#He even laughed less than Katie in that interview sooo what are you talking about

[maliasdaughter]

I'm tired....

I’m genuinely confused as to why people are coming at Chris Wood when he did absolutely nothing wrong???? I’ve watched that interview multiple times trying to see what all these people are talking about and literally none of it happens…..like do you hate him that much that you warp a SARCASTIC statement that he made (which Katie literally said in another interview just without the sarcasm???) to make him seem problematic and have people turn against him? I mean I should’ve expected this to happen though since the supergirl fandom has hated Chris since day 1 for some unknown reason and have been trying to find things to use against him…..when he’s literally one of the most unproblematic people from that whole cast lmao

[hockeyandstuff91]

How did this happen? - Part 6.5

Word count: 5,242

Players: Tyler Seguin, Alexander Radulov (mentioned), Jamie Benn (mentioned)

Other people: Katie

warning: cussing?

Authors note: Sooo part 6 was a little longer than I thought it was going to be haha oops.. So I had to split it into 2 parts. SO here is part 6.5!! Again this part is ALSO a lot longer than I thought it was going to be but hey! yay for long parts! haha xD Also I hope you guys are enjoying this story because I have a feeling this series is going to be LONG! I have so many ideas for this one and with having multiple people as characters there could be even more. I'm having more and more ideas everyday and Ashlyn also has been giving me ideas for stuff to do with her character so I hope you all are ready for that haha Love you all so much and thank you all for supporting this series I really appreciate it! I haven't forgotten about the other one I started, I just have been way more motivated to do this one because its multi leveled which as a writer gives me a lot of depth to work with, which I enjoy :) and I hope you all do too!!

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(Brooke's POV) (continued from part 6...)

Jamie smiled and brought Katie over, nudging Tyler who was on his phone, typing something. He finished and put his phone in his pocket before looking up, seeing me for the first time tonight in my dress.

"Wow," Tyler smiled and walked over to me, taking my arm.

"What?" I laughed softly.

"Nothing you just look... Beautiful," he smiled at me, walking me inside behind the other two couples, looking at me the whole time.

I blushed and looked down at myself and smiled back up at him. "You think so?" I asked softly.

He nodded and held the door open for me. It wasn't the reaction I was ready for. Granted Tyler had complimented me before but this was different. All of the worries and feelings I had earlier in the day went right out the window when I noticed he was still looking at me. It felt nice to be appreciated like that, especially from Tyler who meant the world to me. Maybe Katie and Ashlyn were right.

The boys escorted us girls over to the table that had our name tags at. I even had one, which surprised me. Tyler pulled the chair out for me and I smiled, a little surprised. Katie smiled at me and I sat down, Tyler sitting next to me.

"Thank you," I said. "I like your tie," I said noticing that he had matched the dress pretty well.

"Thanks. I love the dress," he smiled

"Thank you. Oh yeah!" I grabbed my wallet out of my purse and gave him back his card. "Almost forgot," I laughed and smiled.

He laughed and took the card back and slid it into his wallet.

The six of us talked to each other for a bit while we waited for the rest of the Stars and WAGs to get here. I watched as the front door opened and a number of couples made their way inside. There were two more seats open at the table but I couldn't see what the name tags said.

Ashlyn was sitting to my right, Rads next to her, Katie and Jamie across from Tyler and I. Rad nodded to the two empty spots next to Tyler and I at the round table.

"Who else we got?" He asked Tyler.

Tyler leaned over to read the place cards. "Looks like Honks and Janmark are hanging with us tonight," he said, sitting back up straight.

Just as he said that the two of them walked up, looking at the name tags of the table next to us.

"Over here," Tyler said, resting back against his chair and putting his arm over the back of mine.

"Ugh we are stuck with you?" Honka teased and laughed as he sat down.

"Not like we are excited either don't worry," Tyler responded, smirking.

"Oh calm down children," Katie said shaking her head.

