Moving to Calgary was one thing. She could handle that kind of move. She felt like she practically lived here anyway. She would still be close to some of her friends. But she wasn't going to move across the country. When she'd moved to Alberta from Saskatoon, it had been hard to leave her friends. But she'd done it for Colton. Now to consider moving across the entire country, maybe even further, depending on where he ended up, it was too much. She couldn't do that to Colton.

They could do long distance for a few years, she considered. But, it was hard enough to be an hour away with his playing schedule. But that wasn't a marriage. That wasn't her description of happy.

But here she was, racing down to Calgary on Friday after school, for the last game of the regular season. There was an electricity in the air as she drove in, bypassing the turn to Kip's house, she headed straight for the Saddledome. The team had already made the playoffs.

Which to Mandy, was almost a shame. Over the months she'd gone from just watching Kip to cheering for the whole team. She'd gotten to know them over the season, on and off the ice. She'd been sitting with spouses and girlfriends. They'd had dinners together as friends, when there was time. She'd even gone to Calgary a few times to watch the games with the other women when the team was out of town.