My Pathetic Obsession With The Hockey Boy
"I never had a name. Just a bench, and a girl who wasn't afraid of me before she knew who I was."
My hands felt awkward, too large for my pockets. "I broke my ankle a few months after that summer. I never went back."
"What happened?"
I told him. Not about Celeste, that door was still too heavy to open, but I told him about the stairs, the slick patch of oil, the surgery, and the joint that never quite forgave me.
The end of hockey as anything but a game I watched through a lens.
He listened, as if sitting still cost him physical effort.