fifteen

Mandy woke up next to Magnus, and an involuntary smile spread on her lips as she watched him sleep for a moment, realizing what really happened last night. She took advantage of him, making it seem like she might actually feel something for him. Everything in the body language pointed that out. She had to leave.

She picked up her dress off the floor from last night and slipped it back on, grabbing her heels and calling a cab back home. She knew the boys would be up by now, and the possibility of running into him was big, but she just wanted to go home.

She down the hall of her apartment and heard a door open, and she quickly knocked on her door, she lost her key last night.

"Mandy?"

She turned around, recognizing the voice and automatically responded, "What?"

"Where were you?"

Roxy opened the door, not soon enough, "None of your business Taylor" she shut the door behind her and Roxy's eyes went wide.

"Where were you?"

"I crashed at Magnus'"

"Just crashed?"

She could see it on Mandy's face, after all they had known each other for almost their entire lives.

"Fine, I slept with him"

"I knew you liked him!"

"That's not why!" she responded back quickly.

Roxy narrowed her eyes, crossed her arms and looked at her sternly, "Then why?" even after all these years the one thing she could not figure out about Mandy was what went on in her head when it came to guys. She's been screwed with alot.

"I was upset about Taylor, and Magnus was right there, because I couldn't come back here last night, I didn't need to see him. I really only planned to sleep there, but I couldn't help it, I needed some kind of...feeling"

Roxy looked at her best friend and then felt a bit of sympathy. She didn't deserve this, she didn't deserve what Taylor did to her. She was finally starting to warm up to the fact that Mandy may have found a guy, a guy she could potentially love, and he throws everything she gave to him right back in her face. Petra. Of all people.

"I'm sorry Mandy, you don't deserve this"

"Nobody does"

--

The tension in the locker room was thick, and Magnus was doing all he could to not to go after his teammate. Yet, the fact that Mandy was gone when he got up, gave him second thoughts.

"You three are unusually quiet today" Jones piped up looking at the four rookies.

"Long night" was all Taylor said.

The rest of them nodded and Jones stood up this time and grabbed Taylor by the arm, "Jordan told me what happened last night, what the fuck were you thinking?"

"It doesn't matter, she doesn't want anything to do with me" he said as he spotted Mandy and Roxy across the hall.

"I don't blame her"

Taylor just turned his head over to Magnus, someone he thought might be able to help, because for a change, Taylor was actually hurting for what he did to her.

"Magnus?"

Magnus looked up as he finished tying his skate and leaned back on his stall, "Yah?"

"Can I talk to you for minute?"

"Depends"

"It's about Mandy"

"What about her? What you did last night was--"

"I know" he said quickly, "can I trust you with something?"

He just shrugged as Taylor continued on, "The girl is incredible and..and I may have more feelings for her than I thought. I didn't sleep last night, what I did to her was...it hur me too, seeing her cry--"

"What's your point Hall?"

"How do I fix this"

Magnus just sighed, "I don't know if you can"

"Why not?"

"You can tell, this girl she's--she's different, and the fact that you're the first boyfriend she's ever had, tells you something, she's not trusting Taylor, and she actually trusted you, of all people and you broke that trust"

"You're telling me this is unfixable?"

"Pretty much, just leave her alone, give her time, she's delicate"

Taylor just sighed and looked across at her again, "If you say so"

Magnus knew he had to talk to her, why did she leave? I mean, she knew this was his first time, and even he knew that the girl leaving in the morning, was not a good sign.

"Mandy?"

Mandy turned around to see Magnus, and again that involuntary smile spread on her face, but she quickly retracted it as she looked up at him, "Yah?"

"Why did you leave this morning?" he asked quietly, "I thought--"

"It wasn't you okay? I promise"

"Then what was it?"

"It was me, I just--" she looked over to see her boss and looked back at Magnus, "I have to go, I'm sorry"

--

"You still haven't given me details about last night. Was he good?"

Mandy kept her eyes on her work, "Yah...he was"

"What's that mean?"

"What? I said he was good"

"You seemed unsure"

"I've never felt like that before Roxy"

"Like what?"

"He said it was his first time, and it's hard to believe it after that. But he was also really different, careful, gentle, and his kisses were like--"

"Whoa!"

"What?"

"He totally made love to you, he loves you!"

"Will you keep your voice down?" Mandy whispered, "He does not, he doesn't even know me"

"Well he has some kind of feelings for you"

"And I still have feelings for Taylor"

"Even after"

"I don't get over something like him overnight, okay? Just don't go blabbing it to everyone, because I want to get over it"

"Magnus can help you do that"

"Roxy, I thought we said we weren't getting into relationships, I mean look what it got me? I'm not doing that to myself again, not here, not with these guys, okay?"

She just sighed and spotted Lander on the ice. She thought about him for a minute, what it might be like if for even just a moment they could be free. Free from Petra, be out in public together, without a care in the world, and then she looked back at her best friend. This caused alot of drama, and this isn't what she wanted when they came for this job. Everything was just starting to fall apart, and maybe all they needed to do was finish this and get out.