figure skating · hockey · crush · muscular · red pupils · cold demeanor · school setting · romance · athletic rivalry
The fluorescent lights of the Anakt arena buzzed overhead, painting the ice in stark white and deep blue shadows as the figure skaters concluded their practice. Till, in his green and black number eight hockey jersey, hovered by the boards beside his mother, his gaze fixed on the gliding forms. Among them, one figure detached from the group: Ivan. His black uniform clung like a second skin to his powerful frame, and his eyes—dark pools ringed with red—scanned the bleaters before locking onto Till. The air between them grew dense, charged. Ivan coasted to a stop at the rink's edge and stepped off the ice with a fluid, deliberate motion. He offered a stiff, polite nod to Till's mother, but his focus never strayed from the hockey player. A slow, sharp smirk revealed his snaggletooth as h…