Chapter 12 Love Potion

Nina

The locker room was pitch black. Had we lost power?

I didn’t dare to move in case I would accidentally bump into Enzo and give him the wrong idea. He was still hovering over me, his hand on the locker above me and his muscular body shielding me. I would be lying if I said that I didn’t fantasize about taking advantage of the dark and kiss him, letting him run his calloused hands all over my body and fuck me up against the locker…

But before any of that could happen, a light flicked on at the end of the row of lockers. Just a single light, beaming down like a spotlight from the ceiling. Enzo quickly moved away from me.

There was the sound of shuffling in the

darkness, then someone stepped into

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the light.

It was Justin.

He was holding his guitar.

Everything in my whole body cringed when he started playing his guitar and singing. It was a song that we had listened to the first night we hung out, and it was the song that we had our first kiss to.

Under any other circumstance, I would have found this gesture sweet. But now, it just made me even more embarrassed.

When he finished singing, the lights turned on and the rest of the team flooded in while Justin gazed at me with sorrow in his eyes.

“Please take me back,” Justin said. ” I’m so sorry, Nina. I’ll make it up to you.”

I stood there biting my lip, unsure of Chapter 12 Love Practice

what to say. My face felt hot, and grew even hotter when the rest of the team – excluding Enzo, who was sitting on the bench next to the medical tools as if he had never gotten up from his seat — started chanting.

“Forgive him!” they chanted. “Forgive him!”

Justin’s gaze. The chanting grew louder as the team closed in on us, urging us to get

at first until he raised his voice.

was startin novelxo.com fast updateg to put two and two together. It didn’t seem like anyone heard my conversation with Enzo or saw him

something about our

was giving

session,” Enzo said. ” Enough with the high school

the team members

so boring,

folded his arms. “I was gonna make everyone do 25 laps after this

he hung his head,

as the team filed out, grumbling to themselves, he followed

a heavy sigh, I looked

heavy medical bag out of the locker room, just happy that I could go home

the rink and complaining. I didn’t see Enzo among them; when I looked around, I realized that he was standing

That someone was Lisa.

hear what she was saying. As I approached the exit where Tiffany stood waiting for me, Lisa glanced over. When she saw me, her eyes shot daggers

Chapter 12 Love Practice

is she doing here?” I heard her say as I walked past, trying

hear Enzo’s

huh?” Tiffany said as I approached. She held the door open for me and we stepped out into the rain. It was more of a drizzle now, and there was a bit of a fog on the campus. The chill in the air felt nice after being cooped up in the smelly locker room

so,” I

to her

said with a chuckle. “It was all a setup. I take it that Justin boy is the

in front of her office door and took the medical bag from me, which she carried with a lot more ease than I did. The

than

have a talk with him, I will,” she said with a smile. “I know those boys pretty well at this

shook my head. “No,” I replied. “It’s alright. I’ll deal

reached out and squeezed my shoulder reassuringly. “Tomorrow will be better,” she said. “No hockey

it was a lot easier than the hockey team without the drama between myself, Justin, and Enzo,

their practice,

pull out players individually to

well until two players

on them. My first instinct was that they were being a bit dramatic, but maybe I was just

started checking the ankle of one player, I

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