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Summary:

Gena: He was wearing a Boston jersey, Chloe. Boston!

Chloe: Okay?

Gena: And then to have the audacity to say Ilya Rozanov is a better player than my husband Shane Hollander? Asshole.

Chloe: You’re married?

Gena: What? No

Chloe: But you just said your husband was some guy named Shane?

Gena: Yeah, my husband Shane Hollander

Gena: Wait

Gena: Do you not know who Shane Hollander is?

Chloe: Should I?

Gena: YOU LIVE IN MONTREAL

Gena: YOU WORK AT A SPORTS BAR

Chloe: Yeah, I work at one, I don’t watch sports.

or: The events of Heated Rivalry and The Long Game as told through the texts of a Shane Hollander fan.

Notes:

Spoilers for The Long Game, otherwise known as season two now apparently????

I don't know anything about hockey, Canada, or formatting. I referenced so much Wikipedia while writing this and brutally butchered timelines to make the narrative I wanted work. I apologize for nothing, unless I have something to apologize for, in which case I'm very sorry. (Also, I still can't believe the top women's hockey league in the world didn't pay their players during the timeline Heated Rivalry takes place? What the hell?)

Work Text:

Chloe

January 2014
Gena:Hey, this is Gena from Pucking Brews. I got your number from Ethan. Can you cover my shift on Friday?
Gena:Sorry to ask like this. I mean, I knew I would need it off if my team made the playoffs, but I was worried if I asked sooner I would jinx it? Like making it rain when you forget your umbrella, you know?

Chloe:I don’t think that’s how weather works.
Chloe:But yeah, I’ll cover your shift.

Chloe

February 2014

Gena:Hey

Gena:Is Ethan mad?

Gena:Like, am I super fired?

Chloe:I’m not sure I should be associating with you right now, let alone assisting a spy operation.

Gena:Oh, come on!

Gena:You’d make such a hot femme fatale

Chloe:Umm.

Gena:Please?

Chloe:Fine. He doesn’t seem mad. Rolled his eyes, mostly. You’re lucky. I can’t believe you got into a bar fight at work.

Gena:It wasn’t a fight! No fists were thrown! If anything, it was a bar shouting match!

Chloe:A bar shouting match at your place of employment.

Gena:Oh my god. He started it

Chloe:I don’t think he did.

Gena:He was wearing a Boston jersey, Chloe. Boston!

Chloe:Okay?

Gena:And then to have the audacity to say Ilya Rozanov is a better player than my husband Shane Hollander? Asshole.

Chloe:You’re married?

Gena:What? No

Chloe:But you just said your husband was some guy named Shane?

Gena:Yeah, my husband Shane Hollander

Gena:Wait

Gena:Do you not know who Shane Hollander is?

Chloe:Should I?

Gena:YOU LIVE IN MONTREAL

Gena:YOU WORK AT A SPORTS BAR

Chloe:Yeah, I work at one, I don’t watch sports.

Gena:WHAT THE FUCK?

Gena:COME OVER RIGHT THE FUCK NOW

Gena:WE ARE WATCHING HOCKEY. I AM INTRODUCING YOU TO MY BEAUTIFUL HUSBAND SHANE HOLLANDER

Chloe:I am literally working right now.

Gena:Come over afterwards, then! Holy shit, Chloe. I will tolerate many sins, but not this

Chloe

March 2014

Chloe:Sorry about your playoff game.

Gena:It’s whatever. Can’t win them all, right? Just happy to be there

Gena:Fuck, I hope we win next year

Gena:Wait, did you watch my game?

Chloe:I found it on TV.

Chloe:I want to say you’re really good, but I still don’t know the rules of hockey. You looked like you hit the puck a lot?

Gena:You did not just find it on TV. There is only one channel that carries it, and even then only barely. Chloe, did you watch hockey on purpose?

Chloe:Okay, I looked up where to watch your hockey game. Happy?

Gena:Ecstatic


Chloe

June 2014

Gena:FUCK FUCKING BOSTON

Gena:FUCK FUCKING ROZANOV

Gena:UGH

Chloe:Umm?

