My Hockey Alpha

Nina

As I watched Enzo storm off into the party, I felt my heart sink. The screen door slammed shut behind him and wobbled a bit on its frame, leaving me alone and shaking in the cold. Up until five seconds earlier, I was certain that our plan was going to work.

But maybe I was too confident in that assumption, because it turned out that Enzo didn’t remember me after all. In fact, my attempts to make him remember not only proved to be futile, but also made him angry with me and probably closed him off even more. Now, I was just the strange girl who cornered him at a party. For all he knew, I could have been trying to drug him or something.

I couldn’t explain it; somehow, after everything, he didn’t remember me at all. Even as I looked at him that night, begging him to reach into his mind and remember my face, my voice, my touch… He simply looked at me like I was a complete stranger.

What had happened? How did it come to this? The last time we spoke, he had seemed as though he knew who I was, or was at least beginning to know who I was. He even said himself that he knew I was familiar. And yet, at the party, he looked at me like he had never spoken to me in his life.

escaped my lips. I felt my face twist and contort into an excruciating grimace, and I clutched my stomach as I felt nausea

care. Up until now, I thought for sure that I would have Enzo back on my side, and now here I was staggering down the

if Selena put another spell on him. Maybe she strengthened the one she already had on him; I couldn’t know for sure. All I knew was that somehow, after Enzo had seemed to be coming close to a breakthrough the last time I saw him,

it out and struggled to focus my eyes on the screen in

It was Jessica.

answered. My tongue felt heavy and thick in my mouth

looking all over for

“I needed