Before long the rest of the tables were filled and a guy got up on the stage at the head of the room with a microphone and started to greet us. He made a speech about the children's hospital and how much they all appreciated that the Stars were here tonight to donate some things for the silent auction. I hadn't really been paying much attention to the rest of the room while talking with everyone but I now noticed that it had filled with many people I didn't recognize because none of them were apart of the team or staff.

After some food the boys headed off to go mingle with some of the other teammates and buyers for tonight where the dance floor was. It was a nice venue, and it was quiet. Not a lot of media just a few cameras here and there. It was a nice and calm start to the event world that I'm sure Tyler was going to try and talk me into going to more of with him later in the season. I imagined that at other events it was a bit more busy and less laid back than this one was, but I was happy to just relax with the girls at the table for now.

"I saw how Tyler looked at you as Jamie and I walked by," Katie smirked at me.

"Oh quit," I laughed, blushing a bit and looked down at my lap.

"I told you there was nothing to worry about," Ashlyn smiled at me and I nodded.

"Yeah you're right. You know I overthink everything though."

"Don't we all," Katie said, taking a sip of her wine.

"So is this how all events go?" Ashlyn asked Katie.

She shook her head as she set down her glass. "No this one is a bit more laid back being that its a silent auction and the boys put together a bunch of signed jerseys, sticks, and other stuff to sell. Other events can be a bit more of a party depending on what its for. And then of course there are some that are heavy with media and interviews. It just all depends, but you get use to them," She smiled.

I nodded, listening to her. Exactly what I had figured, which was okay, as long as I didn't get asked any questions that put me or Tyler in an awkward situation then I'm sure the other events would be fine.

After about half an hour of everyone walking around and talking with one another and a number of different WAGs cycling through and stopping by our table to say hi, the boys returned as the auction had started.

Jamie and Rads both kissed their girls on the cheek as they sat down, asking them how the rest of the night had been while they were away from the table.

Tyler smiled at me, resting his hand on my knee. I looked at his hand and back up at him and smiled back. My attention was drawn back to the stage as the auctioneer started with the first item.

At the end of the night the boys had managed to raise $15,000 which was amazing. I was so proud of all of them, and excited that I had gotten to be here for all of this. It was a lot less stressful of a night than I thought it was going to be. I had imaged that I was going to get weird looked from the other WAGs that didn't know who I was or why I was with Tyler, but everyone had been really sweet, and a number of them had even complimented me on my dress and asked where I had gotten it.

The six of us all got up from the table, saying goodbye to everyone else that was still left from the team and we made our way out to the valet to get the keys.

"You coming home with me?" Tyler asked.

I nodded "Unless I plan to walk home, and in these heels that's not happening," I laughed as I looked at the shoes that were on my feet. I was thankful we had sat most of the time or I knew those shoes would be in my hands right now instead of still on if we had been up the whole time.

"Yeah no that's not a good idea," Tyler laughed and grabbed my hand, interlocking his fingers with mine as he grabbed his keys from the valet and opened the door for me. I waved bye to the rest of the group as I got into the car.

Tyler got in on his side and started the car, turning down the music a bit and put down my window.

"See you two at practice in the morning. Nice seeing you ladies, you both looked great tonight. Be safe," he waved.

"Bye guys!" I smiled as they all said goodbye back and we took off towards Tyler's house.

The car ride was nice, small talk between the two of us, Tyler holding my hand again. We pulled up to the house and he parked the car in his garage and held the door open for me that lead into the house.

We were met with three very happy dogs who I hadn't seen in a few days so I was just as happy to see them. I looked at the clock on the stove and noticed that it had hit midnight. It felt so much later and I was exhausted at this point.

"I'm ready for bed what do you think?" Tyler said as he walked by me to grab a drink from the fridge.

"Yeah I think so too," I said leaning on the counter, resting my head on my hands.

He laughed, looking over at me. "Well how about we make it to bed first before you fall asleep on the counter," He said and wrapped his arm around me.

"Oh alright," I laughed and stood up, walking up the stairs with him.

"You can use my bathroom to get ready," he said as he opened the door to his room, the dogs running in and jumping on the bed.

