Suze's Diary: A Las Vegas Sidewinders Companion Novella by Kat Mizera

Author:Kat Mizera [Mizera, Kat]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-04-18T18:30:00+00:00

19

MAY, 2010

The team didn’t make it to the playoffs so we’re going on vacation early this year. I think it’s more about getting Dom out of town than anything we need, but whatever it takes to help Dom is okay with me. He’s been such a mess lately. He literally beat the shit out of a guy a few weeks ago—on the ice. What a nightmare. In trouble with the team, in trouble with the league, and possibly in trouble with the cops. They haven’t decided if they’re pressing charges or not. Since Cody’s season was already done, he flew out to see what he could do but Dom was pretty belligerent and unresponsive. Instead, Cody called me and said to plan a family vacation—with Dom. I’ve got us booked at an all-inclusive resort in Jamaica and Cody said Dom is going whether he wants to or not. I’m not sure how that’s going to go over since Dom can be a jerk when he wants to, but that’s between them. I just did the planning.

It makes me sad to see what’s happened to our tight little group since college… Brian’s gone, of course. Sergei and Maria moved to Russia and now are divorced (they never should’ve gotten married, but that’s beside the point), Cody and I are living in a weird, platonic, co-parenting marriage that’s neither good nor bad (the marriage, not us personally, although that may apply to some degree as well). And Dom is this huge, gorgeous, fucked-up package of raging anger and guilt. He doesn’t date (I’m sure he has sex, but those puck bunnies don’t do him any good), doesn’t have any friends outside of us and every time I talk to him he’s more and more distant. I really hope us getting away together can help. I don’t know what to do for him. Despite our problems, at least Cody and I have each other. And of course having CJ means we don’t get to wallow in pity—we have to get up and parent. Like it or not. It seems like Dom has nothing to live for…

There’s also the little problem of me never telling Brian’s parents about CJ. I keep meaning to, wanting to, but it never feels like the right time and having a secret this big means we’ve pulled away from them. I miss my chats with Andra, and I know Cody would love to be able to talk to Brad about hockey and how his career is going. Brad’s not in Boston anymore, he’s moved up to an AHL team. We exchange Christmas cards now, but nothing else. I have to figure out how/when to tell them. CJ is getting bigger and they’ve already missed so much… sometimes the guilt is excruciating.

One issue at time, though. First we have to see what we can do for Dom. I hope it doesn’t screw up our vacation, but it would be worse for Cody than for me because if I need an escape, I always have CJ as an excuse.

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