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You can be the best of friends but usually you don't interact much with your teammates on the offseason. Everyone go back to their home and see their family. Jamie usually did it as well, but this offseason he didn't. He didn't allow himself to come back home. He needed to talk to Tyler. He fucked up.
After the long months of not hearing from Tyler, Tyler finally came back to Dallas. Jamie was standing in front of Tyler front door. He was scarred, and there was more trembling going through his body now than even the gold winning game in Sochi (and he was a mess then). Eventually he knocked and waited. The way that Tyler's face dropped once he saw Jamie broke Jamie all over again. Tyler moved and allowed him to enter.
The room was full with an awkward silence. They never been like that, even in Tyler's first day in Dallas the conversation between them was flowing. Jamie wanted to open the conversation and his prepared speech but Tyler beat him to it.
"Jamie, I don't want to hear it. I don't want to hear your apology. I'm willing to forgive you and we can go back to what we used to be."
Jamie was ready to fight, so it was overwhelmingly surprising.
"How can you be okay with it?" Jamie wanted to know because it truly baffled him. If it was happening to him he wouldn't have been so calm.
"I thought about it during the offseason. I'm not angry at you and we're cool. So please let drop it, deal?"
"But…how can you forgive me?"
"I can and I am, so we're cool?"
Jamie was an idiot. His brain was screaming to him "Take the damn forgiveness you idiot!" but at the same time he couldn't. He hurt Tyler, and Tyler's hurt expression is the only thing that prevents him from accepting the forgiving.
"Tyler, you caught your girlfriend cheating on you with one of your best friends. How can you forgive so easily?"
Tyler wasn't looking at him. Jamie could see the hurt taking over his face even as he answered quietly "Jamie you did a mistake, and I know you regretted it. So let's do the both of us a favor and let's forget it. We have this season to focus on; there is no place to this personal drama. We both dealt with it our own way and it's better if we put it behind us. I am sincere when I say that I forgive you."
It was true. Jamie was so sorry and full with guilt. He was dealing with a rather harsh breakup and he was hammered when he slept with Tyler's girlfriend. And now he finally felt better. He and Tyler hugged it out and he was feeling slightly better about it.