Holden's pov

Sadly, I slowly watched her this morning on a video called on my phone since she was at her parents house as she talked about how she was settling in at her parents home but god damn it probably killed me to see her like this as if she were making a huge decision about her life because I knew that after she left her work she seemed a little overwhelmed with everything. I wanted her to know that I would never make her choose between anything but I would always support my girl.

In the darkness they were a continuous presence glowing within the sky as she stood up for herself including others people who had been discriminated against by a group of people and yet she never gave up fighting them all the way until she got the results that they wanted to be treated equally and accepted by everyone in her life.

"Hey,my beautiful genius,"I said , smiling at her through my phone screen.

In return she smiled a little bit before she say something I knew she was holding on to an important piece of information in her mind that she pushed her hair behind her ear showing me a part of her childhood room where she had grown up in which did reflect her personality perfectly anyway so, I sat on my bed waiting for her to tell me whatever it was that was bothering her right now to stop it from bothering her to see her real smile again. In the meantime she continued to not look me in the eyes whilst we gazed at each other in silence to see an ounce of sadness flickering through her eyes.

And then a second she looked back at me again and this time she frowned at me which I never thought I wanted to see her frowning on, especially when she was going to go places that I was quite certain she would be the next best future scientist.

"Hey, Mcsteamy." She sighed tiredly to me.

We have been through a lot more than most people had you know the small stuff and the painstakingly oversized stuff as I started to wonder what if it was her memory of her accident but whatever it was I would never let her go through it on her own because she deserves to feel validated by not just me but everyone else around us.

Unfortunately, we only have a couple of minutes left to talk about how she felt beforehand. I was going to my parent's house for dinner tonight, not to mention that my teammates kept asking if I was going to return back with any of my mom's famous chicken pot pie.

"What's wrong? Is anyone else bothering you?"I asked her, feeling a lot more concerned.
Nobody else had known her quite well as I did, always beating her up over everything and blaming herself, but sometimes life sucks as much energy out of her. I still see her fighting for her life to be happy.

I would let her win every single argument or support her when she needed me to be there for her because this world has been too harsh on her. I wish I could go through my phone screen and hug the hell out of her until she feels all better.

Slowly, I noticed that she sounded tired but she still looked incredibly stunning. Thank God, I have brought my portable phone charger so I could hear her voice as I was driving down the street to my parents house and then I could show my whole family pictures of her to let my mom know that I won't be single forever.

"Don't you ever wish that you could reopen or bury a time capsule of all of your memories."she asked me, reminiscing her old memories.

Later on, we were going to write down all of our dreams, aspirations and goals for the year on paper then we were going to put them into a treasure chest box. My mum's house was not too far from campus, just two hours and a half drive whereas her friend Avenna house was a five hours and twenty minutes drive if only we could just bury it behind the hockey house to save us more time.

"Babe, that is what we are doing tonight so don't worry about it.'' I said reassuringly to her.

"Alright but I just wanted to know if you have written anything down on paper yet?"

Today, we were going to be burying our time capsules after writing every single one of our hopes, dreams and aspirations for the future which made her worried that she hadn't written anything down yet in comparison to me who wrote down a few things down on a piece of paper. Trust me, the future generation should follow a list of examples of how you get the girl but that wasn't all that i had written about.

I made a list of things which i wanted to happen for me:
1 ) to be the world's greatest hockey player
2) to be with Nataila Speilberg forever
3)beat  Asher's record of the highest number of hockey goals scored
4) settle down in the future
5)have a successful life.
6)to be legendary

All legend carried a legacies with them so why not make a set of my own rules or example for one of my future offsprings to follow but right now i was only twenty two year old that had stop partying his life away because i had realized there was more serious and better things to do than to go to every single nightclub to get wasted.

"Is this your way to try to sneak a peek of all the list that i have written down?"

Once I had arrived at my mum's house as I parked right into the parking lot in her driveway and then got out of the car to stroll up to the front porch door. I knocked on the door while waiting for one of my family members to open the door because I hadn't eaten anything all day long as I was saving space for my mom's food which caused me to be starving.

This hunger that I'm feeling was unreal, to say the least, until my cousin Flora opened the door and stood by the door. "Tell your friend Gray, not picked up, Rameria's phone calls," warned Flora,

"Not even a nice warm greeting for your favorite cousin Flo?"I asked quippingly to Flora. "Please place your Flora on the phone because I need to give her some girly advice." she requested Flora.

My cousin Flora snatched my phone out of my hand as soon as she heard my girlfriend Natalia's voice speak through the phone as Flora said "Rameria is the worst. She is on another level of stalker borderline crazy."

She soon replied back with "are we talking about the same girl who tried to flirt with Joey Young and Fletcher too?"asked Natalia knowingly.

How did my cousin Flora have my girl's phone number?

They both chatted with each other on my phone and Flora slightly turned around and said "Grandma is in the kitchen with Aunt Navaeh, your mom.

