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!”

uncomfortably in my spot, avoiding Justin’s gaze. The chanting grew louder as the team closed in on

No one listened at first until he raised his

put two and two

about our

was giving

session,” Enzo said.

team members scoffed.

so boring,

do 25 laps after this shit show, but now I’m thinking that you in particular should do 50,

shoulders dropped and he hung his head,

out, grumbling to themselves, he followed them. He cast one last look over his shoulder at me before leaving

I looked at the

heavy medical bag out of the locker room, just happy that I could go home and not have to see Enzo or Justin for the time

locker room, the hockey players were running laps around the outside of the rink and complaining. I didn’t see Enzo among

That someone was Lisa.

stood waiting for me, Lisa glanced over. When she saw me,

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

didn’t hear Enzo’s

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

I said as

back to her

got hurt in the arena earlier,” she said with a chuckle. “It was all

front of her office door and took the medical bag from me, which she carried with a lot

than

will,” she

“It’s

said. “No hockey team. Although, you might find that the football players can

for the entire football team. Granted, it was a lot easier than the hockey team without

practice, Tiffany and

pull out players individually to

It was all going well until two players collided into one another, then both held their ankles

that they were being a bit dramatic, but maybe I was just too inexperienced with sports injuries to fully

checking the ankle of one player, I

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