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September 18th, 2021

4:48pm

It was just a simple run, that was all it was supposed to be. Until there was an uneven part in the sidewalk and down she went with the pop of a knee. Annabelle didn’t feel it until a couple seconds went by, the adrenaline rushing off and her right shin to knee hurt.

No one was around where she runs, because she goes the way Quinn tells her to go, by the golf course.

Then she remembers, she is a two minute walk from yost, it’s in her eye line and there is for sure players that she knows in there.

It took a few tries but she managed to get up with a few groans and walked really slowly but it only took Two steps for her to go back to the ground. She’s so close but so far, but she needed help and decided to call someone.

Luke’s contact came up first, but no answer, then she tried Truscott, then Mackie, finally she called mark but was left with a dead line, her phone was the dead line. “Fuck!” She curses and chucks it to the side, most likely cracked.

She didn’t know anyone who was free right now, but all hope was not lost when she saw a figure walking down the pathway, noticing almost instantly that it was Ethan.

“Ethan!” She shouts and his head snapped up, stopping but then jogging to her.

“Anna, what happened- are you okay” he could see the tears almost spilling out of her eyes.

“No, can you get my brother, please” she pleads.

“Yea of course, stay- Nevermind” he sprints, while she smiled at him almost saying “stay there” as if she can get very far.

Not even 2 minutes later Ethan and Luke came sprinting outside. “Annie, what happened” Luke asks as soon as he is by his sisters side.

“I fell and heard a pop, it hurts- really hurts” She tried so hard not to cry infront of her little brother but the pain was only getting worse.

“We’re gonna take you inside okay- Ethan can you-”

“Yep” the Canadian replies, moving over so he can carry her. Since Luke’s coming out of a minor shoulder injury. “Fuck” she groans when her knee bends.

“your okay, just a minute till you can lay down” he mumbles and carry’s her effortlessly down the path and into the building, straight to the medical room.

“woah what’s going on” the nurse in there asks.

“My knee popped and it really hurts” she cries while Ethan sets her down.

“Let me have a look, boys can you step out for a minute” She asks, Luke was about to protest but they heard coach calling and decided to go back to the gym.

“Call me when your done please” Luke says and exits the room.

The nurse came to a conclusion that is most likely a meniscus tear and she needed to go to the hospital, so they called an ambulance and Luke to come back down. Panic washed over mark when he heard Luke say Anna was going to the emergency room. But he had to stay put, nobody went with Luke especially since there was a game in about an hour.

9:51pm

Around 5 hours later, with waiting and tests and a few mental breakdowns they decided she needed surgery which will be taken place tomorrow morning and she needed to stay in the hospital overnight. Which she was expecting, her parents had come and gone but what she wasn’t expecting was most of the guys time coming into her room.

Ethan, Dylan, Mackie, TJ, Jacob, bordeleau and last but not least, mark.

He seemed the most worried, so Luke let him take his seat next to the bed.

“Do you have to stay here tonight?” Ethan asks while looking at all the different machines.

“Unfortunately, which means I’m gonna miss the game tomorrow- shit I won’t be able to dance” she gasps and just like that when she thought she couldn’t cry anymore.

“Hey hey hey, it’s gonna be okay” mark said and reached out to her hand to hold it.

“I know I’m just.. tired and… tired” they all chuckled and Luke coincidentally let out a huge yawn.

“You guys can go, I’ll be fine”

“Are you sure?” Her brother asks.

“Yes Luke, I’m sure. Turn off the light whoever’s last to go out”

She shifted to get comfortable as they all shuffled out but then she noticed mark zoned out.

“Hey, Estapa time to go” she waved at him, which he then snapped out of his thoughts.

“what- no your not staying here alone” he says softly, which takes her by surprise.

“Mark, I’m gonna be -”

“You keep saying that but I don’t buy it, I’m saying” he states and she knows she isn’t winning this battle. “Fine, but go turn off the light”

He smiles and gets up to shut it off, closing the door then reclining the chair to lay down.

