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Chapter 53: I Can't But I Have To
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Scarlett's POVI woke up to a knock on the door. I wondered who it was cause I know it couldn't be Mia. I stood up and it was a delivery.FlowersIt was for Mia. She wasn't in so I took it for her. After signing, I dropped it on her bed and waited for her cause I was curious.I picked up a novel and started reading and about 30 mins later she walked in.I turned the book over and raised my head supporting it with m
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Hockey Captain's Ruin Chapter 53: I Can't But I Have To
Chapter 53Scarlett's POVI woke up to a knock on the door. I wondered who it was cause I know it couldn't be Mia. I stood up and it was a delivery.Flowers It was for Mia. She wasn't in so I took it for her. After signing, I dropped it on her bed and waited for her cause I was curious. I picked up a novel and started reading and about 30 mins later she walked in.I turned the book over and raised my head supporting it with my right hand."Someone sent that to you" I saidShe picked it up and looked at it confused"Are those from Damien?" I asked "No, It's from this guy that's been bothering me"" You don't like him?" I asked"I like Damien" she responded rolling her eyes at me."I'm just asking, It's not like you and Damien are a thing yet""I don't know" she said making a face and sitting down on her bed. She dropped the flowe
Hockey Captain's Ruin Chapter 52: A Little More Than Concern
Adrian's POVThe call was one I had been expecting since morning and thought wouldn't come today again.I looked at the name on the screen, and the ease went out of the afternoon. "I need to take this," I said to Scarlett. "Give me a minute." I went into the study and pulled the door shut behind me.I kept my voice low. I didn't need to raise it. The man on the other end gave me the short version first and the long version after, and I answered the way I needed to, in as few words as the situation allowed. I asked two questions. I gave two orders. Nothing in it was dramatic. It was the kind of call that sounded like logistics, and it was only afterward, standing with one hand flat on the desk, that I felt what it had cost me to keep my tone level."Understood," I said. "Do it quietly."I ended the call and stood there for a moment, long enough to let my face settle. Then I opened the door.She was where I had le
Hockey Captain's Ruin Chapter 51: One Little Mistake
Scarlett's POVEvan called while I was looking for my other shoe."Hey, you," he said. "Are you busy?""A little. I'm heading out." I wedged the phone between my shoulder and my ear and dropped to my knees to look under the bed. "What's up?""Nothing. Mum made too much lasagna and I've been eating it for three days straight. I thought I'd tell someone who'd feel sorry for me."I laughed, and it came out easier than it should have. He talked about the lasagna, then about a teacher he couldn't stand, about a girl he found attractive, then about nothing at all, the way he always did. He was happy. He sounded happy in a way I had stopped noticing, because it had never once been in danger."Are you coming home soon?" he asked. "The house is too quiet.""Soon," I said."You always say that.""I know.""I'm proud of you, you know," he said, quickly, like it embarrassed him. "Just so you know. Don't be late for wherever you're going."He hung up first.I s
Hockey Captain's Ruin Chapter 50: Nothing Serious
Blake's POV"Nothing serious," Adrian said.He said it the way he said everything he had decided was true, level and final, and then he bent to unlace his skates as if the conversation had ended. I stood at the boards with my stick in my hand and watched him do it.It was a good lie. I'd known him long enough to know that. The problem was that I had also just watched him skate backward across an empty rink with both of her hands in his, laughing, with his head tipped back and nothing held in reserve, and no one who feels nothing serious laughs like that.I hadn't seen that laugh since we were twelve."You were laughing," I said." People laugh.""You don't."He didn't answer. I stepped onto the ice and walked over to the bench, because I couldn't keep standing there like a man waiting outside a door.I had seen her skates as she left. White boots, dark blades, laces still bright. Not rentals. Nobody laces a pair of rentals that carefully, and nobody buys a
Hockey Captain's Ruin Chapter 49: A Proper Invitation
Adrian's POVI had known her birthday since the night I took her to the ER.She had been sitting on the plastic chair with her hand held against her chest, too proud to show she was in pain, and the woman at the desk had asked for her date of birth. Scarlett had said it without thinking. I hadn't been listening, or I had told myself I wasn't, and weeks later it was still there in my head, filed with the other things I never forgot.When the day came, I almost texted her.I had told her five days. I had told her I'd write when it was over, and I held to it, because the road was still behind me and the lane was still dark and I couldn't be certain who was watching. I spent her birthday in my room with the box on the desk and my phone face down on the bed. It was the first birthday I had ever kept track of that wasn't my own, Blake's or my mother's.I had spent more time choosing the gift than I had spent on my thesis chapters.The easy options were the ones I'd alread
Hockey Captain's Ruin Chapter 48: Five Days
Scarlett's POVMy birthday came and went in the middle of the five days, and he didn't send a word.I told myself I hadn't expected him to. He had said "not this week", and he had said "I'll text you when it's over", and Adrian was a man who meant what he said. I hadn't told him the date anyway. There was no reason he should know.My mum had called in the morning and sang me a birthday song just like she would if I was home with her.Mia had pulled a squashed cupcake out of her desk drawer that night and stuck a candle in it, and sang off-key until I laughed. Evan called, and I let him talk about nothing for ten minutes with the burner heavy under my mattress. He asked what I had done for my birthday cause he knows I usually just let it pass since our dad past. I told him I had beef tacos for lunch just like we used to on our birthday and that was true. I could hear his relief, he told me he kept the present he got me in my room and I was going to see it whenever I ca
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