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Chapter 38

#Chapter 38: Lovelorn

Enzo

Nina and I shook hands and agreed to be “friends” for now.

“You can’t just let this happen,” Fio growled, angry with me for letting it come to this as I watched Nina walk away.

“I know,” I replied with an outward sigh, sticking my hands in my pockets and making my way toward where my motorcycle was parked.

I wasn’t going to let this happen. For whatever reason, Nina Harper was

special to me and I had to have her. If being a good “friend” for a while was what it would take to get her to see that I was the best choice, then so be it; but that didn’t mean that I wasn’t going to try in some other ways to gain her affection, too.

I went to hockey practice that day and let out my frustrations by training harder than I had in a long time. My teammates were both surprised and annoyed by the grueling training regimen I inflicted on them, but I was too angry to care.

“Enzo, we’ve been doing drills for two hours!” Matt complained, stopping suddenly in the middle of a drill in the middle of the rink and doubling over with his hands on his knees. The other players stopped as well and started complaining, too– all except for Justin, who was the lone teammate to keep pushing through the drill, skating back and forth with all his might on the rink.

punishing himself too for

did to Nina, or was he trying

prove something?

practice in front

better today,” I said as we got changed in the locker room, which caused a

as I watched them get changed, then shook

name. He jogged to catch up to me as

my stride. I didn’t slow down, because frankly I didn’t

I said, keeping my gaze straight

angry with myself for doing

Nina really have such an effect on people? I thought about how I used to be; how I used to sleep around almost every night, using girls as merely a means to let off steam and then discard them, and now I was scheming how to get this ordinary human girl

I said, although what I really wanted to say was “Don’t you dare even try to get

I controlled

somewhat meek smile. “Well, see you tomorrow

away, narrowing my eyes as I wondered what he was

was trying to get, because I had

new jeans, and even a new pair of boots — and then made my way

bottle of wine, then picked up fancy pastries from the bakery. I

almost lunchtime so I had to rush back to the campus to set up what would hopefully be a date. I knew Nina would be heading across the quad to get lunch, so I set up a picnic blanket with everything

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