Gena:Boston won the Stanley Cup. :(

Chloe:I’m sorry, Boston won a water bottle?

Gena:Chloe, oh my god


Chloe

August 2014

Gena:Random question

Gena:No pressure

Chloe:?

Gena:Do you want to come to my hockey game?

Gena:Since you watched it on TV last season

Gena:I mean, I have tickets

Gena:And you can have them

Gena:The tickets that I have

Chloe:Is this a riddle?

Chloe:And sure, just let me know when.


Chloe

November 2014

Gena:Oh my god, did you see that game last night? My husband is so hot and good at hockey

Gena:We are taking the fucking Stanley Cup this spring, fuck fucking Boston

Chloe:Yeah, no, still not keeping up with hockey. And what did Boston ever do to you?

Gena:What do you mean not keeping up with hockey? You’ve watched every one of my games this season! You know how many goals I’ve scored better than I do!

Gena:And Boston SUCKS. That’s what they did to me

Chloe:Fine, I’m only keeping up with the women’s league, happy? It’s already a lot of sports for me to try to follow.

Chloe:Didn’t Boston win last year? Are you sure they suck?

Gena:OH MY GOD, CHLOE. IF YOU BECOME A BOSTON FAN I WILL FUCKING DISOWN YOU

Chloe:???

Chloe:Wouldn’t you have to own me first to disown me?

Chloe:Fuck my life, how do I take back a text?

Chloe:I’m not going to become a Boston fan! I’m not a hockey fan at all! I was just saying!

Gena:There is only one way to fix this and regain my favor. Repeat after me: “I, Chloe, acknowledge that Gena’s husband Shane Hollander is the best there ever was at hockey and that Montreal will win the next Stanley Cup.”

Chloe:I, Chloe, will not call some random hockey player you’ve never met your husband, but I will promise to support whatever sports team you tell me to.

Gena:SOME RANDOM HOCKEY PLAYER???


Chloe

May 2015

Gena:This is my year! I can feel it!

Chloe:Hell yes, it is.

Gena:My husband is about to win the Stanley Cup. I’m about to win the Clarkson Cup. We’ll be hockey’s best power couple.

Chloe:I will be cheering on you, specifically.

Gena:Nooo, Chloe. You have to watch the Stanley Cup game with me. I got tickets to the Montreal game. You can have one of my Hollander jerseys!

Chloe:One of them? You have multiple?

Gena:Of course!

Gena:Do you want the one with or without sequins?

Chloe:Ugh.

Chloe:Without.

Gena:YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE SO MUCH FUN AT THE BOY AQUARIUM!!!

Chloe:The what.

Gena:YOU’LL SEE


Chloe

June 2015

Gena:Chloe, holy shit. Where did you get that jersey?

Chloe:Bought it. Is it not okay?

Gena:Not okay? It’s fucking perfect

Gena:I didn’t know they sold my jersey??? Am I famous???

Chloe:Umm. I had to custom order it.

Gena:You are literally the best

Gena:The best friend ever

Chloe:Anything for you, Gena

10:15 PM

Gena:DID YOU SEE THAT?

Chloe:You sure did win at sports!

Gena:LET’S FUCKING GO


Chloe

November 2016

Gena:What the fuck?

Chloe:?

Gena:Rose Landry stole my husband

Chloe:Sorry?

Gena:Here I was, working at the sports bar, waiting for Shane Hollander to just happen to wander in one day and propose to me, and she snatches him up from under my nose?

Chloe:I’m sorry, Shane Hollander married Rose Landry? And this is in the news for some reason?

Gena:SHE DIDN’T MARRY HIM, OH MY GOD CHLOE

Gena:They’re dating, it’s all over Twitter

Chloe:I mean, if there’s no ring on his finger, you can still steal him back, right?

Gena:Oh my god, I love you, Chloe

Chloe:….

Chloe:Love you, too.


Chloe

December 2016

Chloe:GENA. YOU CAN’T JUST PUNCH PEOPLE. Fuck, now I’m the one using caps lock.

Gena:Okay, so first of all, it was provoked

Chloe:I question your definition of provoked.