"Okay," I said and walked in. I closed the bathroom door behind me and locked it. Grabbing a wash cloth out of the drawer under the sink I started to wash my face off, getting all of the makeup off. Finally I felt like my face could breath again and I smiled. I very rarely wore much makeup besides mascara or eyeliner, so tonight was different for me, but I enjoyed how it had looked. The Instagram pictures me and the girls, and the one with Tyler, had come out great and it was the first selfies I had posted in forever.

After I finished taking off my makeup I then realized that I had failed to bring any clothes with me to change into and sighed.

"Hey Ty?" I asked through the door, not wanting to open it in case he was in the middle of changing.. Okay who was I kidding? Of course I would want to open the door but to be nice I decided not to. Just in case.

"Yeah?" He called back.

"Um.. Slight issue,"

"Whats up?" He asked, I could tell he was right outside the door so I unlocked it and opened it slightly, smiling at him.

"I forgot to bring clothes to change into.." I said.

"Oh that's fine. Hold on a second," he said and turned around, walking over to his closet and came back with a shirt of his. "Here just wear this," he said handing it to me.

"Oh sure trying to get a look at my ass, I see how it is," I laughed and closed the door.

Tyler just laughed "I don't know where you would get an idea like that."

"Uh huh.." I smirked at him through the door and set the shirt on the counter.

I reached behind me looking for the zipper. I tried for a good minute to get it unzipped but I had no luck. I groaned as I looked at myself in the mirror of Tyler's bathroom. "Fuck," I mutter and I hear a laugh on the other side of the door.

"You okay in there?" Tyler asks me.

"Uh yeah.." I respond slowly.

"Whats wrong?" He asks, seeing right through my lie.

"I just.. I can't reach the zipper," I sighed and unlocked the door, opening it slightly.

"Why didn't you just ask?" He smiled.

I bit my lip and looked down. His reaction to me when he first saw me was something that was still giving me butterflies. I wasn't exactly fond of him seeing parts of me without the dress on however. Here was my self conscious side rearing its ugly head again and I couldn't help but dread him having to help me unzip my dress.

"Whats the matter?" He asks searching my face, realizing that something is bothering me.

I look up at him and smile slightly, trying to hide that tears had started to make my eyes watery.

"Brooke talk to me," He said softly, stepping closer to me.

I shake my head and look down. "It's nothing. I'm just being silly is all."

He didn't say anything he just wrapped his arms around me and held me. It wasn't something I expected for him to do but it was comforting in the moment. I was glad that we had become so close with each other that I didn't really have to say much for him to understand that something was going on, even if he didn't exactly know what it was.

I took a deep breath and stepped back from his embrace after a few moments.

"You okay?" He asked and wiped my cheek of one single tear that had escaped.

"Yeah," I said and tried to reach behind me to undo the zipper myself again but it was too far up my back.

Come on Brooke stop being stupid. Just let him help you for god sakes.

But what.. What if he...

No don't even think it. Yes you are a bigger girl and he is clearly aware of that. Just do it and get it over with because there is no way you are sleeping in this thing.

I just loved arguing with myself.. I looked back up at him and he reached out his arms.

"Please let me help?" He asked softly and I nodded.

I slowly turned around, looking down to the ground. I felt him grab the top of the dress with one hand and the zipper with the other. I closed my eyes and bit my bottom lip, trying to breath slowly. It was stupid that I was being this sensitive over this but I had just had Tyler look at me like he looked at those other girls and I didn't want my unclothed body to make him regret that choice.

Before I knew it he was done. It had taken just a second but it felt more like 20. I didn't hear him gasp, or make any weird noises. I opened my eyes, peeking out of the corner of them into the mirror to see what kind of facial expression he had on. It was fine. No disgust or anything wrong. He just looked worried more than anything. I turned around and smiled up at him and he smiled back, kissing my forehead.

"I'll leave you to change," he said and closed the door.

I took a breath, not realizing that I had been holding it this whole time, my lungs aching for oxygen. I slowly let it out and realized that yet again I was worrying over nothing. I wasn't giving Tyler much credit here and that wasn't fair. Sure I was super insecure about my body and I was trying my best to change it to be more how I wanted it to be, but why did I think that Tyler wouldn't still like me if he saw that I had some extra weight to me?

