My Hockey Alpha

Nina

Enzo walked me home that night. I could see the disappointment written across his face, but both of us were more concerned with who sent the ” Mad Wolf Serum” to Justin… and why. We were both too exhausted to talk much about it, but as I went to bed that night, there was one thing on my mind that overpowered the horrors that happened in the forest the feeling of Enzo’s lips on mine.

All week, the entire school was buzzing with gossip thanks to not only the excitement of the rematch, but also the news of Justin’s removal from the hockey team. I tried my best to stay out of it and to just focus on school and work, but when news got out that Justin had suddenly gone home to stay with his parents for the remainder of the semester, I started to question whether that was true or not.

Unfortunately, Enzo was too busy preparing for the rematch, and I was too busy preparing for midterms, to find time to talk to him about it. Hopefully we would be able to talk after the match. Justin was my ex and he had cheated on me, but that didn’t mean that I wanted anything sinister to happen to him.

On the morning of the match, Jessica woke me up a little earlier than I would have liked.

“Rise and shine!” she said, coming into my room without permission and opening my blinds.

I groaned and threw my covers over my head to protect my tired eyes from the sudden beam of sunlight aimed directly at me

“What the hell, Jessica?” I said, my voice muffled through the blankets.

“Don’t be so grumpy,” she said in a sing-song voice, coming over to stand next to my bed. I pulled the blankets down just enough to glare at her through squinted eyes.

“Why are you waking me up?” I asked, glancing at the clock on my bedside table. “It’s not even eight in the morning. And you’re dressed already.”

Jessica grinned and walked over to my closet. I watched annoyedly as she started rifling through my clothes.

“Listen,” she said, re-emerging with a bundle of clothes and tossing them down on my bed, “you and I both know that whatever weird back-and-forth situation that’s been going on between you and Enzo needs to stop. Everyone knows that he’s, like, madly in love with you, and now that Justin and Lisa are both out of the picture, you guys can finally get together for real.”

I propped myself up on my elbows and felt my face get hot “What does this have to do with waking me up so early? And why are you picking out my clothes for me?”

chest, giving me a look that implied that I should know

so early so we can go

I had never thought much about getting manicures; sure, I painted my nails from time to time, but I always thought that paying for manicures

before I had a chance to object. “I’ll be waiting in the living room. And don’t even think about trying to get

on her heel and walked out of the room. When the door shut behind her, I stuck out my

Jessica’s mind once she had her sights set on something. She was incredibly stubborn, and it seemed that I had no choice. As soon as I was dressed and ready to go, we spent the morning getting manicures and

hair, washed it, and blow dried it, and as we left, Jessica gave me strict orders to not braid it “for

Jessica took me shopping with her dad’s

already paid for

away. “My dad’s loaded and won’t even notice.

I actually felt grateful for Jessica, although I had been resistant to it earlier. For the first

bought me, which was red and showed off a bit of cleavage. Lori did my makeup for me, giving me cat eyes with eyeliner and red lipstick. It

at you!” Tiffany said as I walked up to her. “Who are you all dolled up

give me a makeover,” I said,

my arm. “Well, she did a

“Thanks,” I replied sheepishly.

rest of the team practice before their match. They warmed up with drills and did a couple rounds of a practice match, I noticed that everyone was training harder than ever, but my eyes were only on Enzo as the memory of our kiss on

with excited students from both schools Everyone was wearing their school colors and talking excitedly about the rematch. Apparently, our team had won every match since Enzo

start the rematch. Half of the arena was filled with students from our school, holding banners and wearing face paint and swag in our school colors, while the other half of the arena was filled with students from the other school. The two sides of the arena would boo and shout at each other whenever the opposing team scored a point I even found myself

fights broke out between the players, leading to both teams getting penalties, the only players who didn’t fight were Enzo and

would be another tie-breaker The countdown began, with only thirty seconds left of the match. Ronan and Enzo battled for the puck like their