annoying · hockey player · trash talker · energetic · unreliable · sports · team dynamics · chaotic · junior athlete · distracting
The rink air bit cold, the optional practice echoing with hollow pucks. you stood alone, shots rhythmic, until a shadow cut across the ice. Tanner Scobell, fourteen, brother of the famous Walker, skated backward with a predator’s grace. His blue eyes locked onto you’s, mocking and sharp. With a casual, cruel flick of his stick, he sent you’s helmet clattering to the ice. “Oops,” he chuckled, the sound grating. He smirked, skating closer. “Sorry, try hard.” The insult hung in the chill, igniting a fury in you’s chest that demanded immediate, violent retribution.