I shook my head and took off the dress and slid his t-shirt over my head.I opened the door and walked out, carrying the dress with me. Tyler was laying on his bed, scrolling through Instagram. Of course he was shirtless. Why wouldn't he be?

"Well goodnight," I said as I started to head towards the door.

"Where are you going?" He asked, setting his phone down.

"Uh.. to my old room?"

"Why?"

"To.. sleep?" I asked, my eyebrows furrowed questioning his questions.

"Oh. You can sleep here there's plenty of room if you want."

I looked at him, my eyes squinting, thinking that he was joking.

"What?" He laughed. "I can move the dogs to the floor, they don't need to be up here."

I slowly nodded and grabbed the hanger that was sitting on the chair in the corner of the room. I hung up the dress and put it on the hook that was on the door of the closet and walked over to his bed. The dogs moved to the floor, cash getting up on the chair to sleep.

"Why are you being all weird? Its not like we haven't cuddled before."

"I know but not in bed," I said and crawled in next to him.

Well at least I was for sure he wasn't grossed out by me or anything since he wanted me to sleep next to him so I guess I could stop worrying about that too.

Tyler reached over and pulled me closer to him. "You aren't going to sleep on the edge of the bed stop being all weird," he laughed and wrapped his arm around me, pulling the covers over us.

I relaxed into his side and rested my head on his chest where it had laid this morning, listening to his heart beat again. I smiled and wrapped my arm over his chest as he rubbed his hand up and down my back gently.

"See this isn't weird," He said softly, pushing my hair out of my face with his free hand.

I nodded and closed my eyes, my breathing matching his. It didn't take long for the two of us to fall asleep like this, and honestly it was one of the most comfortable nights of sleep I had had in a long time.

I woke up to the sound of the shower going in the other room, and the dogs were now laying on the bed again. I reached over and pet Gerry who lifted his head before putting it back down, clearly not wanting to be awake yet. I laughed softly and turned over, seeing that Tyler was walking out of the bathroom with a towel around his waist. Was he trying to kill me or what?

"Good morning," he said as he walked over to his closet.

"Morning," I smiled and watched him.

"How'd you sleep?"

"Really good actually. If I'm gonna be honest, and don't let this go to your head, it was probably the best sleep I have had in a long time."

"Sassy already this morning I see," he smirked at me over his shoulder. "Just like the normal Brooke that I know," he laughed as he grabbed some clothes.

"You got practice?" I asked and he nodded, walking back towards the bathroom.

"Yeah I'll be gone most of the day. Practice until 10 and then we are going to drop the check off at the hospital and visit some of the kids, and then I'll be back for a quick nap and then back to the AAC before the game starts," he said as he went back into the bathroom, closing the door slightly and then opening it again as he walked back out, putting his shirt on in the process. "You can hang out with the dogs until I go back later if you want. The pool just got cleaned," he said, sitting on the edge of the bed in front of me.

"Yeah that sounds nice," I smiled.

"Well you used to live here I guess I don't need to tell you where anything is," he laughed and grabbed a pair of shoes and put them on.

I laughed, shaking my head "Nope I think I remember where it all is," I smiled at him and pushed the covers off of me as I sat up.

"Alright well if we want to invite Ashlyn over if she isn't working you can, since Rad is gonna be with us all day she might be bored too," he said standing up, me following him as we walked downstairs to the kitchen.

"Yeah I'm sure she would like that," I responded and grabbed a water out of the fridge.

"Alright well I'll see you around 2," he said, reaching down to pet the dogs bye and gave me a quick hug before he walked out the door.

As soon as I heard him start the car I grabbed my phone off the kitchen table where I had left it last night and called Ashlyn, knowing she would be up already.

"Hey," Ashlyn answered.

"Hey you want to come hang at Tyler's with me today? And maybe stop by my apartment on the way and grab my game attire and a bathing suit because you love me?" I laughed.

"Oooh you stayed there last night?" She asked.

