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you wouldn't even close to consider yourself a famous singer. you were nowhere close to the level of ariana grande, drake, or shawn mendes. you were just a person from toronto that liked singing and made a career out of it.

to say you were shocked when you received an email from the toronto maple leafs was a understatement. you were absolutely blown away. they had asked if you would be available to sing the national anthem before their season opener game, read out the starting lineup, and then meet the players after the game.

of course being the life time toronto fan that you were, you immediately agreed. you were absolutely overjoyed. you could remember going to leafs games when you were younger and having the time of your life.

finally, the day had come and it was time to head to the scotiabank arena to get ready to sing. you had on a pretty casual outfit on that was a leafs jersey with a hoodie underneath it and some jeans.

you were allowed to go through the player entrance which was a treat in itself. you could hear the leafs players screaming as they played a game of soccer before their game.

you had met a few kind people that told you where to go while singing and where to go after you were done.

"ms. bennett, they are ready for the lineup read in the locker room."

you nodded and made your way into the locker room.

you felt all eyes go on you as you began to read up the lineup.

"let's get a win here." you finished your read.

the players cheered and as you were about to exit the dressing room, your eyes made contact with the goalie. he smiled at you warmly and you smiled back as you left the room.

you watched the leafs go out for warmups and then it was your time to sing the national anthem.

you went out there and did your job which came along with a chorus of cheers in the crowd and player stick taps.

once again as you were exiting the ice, you caught the ginger goalie's eyes on you. you smiled at him and gave him a little thumbs up of luck before exiting the sheet of ice.

you cheered as the leafs won 4-1 over the ottawa senators.

you were taken down the leafs lobby promptly and slowly all of the boys filed out of the locker room to mingle.

when mitch marner came out, he quickly walked over to you, "i love your music so much." he told you.

"really?" you said and he nodded, "that's so cool to know." you smiled.

"your music is in the locker room a lot." he said with a signature smile, "i was actually the one that asked management to see if you would come sing."

you chuckled and smiled, "that's great to hear that i have mr. marner on my side." she teased a little.

he laughed, "please call me mitch." he begged, "oh and i have a little secret, mr. andersen, as you would say, has a big crush on you. he was very happy to see you wearing his jersey tonight." mitch smirked as he called out his goalie.

you blushed lightly, "well that's nice. i'll have to talk to him and to be honest i didn't plan the jersey." you laughed lightly.

"oh i'll get going since your prince charming just came out of the dressing room. i hope to talk to you later." mitch said as he walked off.

a few other players walked up to you and made some talk, but never the person that you wanted it to be after what mitch had told you.

you were about to get going when you heard a low voice behind you, "that's a nice jersey."

you turned around and saw the one and only frederik andersen.

you smiled and chuckled, "i'm kendall." you introduced yourself.

"freddie." he responded.

"it's nice to meet you." you smiled.

"it's nice to meet you too." freddie said with a soft smile, "i'm going to get straight to the point here, so i think you're really beautiful and i was wondering if you'd like to go on a date?"

you smiled and blushed lightly, "yeah i would really like that." you nodded.

you gave him your phone number.

"i'll see you sometime soon then?" you said.

freddie nodded and said, "i hope so."

you smiled and waved as you got into your car.

when you got home, you saw your phone screen light up.

unknown: does tomorrow at 6:30 work for you?

a childish smile was permanently plastered on your face for the rest of the night.