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Chapter 44 - Training wheels
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2026-07-29 13:29:18
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365 Days With The Hockey Player I Hate Chapter 45 - Too close
~~~Soraya~~~By the second week, six in the morning didn't feel like punishment anymore. It felt like the only part of my day that made sense.Caleb was already on the ice when I got there, same as every morning, running a puck through a line of cones like it was the easiest thing in the world. He looked up when the door banged shut behind me and something in his face shifted, easy and warm, like he was actually glad to see me and not just showing up out of obligation."You're late," He said.I glanced at my wrist. "By two minutes.""Scouts don't care about two minutes, Rivera. Get out here."I laced up faster than I meant to, something in his voice pulling me onto the ice quicker than usual. We started with the same drills as always, edge work, tight turns, quick-release shots. but today he pushed harder, sharper, like he could tell I needed something to actually fight against."Again," he said, after I fumbled a one-timer for the third time. "You're overthinking it. Stop thinking an
365 Days With The Hockey Player I Hate Chapter 44 - Training wheels
~~~Soraya~~~Coach Bennett's office looked exactly the same as it had the night of the game, same cluttered film reels, same whiteboard nobody ever erased except this time I was the one who'd asked for the meeting, and that felt like the difference between drowning and finally learning to swim."You're serious about this," she said, not really a question, more like she was testing the weight of it out loud."I am." I sat up straighter. "Whatever I need to do to get that invite, I want to do it."She studied me for a second, the same way she had before a big game, like she was trying to see past the surface to whatever was actually holding me up underneath. "It's not going to be easy. The development camp scouts want to see more than just one good period against a mediocre team. They want consistency. Conditioning. They want to see you handle pressure without cracking.""I can handle pressure." The words came out before I even thought them through, but I meant them. I'd been handling
365 Days With The Hockey Player I Hate Chapter 43 - Choosing myself
~~~Soraya~~~I didn't sleep that night. I just lay there, staring at the same little crack in the ceiling, turning Coach Bennett's words over and over until they wore grooves into me.‘Circling together in scouting reports.' Like our names were still tied together somewhere out there, in some file I'd never see, even after everything. Like the universe hadn't gotten the memo that Declan Shaw had already made his choice, and it wasn't me.A million dollars deal. That's what Maya found out from one of the guys on the men's team, who'd heard it from someone else, the way everything eventually makes its way back to me in this school.Declan signed. Declan's staying in Australia. Declan chose an entire new life on the other side of the world instead of a plane ticket home.He didn't even call to tell me himself.That was the part that hollowed me out more than anything. Not the money, i never cared about the money.It was the silence. Weeks of silence, and now a signature on a piece of p
365 Days With The Hockey Player I Hate Chapter 42 - Scouts are here
~~~Soraya~~~It's been a week now, with no calls or text from Declan, it was time for me to get myself back. The locker room smelled like rubber and nerves, which was fitting, because I had plenty of both.Coach Bennett pinned the lineup sheet to the board without her usual speech, which told me everything I needed to know about how serious tonight actually was. I found my name near the top and forced myself to breathe normal."Scouts are here," Maya said beside me, lacing her skates like her life depended on getting the knot exactly right. She continued. "Like, actual league scouts. Not just the community college kind." "I know." I'd known since yesterday, since Coach Bennett called me into her office and told me, very carefully, that with the sponsorship gone, my spot on the Storms wasn't something anyone could guarantee anymore. Not the scholarship. Not the roster. Nothing.Everything I had left now depended on what I could prove with my own two feet on the ice tonight, in fr
365 Days With The Hockey Player I Hate Chapter 41 - Australian Ice
~~~Declan~~~The rink was empty by the time I stopped skating.Australian ice felt different under my blades. Colder somehow, even with the heating vents blasting along the boards. Or maybe that was just me. Maybe nothing was going to feel right again until I was standing on ice back in Boston, with Soraya making sure I don't win by playing with everything in her, but somehow I still win, my little rival.I sat down on the bench and pulled my gloves off, staring at my phone like it might do something different this time. It didn't. No messages. No missed calls. Just the same black screen staring back at me, mocking me for every day I hadn't found the nerve to call her.I had a plan. I'd had a plan since the second night here, lying awake in a house that wasn't mine, listening to my father's voice still ringing in my ears from the argument in the car. The small plan was to finish this week of training so it doesn't look suspicious. Tell the team something, anything. And then buy a tick
365 Days With The Hockey Player I Hate Chapter 40 - Dorms or Dumps
~~~Soraya~~~The movers came at exactly 5 p.m.I watched two men in matching polos carry out the couch Declan and I used to fall asleep on, and I didn't cry. I told myself that was progress. Maya stood beside me with her arms crossed, glaring at them like it was their fault, like they were the ones who'd ended everything and not just the ones hired to clean up after it.By six, the penthouse was empty. By seven, so was i.We loaded what was left of my life into the back of Maya's car two suitcases, a box of books, the blanket that still smelled like Declan's cologne no matter how many times I told myself to throw it out. I didn't throw it out. I folded it and put it on top so it wouldn't get crushed, and I hated myself a little for that."You don't have to go back tonight," Maya said, watching me in the rearview mirror. "You can stay at mine. Give it a few days.""Victoria said the dorm room's already assigned. If I don't show up they'll give it to someone else and I'll have nowhere."
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