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My Hockey Alpha Chapter 125

Pebbles at the Window

Nina

I cocked my head. My mother smiled up at me and pushed the plate containing my sandwich into my hands.

“Eat up, honey,” she said. “Are you alright? You look like you’ve lost a lot of weight.”

“U-Um… I’ve just been stressed.” I picked my sandwich up off my plate and took a bite, chewing for a moment, before speaking again. “Are you sure you don’t know about the Peacekeepers? The school doctor that I’ve been working with–”

“You know what?” my mother interrupted, stretching and feigning an obviously fake yawn. “It’s late, and we’ve got to be up early tomorrow to catch our flight.”

Now, I frowned and watched as she turned somewhat robotically and started to walk out of the kitchen. “But you said that we would be leaving in a couple of days…”

My mother froze again. “Did I?” she asked, her back still turned to me. “I guess I just misspoke. No, our tickets are set for first thing in the morning.”

“Oh…” I paused, looking down at the sandwich on my plate. “Okay.”

“Good night, honey.”

“Good night, mom.”

over why my mother acted like she didn’t know about the Peacekeepers. In fact,

was finished, I hopped down from the counter and rinsed off my plate before grabbing my suitcase out of the living room and quietly heading

at a motel on the rare occasion that I came to visit, but as I sat down on my bed and heard the springs creak beneath my weight, I suddenly felt overcome by a sense of nostalgia that overshadowed my mother’s strange behavior. Sighing, I fell backwards and splayed my arms out on the bed, running my hands along the quilt as I looked up at the old glow-in-the-dark stars on my ceiling that I’d put there when I was seven. I turned my head, looking over at my old desk that still had my high school textbooks piled up on it, then

get up right away; instead, I

I heard it

only to see something small and round hit it again, as though someone

jaw dropped as I saw Enzo standing on the lawn staring up at me. What

the window open

you doing and how did you find me?!” I half whispered, half shouted out the

then made a climbing motion with his hands. I sighed and gestured for him to come, stepping away from the window and waiting with folded arms as he quietly and nimbly climbed up the tree. I watched as his hand, then his leg, followed by the rest of his body, came through my window. Once he was through, we stood there in

especially after how he’d spoken to me in the locker room and even more so after what his father had said to

for how I acted,” he said quietly. “I’ve been a

at the floor. As I looked down, I heard Enzo approach and suddenly felt his warm arms wrap around me. My eyes widened, but as I inhaled

tears in my eyes. “You can’t stay,” I whispered, taking a step back and wiping the tears away with my

eyes widened. “You spoke to

knows where my mom and my

was another long silence. Enzo let out a deep, rattled sigh. When I looked up, he was staring intensely at the

why you’ve been pushing me away?” I asked. “Because