Also, relax it is not like your girlfriend is on the phone with our other cousin Colton who is the biggest flirt ever and honestly, I'm just glad that Natalia has changed you from your playboy ways too."

Hopefully, she doesn't conspire against me with Flora seeing as all of the facts or stories about the both of us growing up when we were younger than the age we are now or otherwise I might have to convince her that none of them were true.

Anyway, my mom and Grandma engulfed me in a huge bone-crushing hug whilst Flora handed me back my phone which leaves me with only three strongest eldest women in my family mum, Aunt Navaeh and grandma Pearl snatching my phone out of my hands to catch a glimpse of Natalia my girlfriend who smiled including greeted the three of them politely. 

"I like her already because I get this feeling that she doesn't put up with you, when you sometimes behave out of line." Aunt Nevaeh smiled approvingly.

My mum added "You're right Neva, She probably keeps my son on his toes to keep wanting more."

Grandma Pearl said honestly, "oh, leave my grandson alone, would ya? Although, I don't know how he  landed her or got her to even bat an eyelash to him. When all he's addicted to is hockey."

Some of my family had decided to roast me in front of my girlfriend who was simply giggling and she had started to answer all of their questions with ease because they were all getting on like a house of cards on fire.

All of my family will love her more than they love me. I wouldn't say that i was addicted to hockey but i felt like hockey sport was a lifeline for some of us hockey player as in it was in the air that we breathed and as Natalia used to say it was a brutal barbaric sport that let us.

And somehow, channel our pent up rages or angers to began to be leveled headed and cleared minded. Anyways, I felt like tonight went well except for the part where four most important women in my life had agreed that today was roast Holden's day.

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Natalia's Pov

His family was amazing from the moment that they had talked to me on my phone until it was time to hang up my phone as my brothers started calling me to join them at the dinner table in our parents dining room where my family was sitting and had talked amongst themselves about what was going on in our lives. I know that our lives were different but life isn't black and white.

However, I see the golden daylight furthermore, he had taught me during our love experiment to never be afraid to fall as i still remember that day ever too clearly to believe maybe my theory was proven wrong seeing how i was a stem girl that studies every single day or i was very busy working on my radio talk shows to buried all of those hidden romantic feelings. Those feelings that still manage to resurface over time spend alone as just the two of us.

"Who are you talking to on your phone?"asked my brother Nathaniel, nosely to me.

Me: Do you remember what you told me about Rameria?
  Well, all you have to do is get her distracted by introducing her to another boy.

Florals:  yes, but she already has her sight set on Grayson which is annoying because she mocks the fact that he only sees me as his best friend's little cousin. 

"Focus on your own life but I guess you wouldn't know that I'm dating a hockey player or the fact that I did  protest against my university education board because an old teacher of mine is a racist and sexist too." I gave the lowdown on my life to my brothers while my parents were still discussing law legal cases about Professor Stone to each other.

"Also, my ex-jerkface boyfriend Matthew had threatened me by putting up nasty lies about me around campus  and pushed me down the stairs but overall, nothing is really new in my life." I said with a brave face.

Not enough energy in me to cry or feel miserable about it so instead I just laughed it off as if it was nothing since I was tired of reliving the incident in my head for the one thousandth time in my mind almost like a broken record.

"Oh, fork!"i stayed silent wishing my big brothers were there for me at the time and not traveling half away around the round. "You could have called them on your phone but if I see this sick and twisted guy on the street then I will deal with him by myself."said my dad.

"David, are you forgetting that we are a team in this family so we do everything together like dealing with these issues and also he is just -."

My dad interrupted my mum half way through her talking.

"Michelle, this kid gotta learn never to hurt another or let alone our daughter again." my mum sighed and said "fine but we do have to speak to his parents first because someone doesn't grow up to be that cruel do they?"

Meanwhile, I replied back to Flora text message: oh, I get it you have a little crush on Grayson our university goalie hockey player but remind him how offlimit, untaintable and unavailable you are.

This works for me even though, I didn't even considered the fact that I was going to fake-date him especially after the whole incident of Matthew pushing me down the stairs and me unraveling his identify as my stalker now that he was in custody of the police i was much safer than i used to be. Holden was sorta of a great guy but will he forget or cool this whole experiment off just when i was slowly getting used to him.

I take this as a chance to excuse myself from the dinner table to lock myself in my room with my dinner plate while I was texting Flora. I will text the other girls  later but right now, I needed to talk to someone who really knows what he was like as a kid or someone who really knows Holden and that was his cousin Flora as well as Grayson.

Florals: slowly seeing things that i didn't notice before with Gray but what about you with my cousin Holden?

Me: It is complicated just like everything about him and I,is.

Florals: it's only complicated if you let it be. He only made this fake-dating experiment to protect you from your ex-boyfriend because he cares more about you than a friend. Do you have any feelings for him?

Me: yes, no or maybe i do. I just don't know my own mind anymore!