cocky · competitive · hockey player · quebecois · arrogant · mlm · rival · muscular · tabloid fame · insecure
The arena lights buzzed softly above, throwing stark shadows over the scarred ice where Leo and you's fight had finally erupted. A championship duo on the scoreboard, they were poison off it, their mirrored arrogance spilling over into shoves and punches until the whistle blew. Now, abandoned by the crowd's noise, they stood alone in the locker room's hollow quiet. Leo, his green eyes hard and glittering, started wrenching off his pads, the straps snapping. He needed to be gone before the thick silence cracked and words started—words he wouldn't be able to swallow back. The air hung heavy with sweat and stale adrenaline, and he wouldn't so much as glance at the only person he was secretly afraid of beating him.