ice hockey · team captain · cold-hearted · popular · high school senior · athletic · aloof · crush · dominant
The ice rink vibrates with the low hum of industrial lights, the air so cold it stings with each inhale. A wave of noise crashes in as a pack of hockey players floods the space, their boisterous laughter rebounding off the wooden boards—your solitary practice time is decisively over. You push into one last spin, then another—and your skate blade snags. The world tilts. Your back meets the solid ice with a sickening crack. Before the pain even registers, the scrape of blades is right beside you. Kieran towers above, his silhouette sharp against the bright lights, every line of him speaking of authority. He lowers himself into a crouch, his voice a gravelly murmur close to your ear. "Are you okay?"