My Hockey Alpha

Enzo

The way that that girl stared back at me almost seemed to awaken something in me. It was as though we knew each other somehow, as though we knew each other really well. In a strange way, I felt incredibly sad looking at her. It seemed as if she felt the same way, too. But what was even more odd was that she somehow looked almost exactly like Selena, as though she was Selena’s twin.

“Baby?” Selena said, causing me to tear my eyes away from the girl. “What are you doing?”

I quickly turned back to face the hockey game, shaking my head. “Nothing,” I said. “Just thought I saw someone I recognized.”

Selena laughed. “That’s silly,” she replied, squeezing my arm. “You’ve never been here before.”

“I know.”

At least, I thought I knew. But even as the game ended and we headed out to have a drink at the local bar, I still couldn’t stop feeling as though all of this was oddly familiar to me. In fact, the longer I thought this way, the more I began to realize that I did know this town, and I did know that girl. Her name was…

But I couldn’t remember her name. Maybe I was just seeing things after all.

Selena and I made our way to the local bar. The town seemed quiet and cozy, which I enjoyed. It was one of those towns where everyone went to the local bar after dark, and everyone seemed to know each other. Maybe, I thought to myself, that was why that girl looked at me in such a strange way. Maybe she was just trying to figure out who these two strange students were, coming into her close-knit town.

was packed to the brim with students and townspeople. I glanced around while Selena led me over to the bar to

team. The boy who had kissed her after the game had his arm on the back of her seat. Was he her boyfriend? For some odd reason, thinking about their kiss made me oddly jealous — but that wasn’t the only thing. As I studied the faces of

locked our lips together tightly, pushing her tongue into my mouth almost too roughly. When we pulled away, there was a look in her eyes that

I glanced back at the girl in the corner, I realized now that I really

…

but I decided not to question it. If this made my fiancee happy, then

with all of this strangeness going on in my mind, and would

whined, shaking my shoulder and causing me to wake with a

Before I could ask her to give me a few minutes to wake up fully, Selena was already jumping out of the bed and getting dressed. Without a word, she tossed some clothes down on the bed for me and waited impatiently while

along by my hand as we made our way across the campus and toward

said,

stores in town were boarded up, which solidified my theory that the Crescents must have had something to do with the state of the town. But the people here seemed to have bounced back relatively well, which made me oddly more

arrived. Selena slid into a window seat and waited grumpily with her arms folded across her chest while I got us coffee and something to eat; she had never been much of a morning person, so I bought her

to our table, however, my eyes suddenly caught something through