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"Fuck you, Kelly Severide!" Maddie yells, panting.

Finally, she stops her jog and she settles on the ledge of the sidewalk. Maddie could feel her head pounding and her heartbeat quicken and it didn't seem like it would calm down for a while.

Maddie was a lot of thingsarchitect, painter, wife, your go-to friend if you needed an opinion about building a housebut she was not an athlete.

"Hey, babes." Kelly is in front of her with a wide smile on his face and Maddie wanted nothing but to slap it off. "Don't stop now. You're doing great! Come on!"

"I feel like my heart is going to burst and my brain is going to fall out of my head." 

"I think you look like a snack."

Maddie narrows her eyes. "I think you look like a cocky son of a bi

"Kelly?"

Maddie looks for the source of the high-pitched voice. Her vision tunnels on a tall, thin girl who looked like she could be a Victoria's Secret Model.

The model was in workout gear yet she didn't look like she was breaking a sweat with her hair in a neat braid and her breathing perfect. Looking at her didn't help Maddie's self-esteem.

"It's been so long since we last saw each other!" She expresses, a hopeful tone in her voice.

"Hi, Nicki." Kelly greets back, swallowing thickly. "How have you been?"

"Oh, I'm doing great!" Nicki answers with a smile, "Since we bumped into each other, do you want to grab breakfast?"

"That's nice but I really can't." It was an umbrella term for he didn't want to.

"Ah, I remember you preferred dates in the evening. Drinks then?"

"Hi, I'm Maddie!" She pipes up, jumping to her feet and standing beside Kelly. It would be a lie if Maddie didn't say she was intimidated by Nicki's tall height compared to her five foot and four inched stature.

Nicki Rutkowski's blue eyes shift from the lady's forced smile to Kelly's arm going around her waist tightly. 

"Oh. Hi, Maddie. I'm Nicki." The two shakes hands but the tension was palpable.

"How do you know Kelly?" Maddie asks, keeping the smile on her face. "Did you two grow up together or?" 

Nicki tells her that she used to work at Firehouse Fifty-One as a clerk though she did fail to mention her steamy short-lived romance with the Squad lieutenant.

"How long have you and Kelly been dating?" Nicki queries, genuinely curious on how she managed a Casanova like him. "Not that long, I guess. Given Lieutenant Severide's reputation." 

She catches the way he squeezes Maddie's hip.

"We're married."

"She's my wife."

"Oh, wow." Nicki was shocked. Kelly was a married manseriously? "Well, congratulations."

"Thanks." Maddie replied dryly, going back to her spot on the sidewalk.

Soon enough, they part ways with Nicki feeling like an idiot and the couple ready to chow down on some pancakes and place caffeine in their systems to forget about the awkward encounter.

kelllyyyyy!!!!!

hello babes how did your interview go?

it went well like TOO well

like YOU'RE LOOKING AT BRIGHTON BUILDERS' NEWEST ARCHITECT KIND OF WELL

aweee i knew you could do it

guess that morning exercise worked huh?

which exercise? the one in our bedroom or that jog

a little bit of both maybe

for the eleventh time, i don't recall asking you to help me be more fit

yeah you wouldn't because you were drunk on your ass

 good thing my LOVING husband took care of me

and why is your contact name bebot

that night you got drunk in miami was also the night i discovered you are a horrible singer

you wouldn't stop singing that black eyed pea song

BEBOT BEBOT BE BEBOT BEBOT BE

IKAW ANG AKING BEBOT!!!

what does that even mean

bebot is like slang for "babe" or "hot chick" in filipino

okay you can continue calling me that

you should change my contact name to the one (1) person who makes the best pancakes and owns my heart

are you still worked up about what happened this morning?

no

YES 

AND OH MY GOD I HAVE NEVER FELT MY SELF-ESTEEM GO DOWN SO FAST SHE'S SO PRETTY SHE COULD BE A MODEL

you know that what nicki and i had was just for fun, right?

o H

what did you and nicki have then?

HISTORY

that's good to know

ah, we'll talk about this when i get home, alright?

love you babes

love you too, bebot

a birthday update woot woot!! 21 feels noice