#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

or was

prove something?

him after practice in front of

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

to face the team and folded my arms as I watched them get changed, then shook my head with

He jogged to catch up to me as I walked toward the dining

catching up with me and matching my stride. I didn’t slow down, because frankly I didn’t want to be talking to him despite his good performance during

I said, keeping my gaze

myself for doing what

an eyebrow, surprised at Justin’s sudden 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 hear it,” I said,

But I

Justin said with a somewhat meek smile. “Well, see you tomorrow

watched Justin walk away, narrowing my eyes

whatever dumbass angle Justin was trying to get, because I

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

wine, then picked up fancy pastries from the bakery. I had never noticed what sort of foods and flowers Nina liked, but how could any girl refuse roses and chocolate

campus to set up what would hopefully be a date. I knew Nina would be heading across

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