following, which is weird considering my TV isnt very big. I can still see him on the bench and on the ice.

"Oh here we go," LC says as I watch Colby dropping his gloves as he was ready to fight number 9 from the opposite team

"Come on Army!!" I yell as he begins to fight the other guy, which really wasnt even a fight cause the other guy looks like he is not putting up a fight.

"Kick his ass, Colby!!" LC shouts as the refs get on the players.

"Colby won that one," Lc says as we both watch him go into the pently box for fighting

"Yeah he did, who cares if we got 5 minutes," I say as the game resumes as Sid wins the faceoff.

"Come on boys," LC says as i watch Geno passing it to sidney as he shots it.

"Score, Sidney Crosby,"

I smile.

"Go sid!!" LC says as she was clapping for him as was I.

As the second period comes to a close, only sidney scored.

"Dan will talk to Petr Sykora when we come back.

I get up off the couch.

"Where are you going?"LC asks.

"Nowhere," I say as I strech.
It's been a long day.

"So what do you do during intermissions?" LC asks.

"I haven't watched a game in a long time but what i used to do was play games with my dad.We played all kind of games. I was 14 since I watched my last game,' I say.

"Aww, was your dad fun?" LC asks.

"Yeah he was the best," I say.

As about 10 minutes pass, the third period is about to begin.

"do you think we'll win?" LC asks as #11 is starting at faceoff.

"Not going to say," I say as I turn my head to the game.

During the third period, no one of use talked until I hear

"We won," LC says as I keep my eyes on the game.

"Score, Colby armstrong,"

"Yay, that's my baby!!" LC exclaims as she gets off the couch clapping for him.
I clap along with her.

As the buzzer sounds i look at the score 5-0. We kick the Devils butts.

"WOOHOO!!"LC exclaims as she jumps and down as I join her in the celebration.

"I'm so happy they won," LC says.

"Me too, they kicked some devil ass," I say.
We laugh together

"Yeah they did," LC says as she grabs the remote turning off the TV.

"Well i'm going to get some work done. You can do whatever you want to do. Just stay out of trouble," I say.

"Yes mom," LC says as she smiles

I walk over to my kicthen table as I sit down, opening my bag. Placing my books onto the table, I grab some paper too.

"So what do you have to do?" LC asks as she sits at the computer

"English, i have to read and do an essay. It's easier to take notes before I write the essay," I say.

"Ah ok," LC says as I watch her turn to the computer.
As she does that, I hit the long book.

As I reach chapter 3, my phone begins rings
Placing my book onto the table, I head back to my room and grab my phone.
I open the phone.

"Hello," I say.

"Hey it's me," Sidney says.

"Hey great game tonight," I say.

"Thank you. So you enjoyed it?" sid asks.

"Yeah I did. That was my first game I've watched since Mario retired," I say.

"Aww, I'm glad you liked it. So how is the school working going?" Sid asks as I head back up front.

"It's going. I have to read a 52 chapter book by next week and I'm on chapter 3 now," I say.

"Ah ok, I'll let you get back to it," sid says.

"No, I'm not going to read anymore tonight. My eyes want to close up," I say.

"Ok, you want to go to bed?" Sid asks

"I'm heading that way," I say as I close my books and place it on my pile of school papers.

"I'll let you get to bed babe. I'll talk to you tomorrow morning around 8 ok?" Sid asks.

"Ok, Ill talk to you then," I say.

"Night," sid says.

"Night,"
I close my phone as LC closes her's

"Well I'll see you in the morning LC. I'm going to bed," I say.

"Alright good night," LC says.

"Night," I say as I walk to my room.
As I walk in, I close my door behide me.
Walking over to my bed, I change from my jeans into my pj bottoms.
I walk over and climb into my bed, as I place my cell next to Sidney's keys.
Laying on my side, i close my eyes and begin to dream.


Chapter 28 will be up i say between this weekend and next Thursday. Well it might be later then that but thats my goal