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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.

he punishing himself too

to Nina, or was he

prove something?

way, I praised him after practice in

we got changed in the locker room,

my arms as I watched them get changed, then shook my head with a sigh

catch up

Enzo!” he said, catching up with me and matching my stride. I didn’t slow down, because frankly I didn’t want to be talking to him

up?” I said, keeping

other day,” he said. “I’m just angry with myself for doing

how I used to be; how I used

glad to hear it,” I said,

I controlled

a somewhat meek smile. “Well, see you

watched Justin walk away, narrowing my eyes as I wondered what he

angle Justin was trying to get, because I had big plans the next

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 a little teddy

bought a bottle of wine, then picked up fancy pastries from the bakery. I had never noticed what

be a date. I knew Nina would be heading across the quad to get lunch, so I set up a picnic blanket with everything I got

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