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“They can do it,” Daniel says, but I don’t know if he’s saying that just to reassure me and Patty or because he believes it. I really hope that it’s the latter.
When the clock hits the five-minute mark, the three of us stand up from our seats like everyone in the crowd and watch the game play out. Never have I been this nervous about a hockey game until today.
The Knights have worked so damn hard for this, they deserve to have their names added to the cup, but with the way the game is going, I have no idea if it’s going to happen.
The last time-out of the game is called at the two-minute mark, the score still tied.
Hopefully Chloe was able to make it to the hospital in time because I wouldn’t want her to miss watching this on TV.
The clock starts up again and it feels like the whole arena is holding their breath, just waiting for what is about to happen next.
My eyes move from the ice to the clock and back and forth until the there are twenty second on the clock and the Knights start a new play. A play that has Liam passing the puck over to Blake, who then passes it to their teammate Logan.
Logan takes care of the puck for a few seconds before he passes back to Liam. I watch as number twenty-one gets into position and slaps the disk toward the net.
I hold my breath.
One.
Two.
The buzzer sounds through the arena, and it feels like every single person in here, starts to scream.
Holy shit, they did it.
The Dark Knights just won the Stanley Cup.
Blake’s team just won the cup.
Holy crap.
I turn over to Patty, who is in her husband’s arms, with a huge smile on her face and tears running down her face.
She looks over at me and opens her arms for me, and I don’t hesitate walking into them.
“Our boy did it. Holy shit, he did it.”
All I can do is nod, cry, and smile because the same words are running through my mind.
He did it.
Eventually, we pull apart, wiping the tears away, and start making our way down to the ice.
Thank God for the friends and family passes.
When we get down on the ice, it’s so chaotic, but in the best way. Players are all over the place hugging each other and hugging their loved ones, it’s a special thing to see.
But my eyes don’t stay on the other players for long.
There’s one player that I’m looking for and when I see him skating over to me, a huge grin spreads across my face.
When he is a few feet away, his mom is the first to go up to him and hug him as tightly as she can, all the while she peppers kisses all over his face. That woman should be so damn proud of her kids. Each one of them is doing spectacular things.
“I’m so damn proud of you, my baby,” Patty says, slapping a few more kisses against Blake’s cheeks. Just watching them brings tears to my eyes.
After Patty untangles herself from Blake, Daniel goes up to him and wraps him up in a big bear hug.
When that’s done, Blake turns over to me and the smile that he is wearing is enough to make my tears turn in to a full-blown sob. A happy sob, but still a sob, nonetheless.
