Henry by Dawn

Author:Dawn
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

Thanks to an unseasonably warm week in December, the ice in the rink was far too slushy for Henry’s liking, but he wouldn’t have cared if he’d had to skate on water—

under Professor Franklin’s tutelage, he was now passing English, off academic probation, and most importantly, the coach had put him on the ice for an actual game!

He thought things couldn’t get any better when he scored his first official college hockey goal—a gorgeous shot that slipped into the five-hole like it had been meant to be—until he saw Libby in the stands. He wouldn’t have seen her if the camera hadn’t panned in on her reaction to the goal and showed it on the screen high above—she was standing and actually dancing in the aisles, her red hair like a beacon the cameraman obviously couldn’t resist.

Henry couldn’t either.

He actually stumbled getting back onto the bench, taking the congratulations from his teammates with a distracted smile, scanning the rink for Libby, finally finding her, still standing in the aisle and waving. At him. He raised his hand, grinning like a fool. It was the first time he’d seen her since that night in the hot tub. He’d called her several times and she hadn’t returned any of them. Had she been coming to games all along? He continued to give her the tickets he’d promised, slipping them under her dorm room door in an envelope, hoping to run into her in the hallway, but he never had.

He usually gave her both tickets, but today he’d given another one to Professor Franklin. His parents hadn’t made it up for a game—he kept putting them off, embarrassed to tell them he’d been benched. But he’d given a ticket to her just that day 122

as they sat in the late afternoon sunshine, working on Henry’s worst nemesis—

phonemes.

He’d tried subtlety. “Do you like hockey?”

“Henry, you’re distracting yourself.”

He’d sighed. “I just wondered if you wanted to see me play. My parents can’t make it.”

“Funny, I was going to ask if you wanted to see a movie tonight.” She had smiled when he blinked at her in surprise. They saw a lot of each other lately, but they’d never seen each other outside of a school-type setting. The idea intrigued him. “It’s foreign.

Subtitled. I thought it would be a good experience for you.”

“Oh.” Another learning experience. Go figure. “What time?”

“Show starts at nine.”

“We can go after,” he’d suggested slyly. “The game starts at five.”

“It’s a deal then.” She’d agreed, putting a white sheet of paper in front of him with one word on it. “Now, what is that word?”

“Volcano.”

“Look again.” Toni—she’d insisted he start calling her Toni if they were going to work together four times a week—had put a clear blue-tinted sheet over the page. For some reason, the change in color helped him shift his focus.

“Tornado,” he’d corrected himself, shaking his head. “Why do I do that? I’m so stupid.”

“No you’re not. You’re just dyslexic.”

“Which means stupid,” he’d countered.

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“Did you know Thomas Edison was dyslexic?” No, he hadn’t known.

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