Gena:SECONDLY, you are allowed to punch people you’re playing hockey against while you’re on the ice

Chloe:They put you in the penalty box. I don’t think they put you in the penalty box for following the rules of hockey.

Gena:THIRDLY, whose side are you on here??? I got punched, too! My poor face!

Chloe:You literally punched her first.

Gena:And my poor fist! Ow!

Chloe:What would your husband think of you punching someone on the ice?

Gena:Fuck.


Chloe

January 2017

Chloe:LOL

Gena:I don’t see what’s so funny

Chloe:No one has ever fumbled the bag as hard as Shane Hollander fumbled Rose Landry.

Gena:Her loss

Chloe:Nah.

Gena:Ugh.

Gena:Why are you so mean to my husband?

Chloe:Didn’t you want them to break up?

Gena:Yes? No? I don’t know!

Gena:I wanted to defeat Rose Landry in hand-to-hand combat for his heart! Not have her quietly break up with him, like, ugh. My poor baby boy.

Chloe:Gena. You have no idea what Shane Hollander is like in person. Maybe he’s rude.

Gena:He can’t be rude!

Chloe:Why not?

Gena:He’s Canadian


Chloe

April 2017

Gena:MY BOY. MY BABY BOY. MY HUSBAND

Chloe:Oh, shit.

Gena:Are you watching??? Do you see what they’ve done to him???

Chloe:Just turned it on when I got your text.

Chloe:What happened? Is he okay?

Gena:NO HE IS NOT OKAY. IT’S ALL BOSTON’S FAULT

Chloe:Hold on, watching the replay.

Chloe:Yikes. Looks like an accident, though.

Gena:AN ACCIDENT? BOSTON IS TRYING TO ASSASSINATE MY HUSBAND AND YOU CALL IT AN ACCIDENT? JAIL! JAIL FOR A THOUSAND YEARS!

Chloe:Do you want me to come over?

Gena:Bring donuts. AND VENGEANCE


Chloe

June 2017

Gena:“A big moment for that fan”

Gena:Lord, I see what you have done for others…

Chloe:That’s not a random fan. It’s obviously his boyfriend.

Gena:The announcer said it was a fan!

Gena:Don’t ruin my dreams!

Chloe:What dreams? I thought Shane Hollander was your husband.

Gena:He is! And that’s why one day, after winning the Stanley Cup he’s going to look into the stands, see me sitting there, and say, “That’s my wife!”

Gena:And then, I’m going to levitate down to the ice

Chloe:So there’s magic in this scenario?

Gena:Then I’ll take the Stanley Cup with one hand

Chloe:You’re stealing his trophy from him?

Gena:And I’ll lift Shane Hollander with the other hand

Chloe:So definitely magic.

Gena:Hey! I can deadlift 300 pounds!

Chloe:Fuck me

Gena:What?

Chloe:Nothing

Chloe:So you’re bench pressing Shane Hollander

Gena:And then I make out with him and everybody cheers

Chloe:Wait, if you’re at a Montreal game, where am I in this scenario?

Gena:You were sitting beside me in the stands, obviously!

Chloe:Bit rude of you to leave me behind to go make out with some guy.

Gena:I’m sorry? Did you want to make out with my husband, too?

Chloe:No.


Chloe

July 2018

Gena:LMAO

Gena:Why don’t you respond to my texts right when I send them?

Chloe:I was bartending. You literally know my work schedule. We have the same job.

Chloe:What’s up?

Gena:You can check your phone during work! I do all the time!

Chloe:Weird that Ethan gives you less hours than me.

Gena:I know, right? Is he secretly a Boston fan or something?

Gena:Anyway, did you watch it?

Chloe:Watch what?

Gena:The press conference! It must have been on! Rozanov got traded to Ottawa!

Chloe:Who?

Gena:Rozanov! He played for Boston!

Chloe:Okay?

Gena:He bullied my poor husband!

Chloe:Somehow I think multimillionaire hockey star Shane Hollander was fine.

Gena:Whatever

Gena:Boston isn’t winning another Stanley Cup without Rozanov there, that’s for sure.

