My Hockey Alpha

Nina

“Wanna grab some drinks?” Enzo asked with a warm smile.

I was a bit surprised by the offer, since I expected Enzo to be too disheartened after the match to want to do anything; if anything, he actually seemed excited about the rematch. Maybe finally having some real competition was refreshing for him.

“Um, sure,” I said, grabbing my bag. Where do you want to go?”

“I was just thinking the bar in town,’ Enzo replied. “Wait here. I’m just gonna go change and then we can go.’

I nodded, blushing a bit as I watched Enzo jog off toward the locker rooms.

“What was that about?” Lori’s voice suddenly said from beside me. I nearly jumped out of my skin.

“Jesus!” I said, clutching my chest. ” You have got to stop sneaking up on people like that. And it’s nothing. We’re just gonna grab some drinks.”

Lori smirked. “I thought you were staying single for a while,” she said.

I rolled my eyes. “I am,” I replied. ” Enzo and I are just friends.”

“Yeah, okay,” Lori said sarcastically. ” Who knew friends could make you blush so much?”

My face turned even more red at her words, but I didn’t let it get to me. I could have said a number of things about how Lori pined away for Jessica for two years, but I chose not to mention it.

“Well, have fun,” Lori said as Jessica spotted her from the crowd and started waving to her “I’ve got a hot date of my own.”

I watched with a smile as Lori ran up to Jessica and they walked out together, holding hands.

he said, dressed once more in his usual flannel and jeans

nice night out,

we walked. Enzo nodded, his

always been kind of shitty, but that new

seem to

lips. “I guess it’s nice to have a little competition for once. Not that I won’t be devastated if we don’t win

the Blizzard Tournament?” I asked. The Blizzard Tournament was the biggest hockey tournament in the region, and a lot of really impressive teams played hard to win. I had no doubt that Enzo’s team would do well, but it was still an incredible feat to win

goal,” Enzo replied. “This tournament will really put

tournament interfere with

to make me come to this school. It was just a

constant underlying sadness about

want to play in the tournament?”

at a loss for words; it made me wonder if anyone had

said finally, smiling again. “It’ll be hard,

this place was until nights like tonight, when it seemed that

of the loud music and talking customers. I nodded and watched as he walked away, then pulled out my phone to check Twitter; thankfully, the days of the creepy Twitter account seemed to have passed since Lisa was bitten, which only solidified my theory that

sit down on the bench next to me. I looked up to see one of Lisa’s friends glaring

got some real balls,” she said, swaying a bit

scooting away from her. “The game just ended.

doesn’t matter!” she replied. “What matters is that you got Lisa suspended from the cheer team, and now you’re coming here with her

eyebrow. “First of all, Enzo isn’t Lisa’s boyfriend anymore,”

you deserved it,” her friend replied, standing. “You

Erica,” Enzo

on the table. “You’re drunk. Go home and defend