𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐯

One Month Later

It's been over a month since Jack asked me to be his girlfriend and it's been one of the best months of my life. Whenever Jack isn't away for games or too busy with practices, he plans out cute elaborate dates for us that feel like they could come straight out of a book. More than half of Jack's fanbase had a positive reaction to us dating, while others said some pretty nasty things about us, or should I say me. Gabi's advice about ignoring the negative comments has kept me grounded and focused on my relationship with Jack.

When he's away for games, I could always expect something waiting on my doorstep from him. He'll randomly send bouquets with cute little notes or even send me food whenever I mention that I'm hungry, but too lazy to cook something for myself. As soon as he gets the chance to come over, he'll sit in my room watching me film. Jack claimed a spot near one of the windows in my room as his designated spot since he says it lets him get the perfect view of "seeing his pretty girl talking about what she loves". Occasionally, out of the corner of my eye, I'll catch him looking at me entranced by anything I'm saying to the camera. He looks so cute sitting there like a little kid watching his favorite TV show, eyes in wonder. At other times he'll start clowning around to my right, causing me to completely lose my composure and break out into fits of laughter.

Today Jack is coming over so we could film a video together. It surprisingly didn't take much for me to convince him to film a car q and a video with me. When I brought it up I was doubtful of what he'd say since I've seen a lot of his interviews with the media and he looks more than ready to leave every time. Emilie is out in the city for the next few days to do collabs with other creators leaving me home alone with Jack occasionally sleeping over to keep me company. As I finish putting my camera and dashboard tripod in my tote, the doorbell rings signaling that Jack is here.

I take a quick glance at my appearance in the mirror and tuck a loose strand of hair behind my ear before running out of my room and straight downstairs to the front door. Opening the door, I come face to face with my cute boyfriend with a boyish smile holding a bouquet of sunflowers mixed in with hot pink and white carnations in front of him. His eyes look bright and sparkling despite the cloudy snowy conditions forecasted for the day.

"Hey pretty girl," he holds the bouquet out towards me and I gladly take it in my hand and move in to smell the flowers. "I got you some flowers that reminded me of you." I sigh, taking in the smell and moving my eyes away from the arrangement to look up at Jack with a wide smile on my face. "Thank you, pretty boy." I take the flowers in one hand and give Jack a quick sweet peck on the lips. I moved away from the door and invited Jack inside for a bit while I put the flowers in a vase.

He follows me into the kitchen as I fill a vase with water and he wraps his arms around my waist with his chin on my shoulder, placing a kiss on my cheek. "How's my girl doing?" He whispers into my ear, a shiver running down my spine. "I'm doing great now that you're here and we get to spend the day together." I turn off the faucet and pull away from Jack a little to go in for a kiss. He must've been caught off guard as it takes him a few seconds to kiss back.

Pulling away, I ask Jack how he's been doing since just a few weeks ago, at the start of the month, he fell awkwardly in the third period in a game against Chicago. "I'm doing much better. I went to get checked out again yesterday and they said at this rate, I might be able to play towards the end of the month. I should be more than okay to play in the All-Star game." When Jack went down the tunnel during the Chicago game I worried since he'd been fine the whole game despite the intense tension in the arena between both teams. "I'm glad you'll be able to get back out on the ice soon. You'll come back stronger." Although he was bummed out at first, Jack has been in a great mood, itching to get back on the ice to play with his team.

"Are you ready to film your first video on my channel with me?" We both walk out of the door and Jack moves to the side as I lock the door before we head over to my car. "Yeah, I mean I'm used to being in front of a camera answering questions, but I prefer my girlfriend being the one asking me the questions." I giggle starting my car to let it heat up before we head out and pass him my tote. "Aww aren't you sweet." I turn to look at him and pinch his cheek teasingly causing us to crack up. I asked Jack to pass me the dashboard tripod so I could set it up in the middle to have less work to do when we ultimately park to film.

