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TAKUMI WILLIAMSI was lying on the couch, scrolling through my phone as I intended on doing after spending the night at Caleb’s when a notification from him popped up on my screen.I opened it immediately, expecting another one of his usual complaints about me refusing to show up at school today only to find a completely different message than I’d expected.Caleb: Have you heard about the rink situation yet?I knitted my brows in confusion, sitting up slightly.Takumi: What rink situation?His reply came almost immediately. Caleb: long story cut short. Caleb: there was an accident at our rink so now we’re going to be sharing one with the Titans until ours is fixed.I stared at the message, scrolling up to read it again.Sharing a rink with the Titans? With Noah’s team?That sounded like a nightmare.The Titans and the Wolves were lifelong rivals. It wasn’t an exaggeration to say both teams were raised to hate each other and now we were being forced to practice and play in the same r

Last Updated : 2026-10-31

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NOAH MASONI was halfway down the stairs when I remembered I still hadn't gone grocery shopping.It was becoming an increasingly disturbing problem, considering how unusual it was for me to run out of basic necessities in the middle of the week. I had already forgotten to buy bread once, and although I'd somehow managed to get through breakfast without it, I wasn't particularly interested in repeating the experience.I walked into the kitchen, heading straight for the cupboard where I usually kept it.Except, when I opened it, there was a loaf sitting right where it was supposed to be.I paused.For a moment, I simply stared at it, wondering if I'd somehow overlooked it the previous morning. I reached inside, picked it up and checked the packaging, but there was no indication that it had been opened before.There was bread. I frowned, putting it back before opening the fridge.That was even more surprising. The eggs I'd run out of were there, alongside a fresh carton of milk, vegetabl

Last Updated : 2026-10-31

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TAKUMI WILLIAMS I was beginning to think the universe had something against me. I’d barely gotten out of bed that morning, dragged myself through the process of getting dressed and made it to the rink on time, only to find out that our practice had been moved to five in the afternoon. 5pm. I dared to think it was as a result of me talking to Noah but I quickly dismissed the thought. Jonah wasn’t present to answer any of my questions so I just headed back to my car, unlocked it, tossed my bag onto the passenger seat and settled behind the steering wheel, adjusting the seat before leaning it back. I had barely gotten enough sleep the previous night so it was nice to catch up on that. I slept a couple of hours, missed all the classes I had for the day and then woke up just in time for practice and headed back to the rink.It felt odd training at the Titans’ rink, especially knowing that I had once stood on the same ice with Noah and played against him with no one else around us. For

Last Updated : 2026-10-31

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NOAH MASON I hadn’t intended to listen to their conversation. I wasn’t even sure exactly why I was at the rink. I didn’t have practice today. I knew the Wolves practice had been shifted till evening. And maybe, just because I wanted to see how they were using our rink, I’d shown up. Seeing Takumi wasn’t supposed to be unexpected. But seeing him with a guy and watching the way he pulled him away so quickly— that was definitely unexpected. Still, they were at a short distance from where I stood. It was going to take effort to not listen to what they were saying and the second I heard Takumi’s voice, the urge to make that effort vanished in an instant. He didn’t particularly sound pleased to see the guy and knowing Takumi, that was odd. His tone was cold but underneath it all, it felt like there was a bit of warmth he was trying to conceal. And after listening even closer, it sounded exactly like the tone he had been communicating with me in ever since I told him to pretend nothing

Last Updated : 2026-10-31

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NOAH MASON The silence that followed was immediate. Ethan blinked, while Summer’s mouth fell slightly open before she recovered and leaned closer across the table. “Guys?” I nodded once, suddenly finding the condensation on my glass far more interesting than either of their faces. “You mean,” Ethan paused, looking at Summer before returning his attention to me. “You’re attracted to men?” Takumi was a man. “Well, yes.” “Okay,” Summer said slowly, although the surprise in her expression hadn’t completely disappeared. “I wasn’t expecting that.” “Neither was I.” “How did you figure it out?” Ethan asked. “Did you meet someone?” “Did you fall for a guy?” Summer added, her curiosity growing with every second I remained silent. “I’m sorry how that sounds but like you’re Noah Mason. The Noah Mason. If anything I was beginning to think you’re asexual. So, did you fall for someone in particular?” My mind immediately went somewhere I hadn’t intended it to. I remembered the way his hai

Last Updated : 2026-10-31

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TAKUMI WILLIAMS I spotted Wyatt almost immediately after stepping onto the ice. He was seated a few rows up from the rink, close enough that I could recognize him without having to look too hard, and the moment our eyes met, he lifted a hand in greeting as though we hadn’t already had a conversation about him staying away from me. I looked away. Of course, he had come. I’d told him not to, but apparently, that was another one of those things he had decided he could ignore, and I wasn’t particularly interested in dealing with him before a match. I had enough to think about already, especially with our opponents being a team we had struggled to beat the last match, Still, my eyes wandered across the crowd again, searching through the faces until I found myself looking for someone else. Noah. I wasn’t sure why I expected to see him, but I looked anyway. I scanned the rows closest to the rink, then the sections further back, trying to spot his familiar dark hair or the broad shoulde

Last Updated : 2026-10-31

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NOAH MASON For a moment, I couldn’t hear anything. The parking lot hadn’t suddenly gone quiet, and the world around me hadn’t stopped moving, but my father’s words seemed to have swallowed every other sound, leaving me standing there with nothing but the same sentence repeating inside my head. She’s getting worse. I stared at him, waiting for him to take it back, to explain that there had been some misunderstanding or that the hospital had made a mistake, because there was no way he could have driven all the way here just to tell me something like that. “What do you mean she’s getting worse?” My voice sounded unfamiliar, and I hated how unsteady it was. “Why would she get worse? Why?” Compared to what the rest of the world was made to believe, my mum wasn’t dead. She had been alive all this time, locked away in a psychiatric hospital, while the rest of the world carried on as though she had never existed. I was eight years old when he told me she was suffering from b

Last Updated : 2026-10-31

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TAKUMI WILLIAMSThe drive home was painfully quiet.Not the comfortable kind of silence that sometimes settled between Noah and me when neither of us had anything worth saying, but the kind that made me painfully aware of every little sound inside the car. The engine humming beneath us, the tires moving against the road, the occasional clicking of the indicator whenever I changed lanes.Noah hadn’t said a word since we left the parking lot.I kept glancing at him whenever I could without making it obvious, and every time I did, he was staring through the passenger-side window with an expression I couldn’t quite place.He looked exhausted.There was something about the way he was sitting, his shoulders slightly hunched and his hands resting loosely against his thighs, that made him look like he had forgotten what to do with himself. Noah was usually so controlled that even when he was angry, there was something deliberate about it. He knew what he wanted to say, how he wanted to say it,

Last Updated : 2026-10-31

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TAKUMI WILLIAMS I’d learnt from an early age that some lies were needed. Like when my dad called in sick at work so he could watch my hockey match in grade 6. Or when my I told my dad my mum was the one craving pizza so he could pick it on his way home after I’d spent an entire week eating nothing but that same pizza. Those lies were harmless and in the long run, we had all laughed at it upon realization. It had been understandable and somehow, made me grow up to believe everyone always had a good reason behind their every action. But hearing Noah’s father had lied to the world, including my mum, about his ex-wife’s death, I suddenly questioned the very belief that had been ingrained in me for years.“I want to see her,” Noah continued. “I don't care what he says. I just want to see her.”“You should.”He looked at me.“I mean it,” I added. “If you want to see her, you should at least get the chance to try. Your dad can't just decide that for you without telling you anything.”Noa

Last Updated : 2026-11-05

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