Gena:And Ottawa? Why would he go there? Does he hate winning?

Chloe:Maybe he likes Ottawa?

Gena:Chloe. Be serious.

Gena:They’ve never even been to the playoffs

Gena:Maybe it’s a ploy

Chloe:To join a losing hockey team?

Gena:Ugh, I don’t know

Gena:Whatever, he sucks and they suck, they deserve each other

Gena:Shane Hollander would NEVER join Ottawa

Gena:NEVER


Chloe

November 2019

Gena:OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD

Chloe:It’s 5 a.m.? Why are you texting me at 5am?

Gena:WHY ARE YOU ANSWERING MY TEXTS AT 5 A.M.?

Gena:You know how Leah was one of the coaches at Shane Hollander’s hockey camp this summer?

Chloe:No?

Gena:UGH, keep up, Chloe!

Gena:So she knows my husband Shane Hollander, right? And we’re about to play her team!

Chloe:?

Gena:Don’t you understand what this means? What if Shane Hollander watches her game! What if Shane Hollander watches me play!!!!

Chloe:It’s a little rude that more people aren’t watching you, to be honest. Haven’t you won two of those trophy things?

Gena:The Clarkson Cups, yes. I’m very talented and amazing. That’s why they pay me the big bucks

Chloe:Wait, they pay you now?

Gena:HAHA. No.

Chloe:Fuck.

Gena:That’s not important right now! My husband might see my game!

Gena:Oh my god, I should write NOTICE ME, SHANE HOLLANDER on my helmet

Chloe:It is so embarrassing to be your best friend.

Gena:Shut up, you love me

Chloe:Yeah


Chloe

June 2020

Chloe:You need anything, you let me know.

Chloe:I’m serious, Gena.

Chloe:I’m here if you need to talk.

Gena:I’m okay

Gena:I mean, I’m not the most okay

Gena:But, you know

Gena:It helped seeing Shane Hollander win the Stanley Cup again

Gena:Three time champion!

Gena:Won’t be me. Because my league is gone. Haha.

Chloe:Gena. I’m so sorry.

Gena:Whatever. So I can’t play hockey again. They didn’t pay me anyway, right? Not like I lost my job

Gena:Just everything I cared about in the world

Gena:No big deal

Chloe:Hey. Listen.

Chloe:I am your number one fan.

Chloe:And that’s how I know you’re going to play hockey again.

Chloe:Because you’re amazing, Gena.

Gena:I guess

Gena:See you at work tomorrow?

Chloe:Of course. You’d better be there. The Boston fans aren’t going to fight themselves.

Gena:Ottawa fans

Chloe:What?

Gena:I decided my grudge is against Ilya Rozanov, specifically. So I’m fighting Ottawa fans now

Chloe:Bit harder to find.

Gena:LOL


Chloe

October 2020

Gena:OH MY GOD

Gena:DID YOU GET ME A FANMAIL FROM HAYDEN PIKE FOR MY BIRTHDAY?

Chloe:Happy birthday! I actually searched for Shane Hollander but he doesn’t have a Fanmail. So then I searched for the Montreal team and that’s the one who came up. Is it okay? I have no idea who Hayden Pike is, but he knows Shane Hollander, right?

Gena:OH MY GOD. HE LOOKS SO GRUMPY?

Chloe:Ugh, really? He was so rude. I told him I wanted it addressed to Shane Hollander’s number one fan and he kept saying I had to prove I wasn’t Russian or something. What does that even mean?

Gena:You told him you wanted it for a fan of another player? Chloe. I am crying laughing right now

Chloe:Oh, no. That was rude, wasn’t it? Shit.

Gena:This is the best birthday present anyone has ever gotten me

Chloe:Aww. You know I’d do anything for you.

Gena:I know :)


Chloe

December 2020

Gena:I’ve decided to take up yoga

Gena:so that I’ll have something in common with my husband Shane Hollander

Chloe:Don’t you already have hockey in common with your husband Shane Hollander?

Gena:Yes, but

Chloe:Fuck. Sorry.

Gena:Chloe. Take a yoga class with me

Chloe:I do not care about having something in common with Shane Hollander.

