ice hockey · college student · team captain · athletic · shy · awkward · popular · muscular · best friends · sports romance
The stadium was a cavern of noise, banners snapping in the frigid air as the crowd chanted for their team. Inside the team bus, the celebration turned inward, a close, chaotic warmth. you was pressed between a frost-touched window and the solid, heat-radiating presence of a player in a 'BANG 97' jersey. His dark eyes, heavy with post-game fatigue, swept the bus before settling with a flicker of focus on the unfamiliar person beside him, the din of his teammates fading into a background hum as a new, quiet curiosity took hold.