My Hockey Alpha

Chapter 36: Anatomy Ace

Nina

I had an anatomy exam the next day and after my shift with Tiffany I needed to get some studying done. It was nice and sunny out, which was a welcome relief after the weather being gloomy and rainy for the past couple of days, so I decided to find a spot to sit under a tree where there were few people.

A few minutes after I sat down in a spot a little ways out from campus in a quiet park, Luke showed up. He walked over to me and stood right in the way of the light.

“You’re blocking the sunlight,” I said, not looking up from my notebook.

“Oh. Sorry,” he said, stepping out of the way. He continued to stand there, just staring at me. I tried my best to ignore it in the hopes that he would just go away since I was not in a good mood at all after seeing Enzo’s hickey, but he didn’t budge. Finally, I slammed down my pencil and glared up at him.

“If you’re gonna hang around, at least sit down or something,” I growled.

“Okay.” He immediately plopped down on the ground.

I couldn’t help but smirk a bit, amused by his doglike obedience.

“What’s so funny?” he asked, cocking his head. As he did so, I could hear the faint rattle of his vertebrae clacking together.

“Nothing,” I replied, returning to my work. “You’re just… Do you have any thoughts of your own?”

Luke was silent for several moments before speaking. “Of course I do,” he said finally.

“Why don’t you share them, then?”

was silent again for much longer this time. After about ten minutes, when I had become reabsorbed in my

you made a mistake in

and furrowed my

with notes scribbled on it. “Right there. You got your terms mixed up. It’s occipital bone, not parietal bone. The parietal bone is over here.” He pointed to another spot on

at my notes for a moment, then realized that he was right and erased my

“Thanks,” I muttered.

No problem.

became absorbed in my studying again, only to notice eventually that he was inching

he muttered,

my work again. “What

used for facial expression, not supporting the lacrimal

that Luke was right.

know all this?”

“I am a skeleton, after all. And besides, remember that I’ve spent

right,” I said. “Do you have any other pointers you can give me, then? I

“Yes, actually…”

show me where all of the bones were on his own skeleton. He was incredibly literal and couldn’t take a joke, but it was still

I had gained two things: expert knowledge of anatomy, and a

life; while my relationship with Enzo may have come to an end, my date with James was now a day closer and I also felt oddly happy to have made friends with that strange

was shining already, the birds were singing, the autumn air was

was time to start the exam, the professor handed out the test

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