Gena:But if you take the class you’ll have something in common with me?

Chloe:Ugh.

Chloe:Fine.


Chloe

March 2021 Monday

Chloe:Have you seen it yet?

Chloe:Okay, I’m going to assume you’re asleep.

Chloe:I’m getting donuts and coffee right now.

Chloe:If you wake up and see this, I’ll be at your door in fifteen minutes, okay?

Chloe:Don’t go on Twitter.

Gena:Have I seen what?

Gena:Holy fucking shit

Tuesday

Chloe:I can still cover your shift if you want.

Gena:No, I’m fine

Gena:Fine-ish

Gena:There’s only so many emails I can send telling the hockey commissioner he should be fired for benching Shane Hollander

Chloe:And Ilya Rozanov

Gena:Whatever

Gena:I hate how weird everything feels right now

Gena:Ethan told me to stop wearing my Hollander jersey to work

Chloe:The fuck?

Gena:I mean, he said it like, “I’m not sure it’s appropriate for bartenders to wear specific player’s jerseys.” But I know what he meant. No one has ever tried to stop us from wearing jerseys before. It’s practically the dress code on game days.

Chloe:Fuck him.

Chloe:Do you still have that extra Hollander jersey?

Gena:You don’t have to do that

Chloe:The fuck I don’t. We go down fighting together.

Gena:Hell yes, we do


Chloe

April 2021 Friday

Chloe:Fuck, Gena, are you okay?

Gena:Not really, no

Chloe:Ethan said some asshole dumped his beer on you?

Gena:Yeah

Chloe:What the fuck?

Gena:I don’t know

Gena:I mean, I’m used to everyone being mad when we lose a game

Gena:But it’s fun-mad, you know? Like we’re mad together and we’re all, “Fuck Ilya Rozanov!”

Gena:This was tense-mad. No one was screaming, they were all just whispering

Gena:Like they think it’s Shane Hollander’s fault? When we wouldn’t have even gotten this far without him?

Gena:I don’t know

Gena:I’m just

Gena:There’s beer in my hair

Chloe:I’m coming over.

Gena:Aren’t you working?

Chloe:Ethan can cover for me. I’ve never missed a shift before, he owes me one.

Gena:Thank you

Chloe:Anything, Gena. I mean it.

Saturday

Chloe:Gena, get off Twitter.

Gena:I’m not on Twitter

Chloe:I literally just saw you post.

Chloe:And there’s another one.

Gena:How can you see that? I’m making comments, not posts!

Chloe:The comment tab.

Gena:Fuck

Gena:Five more minutes

Chloe:Gena

Chloe:This isn’t healthy.

Gena:I know, okay?

Gena:But, like

Gena:Where the hell is the Montreal team?

Chloe:What?

Gena:The Ottawa Centaurs are all over the place defending Rozanov, so where’s Montreal?

Chloe:Maybe they’re on a media lockdown? Like you should be?

Gena:No. Hayden Pike commented

Chloe:Who?

Gena:Hayden Pike! You literally bought me a Fanmail from him! Honestly, Chloe, it’s like you don’t even watch hockey

Chloe:I mean

Gena:He commented “Fuck you, worst hockey podcast” on that Man in the Crease episode where they evaluated the trip and called it suspicious

Gena:He’s right, they are the worst hockey podcast

Chloe:Okay, so that sucks. But you can’t fight all of Twitter.

Gena:It isn’t fair, Chloe. It just isn’t fair

Chloe:I know.


Chloe

May 2021 Tuesday

Chloe:Gena?

Chloe:???

Chloe:I hope this means you finally set your phone down and got some sleep after work?

Chloe:Okay, I’m getting a little bit worried.

Gena:Hey

Chloe:Thank god. Where were you? I knocked on your door, but you didn’t answer.

Gena:Drunk tank. I got a little bit arrested

Chloe:You what

Gena:Hit a guy with a chair

Gena:Oh, yeah, and I’m super fired

Gena:Ethan was mad

Gena:Guess I shouldn’t have gotten into a bar fight at my place of employment, huh?

Chloe:What?

