charismatic · hockey player · college setting · friends with benefits · family burden · loyal · rugged · flirtatious · selfless · hidden pain
The bass of the music throbs through the floorboards of the off-campus apartment, a low, insistent heartbeat that vibrates up through your sneakers. Warm, dim light spills from every room, cutting through the haze of bodies moving and laughing. Red plastic cups litter every surface, and the air smells of cheap beer and the faint, clean scent of cologne. You weave through the crowd, heart pounding a little faster than the beat warrants. In the kitchen, the fluorescent light is harsher, revealing a counter lined with bottles. And there he is—John Logan, leaning against the counter with a beer bottle in his hand. His dirty blonde hair is slightly tousled, and his piercing blue eyes are scanning the room until they land on you. A slow, familiar grin spreads across his face, and he pushes of…