𝐣𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐩𝐨𝐯

Charlotte is amazing. This past month we've been in our own little bubble full of happiness. I was nervous to ask Charlotte to be my girlfriend, but I knew I wanted to give her the world and the only way to do that was to make us official. Any time I'm away for games, I always make sure to send her a bouquet that I feel reminds me of her that day and come up with a cute message to make her day. There's something about the way she makes me feel that any word in the English language just can't describe.

After the game against Quinn, my parents quickly approved of Charlotte and welcomed her into the family. My mom was especially fond of her and told me Charlotte is like the daughter she never had, but always wished for when us boys were old enough to date. On the other hand, Luke and Quinn know no limits when showing their approval of Lotte. Once they met her, they were quick to make a group chat with just the four of us. Sometimes when I'm at home with Luke I'll hear Char's voice coming from his phone and it's usually when he wants to complain about me. The biggest win from the night of the Hughes Bowl, even though we won the game,  was getting to call Lotte my girlfriend.

Since going public, a few hate comments always appear online talking negatively about Char and I's relationship. Some of them will only target Charlotte calling her ugly and saying she's only with me because I'm a professional hockey player. Seeing people that are supposed to support me, tearing apart someone I care deeply about hurts. Charlotte tells me that Gabi, Nico's girlfriend, has helped her a lot with learning to ignore the negative comments and she seems to be doing well blocking it out. I've told her that at any moment when she feels the comments are too much, she needs to tell me. She's been getting a lot of attention recently and I want to protect her as much as I can, but I can't do anything unless she tells me to.

Getting hurt during the game against Chicago, bummed me out since we were so close to the end of the game, not having it been too long since I'd come back from another injury. I've taken the time to work on getting better and spending time with Lotte whenever the guys go on the road and it's been great. Sometimes she'd be filming and I'd watch her patiently until she finished so we could watch a movie or any TV show that caught our eye. I'm a total simp for her and I'm not afraid to admit it, while she films, I always become mesmerized by her as she talks to the camera.

A few nights ago when I slept at her house she'd asked me if I wanted to do a video with her. She explained that it would be filmed in her car, and we'd be answering questions from her viewers. Lotte was nervous to ask me since she wasn't sure if I would agree to do it. The look on her face told me that she thought it was gonna take a lot more to convince me, but I must've surprised her when I said yes fairly quickly.

Today is filming day and I brought a nice bouquet along with me. The air is cold outside and I  rush out of my car to Charlotte's apartment building. The heat envelops me as I get further and further into the building and to Lotte's floor. Knocking on her door, I stand a little taller as I hear the locks turning on the other side of the door. Once the door starts to open, I can't help but smile when I see Charlotte. We've been official for a little over a month now and I don't think I'll ever get used to calling her my girlfriend. I could've never anticipated that the beautiful girl I made eye contact with at a game would be my girlfriend not too long after.

Once she puts the flower in a vase, we head out to a Starbucks near her house, get two hot chocolates, and park near a little lake not far from Starbucks. I watch Charlotte as she works to place the camera feeling a little excited to be doing this with her. When she was working on convincing me to do this with her, she told me a big driving force for asking me was because a lot of her viewers wanted to know me and how we got together. I usually like to keep a lot of things private, but romantic relationships are harder to keep private since there are always those people who will turn into FBI agents to find any possible information on someone. 

Our whole goal with this video is to tell people a little about our relationship, but we control what questions from Charlotte's fans we want to answer. Even though we have gone public, we still want to keep certain aspects of our relationship private because not everyone needs to know every single detail about us as a couple and every move we make. 

Edited: 12/08/24

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melissa speaks

Hey everyone! A little bit of a boring chapter, but the next one is going to be the Q & A video chapter. It's gonna be formatted differently to how my chapters are usually formatted just to make it easier to read through and for me to write. I hope you enjoyed this one and the next one should be out soon!