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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.

himself too

to Nina, or was

prove something?

way, I praised him after practice in front of the

rest of you could have done better today,” I said as we got changed in the locker room, which caused

I watched them get changed, then shook my

my name. He jogged to catch up to me as I walked toward the

didn’t slow down, because frankly I didn’t want to be talking to him despite his good performance during

up?” I said, keeping my gaze straight

“I’m just angry with myself for doing what I

change in demeanor. As long as I had known him, he was always a bit of an insufferable jackass. Did 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

and patting him on the shoulder. “I’m glad to hear it,” I said, although what I really wanted to say was “Don’t

I controlled

somewhat meek smile. “Well, see you tomorrow at

to myself as I watched Justin walk away, narrowing my eyes as

trying to get, because I had big plans

in the morning, I rode my motorcycle to town. I got a haircut, bought myself a new set of clothes — a nice flannel, new jeans, and even a new pair of boots — and then made my way over to the florist. I bought a dozen roses with

picked up fancy pastries from the bakery. I had never noticed what sort of foods and

heading

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