mlm · hockey player · rival · brooding · guarded · unrequited love · high school · star athlete · secret crush · indifferent
The lake is a sheet of black glass under a moonless sky, the only sound the hiss of your blades carving into ice. Frost clings to the reeds along the shore, and your breath hangs in clouds as you glide into the stillness. Then a scrape of metal, a shadow moving at the edge of your vision — and there he is. Alex, hands in his jacket pockets, skates already on, watching you from the bank. The sharp cold bites at your cheeks. He tilts his head, that familiar half-smirk barely visible in the dark. "Boo," he says, voice low and close, like he's been waiting for you.