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!”

louder as the team closed in on us, urging us

first

to put two and two together. It didn’t seem like anyone heard

something about our

giving it

practice, not a lovemaking session,” Enzo said.

the team

boring, Enzo,”

do 25 laps after this

shoulders dropped and he hung his

gestured to the door, and as the team filed out, grumbling to themselves, he followed them. He cast one last look over his shoulder at me

I looked at the

and realized that my shift was over. I packed up Tiffany’s supplies and lugged the heavy medical bag out of the locker room, just happy that

rink and complaining. I didn’t see Enzo

That someone was Lisa.

Tiffany stood waiting for me, Lisa glanced over. When

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heard her say as I walked

hear Enzo’s

a drizzle now, and there was a bit of a fog on the campus. The chill in the air felt nice after being cooped

so,” I said

back to her

chuckle. “It was all a

took the medical bag from me, which she carried with a lot more ease than I did. The woman

stronger than

a talk with him, I will,” she said with

“It’s alright. I’ll deal

and squeezed my shoulder reassuringly. “Tomorrow will be better,” she said. “No hockey team. Although, you

the entire football team. Granted, it was a lot easier than the hockey team without the drama between myself, Justin, and Enzo, but

their practice, Tiffany

out players individually

going well until two players collided into one another, then both

them. My first instinct was that they were

Tiffany started checking the ankle of one player, I took

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