°•*⁀➷ YOU & UMICH HOCKEY — streets of ann arbor au thoughts
who did it?
- you had roped luke into it
- well not exactly, but you made sure it was when luke went home for a weekend to visit his parents
- you used your key to get into the hockey house while the rest of the boys were at the weight lifting room for team lift
- you had already planned on visiting the guys while luke was away since you had a paper to work on with ethan and dylan
- and you needed to do well since the last quiz in that class didn’t go as well as you wanted
- you sat on the couch where you were scrolling through various comments on the umich hockey social media pages where people were talking about you
- and you heard it so many times on campus and in yost during games about you squeezing into the group and somehow managed to pull luke
- it never really bothered you but it’s like a rabbit hole and the more you scrolled, the worse it got
- you heard the car roll into the driveway, the guys were home and you already had your eyes puffy and tear stained cheeks
- luca and mackie were loud as they bursted into the house, cracking their typical jokes which made the train of the other roommates behind them laugh
“Yo boys!” You heard Adam call out, “Is Y/N here? Her shoes are at the door?”
“Nah, surely not,” Ethan replied, the sound of his backpack meeting the floor as he kicked off his slides, “She knows Hughes is out of town.”
“Maybe, she’s here to see us,” Dylan commented, “We are also her friends you know.”
Sock covered footsteps approached from down the hallway and to the kitchen where Mackie went straight to the fridge while Dylan went to refill his water bottle. Rutger spotted you first, immediately dropping his bag and rushing to your side.
“Y/N?” He asked, sitting next to you and placing a gentle hand on your shoulder, “Are you okay?”
“What happened?” Ethan added, with Mark and Luca right behind him.
“I just,” You sniffled, rubbing your eye with the base of your palm, “Oh god,” You sobbed into your hands.
- rut definitely stayed next to you, rubbing your back as you cried
- you tried not to but all the emotions from school stress, missing luke, and the horrid things people were saying about you came crashing down at once
- dylan ditches his bottle in the sink, only running back when his brother scolds him for leaving the tap running
- mark and mackie are first to stand up and head for the door
“Alright,” Luca said slowly, “Who the fuck did it.”
Tyler only shakes his head, his mind running through several possibilities on what could’ve happened to you.
“Boys,” Mackie announced, entering back into the living room with a baseball bat in his hand, “Who are we fucking up.”
“Where the hell did you even get that?” Adam asked Mackie, baffled that they even had a baseball bat in their house.
Mackie shrugged, patting the bat in his other hand, “I keep one in my room, anyways Bear, who are we jumping?”
“We aren’t jumping anyone,” Ethan told the rest, “We all know that it will cause us to be kicked off the team and probably expelled from school, and no offense Y/N, we aren’t jumping someone.”
You shook your head, “It’s just…”
“Fuck that!” Mark exclaimed, tossing a few ski masks onto the coffee table, “Ain’t no one is crossing her without suffering consequences, shit doesn’t run like that around here.”
“Bear?” Rutger questioned softly, “Is it Luke? Do we have to jump him?”
“Oh fuck!” Luca groaned, “If that lil motherfucker did something, I say we beat his ass!”
“Okay,” Tyler said to the older Fantilli brother, “If it is Luke, he better have fucked up big time because those two are basically married.”
“It’s Luke,” Adam added with a little shrug, “He is very much capable of fucking up.”
“Not when it comes to her,” Dylan told him, “Luke fucks up but not when it’s his girlfriend.”
- this is where you were thankful that luke wasn’t home because you knew that mark would already have him in a headlock by now
- mackie already headed out the door, claiming that he was gonna find out who did it
- even though you never said what exactly happened
- mark followed him out with dylan to make sure that mackie doesn’t actually beat the crap out of someone
- ethan was already on the other side of you, giving reassuring pats to your knee that everything was going to be fine
- and the tears wouldn’t stop falling, you tried pulling yourself together but the more you tried, the more you failed
- ty carefully placed the kleenex box in front of you and asked if you wanted him to make you something to eat
- he wasn’t the best when it came to comforting you but you appreciated his effort
You handed Ethan your phone which was already unlocked and on the comments of the recent UMich Hockey Instagram post that showed the boys smiling after their most recent win with you tucked under Luke’s arm. The comments were filled with things like ‘somehow she’s always in these’, ‘it’s like she tries to be posted on here on purpose’, ‘don’t even know why luke is dating her when he can literally date anyone else’.
Ethan’s jaw clenched as he continued to read the comments, “Fuck Y/N, why didn’t you tell us? Does Luke know?”
Luca pulled the phone from Ethan’s hand, reading it for himself with Adam and Tyler reading it over his shoulders.
“I’m texting the media girls,” Adam told the group of you, “They’ll delete them or block them or something because that shits fucked.”
“I don’t even know what I did,” You finally managed to string together your thoughts, “What if they’re right, like Luke could do better.”
“Now that’s a load of bullshit, you know that,” Rutger said to you, “Luke is in love with you, he makes it so obvious.”
“Besides, why would you listen to some random thirteen year old girl from like butt fuck nowhere tell you what Luke deserves. We know him, you out of all people know him, cmon now,” Tyler added while running a hand through his curls, “Shit, I’m so sorry Y/N.”
“We’re gonna figure this out, alright?” Luca reassured you, “And you have to tell Hughesy too, don’t leave him out in the dark.”
“He has so much going on already,” You sighed, resting your head on Rut’s shoulder.
“So what?” Adam shrugged, “You’re his number one priority, you know that. That kid would drop everything for you.”
“Hockey should be his number one priority,” You mumbled, which was missed by most of them.
- when you eventually composed yourself, rut and ethan guided you to the kitchen where they said you could work on your paper
- while ty went to cook something for dinner
- luca was on the phone with mark to let him know that mackie can put his bat away
- the boys obviously let you stay for as long as you needed, reminding you that you could crash in luke’s room
- probably because they weren’t super comfortable with you going home alone
- and they did everything to get you smiling and laughing again with intense games of imposter and heads up to get your mind off of things
- it’s safe to say that although you are luke’s girlfriend, that they’re all your friends and they love you very much
Oh my god!?!? I’m literally over here giggling and kicking my feet!! This was so unexpected and I absolutely needed this pick me up today🥹 I love you so much Hallie!! You’re genuinely so sweet and I’ve LOVED every convo that we’ve had your truly like my bestie (yes you’re STUCK with me)🤭🫶🏼💖🥺💕
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