you and rutger are childhood best friends. you two have been through everything with each other and even had people thinking you two were dating, which you both crazily denied rutger just got traded to the penguins and signed with them last month. so that meant he had to pack his stuff and move to pittsburgh. and that was super hard on you because that meant he’d be leaving you which was definitely the opposite of what you wanted but you knew you couldn’t do anything about it. you were super happy when rutger called you and told you, but you were also sad because what if he left and forgot about you, stopped talking to you, etc. you just couldn’t shake those thoughts off for the life of you and it really hurt but you had to push through it it’s now been a month since he got traded and packed his bags and left for pittsburgh, leaving you in michigan. fast forward and you haven’t started school yet again so you decided to go pay rutger a visit. he had kept in touch a little but not as much as you’d expected. it’s been about a week now since you’ve heard from him. so you talked to his parents, who have been staying in pittsburgh with him, and got a plan set up to surprise rutger. you were just gonna get on a plane and fly there and surprise him. you had gotten an invite to stay over after the surprise which you took it because why not you’re now standing at the front door, nervous and shaky, waiting for rutger to open the door. his mom said he was the only one there right now. you hear the foot steps and the door opens to see rutger standing there

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