𝐄𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓 𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐒, 𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐬 [𝟑] ✓

30| For everything...

November scanned his flustered countenance and couldn't help but let a giggle escape her lips. Truly, she felt bad for him as he stuttered and made himself look like an idiot but Nova just found it too cute. With a small head shake, the girl snorted as Adam tripped up on his words. In a quick motion, she found herself on her tiptoes with her lips softly pressed up against his. At that, he grew quiet with a small smile of content and flushed cheeks.

November gazed up at him with a grin playing on her lips. In a soothing voice, Nova spoke. "What kind of girlfriend would I be if I didn't stop you from embarrassing yourself..."

Slowly, Adam's face had faded into one of relief and admiration of the girl in front of him. It didn't take long for a smirk to settle on his face. "I should embarrass myself more often then"

Nova rolled her eyes playfully as she nodded. "Yeah you should, I could use a good laugh from time to time" At that, the girl gave a light pat at his chest before pushing past him and walking outside, giving herself a small smile of victory at his gawking expression.

Adam Banks followed his girlfriend with his eyes as she hopped off her porch steps. "I was trying to be cute!" he whined as he threw his hands up in an exasperated manner

November just hummed and turned to face him, beginning to walk backwards. "You don't need to try and do that, honey. Now... are you coming?"

Adam drew his eyebrows together and tilted his head to the side like a confused puppy. "Where are you going?"

Nova chuckled and shrugged. "You tell me. You're the one who wanted to show me something, did you not?"

Instantly, Adam Banks piped up in an incredibly excited way before he ran past Nova, grasping a hold of her hand in the process. At the sudden dragging, November gasped as she stumbled upon her feet while trailing behind the quick paced boy. She would have slapped him a thousand times when they finally came to a halt if it weren't for him running into his garage bringing out a hockey stick

Nova placed her hand on her hip as she used the other to hold her chest, calming her adrenaline. Though, she couldn't help but eye the happily smiling boy that approached her with a hockey stick in his hands. Confused, November pointed to it. "This is what you wanted to show me?"

The blond nodded vigorously as he placed the stick in her hands excitedly. Still, the girl looked down at it in at confused manner before switching her gaze to him. "wow... its a hockey stick??"

Adam's shoulders dropped as he rolled his eyes and ran a hand through his hair. "Not just any hockey stick..." Adam exclaimed, "come on, look at it!"

Adam waited patiently as she scanned the stick, moving it around a bit as she examined; but still, she was confused. "So..." Adam urged in a hopeful tone. Though, he sighed when he saw his girlfriend look up at him with her nose scrunched up and her eyebrows furrowed.

"I mean," Nova began as she tried her best to understand what her significant other was trying to show her, "this stick would work great for you if you were six inches shorter..."

Again, Adam dropped his shoulders and took the stick from her hands. "So like your height?"

With a glare, November willingly gave him the hockey equipment. "Shut up, Banks... just show me whats so special about this stick"

He gave the girl an innocent smile before switching his gaze to the stick in his hands, talking as he did so. "So remember when we were ten and McGill gave me a concussion..." He trailed on as he undid the tape that was wrapped around the bottom of the stick

"yeah... of course I remember.." November gulped as she rubbed the back of her neck and tried not to reminisce on the moment she saw his limp body laying on the cold ice.

"well..." he kept trailing on as he continued to carefully unwrap the head of the stick. "This was the stick I used at that game. Except, when I was in the hospital, My dad and my brother went out to get me a new stick for a get well present so I haven't touched it since and that means-" He stopped as he finished off unraveling the tape, "-that this is still there"

Adam firmly held the shaft of the stick as he held it out and to the side so November, who stood beside him, could take a took.

Nova tucked a strand of hair behind her ear as she shuffled to Adam's side, taking a better look at the bare head of the stick. Upon laying her eyes on it, the girl let a chuckle escape her lips. Truly, it was one of the best and sweetest things shes ever seen. Adam glanced down at the girl beside him in complete adoration and intimacy. Simply, seeing her small, ever growing smile had just warmed his heart.

November gazed down at the single piece of tape that sat all the way across the stick from the heal to the front of the head. She would read the written portion over and over if she could. "For November 'super nova' Collins..." Nova read out before moving her gaze to the side, seeing where Adam was already staring at her in admiration. "You weren't kidding when you said that goal was for me..."

Adam smiled softly as he gazed into her captivating green eyes. "Did you think I was joking..." he laughed out quietly, causing Nova to look down in a bashful giggle

"I thought you hit your head a bit to hard..."

Adam just laughed and continued to look at the girl in front of him who was tucking the lose strands of hair, that fell over face, behind her ear. "so... this-" November began as she waved her hand over the stick, "-has been sitting there for four years?"

Adam nodded and gave a proud smile. "I mean... it explains why I dedicate everything on that ice to you..."

Nova gave a cute snort of a laugh before leaning up on her tiptoes and placing a soft kiss on his cheek. "Thank you..." she whispered to him as she glanced back into his eyes, "for everything..."

Adam bit the inside of his cheek as he gazed back at her in a whipped manner. Softly, he shook his head before leaning down to place a soft kiss of her lips. "No, thank you..." Adam whispered softly as he tucked a small strand of hair behind her ear and allowed his hand to linger on her cheek. "for everything; for being the first and only person to accept me when I walked into that locker room"

The couple stared at one another in close proximity as they reminisced on everything they've been through. All the way back to when they would get scared and baffled when their faces were at this close of a range to one another. Back when they weren't friends but were still there for one another when nobody else was. Back when they only thought of each other as a best friend. Back when they first fell in love.

At that moment, all November could think of was the time she sat in this very spot, three and a half years ago, with Adam sitting in the spot he stood at right now. At that same time, she had fallen for the boy she called her best friend...

Brynn speaks !

I actually had so much planned for this chapter but then I went off on the cute nadam moments and couldn't fit it because I've reached like 2000 words already... so yeah, this was fun to write tho!!

Also, I'll be ending this book off in 6 or so chapters and I've already begun the draft of the fourth book!! Give me ideas y'all want me to ( maybe ) include!

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