Chapter 64

“Sid, can you come off the ice now please.” I heard Mario shouting at me from the edge of the rink.

“In a minute Mario, just let me finish this drill.” I shouted and turned to go back to what I was doing.

“SIDNEY I NEED YOU HERE NOW!!”

I skated off annoyed that Mario had interrupted training and could not believe he had the nerve to shout at me like that in front of the team, he knows how important things are just now especially when we don’t have Gill here keeping us in line.

“What is so important that it could not wait until after training Mario?” I snap at him when I notice 2 uniform policemen standing just behind him.

“Why are their police here?” I say to him feeling very confused and suddenly very scared.

“Mr Crosby, is there somewhere we can talk in private?” The first officer says to me sounding very serious.

“You can talk to me here, please tell me what is going on?”

“There has been an accident Mr Crosby, your wife has been airlifted in the hospital you need to get there immediately.”

I felt my knees buckle and suddenly someone was standing behind me holding me up. My mind was running at a thousand miles a minute.

“Gill, oh my God nooooooooo…. What about the baby? I need to see her now!!” I say to no one in particular. I go to walk away when I realise I still have my skates on and once again I just about fall over, again those arms hold me up from behind me. I quickly get to the dressing room not bothering to see who was helping me and change my shoes and grab my car keys.

“You will not be driving anywhere Sidney, I will take you and the police are going to escort us, apparently the weather is really bad.” I hear Colby saying as he to changes out of his skates. I find myself staring at him not really understanding what is going on.

“You and Gill have been what has held me together over the last few months it is now my turn to help you guys.” I can see Colby standing in front of me, his hands on my arms searching for some emotions in my eyes but to be honest I don’t feel anything, I just feel numb.

“I need to get to the hospital.” I answer as if something snaps me out of a daze and walk out the door.

The police were waiting for us at Colby’s car, I could not believe how bad the weather is, it looks like it has been snowing for a week, we had only be in the arena for about 2 hours and when we arrived it was a great day, the sun was shining brightly and I was happy, the season has been going great and in about 2 weeks I am going to be a dad. I really hope Gill and the baby are ok I can’t go on without her...!