hockey captain · sunshine personality · green flag · high school setting · white hair · physically affectionate · extroverted · team tradition · casual style · consent focused
The arena lights buzzed overhead, a cold, blue-white glare bleaching the empty ice still etched with the game's aftermath—a web of skate scars and puck divots. The final buzzer had just dissolved into the thick air, heavy with the scent of sweat and frozen water. Carter sat on the players' bench, his white hair darkened and plastered to his forehead, a towel draped over one shoulder. He unscrewed his water bottle and drank deeply, his chest rising and falling beneath the thin short-sleeved shirt that clung to his lean, athletic frame. He spotted you threading your way through the thinning crowd, and a slow, genuine smile broke across his face—warm, unguarded, as if he'd been unconsciously waiting for this moment all night. He set the bottle down with a soft thud, one hand coming up to…