September 19th, 2021

9:20 am

Mark had already been awake since he is usually awake this time everyday, when the doctor came in to start preparing for sugary which he gave mark the lovely pleasure of waking Annabelle up.

“Anna” he says gently, which doesn’t do much.

“ Anna” he says again, she starts wake up very slowly but not much.

“Hey princess wake up” he says louder and this time it worked. Thankfully he didn’t notice the small blush that crept on her face when he said that.

“What?” She groans and looks over at the clock.

“Surgery time” he whispers and smiles. Then the doctor arrived and went thru instructions.

“You should be able to go home by tonight, depends on the swelling and pain.” Doctor explains and they start to wheel her away,

“You got this princess, I’ll be here when you wake up” He says as she waves.

10:45 am

Mark sat in the recliner with his legs shaking as he waited for her to be done which wouldn’t be any time now. Jack wasn’t supposed to arrive in Michigan till the afternon but caught an earlier flight when he heard his younger sister was in the hospital.

He had been sat in another chair at the end of the room with Nico to his left because he wanted to visit her.

“Mark, if you don’t want to stay you can go. We’re here now” Jack says to the boy.

“It’s fine, I told her I’d be here when she was done-” just as he says that the door opens and in comes a very loopy Annabelle who was a giggling mess.

“She’s been laughing for 10 minutes, anything is funny now” the nurse says and leaves the room.

“Woah! You play hockey!” She exclaims and looks to mark then Nico. “Hey kid I play hockey too” T this point he was recording for anything worth showing her later.

“No… you seem more of.. tennis guy” which then everyone laughs.

“Where’s moosey moose” she ask but gasps.

“Im tired” she whispers and closes her eyes. Before they knew it, she was right off to sleep.

11:09 am

Once again she wakes up, but mark is gone and it’s just Jack in the hospital room in the chair next to her.

“The fuck are you doing here” she groans, alerting him that she is awake.

“I told you last week I was coming home today, but I came a few hours earlier because you don’t seem to good”

“My knee feels like shit, this hospital bed isn’t very comfy”

“Well don’t worry, we’ll be home soon, just a couple hours but I gotta tell you something…”

“What’s that?”

“You can’t dance until May” he sighs and her jaw drops.

“Where is Mark?” I ask Ethan who’s sitting on the couch watching something on his phone, he barely looks up at me and tells me he’s in his room before realizing it’s me and getting up from the couch to stop me from going upstairs and entering Mark's room. 

“You can’t go in there.” Ethan tells me a few of the other guys on the couch nodding in agreement, I frown confused as to why I can't enter my boyfriend's room.

“Why?” I ask them and they all look panicked trying to come up with an excuse which makes me even more confused so I rip my arm out of Ethan’s grip and bolt up the stairs with the Canadian tight on my heels. I pull the door open to see Mark in bed with a blonde girl and I feel my heart stop, tears brimming in the corners of my eyes. A sob leaving my mouth turning Mark’s and the girls' attention to me, his eyes widening. He got up and started pulling his clothes on but I didn't want an explanation, I just walked down the stairs still in shock. My eyes fell on the other hockey players, they all had guilty looks on their faces and my heart shattered even more. 

“Y- you knew, you all knew.” I state, the sentence being more a question than anything else, their gazes falling down to the floor which confirms my fear, a laugh mixed with a sob leaves my mouth as tears fall down my face. Mark comes running down the stairs, stumbling towards me trying to touch or hug me, I step away from him.

“Don’t- don’t touch me.” I tell him my voice slightly gives out as I try to keep distance between us. 

“Please forgive me.” He begs and I let out a laugh in response, surprised with the nerve this boy has to even dare to ask for forgiveness. 

October 5th, 2021

12:32 am

Anna had no idea what she was doing, it started off with just a shot or two, then the next minute she was chugging a bottle of… something. Mark was visiting his parents about an hour away.

She was supposed to call Jack awhile ago, but when he tried to call her, he went straight to voicemail since she didn’t feel it vibrate in her leather jacket.

somehow, she ended up out on the back patio picking at the stitching on her jeans as the phone rang in her hand.

