UPCOMING SCHEDULE:
- Jan 31 @ Hamilton, 7:00 PM ET
- Feb 2 @ Toronto, 7:00 PM ET
- Feb 4 @ Ottawa, 7:30 PM ET
- Feb 6 vs. New York, 7:00 PM ET (home)
CHAPTER 36
FRANKIE
We find a strange but nice routine. Despite the three-hour time zone difference, we wake up around the same time most days. I watch most of Logan’s games, and he gets deeply invested in hearing about my ortho rotation. By the time I’m making dinner, he’s usually home from the rink and ready for bed.
I barely have any spare time, so he pauses the book we were going to read together, and downloads two more books that I’ve enjoyed in the past. Neither of them grip him the way thatThe Mist at Dawn’s Edgedid, but he doesn’t mind, he just likes reading from my bookshelf.
Buffalo goes on a points streak, winning six of their next eight games, and only losing in overtime in the other two.
They go on a road road trip with their moms and mentors in the middle of that hot streak. I hold my breath, expecting that to be athing, because my mother is on that trip too, but Logan reports that it goes off without a hitch.
The hockey gossip accounts that Sloane follows on social media have latched on to the potential return of Buffalo to the playoffs after fifteen years, the longest postseason drought in pro sports.
And as January comes to a close, and the All-Star Break is around the corner, it feels like we might just have figured out how to have a long-distance secret marriage.
Which means it’s probably time to start planning for the next step in our relationship—moving from secret to not-so-secret, and living together in the summer.
Logan isn’t going to the All-Star Game, which means he has a full week of vacation and can come back to LA for a visit where we’ll get to spend five nights together.
We could use that time to find a house.
Weshoulduse that time to find a house, which is a wild thought that makes me feel all fluttery and lightheaded.
His final game in January is another match against Hamilton, this time in their arena. Because the two teams are so close together, just a little more than an hour apart, Buffalo travels there on a bus.
I’m catching up on patient charts when Logan sends me a selfie of himself, in a window seat, and he’s got his index finger looped through his ring, holding it up to his lips so he can kiss it.
I save the photo to my phone, my heart pounding.
Frankie
Put that thing away before someone sees it
Logan
Nobody’s ever noticed, it’s fine
Logan
What are you doing?
Frankie
The glamorous work of an almost doctor…paperwork
Logan
How many goals do you want me to score tonight?
