All Chapters of Fake Dating My Hockey Alpha : Chapter 1 - Chapter 5

~Rhett~I grab a pillow and clamp it over my ears, desperate to drown out the shrill noise drifting through the air.“This woman has got to be kidding me!”Maybe I should just suffocate myself under this pillow.Anything would be better than being subjected to my neighbor’s violin playing, which, by the way, sounds like an assault on my eardrums.This woman just ruined my childhood. I'll never enjoy the memory of my mother playing the violin again.It used to be my peace, my happy place. Now I’m not even sure I’ll ever pick up a violin again.It’s been two hours. Two.There’s no way I’m sleeping tonight. I pace the room like a madman, barely restraining myself from storming out, banging on her door, and yelling,“Shut the fuck up and put that damn violin in a box!”But no. I don’t want her to think I even know she exists. She’s tutoring someone? Fine. I won’t say a word. I’ll show her crazy.I hook up my sound system, scroll to the loudest playlist I can find, and blast it at full vol

~Lucy~Next dayFollowing my best friend’s advice, I decide to try something new. Instead of waiting for that spark to hit me like lightning before I return to my usual erotic style, I’m going to paint something completely different. Something I’m not used to… but something I can still do.An exotic bird.It sounds random, I know. But it’s colorful and elegant. It has nothing to do with sex, at least, that’s what I keep telling myself. Even as I imagine it, I catch my brain trying to turn the curve of its feathers into something sensual. It's ridiculous. How does someone even accidentally sexualize a bird?Still, today I must paint. No more blank canvases mocking me from across the room. No more waiting.I refuse to let another day become a repeat of yesterday.So I throw on something simple, tie my hair up, and head out to the mall just to grab some fresh paint and brushes. I already have tons at home, and plenty more at the gallery, but something about going out… It feels like a res