“Belle?” Jack mumbles as he answers the phone, turning his lamp on and sits up.

“I’m so sorry- I shouldn’t have released the song I shouldn’t have gotten mad at you- I miss when we didn’t fight all the time” she sobs into the phone, he could really only hear half of it but knew whatever she is saying isn’t great.

“Bee, what’s going on where are you” he’s much more awake now after hearing his sister sob into the phone, he’s put her on speaker and is texting Luke.

“I fucked up- why are you so far away” she cries. Lately, Annabelle has been finding photos of the two wether it’s Facebook memories Ellen sends her or if she finds the physical picture, either way, she finds them and remembers when they were attached at the hip.

“Belle, I need you to tell me where you are” He says a little louder.

“I’m… outside, inside a fence… but I’m - ew there’s an ant on my leg- do you know where mark is” she asks, Jack chuckles at how dumb she is when she’s drunk but continues to text Luke.

“okay Belle, Luke is gonna go get you can yo-“

“No! Can you come get me- or momma! In gonna call momma” She starts but her visions to blurry she can’t find the buttons.

“Belle! Don’t call mom- you’re gonna be alright” assures her and a few moments later he heard Luke’s voice in the distance.

“Give me the phone. Jack?” Luke asks and steps away from Belle who Ethan is now sitting with.

“Luke, is she okay, what’s happening”

“No clue, I didn’t even know she was out here I thought she was with her friends. I’ll take her back to her dorm-“

“No- bring her home, she’s going to want mom in the morning and make sure her heated blankets on, she gets cold”

“okay, I’ll call you when we get her back home, I might have to sleep on her floor again”

“Bye Luke”

“Bye Jack”

The boy managed to get her standing but with most of her weight on Ethan, but it’s not like she weighs a lot.

“Do you wanna come with me to take her home?” Luke asks. “Yeah, I’ll call mark on the way”

“perfect, come on you” he whispers and helps Ethan walk her to the car.

They reach the car and Annabelle slumps against the seat with a tired pout on her face while Luke buckled her seatbelt.

“Where’s mark” she whispers and her eyes begin to close.

“You’ll see him tomorrow don’t worry”

about halfway through the car ride, Ethan finally called mark.

“Hey Eddie, everything alright?” Mark says as he lays in bed, ready to fall asleep.

“Yeah, when are you coming back to Ann arbour”

“Like noon or something, why what’s up?”

when the familiar voice sounded through the car, it felt like music to Anna’s ears, which is why she woke back up.

“Mark?” She croaks out making Ethan look back.

“Ethan was that Anna? Is she okay?”

“She’s alright just a little… tipsy, was just letting you know”

“Where are you guys going?”

She sighs and lays her head on the window, wiping her own tears with her knuckles.

“Luke’s driving her back to the Hughes house right now”

“I’ll be there in 20” he says and before either of them could protest mark was hanging up the phone and throwing a hoodie over his head.

Once he arrived, Luke opened the door and pointed up the stairs where she laid in bed asleep.

October 1st, 2021

annabellehugh

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@lhughes_06 -this is insane

Her first single after her first album, that came out in 2020 just after graduating, before her gap year. Most of the songs were about her ex, max and so are some of the songs on her new album, while one of them is about mark.. but so is the single but one just happens to mention something about her relationship with Jack and she wasn’t even sure if she should use it but all her friends who she told about it said she should, so she is going to.

Which she shouldn’t have, or he shouldn’t have had the reaction he did.

6:12 pm

There was a set of knocks on the door of her dorm room, but the certain sequence of knocks only belongs to the knuckles of one person. “Come in mark” she says and puts her phone down. He looked out of breath, afraid almost, Like he was running from something.

“Make what’s-” she stands up keeping pressure off her knee, but she doesn’t need the crutches anymore.

“Is it about me” he whispers and walks closer.

Her eyebrows raise a little bit, in shock on how this conversation could go either way.

