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Chapter 25

I would just like to put a trigger warning here because there will be use of homophobic slurs in this chapter. My books and my account are safe spaces so I just wanted to give a warning. Love you all!

Chapter 25

It's my turn to play center and my body is filled to the rim with passion. I have had so much emotion coursing through my body these past few weeks. From my cuddling nights with Finn, to our stolen kisses and with the obvious stressors of work and school; you could say I have some pent up energy.

It's the first faceoff of the game and I'm on the starting line, Finn is to my left and Chas is to my right. I stare at the centermen opposite me and I grin; he doesn't know what's coming. The Webb Institute has a decent team, but we've beat them before and we've also tied them once. My body is alive with energy though and I know for a fact that Finn's is too. I feel like I can feel the waves coming off of his body from here.

I glance to my left quickly, stealing a glance towards him. He's looking up at the referee but he sees me turning to look at him so he meets my eyes. I can see his chocolatey eyes firing up from here. He's ready.

I turn my attention back towards the referee just as he blows the whistle and drops the puck between my stick and Webb's centermen. I win the faceoff, of course, and pass it back to the defensemen. I skate towards the other team's blue line just as the defenseman passes it back up to Finn.

I can see Finn's grin as soon as he gets the puck and he skates off fast as lightning towards the blue line, he sees me waiting there and passes it to me. It's a perfect pass and I catch it steadily on my stick before deking out Webb's centermen and skating down the middle.

We skate in triangle formation as the other team's defenders skate backwards, sliding their sticks across the ice, trying to lift the puck from my stick. I look left and watch Finn skate around the net, waiting for a pass. I shoot the puck towards the boards and it bouncing and shoots towards Finn's direction.

He effortlessly catches the puck and the left defense on their team charges at him, but he bounces the puck off the board and skates around him so he can catch it again. It works. I circle between the two red circles, waiting for a pass. Finn passes it to our point and then the pass comes to me.

I have the perfect shot and as soon as the puck lands on my stick, I wheel my arms back and slap shot the puck right into the top right corner of the goalie's net. Goal!

"Yes!" I jump up excitedly. The guys all jump too as they come towards me in congratulations for the goal. Finn gives me a cheeky smile and I grin back at him, riding on the high of scoring a goal just a minute into the game.

Our line skates back to the bench as the next one jumps out and skates towards center faceoff once again.

"Beautiful play you guys!" Coach says with a wide smile as we hop the boards to our bench. "And Atlas, beautiful goal!" He pats me on the shoulder and I smile proudly.

"Thanks, Coach!"

"You guys keep this up and it'll be an easy win for us!" He says before turning his attention back to the play.

And it was an easy game, we ended up winning five to one. Most of the goals being scored from my line too. I could tell Brian was bitter that he didn't get any goals today, but his bitterness quickly went away as we all rode out the solid win.

We all jumbled back into our dressing room chattering and patting each other on the head. We were all buzzing in excitement, even Coach was doing a little dance as he walked into the dressing room behind us before giving us the "after game talk."