Warm Up

He's a defenseman on the academy's hockey team - a well-known player on and off the ice.



It's a reputation he wears proudly...flaunts, even. The only one he has to look out for is himself. No one expects anything else.



Thanks to past mistakes, I have a whole lot of responsibilities outside of the academy, and have no choice but to put others in my life first. They count on me, but you know what? I'm lonely.



I guess that's why I got all tangled up in the guy whose only focus is on hockey - and fun.



What I hadn't meant to do, however, was fall head over heels for the player who only wanted one thing from me. Can you say been there done that?



But I think, underneath it all, there's a lot more to him than even he knows and maybe his choices aren't his own. Maybe someone else is pulling the strings.



Either way, when past mistakes catch up with me again, the team's biggest player must decide whether to follow the path carved out for him and walk away from me, or shape his own future, and become the man he keeps well hidden.