In which Macklin Celebrini’s secret girlfriend gets hit on by one of his teammates at a club after winning gold at the Olympics
this is so shit I’m sorry
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Being in a secret relationship with a very well known NHL player was difficult. But trying to stay away from said boyfriend whilst being at the same bar as him? Extremely difficult.
Since dating Macklin both of you have tried very hard to keep your relationship a secret for privacy reasons. Macklin is scared of the terrors of hockey social media and you simply don’t want to be online.
You would attend games hidden in the crowd, arrive and leave the rink separately and have date night indoors. All your arrangements worked perfectly. That was, until he became an Olympian.
Both of you had brainstormed ways to get you to join him in Milan without anyone finding out, including the whole of the Canadian hockey team as none can be trusted to not run their mouth.
And right now, you’re sitting at the bar in a Milan with your closest friend so you can ‘celebrate’ with Macklin while not actually revealing yourself. With the Canadians winning the expected gold, it was natural for the whole team to go out and celebrate.
It would work perfectly. You and your friend would slip out with macklin once the team is drunk enough, she’ll go back to her hotel room and you will go with Mack to yours, that’s where the real celebration would be.
You can see Macklin and the team in the corner of the club, you can hear them very well too. Getting drunker and sloppier by the minute the whole team is dancing along to the music, doing shots and gossiping, naturally.
Macklin slips off to the bathroom and Brad Marchand, a known trouble maker puts his arms around his chosen victim, Thomas Harley, one of team Canada’s defence-man. “Harley! You’re single right?” He nods, not making eye-contact since he can take a pretty good guess on what’s coming next.
“$100 says you can’t pick up that girl right there tonight” Brad continues, pointing to you sitting at the bar, laughing at something your friend is saying.
“Add another $100 on that, I want in” Shouts Tom Wilson from behind them. “There’s no way you can dude, look at her” another Canadian hockey player says.
And for great timing, your friend excuses herself from your side to go to the bathroom. “Yo it’s your time man, she alone” Marchand says pushing him in the direction of you.
Facing the bar, you continue to make your way through your 2nd drink of the night when you hear a soft yet loud voice from behind you. “Hi”
“Hello” you reply placing your drink down on the bar, a slight confused look on your face as you discreetly try and look for your boyfriends in the crown of Canadians in red.
“I’m Thomas” he says while slowly sitting down next to you on the other side from where your friend was just moments ago, giving you perfect vision on him teammates very obviously laughing behind him. “I know” you reply “I was watching tonight, you guys did amazing” You lean your head only your fist, you’ve just realised the situation at hand and Mack is nowhere to be seen. This is going to be fun.
“Really? You watch hockey?” He says shocked. “Yeah. I’m a Sharks fan though” you say while pursing your lips together.
“Oh yeah? Well we might have to change that then” Harley says, suddenly gaining some confidence to talk to you.
Walking out of the bathroom, Macklin can see him team is hysterically laughing at something before him. “Celebrini look, said to Har ‘$209 says you can’t pick up that girl’ and he’s actually going for it. He’s got no chance look at her” Wilson says to him still chuckling to himself.
Turning his head towards the bar, he sees his girlfriend and teammate looking way too invested in conversation. Except he sees something in her the rest of the team don’t, the mischievous grin on her face tells him you know exactly what’s about to go down. You know Macklin is a jealous guy and -secret or not- will not stand by and let this happen.
It’s a long moment Macklin stands staring at the situation in front of him before he makes his way over. The conversation between the two becoming louder as he gets closer.
“Why you a sharks fan then?” He hears Thomas say to his girlfriend. You begin to stand up as you see Macklin coming.
“My boyfriends on the Sharks” you say with pride spreading through your face as Macklin makes his way to you, placing his hand on your waist. “Everything okay over here?” He said looking at Harley, he just nods.
The group of the three of you may be awkward, but the group behind you certainly isn’t. The whole hockey team is howling with laughter at this point. “There’s literally no way” You hear one of the screaming with laughter. “Come on babe” he said, guiding you outside of the building.
I guess your best friend will have to get a taxi. Or get in Thomas Harley’s car?…
the fact that the official hockey canada account posted this still cracks me up because 1) they did NOT need 5+ men fussing around to make sure mack was able to safely get onto the platform and yet they were all hovering protectively anyway, and 2) the theo caption 😭 which is even funnier when you remember theo and mack were roommates
