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?”

her eyes and folded her arms across her chest, giving me a look that implied

up so early so we can go get your nails done and do something

my hands. 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 was a waste of money. Plus, my hair was fine I didn’t need a

I had a chance to object. “I’ll be waiting in the

heel and walked out of the room. When the door shut behind her,

once she had her sights set on something. She was incredibly stubborn, and it seemed that I had

strict orders to not braid it “for once” When I tried to explain

Jessica took me shopping with her dad’s credit card and bought me a new

we stood in line. She had already paid for my nails and my hair, and I was feeling incredibly guilty for

loaded and won’t even notice. Besides; I’m allowed to spoil

game. After all of the pampering, I actually felt grateful for Jessica,

new top that Jessica 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 felt a bit odd going

Tiffany said as I walked up to her.

blushed. “My roommate wanted to give me

did a good job. Not that

“Thanks,” I replied sheepishly.

and the 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

was time for the match. The arena began to fill 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 became the team captain, so this

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 yelling “Boo!” a few times when Ronan would hit the puck into our net, which was

match, both teams were neck-and-neck the entire time. When one would score, the other would score right after Multiple fights broke out between the players, leading to both teams getting penalties, the only players who didn’t fight were Enzo and Ronan, who both stayed entirely focused on nothing but the

was tied once again; if they stayed tied, there 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 lives