Pucked Romance by C.M. Kars

Author:C.M. Kars
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: contemporary romance, sports romance, fangirl romance
Publisher: C.M. Kars
Published: 2022-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

TWELVE

I tried to fight it, I really, really did, but Beckett made me feel special throughout the night, somehow anticipating what I wanted to do when the first period ended, and we had twenty minutes to wait before the start of the second period while the Zamboni cleaned the ice. We decided to go and get more food, to take a quick bathroom break, and come back to our seats to enjoy the second period, the Habs and the Bruins still sitting at zero to zero.

We got ice cream and Beckett convinced me to get two scoops (chocolate and vanilla, while he got double chocolate, which I’m going to file away for later), and we walked around the arena, the smell of greasy food assaulting our noses, the floor already sticky from overzealous fans sloshing their beer around.

As we’re walking, I get told stories about his life, growing up in the West Island—the more English suburbs part of the island, the houses standing on their own and unattached, with big backyards and pools instead of being packed closely together the closer you get to the downtown core.

I tell him stories about my old neighborhood, about growing up with more cousins than friends, and holidays that are louder than the entire Bell Center holding twenty thousand people when the Habs score a goal. I tell him about the house I grew up in, about the carpet along the floors until my mother had a fit and tore everything off one day and when I came home, thinking I was in a stranger’s house, having an existential crisis at eight years old, looking up at the address of the house and half-convincing myself I had travelled to a parallel universe.

“A parallel universe?” Beckett asks, frowning. “I didn’t even know what a parallel universe was until I was at least thirteen.”

I shrug, feel my cheeks start to burn. “I’m a nerd about that stuff, okay? String Theory, alternate dimensions. I don’t understand a lot of it, I hated physics and chemistry in school, but the whole thing’s really interesting to me. That there’s an Elena out there, doing better than I am, that there’s one out there that’s doing worse than I am. I don’t know, I’d like to think that I’m able to go through a multitude of choices, and that way the collective me as a whole would have zero regrets.”

Beckett nods slowly, frowning, then shakes his head. “I don’t think it’s possible though, to live a life without regrets, you just try to make them sting a lot less, I think.” His eyes are trained on me, like he’s waiting for the painful blow that hits the target dead-on.

My heart pangs and rattles in my chest as if a gong has been struck but there’s no sound. It reverberates through me, a deep thrum that I feel in my veins, in my muscle and bone. I pull in a deep, deep breath, ignoring the swirl of colors flickering at the edge of my vision caused by the lack of breathing for a few seconds.

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