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.”

shrugged. “Yeah,” I replied, looking down at my feet. While I was embarrassed at the way he basically announced our relationship to the entire school and I hated the

looking at me, however, I felt a lump in my throat. There would

crouching in front of me and grabbing my leg. “You tore

torn around

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

“It’s really bad,” she said. “You should rest for a couple of days. I would even give you stitches if the skin wasn’t too torn up to be

gauze soaked with blood. “I really don’t feel

as he saw Tiffany holding gauze to my

“What happened?” he asked.

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

fine,” I

in a little bit of shock with everything going on.

of her,” Enzo said. ”Don’t

leg back down and standing. “Come see me in the morning,” she

her medical bag. Enzo held his hand out to me and helped me stand, concern written across his face ” Do

I nodded. “I’m ok–”

I felt my head get light and I stumbled into Enzo. He caught me in his strong arms

wrapping his arms around me. “You need to

my dorm that night and helped me up to my room, where a confused Jessica and Lori sat. I explained the situation, but admittedly felt too

outside; the early autumn beauty had passed now that Halloween was over, and we were rapidly headed toward winter. It was like this every year

I slowly started to wake up, the notification light on my phone flashed continuously and drew my attention. Yawning, I reached

my eyes widened. Pictures of Enzo and I as I held his head in