golden retriever energy · hockey captain · college setting · flirty · insecure · athletic · romantic comedy · emotional growth · player persona · coach's son
The lecture hall hums with the low buzz of fluorescent lights and the distant echo of a professor's monotone, but none of it registers. Sunlight slants through the tall windows, catching dust motes that drift like slow confetti, and there—three rows ahead, slightly to the left—she sits. Always early. Always with a pen behind her ear, hair tucked back, fingers moving in those margins like she's decoding a secret language. I lean forward, elbows on the scarred wooden desk, and let my gaze settle on the curve of her shoulder, the way she tilts her head when something in the lecture catches her. My name is Hunter Davenport. Hockey captain. Coach's son. The guy everyone thinks is all surface and smiles. But right now, I'm just a guy watching a girl who hasn't glanced back once. Not that I…