"Yes," I said, deciding to wait to tell her about where exactly I slept until I could see her facial expression in person.

"Alright I'll be right over," she said and hung up.

I had given her a key to my place and I had one for hers in the case that a situation like this happened and one of us needed something but couldn't go get it.

After about a half an hour I heard a knock at the door and the dogs start barking. I got up from the couch, turning the volume on the TV down and jogged over to the door, opening it.

"Oh well," she smirked noticing my outfit that still only consisted of Tyler's shirt since I had nothing else but what she had brought for me.

"Yeah I didn't exactly plan that well last night," I laughed and walked with her into the living room.

"Mhmm.." she smirked and followed me.

We sat on the couch and I looked over to her, not able to hold back my grin.

"What?" she asked.

"I slept in his bed last night," I said quickly.

"Excuse me?" Ashlyn said, looking at me with a surprised look.

"Nothing happened. He just wanted to cuddle," I said, almost not believing myself.

"Yeah okay," she laughed.

"No I'm serious! Believe it or not he really didn't try anything. It was really nice," I smiled.

"Aww well that's great! See you are getting closer and closer."

"Yeah.. Maybe," I said and grabbed the bathing suit from the pile of stuff she had brought me. "It's too hot of a day already to not enjoy this outside in the pool," I say as I get up and walk to the downstairs bathroom.

"Good I'm glad we are on the same page," Ashlyn laughed as she played with the dogs while I changed.

The rest of the morning was spent lounging in the pool which was nice and refreshing. We were talking about the game that was going on tonight when I heard the dogs barking again and ran inside, realizing that Tyler was probably back home.

Tyler came out the back door and smiled "Hey girls," he said taking off his shoes and shirt.

"Well hello to you too," I said and laughed. Ashlyn smirked at me and I splashed water at her. "How was practice and visiting the kids?"

"It was great," He smiled. "They were all so sweet and excited to meet us," He said as he walked over to the pool and jumped in, managing to splash me in the process.

"Hey!" I laughed as he came back up, flipping me off of my pool floaty.

I squealed and held my breath as I went under, swimming back up. "Ruuude!" I laughed and he swam over to me.

"Oh you'll live," he smiled and wrapped me in a hug. "I just wanted to come out here to say hi and take a quick dip to cool off before I head for my pregame nap," He said and let me go.

"Okay," I smiled.

"Will you be here still when I get up?" He asked as he started to get out of the pool.

"I wont be, I'm going to meet Alex for something to eat before he heads to the game," Ashlyn said.

"I'll still be here though. Do you want me to make you anything?" I asked him.

"Yeah actually that would be great. I have some chicken in the fridge-"

"Maybe with some rice and veggies?"

"Ooo that sounds good," he smiled and nodded.

"Okay I'll get that going in an hour. Go take your nap," I smiled at him as he waved to us.

"Bye Ashlyn see you at the game later," he said and closed the back door behind him after she said bye.

We lounged for another half an hour before we decided to get out of the pool and dry off. Ashlyn looked at her phone realizing she should head out to go meet Rads at the restaurant.

"I'm going to walk in with Tyler I'll meet you out by the locker room?" I asked as I hugged her goodbye.

"Yeah sounds good!" She smiled and walked out the front door. "See ya in a few hours," she said and I closed the door behind her.

I walked into the living room and grabbed the shirt that Tyler had let me wear last night and put it back on over my bathing suit, not wanting to change into my game outfit so I wouldn't get it dirty while cooking.

I went back to the kitchen and started getting the veggies chopped and started to make a sauce from scratch that I was going to put over top of everything at the end. Half an hour later I was just finishing up the chicken when Tyler walked downstairs, his hair a bit of a mess and just wearing a pair of basketball shorts.

"Hey sleepyhead," I smiled at him as I put some of the rice onto a plate for him, adding the sauteed veggies and chicken on top and putting the sauce over it last.

"Damn that looks so good," he said in his sleepy voice which I loved.

"Good," I smiled and brought the plate over to where he was sitting at the counter and grabbed a drink for him out of the fridge.

