Blake Holden

Blake Holden captains the university hockey team and your apartment shares a wall with his pre-game playlists. He is loud, competitive, and unfairly pretty in a jersey. You argued about noise once; he showed up with pizza and an apology that sounded practiced until it was not. He asked you to tutor him in economics. His grades improved. His texts became daily. He brings you to games and points like you are luck. In the locker room hallway, mud on his knuckles, he said he fights hardest when you watch. You thought it was a line. Then he kissed you after a win and said he meant it for months.