My Hockey Alpha

Nina

When I got home, Jessica and Lori were both furious.

“Where were you!” Jessica yelled as soon as I walked in the door. I didn’t even have a chance to hang my jacket up.

“You totally ditched us,” Lori chimed in, folding her arms across her chest. ” We thought you got kidnapped or something. Then that freak typhoon hit and you still weren’t answering your phone.”

“Okay, mom and dad,” I said, tossing my bag down on the counter. “I’m sorry. Just, you know… I was lonely, and there was a cute guy.”

Jessica let out a big sigh. “Well, you could’ve at least let us know you were leaving,” she said. “But I know with everything going on lately, stuff like that happens.”

Meanwhile, Lori didn’t seem convinced at all. She had always been more intuitive than Jessica and could always see through a lie, but she didn’t say anything this time. Still, seeing her hurt expression made me feel awful for lying and I couldn’t let myself walk away like this.

I took a deep breath. “Actually,” I said, looking at my feet, “that’s not what happened. I did something really stupid, and honestly I’m lucky that it didn’t turn out worse than it did.”

Jessica and Lori were silent. When I looked up at them, they both looked concerned and confused. I sighed and continued.

“I didn’t watch my drink at the bar and I got drugged.”

Jessica gasped and clamped her hand over her mouth, her eyes wide. Lori, without a word, ran over to me and threw her arms around me.

I couldn’t hold

to look at me. The smudged makeup under her eyes from the night before made her expression

didn’t get that far. Thankfully, a friend of mine saw

of relief. I didn’t feel as bad not telling them that I was actually picked up by a talking

her tears. “I’m

at all for a few days. By Wednesday, I started to wonder if they were avoiding me, or if… They were doing something to the guy who tried to drug me. The thought haunted me all day, but I choked it down in order to get through classes

night, I had just finished up work with Tiffany and was heading home. We had spent the day in her office treating students, since there was a flu outbreak on campus. Needless to say, after hours of tending to feverish and vomiting students, I was exhausted and

a welcome relief after being cooped up in an office all day, and the campus was quiet. I

had something else in store for me, because Lisa was crossing the quad and heading

she approached. She looked strung out on something, storming toward me with her fists balled up at her sides and her

I said nervously with a little wave when

hand flew forward and grabbed one of my braids,

wrench my hair free

slut!” she yelled,

but she didn’t seem to care. She clearly just wanted

the concrete.

flying out of her mouth as she

flashes of light as Lisa grabbed me by the throat and throttled me, hitting my head on the sidewalk. I grabbed

around my throat. I

her off of me, but the longer she choked me, the