"Man I miss you living here," he said.

"You do?" I asked, looking at him as I started to plate my own food.

"Yeah its quiet without anyone else here. Plus the food is way better than anything I can make," he laughed and smiled at me as he took a bite.

"Well I can always hang out the nights that I don't have to work the next morning," I said as I sat across from him and started to eat as well.

He just nodded as he kept eating, clearly enjoying the food.

After we finished eating he went back upstairs to fix his hair and get dressed. I grabbed my clothes and went to the bathroom downstairs and changed. We both said goodbye to the dogs and fed them before we headed out to his jeep and drove to the AAC.

I met Ashlyn and Katie was there too when we showed up. We headed upstairs the to suite that we always had reserved for us for the home games and hung out there for a while before they started the pregame practice. The three of us headed down to the glass to watch them practice. I smiled as Tyler skated by, tapping on the glass to say hi to us.

"Why does the one with Jamie's jersey look so familiar?" I heard a female voice whisper to my right. I stole a glace over, my eyes going wide and I looked back to Ashlyn and shook my head.

"What?" She asked.

"Its them again," I laughed.

The two girls from the first game that Ashlyn and I had gone to when Tyler and Rads invited us to the day we met them were standing next to us. Again. It was like the universe wanted to play a stupid joke on us or them I wasn't exactly sure yet.

"Wow," she just laughed and turned back to the glass.

"And that's Ashley, Alexander's new girlfriend," one of them said.

"I think its Ashlyn," the other responded.

"Whatever. She was here that other time we were. And so was she," I could tell it was the blonde one talking, remembering her voice from last time. I looked over to them and smiled.

"Oh so very nice to see you again," I said fakely.

"Yeah... You were on Tyler's Instagram last night," the not blonde one said, stunned.

"Yeah I told you girls to remember me, you would see me again at some point," I flashed a smile and turned back to the glass.

"What are you two dating now? There's no way," the blonde one responded.

"I'm sorry who are you two?" Katie interjected.

"That's Katie," the other one said quietly.

"I know who she said. Just some fans that's all," The blonde one smiled and turned her focus back to the boys on the ice.

I rolled my eyes knowing why they were really there and looked over to Katie who had tapped me on the shoulder.

"Ignore them. They are just jealous," she whispered in my ear.

"I know," I said and watched as the boys skated back over towards us for a few minutes before waving and heading off the ice.

The rest of the game had gone super great, the guys ended up winning 5-2. We grabbed our stuff out of the suite and started to head downstairs to wait for the boys. A bunch of the other WAGs were there, remembering who Ashlyn and I were from last night they all said hi as we made our way down the hall. As we rounded the corner I saw the blonde chick cornering Tyler who had already changed back into his suit. She was putting a piece of paper into his pocket, leaning up and kissing his cheek.

I froze, watching as she looked over to me and smirked. I blinked and turned around, Katie grabbing my arm before I could walk away.

"Don't you dare let her win like that," she said and pulled me with her.

There was nothing I could do, and I wasn't really sure what Katie thought I should of done in that situation. Tyler and I weren't technically together so I really couldn't say anything. But that didn't stop her from dragging me over to Tyler and bumping the other girl out of the way.

"Oh sorry," she fake apologized and smiled at Tyler. "Hey," she said snapping her fingers in front of his face to bring his attention to her.

"Hey Katie," he responded and then saw me. He however avoided eye contact with me, which I didn't really like.

Katie looked over to the girl who was still standing there. "Um you can leave now," she said. I was glad that Katie was sticking up for me because I didn't have much to say right now.

"Whatever," she said and turned to walk out the door. "Call me whenever Ty," she said on her way out and that pissed me off. That was my nickname for him and she was the last person who was going to call him that.

I ground my teeth together to keep from saying anything though and Katie let go of my arm.

"You done ogling at the fake bitch that just walked away?" Katie asked Tyler.

"Oh stop," He said and shook his head. He looked over to me and then back down at the ground. "Do you want me to drive you home?"

"Sure." Was all I could say. This was going to be an interesting car ride home that was for sure..