Love, Hate and Hockey Skates

halls or the cafeteria, it was like he disappeared. Only to return on Fri

he wouldn’t see me up there, but to my luck, he scanned the crowd and spotted me r

en here hardly a week, and I’

ed, until I heard the horn go off, which I guessed signalled a goal as the players celebrated on the

ittle more attention to the game, even though I didn’t understand any of it,

was 20 minutes, but if a fight broke out it was often paused or what was called a power play would be given to the team that lost a me

rt, you could not hug the puck. This was the most I could understand from the single game, and I was so invest

appen as soon as he found out my name? Would he remember and then embarrass me in front of all these people? I w

ad no one and nothing, when I was completely isolated from the worl

My heart thumped in my ears the closer he got, until he was rig

ou see us win?” he asked, lo

interesting. My fir

gloves, then wiped his shaggy

tter that we won, then.” He stopped and took a swig of

ere waiting for his attention and deci

l like getting attacked the moment you dis

ed. “I’ll get changed, meet me outside and don’t you dare you anywhere.” He pointed a finger at me and then r

d in escaping him today, there was no guarantee for the future. He would most likely hunt me dow

on me.” Ace chuckled. “Would you be interested in gra

ow up at the game, but it was a lot better than I thought it was. If it wasn’

was ridiculously cheap for a slice of pizza that was practically the size of a sm

lad, then walked outside wh

ink of your first ho

mp right into it and

ad, pretty enter

is anything you’re confused about, I could expla

you think I’ll be showi

You looked really into it by the second period, and you eve

his vision? I was envious as hell. I had to pay for myself to get Lasik eye s

aid, and he shrugged before he took a huge bite of his p

ly need to?” he asked with his usual cocky grin. It’s unbelievable that it h

If I tell you my name,

Why don’t you want to

st fel

mo

or this opportunity, and I won’t let anyone or anything take it away from me, es

ll haven’t tol

nds out, maybe then he will realiz

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