confessions

It wouldn’t be early if this were an ordinary day during the season, one with scheduled workouts or games or travel. But it’s early May, the first day of Jack’s off-season, and the last thing he wants to do is get up before dawn to catch a flight.

But Bittle … Well, Jack loves Bittle, and Bittle loves his family, so if Bittle has to fly to Atlanta to be a groomsman in his cousin Cooper’s wedding, Jack will be the supportive boyfriend who goes along with him. Even if it means getting up before dawn on the first day off the off-season.

If he’s being honest with himself, being knocked out of the playoffs this year had come as almost a relief. He won’t be hoisting the Cup this year, and for the first time in a long time, he’s okay with that. Maybe it’s a sign of maturity. Or, maybe it’s just the growing realization that he’s almost 31, his body doesn’t bounce back from the stresses of the job quite as quickly as it used to, and hockey is no longer the most important thing in his life. (The most important thing in his life is asleep next to him, lightly snoring.) He knows he still has a few good years left in him, but lately retirement has become less of a hypothetical if and more of a when.

“Bits. Hey, Bits,” he says. He gives him a gentle poke in the ribs because by now Bittle’s trained himself to sleep through Jack’s alarm. “We have to get up. Flight leaves in a few hours.”

Bittle grumbles a little and buries his face in his pillow.

“Bittle. We have to get to the airport.” Jack scoots closer until his head rests on the same pillow. He drops a kiss onto his boyfriend’s nose.

Bittle opens his eyes. For a minute, they just stare at each other, blue eyes locked onto brown. Jack can feel his eyes cross a little.

“How long’ve you been staring at me like that, Sweetpea?”

“Long enough.”

“Creeper.”

“Tell me again why I’m up at 5 a.m. to go to a wedding for people I’ve never met.”

losses

Chapter 7.1

shane wilds @shanewilds33

in case you’re wondering, @ConnorWaldo and I are still bros, we’ll just stop being bros for a couple of hours tomorrow

ConnecticutCardinals @NHLCardinals

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samwellgotyourback

CONNOR: hey do we have juice ALEX: haven't had juice since... before... CONNOR: hmm do you maybe want to talk about something ALEX: i would rather fucking die

#the same old streets #alex you cannot run from every conversation in the world #i realise i am not the best person to say this #but. yeah.#i'm glad connor's getting his fans #he deserves only good things

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rhysiana

thesameoldstreets

late nights

Chapter 6.5

Connor Walden @ConnorWaldo

the best boy and I are saying good night #sleepytime instagram.com/p/gP6nd

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#nadira + sarah not saying you should have an ill-advised hookup but also not NOT saying that #waldo please hug alex #and thank you for noticing #The Same Old Streets

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late nights

Chapter 6.4

Sarah Albright @sassalbright

Celebrating tonight’s win with my favorite girls :)

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#the same old streets #A) sarah let yourself live my girl #B) brad please take notes from jamie on how to be a decent man #C) i'm about as glad as nick is that his old team is falling apart without him #D) fuck alex's dad. fuck him.

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Meet the Connecticut Cardinals

Eriksson – Roy – Conrad

Hase – Rivera – Hellström

Christensen – Cooper – Petrov

Rogers – Jones – Barnard

Yang – Novak

Santana – Walden

Phillips – Russell

G Grenier

G Wilson

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#the same old streets #would you look at that my husband shipment came in #i would stan every single one of them but especially JOSH ROY #and bunny

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exhuastedpigeon

I think my favorite NurseyDex headcanon is Dex accidentally yelling that he’s gay when Nursey mentions that Dex is straight or that he didn’t mean to weird Dex out with his crush.

not even in a heated argument or anything. like. theyre watching a movie and dex is like “i dont understand, why would he do that?” and nurse is like “of course you don’t get it, you’re straight” and they go back to watching the movie and a few minutes later, when nurse has completely forgotten the exchange and is now thinking about lunch, dex just goes “iM GaY” in the weirdest, loudest voice ever

#THIS IS ME #nursey #dex #nurseydex

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late nights

Chapter 6.3

Finn Engel @finniescoots

what do you do when life gives you too many lemons? do you sell them on ebay??

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#the same old streets #... was nick involved in the accident?#has Alex not skated since then??#Connor you are a good friend #Finn you have watched too many bad romcoms to be this guy #i assume.

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rhysiana

omgkvp

A cautionary tale, but at least it was X rated.

#fuck you too buddy #kent parson