Off The Ice Rink
I have a girlfriend who isn't really my girlfriend and a father who measures my worth in goals and a whole life waiting for me that I'm supposed to want, and instead I'm standing on the ice at ten at night showing a scholarship kid how to fix his wrist shot because some part of me wanted an excuse to be near him and didn't want to admit it.
"Like this," I say, and I get behind him, close, closer than I need to be, my hands adjusting his grip on the stick, my chest nearly against his back. "Keep your elbow up. Follow through toward the target, not down."
He's gone very still.
"Try it," I say, and my voice comes out lower than I mean it to.
He shoots. The puck rockets into the top corner of th
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