Chloe:Holy shit, someone took a video.

Chloe:You hit a guy with a chair.

Gena:I told you that

Chloe:I thought people only did that in movies

Gena:I was kind of upset. I probably should have just punched him

Gena:Luckily the chairs at the bar are cheap. He was fine

Chloe:Wait, I just found one that starts earlier. Well, I guess that explains why he was on the floor.

Chloe:I can’t believe you pulled a chair out from under a man and then hit him with it.

Gena:I was provoked. He was an asshole. Said running Hollander out of Montreal wasn’t good enough, that he needed to be run out of the whole league. Then he said some other things. Screaming didn’t feel like a strong enough expression of my feelings

Gena:Chloe?

Chloe:Sorry, I just keep rewatching it.

Chloe:I don’t want you to take this the wrong way. You absolutely should not be hitting people with chairs. Under, like, any circumstances. Choose less violence.

Chloe:But it’s kind of hot that you hit that jerk with a chair to defend your husband’s honor.

Gena:Oh my god, Chloe. Don’t say things like that to me. I’m going to do so much violence

Gena:I love you so much

Gena:And I think I need you?

Chloe:On my way.

Gena:Like, I really need you?

Chloe:ETA 10 minutes

Gena:Like, more than Shane Hollander need you?

Gena:More than air need you?

Gena:Forever need you?

Gena:Fuck

Sunday

Gena:HE SAID “HEY, HOCKEY FANS”

Gena:THAT’S ME

Gena:THAT’S LITERALLY ME

Gena:SHANE HOLLANDER IS TALKING TO ME

Chloe:You know what? I’ll give you this one.

Gena:Oh my god. It was so rude of my husband to not invite me to his wedding

Chloe:And I take it back.

Chloe:You do not know Shane Hollander.

Gena:Babe. What if we crashed Shane Hollander’s wedding?

Chloe:No.

Gena:Aww

Chloe:Ilya Rozanov was in that video, too. Do we still hate him?

Gena:Ugh, I don’t know

Gena:On one hand he’s a home-wrecker who stole my husband

Chloe:Okay

Gena:But on the other hand he seems to make my husband really happy

Chloe:This is a weird metric.

Gena:I’m going to have to think about it, okay? Wait until I know which team my baby boy is going to be playing on next season.

Gena:Oh my god, what if he ends up playing for Boston? LOL


Chloe

June 2021

Chloe:Gena!!! What did I tell you?

Gena:Shut up! I don’t even know if I’ll be drafted yet!

Chloe:You’re going to get drafted because they don’t have rocks for brains.

Chloe:And they’ll pay you a salary! Did you see that?

Gena:You’re going to jinx it!

Chloe:No I’m not! My girlfriend is going to be a professional hockey player!

Gena:Oh my god

Gena:You’re so embarrassing

Chloe:Hey

Chloe:You’re my number one draft pick.

Gena:Shut up

Gena:You’re my number one draft pick, too


Chloe

July 2021

Gena:MY HUSBAND WENT TO FUCKING OTTAWA???


Chloe

October 2021

Gena:Babe. What have you brought into our house?

Chloe:Is the delivery there? Don’t open it! It’s your birthday present!

Gena:Too late. This isn’t a birthday present. It’s a cruel mockery of fate

Chloe:?

Gena:It’s an Ottawa Centaur’s jersey. Why would you inflict this on me on my special day

Gena:Maybe you ordered the wrong jersey by mistake?

Chloe:No? It’s the new Shane Hollander jersey? I thought you’d want it.

Gena:I do, but, ugh

Gena:Ottawa?

Gena:How could my husband do this to me?

Chloe:Maybe because he’s Ilya Rozanov’s husband?

Gena:How could you say that to me on my birthday?

Gena:Maybe I should just become a Hayden Pike fan instead

Chloe:Who?

Gena:WE’VE DISCUSSED THIS

Chloe:Umm, okay.

Chloe:Are you serious about this not wanting to cheer for Ottawa thing? Because I need to return the rest of your present if you are. I can buy you something else.

Gena:Rest of the present????

Gena:gimme gimme gimme!!!

