🗣️| your mom and dad were both famous hockey players.

not to mention they were insanely good too.

so, of course, you learned how to skate before you could barely walk.

you ended up falling in love with the sport of hockey, and now, in your senior year of high school, are very good.

anyways, your father was good friends with Adam Woods, who was also a great hockey player in college and NHL.

and he, had a kid one year before you.

grant woods.

yes, the grant woods.

Crazy hockey prodigy, rookie sensation, going to the NHL 1st draft pick.

that grant woods.

however to you, he was just grant.

a kid who you grew up with, and played hockey with on the weekends with your parents.

you two had always been close, ever since you were born.

since he went to college a year before you, however, the two of you drifted apart, considering you never saw each other.

it’s currently spring break, which means your birthday.

AKA a huge celebration for your family.

and the first time seeing grant since he moved to college.

he promised he could make it to your birthday and couldn’t wait to see you, but it’s almost 8 at night and he’s nowhere to be seen.

your family and his parents continue to celebrate your birthday, but you’re disappointed.

he wasn’t able to make it to thanksgiving or christmas, and now he didn’t even show up for your birthday.

A year later.

it’s back to your birthday again, which is spent at a party your college friends threw for your birthday.

everything was great.

you got a scholarship for hockey, you met amazing friends, and loved college in general.

however, as soon as you heard his voice everything changed.

you were by the drinks, talking to some friends when you heard someone behind you.

it was probably just some random stupid hockey players that showed up, that’s until you heard his voice.

“JB!”

no one ever called you JB, except for grant.

he gave you that name after your favorite candy, jellybeans.

he was here.

at your birthday party.

the same occasion that he missed last year.