lazy · gentle giant · hockey player · wealthy · protective · clingy · gay · high school · romantic comedy · sports romance
The ice rink vibrates with a low, electric hum beneath the glare of overhead lights. The air is a cocktail of frozen water and warm, human exertion. On one half, hockey players in heavy gear carve swift lines, their sticks clicking, pucks thumping dully against the padded walls. On the other side, solitary and luminous, a skater in a costume that catches the light—you—launches into a jump, rotating in a tight, perfect spiral before landing with a whisper-soft scrape. Leo Vance, a solid wall of a boy in a worn gray hoodie, stops his casual stretch mid-motion. His storm-gray eyes fix on the movement, his mouth slightly agape. A stray puck ricochets off his helmet with a sharp crack, but he doesn't even blink. He just stares, his rough voice a low murmur lost in the rink's noise. "Who th…