“I… um… what” she says quietly, but a little louder then he was before.

“Is it about me” he asks again, she swallows harshly but nods slowly which he then pulls her into a tight hug.

“I’m sorry Belle- I’m so sorry I didnt mean to make you feel like that I like you I like you a lot. So much it almost hurts and makes me afraid of my own feelings” he admits and they both have small, light, tears in their eyes.

“Do you really?” She asks.

He runs his hand up and down her back before pulling back to look at her.

“So much”

They stare at each other for what seems like hours and just as he is about to ask her, a phone rings. It’s Luke, calling mark.

“Whats up” he asks. “Yea I’m with her, okay, bye”

“Wanna for a drive?” He asks and the two head out the door.

Jacks POV

6:15pm

I knew she liked to sing, but how did I not ever realize she liked to write and perform and produce her music, I didn’t even know she could play the guitar. So if I didn’t feel like shit before I do now. As the 9th song plays, my brain freezes.

“Same fears, same dreams, still trying to get my brother to like me”

Does she really think that?

I would call Luke, but the chances of them being together right now are high so Quinn it is.

“What’s up J-“

“Does she hate me or something?!” I exclaim.

“Woah dude- who are you talking about” he asks.

“Annabelle, fuck, have you listened to Calgary”

“No, I’m just leaving the gym, what’s going on”

“The lyric is *Same fears, same dreams, still trying to get my brother to like me.* Does she think I hate her”Tears are threatening from my eyes while my knuckles are turning white against my steering wheel.

“Jack I’m sure it’s not what you think-”

“What else could it be! I’m the only one she argues with- remember my rookie year when we wouldn’t talk for like.. weeks because of how busy we both were but she would always talk to you two”

“And you always talked to us, Jack I don’t know what’s going on with you two but you need to talk it out, when was the last time you spoke to her”

“When I left? I think maybe the night of that game she somehow came too”

“The day after her surgery- Jack that was like 2 weeks ago- okay you need to call her later tonight she’s out right now. Got it?”

“Ok” I take a breath I didn’t realize I was holding, then hung up.

(Back to 3rd person)

8:28 pm

“Can we talk about what happened earlier” she asks mark as they sit in his car in-front of their building.

“Yea, Uhm, I guess what I was saying is, I do, like you a lot, more then a friend” he admits quietly and she smiles back at him.

“Feelings are mutual, if you couldn’t tell” he chuckles and reaches for her hand, then holds it for a minute.

Meanwhile, Jack was flooding her phone with so many messages along the lines of “I’m mad at you” and “do you hate me”.

“You know you didn’t have to write a song to get me to realize I liked you”

“Yea well clearly I had to write one about Jack being a dick for him to realize he was one”

“Oh Calgary, yes I was waiting for that one. Are you okay?”

“Mhm, I’ll just… call him later I guess. Do you wanna stay with me?” She asks and he nods his head, then the two get out of the car and walk hand in hand to her dorm room.

“Oh I forgot my phone In The car I’ll be up in a second” he says and she heads up while he goes back to car, in the mean time, Anna sits at her desk while she receives a lovely call from Jack.

“Anna what the fuck, do you realize what you did” he says as soon as she answers.

“Did what Jack. Release a song” she sighs.

“No, your stomping on mine. Did you not think that your fans will hate me because of that line”

She didn’t even think about the fan part of it.

“No I didn’t Jack, because I don’t make decisions for myself based of you or fans”

“That’s not what I meant- what I meant was-”

“no I know what you meant Jack, you think everything’s about you and everything is always my fault” she challenges but hangs up. Tossing her phone onto the carpet below her and putting her hands over her face.

“Belle, what happened?” Mark asks as he enters the room, while tears are brimming her eyes.

“Jack called me, he’s so mad I didn’t think he would care” she whispers and stands up, while he pulls her into a hug.

“It’s okay, he’ll come around alright? I’ll get Luke to talk to him”

“Thank you” she sighs and the two lay down on her bed.

