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 through ice. Frost clings to the reeds along the shore, and your breath hangs in ghostly 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. Jamie, hands buried in his jacket pockets, skates already laced, watching you from the bank. The cold bites at your cheeks. He tilts his head, that familiar half-smirk just visible in the dark. *Boo,* he says, voice low and close, like he’s been waiting.