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The number one thing on my bucket list is to go to a hockey game in every arena. So far I have been to ten.
Growing up in a state with no hockey sucked for a hockey fan. The only thing Alabama really cares about is college football. My parents moved to Alabama from Buffalo when I was about five. They grow up watching hockey so I grew watching hockey.
None of my friends liked hockey they didn't know anything about it. So when the game was on I would go on twitter and just tweet about it and then I just talked to talk to other hockey fans on there and that is how I meet my six best friends on twitter.
I first started talking to Rachael, she is a die-hard New York Rangers fan. She was friends with Emily who is a St. Louis Blues fan. I saw Maggie bash on my Sabres so I bashed her Maple Leafs and somehow we kept talking. I congratulated Sam on the Capitals cup win last year and we had a long conversation about both our teams. Elizabeth tweeted me asking how I was a fan of Buffalo when I live in Alabama so that stared a long conversation, she's a Lightning fan. Last but not least Jessica the Montreal Canadiens fan, I tweeted her about Carey Price because I have a soft spot for that man. So in our group, we have a Rangers, Blues, Sabres, Leafs, Capitals, Lightning, and Canadiens.
We all have started traveling to go to hockey games together. Right now Rachael, Emily, Sam, Elizabeth, Jessica, and I are all on our way to meet up in Toronto. Maggie has been bugging us all to go to a home Leafs game.
Something that the girls don't know is that for the past six months I have been talking to Auston Matthews. I know me a Buffalo Sabres fan talking to Toronto's golden boy. Auston messaged me on Twitter after I posted a picture of Maggie and me, her in a Leafs jersey and me in a Sabres one. He thought it was weird that we were friends when we should hate each other. I told him Maggie and I fight about it all the time but we are still really close friends. The next day he messaged me asking how my day went and we have been talking ever since.
Once I stepped off the plane my phone started ringing. I took it out expecting it being one of the girls but instead, it was Auston, a smile appeared on my face and butterflies start flying around in my stomach.
"Hello?"
"Hey beautiful, are you in Toronto yet?"
"Just stepped off the plane actually."
"What are you doing for dinner tonight?" I could never get tired of hearing his voice.
"I don't know I haven't spoken to the girls yet. You're the first one I have talked to."
"Well, some of the guys and I were going to get something to eat. I really want to see you."
"Y/N!" I turn around and see Elizabeth walking fast to me.
"I will have to see what we are doing but they don't know I have been talking to you yet but I really want to see you too Auston."
"Okay, I will text you." And with that, we said goodbye and hung up.
"Elizabeth!" I put my phone in my back pocket and got ready for impacted.
"Even though we saw each other last month it feels like it's been longer." She wrapped her arms around me and I did the same.
"I know. How was your flight?" She picked up her bag that she dropped before she gave me a hug.
"It was good. There was a cute guy sitting next to me." She pulled out a napkin with writing on it. "And yes I got his number." I laughed and made our way to the front doors.
All our planes are supposed to land around the same time so we didn't have to make so many trips to the airport.
"Well well well look who we have here." Elizabeth and I turned around and see Rachael looking at both of us. "A Lightning and Sabres fan in a Toronto's airport."
