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 us,

Enzo said, standing. No one listened at first until he raised his voice. “That’s

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 leaning over me at the locker, but Chapter 12

about

giving

session,” Enzo

the team members

so boring, Enzo,”

do 25 laps after this shit show, but now

dropped and he hung

you.” He gestured to the door, and as the team filed out, grumbling to themselves, he

sigh, I looked at

medical bag out of the locker room, just happy

room, the hockey players were running laps around the outside of the rink and complaining. I didn’t see Enzo among them; when I looked around, I realized that

That someone was Lisa.

exit where Tiffany stood waiting for me, Lisa glanced over. When she saw me, her eyes shot daggers and her

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as I walked past, trying my best to just

hear Enzo’s

more of a drizzle now, and there was a bit of a fog on the campus. The chill in the

so,” I said

back to

was all a setup. I take it that Justin

from me, which

than

have a talk with him, I will,” she said with a smile. “I know

I replied. “It’s alright.

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

The next morning, we did the physicals for the entire football team. Granted, it was a lot easier than the hockey team without the drama between myself, Justin, and Enzo, but the

their practice, Tiffany and

players individually to Chapter 12 Love

going well until two players collided into one another, then both held their ankles in

I ran over to the field to check on them. My first instinct was that they were being a bit dramatic, but maybe I was just too inexperienced with sports injuries

the ankle of one player,

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