My Hockey Alpha

Nina

As the crowd cheered over our victory, Enzo sat up with a smile stretched across his face. He wasn’t looking at the scoreboard, though. He was looking at me.

Before I could resist, Enzo Rivers reached out and cupped my face in his hands, pulling me toward him and kissing me firmly on the lips in front of the entire school. When he finally pulled away, I felt my face go red as I realized that we were still being projected on the large screen that hung over the stadium.

“You’re mine now,” Enzo said, his voice sounding somewhat stern. I could only nod, too bashful to speak.

Enzo stood, the injury to his head having already healed, and helped me to my feet. The crowd erupted into a mixture of cheers and boos as he slipped his hands under me and scooped me up into his arms, twirling me around on his skates while his team jumped and cheered for their victory

Finally, after what felt like an eternity,

Enzo skated with me to the edge of the rink and set me down.

“You’re coming to the party, right?” he said.

I blushed, feeling the eyes of the students on me as they began to flood out of the arena. “I was just gonna go home–”

“No way,” Enzo interrupted. “You’re coming to the party Wait here for me and I’ll take you.”

I didn’t have a chance to protest before the rest of the team got off the ice and surrounded Enzo, cheering and shouting over their victory I watched as they ushered him to the locker rooms, letting out a big sigh once they were out of sight.

“So, you and Enzo, huh?” Tiffany said, catching up to me as I walked over to the bleachers. “Took you two long enough.”

I was embarrassed at the way he basically announced our relationship to the entire school and I hated the attention I was already getting over it, there was a huge part of me that was happy to finally be public about what

looked up and saw the way that some girls were looking at me, however, I felt a lump in my throat. There would

crouching in front of me and grabbing my leg. “You tore up your knee on the

my pant leg was torn around the knee. My flesh was completely

didn’t even notice,” I said somewhat numbly as I inspected my knee. I hadn’t felt any pain when I fell on the ice, and hardly felt

wiped the wound with an antiseptic cloth and pressed some gauze into it once it was clean. “It’s really bad,” she said. “You

soaked with blood. “I really don’t feel much,”

up to us. As soon as he saw

“What happened?” he asked.

the ice,” Tiffany replied. She removed the bloody gauze and rolled

fine,” I said, furrowing

up at me with a frown.” You’re probably in a little bit of

her,”

sigh and nodded, rolling my pant leg back down and standing. “Come see me in the morning,” she said. “I want to make sure

seem like I had much of a choice, so I complied and watched as Tiffany left with her medical bag. Enzo held his hand out to me and helped me stand, concern written across his face

I nodded. “I’m ok–”

then, as I stood, I felt my head get light and I stumbled into Enzo. He caught

his arms around me. “You need to

and helped me up to my room, where a confused Jessica and Lori sat. I explained the situation, but admittedly felt too tired to talk. Almost as soon as

outside; the early autumn beauty had passed now that Halloween

the notification light on my phone flashed continuously

looked at my notifications, my eyes widened. Pictures of Enzo and I as I held his head in my lap on the Jumbotron from the night before were already