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!”

spot, avoiding Justin’s gaze. The chanting grew louder as the

listened at first until he raised his voice.

back and forth between Enzo and I. I could tell that he was startin novelxo.com fast updateg to put two and two together. It didn’t seem

something about

was giving

session,” Enzo said. ” Enough

team members scoffed.

so boring, Enzo,”

everyone 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,

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

I looked at the Chapter

up Tiffany’s supplies and lugged the heavy medical bag out of the locker room, just happy that I could

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

That someone was Lisa.

seemed aggravated and was gesturing frantically, although I couldn’t hear what she was saying. As I approached the exit where Tiffany stood waiting for me, Lisa glanced over. When she saw me,

Chapter 12 Love Practice

her say as I walked past, trying my best to just ignore

didn’t hear

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

so,” I

to

got hurt in the arena earlier,” she said with a chuckle. “It was all a setup. I take it that Justin

nodded. Tiffany stopped in front of her office door and took the medical bag from me, which she carried with a lot more ease

than she

she said with a

“It’s alright.

and squeezed my shoulder reassuringly. “Tomorrow will be better,” she said. “No hockey team. Although, you might find that the football players

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

their practice, Tiffany and

out players individually

two players collided into

to the field to check on them. My first instinct was that they were being a bit dramatic, but maybe I

checking the ankle of one player,

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