“I liked your album, a lot, but I need a name and address of the whoever running for the hills is about because holy, that was rough to listen to”

A/N: this is insanely old, I think this has been in my drafts since September, but I figured why not post it because I haven’t in a very long time… my apologies. But this was inspired by the song “No Fun” by Grace Enger, a small artist who I LOVE so go listen to her 😉 I should also have either a new fic or sneak peak of a new series coming soon :)

Cause it’s no fun the way I need you

It’s not fair how you’re okay

It’s no good to need somebody if it doesn’t go both ways

The night after the breakup was terrible, As any breakup is or would be. Whenever she was upset, or angry, or frustrated, she’d go to Luke, but now they are done and she can’t go to him, she always knew how much she needed him and now that he’s gone, it’s like her heart was hit by a truck.

But he didn’t need her and she wasn’t going to stick around if it was only going one way.

Grace lays in her bed crying with her dinosaur stuffed animal pulled up to her chest and the tv playing some sad movie in the background. She was physically aching at the thought of not being able to be wrapped up in his arms ever again.

Ethan came by earlier, it was a little quiet at first, but he got her talking and she remembered she was friends with him long before Luke and she couldn’t lose him too.

She didn’t even touch the soup he left her, she felt bad but she just didn’t have it in her.

Cause it’s no fun staying home from parties

It’s no fun if I see you there

It’s no fun watching you from a distance

“Ethan I said no” she grumbled while taking her pen back. At the moment, they were studying at the rink before he had practice and she had to go to work, but he wanted to try and convince her to come to a party at the soph house tonight.

“Please grace, I swear I’ll keep you two apart but I hate how you don’t go out and have fun anymore”

“I said no” she sighed then looked at the time on her phone “I have to go to work, I’ll see you in class Tomorrow”.

He sat back and sighed as he watched her leave, feeling almost guilty that he would rather make sure she was okay then hang out with his friends, especially if one of those friends is her ex.

7pm

Grace laid in bed, bored out of her mind. Her roommate Alex was at that party. She almost called Ethan, but remembered he was out, then she remembered how badly he wanted her to go, how badly her other friends wanted her to go and god she doesn’t think she could take another day without seeing Luca.

With a big huff and puff, she stood up and headed to her wardrobe to find a pair of jeans, but of course she spotted her Lukes little Caesar’s hoodie, it felt like almost forever ago when she bought it at his first game with that team, she had actually somehow convinced Quinn to buy it for her.

But she pushed past it and grabbed her jeans, throwing them on.

She slipped on her dunks and grabbed her phone, which had many missed texts from Ethan but she put it in her pocket and left.

When she arrived, there was so many people, everyone was back to back, but somehow she could still hear the boys in the kitchen. Standing in a circle was mark, Ethan, Luca and TJ, no Luke in sight so she figured it was a safe bet.

“So who’s getting me a drink” she smiles as she wraps her arms around Luca and mark.

“Gracie!” Luca cheers and pulls her into a hug “hey Kid, how’s your history of rock class going?”

“Amazing, do you listen to queen?”

“dude of course she does, have you seen the cds in her car” mark says and gets his own hug.

“I’m glad you came” Ethan says once she reaches his side, she looked past him once she recognized the curly headed boy.

“mhm” she cleared her throat and looked back to the group.

“I’m gonna get a drink” she says.

“I’ll come with you” mark replies and walks to the cooler, watching Luke in his peripheral’s to make sure they don’t cross paths.

almost her whole night was spent under marks arm, watching Luke from afar.

And it’s no fun if I lose all your friends

They weren’t mine but they kind of were

It’s been 3 months, since the breakup, since that party, since the last time she talked to any of those boys.

They were a big deal in her life, in her family’s life. Her younger brother looked up to Ethan, he’s the reason that he’s done so well in hockey, that he’s made the AAA team.

Eventually, the texts were less frequent, then the calls, then the meetings at Denny’s after a game, win or lose, the boys would go sit there and wait until graces shift ended about 10 minutes after they arrive.