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"i can't wait until you come to buffalo." you smiled at your phone.

"i can't wait either baby." carter smiled brightly back at you, "i miss you so much."

you pouted. you missed him just as much, maybe even more.

you played for the buffalo sabres while carter was 6 hours away playing for the philadelphia flyers. an nhl couple. one of a kind.

right now you were in dallas taking on the stars.

"y/n! we gotta leave." you looked away from carter on the screen and towards your roommate jeff skinner.

"one second skins." you said to him.

"you look beautiful y/n/n. go beat those stars." carter blew a kiss at you, "i love you so much."

"i love you too carter." you blew a kiss back.

carter waved and hung up.

"you guys make me feel so single." jeff said, adjusting the sleeve of his suit.

"oh jeffrey. you just need to find the right one." you said.

"whatever. now let's go or we'll be late." he pulled you out the door of the hotel room.

you guys pulled up to american airlines center and stole the 2 points from the stars with a score of 4-1.

the locker room was hyped from the big win.

you guys would be staying in the hotel for the night and then taking a plane early morning back to buffalo to play the nashville predators.

on the bus ride back to the hotel, you had been scrolling through instagram and saw a post that made the tears rise to your eyes immediately.

carter was kissing another girl. and to add insult to injury, it looked very passionate. he held the back of her head with one hand and the other was dangerously close to her ass.

ouch

you collapsed. you stared blankly into the seat in front of you while struggling not to start sobbing. angrily, you sent the photo to carter.

y/n/n: please tell me this is a joke carter hart

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incoming call from carter 🥰

you declined the call quickly knowing you couldn't handle talking to him.

you stared into the low quality photo not being able to accept that your carter had done this.

"y/n are you okay?" jeff asked.

he peered at the phone that was in your hands. you heard a gasp come from his end.

he quickly pulled you into his chest and rubbed your back as you began to sob.

he sat there with you and whispered the words that you needed.

"you are way better than that." he said quietly.

you continued to cry until the bus got to the hotel.

you got off the bus and apparently every one of your teammates saw how distressed you looked because all of them came over and gave you the biggest group hug ever.

you were protected from the cool dallas wind by the bodies of 25 grown men.

"I LOVE YOU AND CARTER AND ALL BUT THAT WAS A PRETTY DICK MOVE." rasmus dahlin yelled through the crowd.

all of the sabres cheered at rasmus' statement. they were clapping and yelling. you laughed as they cheered and cheered.

"Y/N Y/N Y/N." all of them began to chant together.

you chuckled at your teammates. you couldn't deny that you were the luckiest person to have so many accepting, supportive teammates.

"thank you." you said just loud enough for everyone to hear you.

"you know we love you." jack eichel spoke for the whole team to which the rest of them cheered to show that they agreed.

"and i love you guys too. go to bed boys. we got an early flight." you said smiling.

they all nodded and walked off. before going to his hotel room, rasmus dahlin being a swedish sweetheart walked past and gave you a kiss on the cheek.

jeff laughed at rasmus, "come on y/n. let's go up to the room."

you nodded and linked arms with jeff following him up to the room.

he gave you another hug as you got to the room.

"i'm sorry y/n. you don't deserve to be cheated on." jeff said.

"i know i know skins. i think i just need to sleep it off." you smiled.

jeff smirked, "i say if you and carter go south, you give dahlin a try and fulfill his dreams."

you laughed loudly, "absolutely not."

"you still love him, don't you?" jeff asked.

"who? rasmus? rasmus is just one of the boys." you said with a nasty look.

"no you idiot. carter." jeff rolled his eyes.

"ohhh." you looked at the floor, "of course i do jeff. it's hard not to. i know i can't date long distance with a cheater though."

"if you really want it to work y/n then you can. it'll take some work, but you can."

"thanks jeff. i needed that."

you knew that if you loved carter enough and carter loved you enough, you guys would never give up on your relationship. this was a relationship test to see how strong you two truly were. only time would tell.