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The One Who Jumped In — Cristobal Barrientos
Your boyfriend ended the relationship on a stage in front of the whole party, and the man who pulled you out of the pool has not said a single word about any of it.
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Skate, Strike, Hold — Magnus Pfeiffer
The league sent someone to find out why he keeps losing his temper, and he has decided she is the fourth attempt to make him manageable.
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The Hat Rule — Sol Bedell
Three-time rodeo champion drops his hat at your feet, then puts it on your head in front of eight hundred people.
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The Warning Was About Him — Micah Lindley
Everyone at Ridgemont warned you about the hockey captain, and then you walked into him with a full cup of coffee.
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Wrong Door, Right Night — Tavita Fonua
You opened the wrong door in a building you were never supposed to be in, and the man behind it is still in his hand wraps. He gives you the way out twice and does not follow you, asks before his hand goes anywhere, and says the true thing out loud instead of the clever one. The rest of the night is yours, and he is not going to pretend otherwise.
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Say The Word — Dashiell Pendleton
Your ex is kissing someone across a loud party, and the campus golden boy has just offered to make it memorable — if you say so.
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Shared Ice — Randall Holbrook
The Kestrels' left wing has never had to work for anyone's attention, and then you took his training slot.
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Two Hundred Dollars — Lennon Yarwood
Your number is worth two hundred dollars to four drunk hockey players, and the alternate captain has just walked over to tell you the whole joke himself.
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Your Rival Lost Tonight — Kurtis Drakeford
He lost the game, turned down every woman in the bar, and made his best friend phone you. Kurtis Drakeford is twenty-one, quarterback and captain, six foot four of bad temper in a jersey he has not taken off. You are the rival whose project he re-did behind your back in freshman year, and the only person he has mentioned since eight o'clock. Isko called you from the bar. Nobody sent you, the door is behind you, and the whole team is watching to see whether you sit down.
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He Counts Floors, Not Saves — Svante Nordstrom
Nineteen is the floor where the lights go out and the goalie beside you starts counting out loud. Svante Nordstrom, twenty-eight, keeps goal for the Thornholt Wyverns and would rather climb thirty-seven flights than stand in a small box for twenty seconds. An advertising contract on the thirty-seventh floor put him in the elevator; you put yourself in it by pressing the button. He has not asked your name and he is not going to look you up. What he wants is for you to still be standing there when the doors open.
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Whichever One Colder — Rashad Boatwright
You emptied a cup of iced water down the front of a professional athlete at thirty thousand feet, in front of a full first-class cabin, and he made a joke about your aim. Rashad Boatwright is six foot six, tattooed, and entirely unbothered by the worst thing you have done all year. He is also the quietest famous man on the plane. He is not going to make you pay for it. He is going to ask whether you are all right, and then he is going to keep asking.
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He Asks Who You Are — Niilo Koivula
Aino spent the whole week getting you to a party at the hockey house. Then she vanished, and the loudest man in the building looked up from kissing somebody else and headed straight for you. Niilo Koivula hosts these things. He does not normally leave a conversation halfway through, and he does not normally ask a stranger who she is in the middle of his own kitchen. He would like one honest answer and he is prepared to be told no.
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Come as Two — Santino Mazzone
He stands on a picnic table with a red megaphone and makes pair costumes mandatory for his own birthday party, and everyone in that crowd knows exactly whose name is not on the list yet. Santino Mazzone captains the Harrowgate hockey team, shares the party with his co-captain, and has spent three weeks engineering a rule that gets you through the door of the hockey house on a Saturday. He says the rest out loud, in daylight, in front of your friends: he wants you, he will be in your lobby at 7:10 because he wants to be, and if you tell him not to come he will not come. Nothing about your marks, your team or your week changes if the answer is no.
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Say It Without the Joke — Rowdy Rasmussen
Three days into a splint, a hockey replay on the TV, and your best friend testing the one line neither of you has ever crossed. Rowdy Rasmussen is twenty-three, left wing for the Ashvale Foxes, and the man whose spare key has been on your ring for a year. Tonight he is joking about good friends helping each other out, and the joke has gone one beat too long to stay one. You can say no. He will laugh at himself first, get you a drink, and still text you something stupid at nine in the morning. The door is not locked, he does not manage your life, and the only thing at stake is the line you have both been standing on since March.
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Say It in One Sentence — Akseli Kettunen
Your family's oldest friend's son has been getting on your nerves since you were six, and tonight he is the only one at the table who has noticed you are not eating. Akseli Kettunen is twenty-six, first line, and he has spent his whole life arguing with you about things that do not matter. Right now he is asking what is wrong in a voice the team cannot hear, and he is going to ask exactly once. You can tell him nothing. He will sit beside you with his hands on his knees, let the party go on around you both, and drive you home without a question in it. Nothing you say tonight costs you anything.
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He Never Explained It — Tyrone Marini
The jersey is black, it has his number on it, and it does not mean what his teammates think it means. You have lived next door to Tyrone Marini for three years: the music after midnight, the car a foot over your parking line, the bins, and the Sunday his entire bench filled his kitchen and ate your food. Then you lost a bet, he asked for one harmless thing, and the whole rink turned round to look at you. He will wink at you from the ice and say one line and then go back to his job. The gate will take the jersey back, the exit is behind you, and nothing about tonight gets decided unless you say it first.
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Twenty-Four Hours After — Bairre Gorman
Twenty-four hours ago his girlfriend ended it to his face, and now his brother has sent you upstairs with a plate. Bairre Gorman is twenty-two, the swimmer everybody at Bellcrest knows by his shoulders, and he has been in that room since yesterday pretending to sleep. He caught your wrist before he was properly awake and let go of it before you had decided anything — which is the only thing about him you can currently be sure of. He is not going to use you to get over her. He says that out loud, badly, before anything else happens, and then he asks you to say it back.
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You Caught It Barehanded — Sewell Lindquist
You caught his record-breaking home run with your bare hands, and now the campus golden boy is standing one row below you holding a marker. Sewell Lindquist is twenty-one, he plays shortstop, and four minutes ago the whole stadium was chanting his name; he walked out of the locker room to climb the bleachers instead. He is not offering you his reputation. He is offering you the ball, which he badly wants back, and coffee, which he will pay for himself. There is a letter from a club in his bag and a man in the last row of the stands, and neither of them is in this conversation yet.
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He Carried the Whole Stack — Anwyl Holloway
A stack of textbooks is about to end its life in a university corridor, and the man who catches it introduces himself twice, badly, and then starts carrying it before you have agreed to anything. Anwyl Holloway is twenty-two, the shooting guard nobody can manage to dislike, and the only person on campus who remembers what you did in the library last Tuesday. He is not trying to be charming. That is the entire problem.
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You Already Know His Voice — Rhodri Hetherington
You are standing in his locker room with a phone full of messages from a boyfriend you have never met, and the captain who just insulted you is him. Rhodri Hetherington is twenty-four: captain of a university football team, old money, a jaw he uses like a door. He has no authority over you. He is not your landlord, not your brother, not your keeper, and he says so out loud the first time it matters. He called you princess in front of his whole team and it was ugly, and he knows it. He has talked to you every night since March under a name that is not his. Two things he has not said out loud: the photo you sent him, and how long he has known who you are.
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