My Hockey Alpha

Chapter 296: The School Doctor

Nina

Even though most of the students went home to their families, I decided to stay on campus with my friends for winter break. I still wanted to work on the antidote every chance I had, just in case it would be needed to finish taking down the Crescents. At least, that was what I told myself and everyone else; but I secretly just wanted a reason to be in the infirmary even though there were no sick students on campus to take care of.

Being in the infirmary made me feel close to Tiffany. With each passing day, I missed her more and more, and I wished that her body could have been found to at least give her a proper burial. I hated what the Crescents did to her, and no matter what, I would never forgive the people who killed such a sweet and kind woman.

It wasn’t long before I eventually became the new school doctor, just like Tiffany. The dean still hadn’t found a viable replacement for her, and so one afternoon, I finally marched into the dean’s office to give her my speech.

“I want to be the official school doctor,” I said firmly, to which the dean raised her eyebrows and looked at me over her glasses.

“You have school to worry about,” the dean said. “It’ll interfere with your studies, won’t it? Besides, you don’t have a medical license yet.”

for weeks now,” I said. “I trained closely with her all semester, up until she…” My voice faltered. I quickly blinked back my imminent tears and cleared my throat. “Anyway, I think I’m more than qualified. You know that I’ll stay here when I graduate, and you won’t need

her paperwork and took her reading glasses off. She looked at me for a few moments, studying my face, before she finally

only part-time while you’re still in school. If your grades start to slip, I won’t let you

said

we would convene in one place or the other for a quick few minutes of passion before we parted ways again and went back to our respective talents. While I was studying to get ahead of my work for the upcoming semester, Enzo was training harder than ever because he wanted to become the official hockey coach; not just the captain until he graduated, but the official coach for the foreseeable future. I could see him making the perfect coach, too. He was firm and didn’t go easy on anyone, but the time spent training the recruits had taught him a valuable lesson in guiding

of the textbooks that I had purchased early for one of my classes for the next semester. I had a cup of coffee beside me, and although my eyelids felt heavy, it was a good sort of sleepiness. Before, I had felt exhausted from too many things going on and from a lack of sleep from nightmares or anxiety. But now, I was just exhausted from

coffee cup over, then swore

towels and began to

for the source

was Tiffany’s picture. It had fallen off of the wall and the glass had shattered all

up, I had to blink away tears. Thankfully, the photo wasn’t damaged and I could replace the frame, but the principle of the photo falling down made

glass, I noticed something poking out from behind the backing on the frame. Furrowing my brow, I