My Hockey Alpha Chapter 190

Imagination Run Wild

Nina

As I sat there in the bar, seeing the two new transfer students kiss like that made me feel not only sad, but also jealous for some strange reason. I didn’t understand it; why would I feel jealous over two new students who I had never even met?

That feeling wouldn’t go away, either. I found myself hardly able to enjoy the evening, and eventually decided that I needed to get out.

“I’m gonna go home now,” I said, pushing my chair back once I’d finished my second drink. “I’ll see you all later.”

My friends frowned up at me. Justin checked his watch. “It’s not even ten o’clock,” he said. “You’re really leaving now?”

“Yeah. I have work in the morning,” I replied, which wasn’t a lie. I did promise Phil I would work at the diner in the morning. With things getting back to normal in town, businesses were opening back up and he was even able to get a shipment of food so he could get the diner running again. I needed the money, too.

“I’m actually pretty tired myself,” Jessica said. She glanced at Lori, who nodded in agreement, and they both stood. I could tell that they weren’t actually tired and really just wanted to be there for me as my friends, but I wasn’t complaining. It made me feel better to have them by my side; I just needed to get out of this bar.

we began to walk home in the cold winter air, it seemed that my suspicions were correct as Jessica immediately began questioning

You kept staring at

know exactly,” I replied. “Maybe they remind me of me and Enzo. I’m not sure. But… Don’t you

seem pretty normal,” Lori said with a shrug. “I even talked to the girl a little bit at one point when I went up to the bar. She seems nice enough. A little full of herself, maybe, but that’s about

they came from?” I asked. “I mean, why would two new students suddenly transfer here now, not only almost at the end of a semester, but also

Jessica stopped and took me by both arms, staring at me intensely. “You’re just being paranoid. We know you miss Enzo and you’re worried about him. And if he doesn’t come home soon, then we promise we’ll all do everything we can to find him and bring him back. But for now, you need to try to take a chill pill and have a little faith that maybe

Sure, maybe she was right that the new students were here without any sort of ulterior motive or connection to Selena; but I just couldn’t shake off that strange feeling about those two students. And even more so, I couldn’t stop thinking about how I swore, for even just

look at that boy for long enough, I swear he looks just like Enzo,” I said, feeling hot tears begin to prick at the backs of

it with concern drawn across her face. “I think you’re imagining things, Nina,” she whispered. “You’ve barely been sleeping. All you do is sit in the infirmary all day and all night, trying to replicate Tiffany’s antidote. Don’t you think that maybe it’s starting to get to you? The lack of sleep? Hell, even the fumes from all of that chemical mixing

Maybe it really was just starting to get to me, and besides: why wouldn’t Enzo

thought to myself as I realized that I was starting to

find Enzo, Luke, or create the antidote if I was so exhausted I was hallucinating that Enzo and Selena were

I started to feel like myself again. In fact, the longer I thought about it, the more I realized that Lori and Jessica were right; I was just imagining things. And somehow, coming to this realization filled me with more drive to find Enzo; I already had plans to

was excited to get to work in the infirmary. But only

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