Chloe:Check the box.

Gena:Oh my god

Gena:Are these tickets to the Ottawa opening game?

Gena:How did you even get these?

Chloe:I mean, I bought them? The second they went on sale.

Gena:BEST GIRLFRIEND EVER

Chloe:So we are cheering for Ottawa now?

Gena:UGH. Yes

Gena:Just not Rozanov

Chloe:I don’t know, I feel like I have something in common with Rozanov now.

Gena:WHAT?

Chloe:I’m also dating someone who is beautiful and amazing at hockey.

Gena:Babe

Gena:I love you so fucking much


 

Epilogue

 

Chloe

May 2022

Chloe:Are you almost done?

Chloe:I’m waiting for you by the car.

Gena:Babe, are you hiding?

Gena:I am not the first female hockey player to kiss her girlfriend on the ice

Chloe:Okay, but it was a bit of a spectacle?

Gena:I just won the championship! It was supposed to be a bit of a spectacle!

Chloe:But did you have to shout, “Come here, random fan”?

Chloe:And then, “That’s my wife!”

Chloe:There’s a poll, Gena. People are voting on whether I’m a random fan or your wife.

Gena:Be serious. Not that many people are watching the women’s hockey championship game

Chloe:The poll suggests otherwise!

Chloe:Why is random fan winning?

Chloe:Hang on, I’m voting in the poll.

Chloe:Shit.

Gena:You forgot it shows who voted, didn’t you?

Gena:Don’t worry, babe, I’ll vote too!

Chloe:Gena, no!

Chloe:Oh my god. Someone has already clipped the kiss from the livestream.

Gena:What?

Chloe:I don’t want to become a meme, Gena!

Gena:No one is going to turn you into a meme

Chloe:Then why is there already a gif captioned “When you have two hands so you lift your trophy with one and your trophy wife with the other”?

Gena:LOL

Gena:Sorry, I mean, you are a strong, independent woman and you aren’t anyone’s trophy wife

Chloe:Gena!

Gena:Ummm

Gena:Babe?

Gena:How invested are you in this not becoming a meme thing?

Chloe:What?

Gena:Ilya Rozanov just posted the trophy wife gif on his instagram

Chloe:Fuck my life.


 

Second Epilogue, because technically there's no rule against it.

 

Chloe

May 2022

Gena:CHLOE

Gena:CHHLLLOOOOEEEE

Gena:ONE CAPS LOCK IS NOT ENOUGH

Gena:IS THERE SUCH THING AS A DOUBLE CAPS LOCK? OR A TRIPLE CAPS LOCK?

Gena:TRIPLE CAPS LOCK IS HOW I FEEL INSIDE

Chloe:What’s happening?

Gena:YOU’LL NEVER GUESS WHO I JUST GOT OFF THE PHONE WITH

Chloe:I don’t know, was it about hockey?

Gena:OF COURSE IT WAS ABOUT HOCKEY

Chloe:So someone I’ve probably never heard of, then.

Gena:HAHA, VERY FUNNY

Gena:I HAVE BEEN WASTING CAPS LOCK BEFORE THIS MOMENT

Gena:I SHOULD HAVE SAVED IT ALL FOR NOW

Gena:PRETEND I’VE NEVER USED CAPS LOCK BEFORE, OKAY?

Gena:BECAUSE I JUST GOT OFF THE PHONE WITH SHANE FUCKING HOLLANDER

Chloe:No.

Gena:YES.

Chloe:Gena, you did not have a phone call with Shane Hollander.

Gena:YES I FUCKING WELL DID

Gena:HE SAW MY HOCKEY GAME, CHLOE. HE WANTED TO KNOW IF I'D BE INTERESTED IN BEING A COACH AT THE MONTREAL SUMMER CAMP

Chloe:Oh my god.

Gena:RIGHT?

Chloe:You are not meeting Shane Hollander before I marry you first.

Gena:WHAT?

Gena:DID YOU JUST PROPOSE TO ME OVER TEXT?

Chloe:NO.

Chloe:Fuck.

Gena:THIS IS THE BEST DAY OF MY LIFE