I hate that voice. Hate that I can't fully silence it.
Me:Hey, just got off work. Hope everything's okay. Love you!
Still nothing.
The house is eerily quiet when I get home. All the guys are away at the game. It's just me and the creaks and groans of the old building.
I've never been alone here overnight. It feels wrong. Too big. Too empty.
I'm considering just going to bed when there's a knock at the door.
When I open the door, it's Keira standing there in flannel pajama pants and an oversized sweatshirt, holding pizza and ice cream.
"Girl's night emergency edition," she announces, pushing past me into the house. "You're alone, I'm displaced because myroommate is having loud sex with her boyfriend, and we both need carbs."
Despite everything, I laugh. "Why do you share a place when you can’t stand her?"
She shrugs. “It’s college. It’s the thing to do. Go change into something comfortable while I find plates."
Twenty minutes later, we're on the couch in our pajamas, with the pizza box open between us, and Ben & Jerry’s waiting in the freezer for later.
Keira picks up the remote. “Want to watch the game recap? See your man being all hot and athletic?”
“Sure.”
She pulls up the sports channel on the TV. They’re showing highlights from tonight’s games.
The footage cuts to two players on the ice, both in Avalon jerseys.
Both are throwing punches.
Declan and Holden.
“Oh my god,” Keira and I say at the same time.
We watch in horror as Declan shoves Holden. Holden shoves back. Then they’re grabbing each other’s jerseys, swinging, and shouting something the broadcast can't pick up.
It takes Ashton and two other players to pull them apart. Even then, they're still trying to get at each other, faces red with rage.
"What the hell?" I breathe.
Keira snatches her phone and pulls up the school’s social media group.
"Oh no," she says.
"What?"
She shows me the screen.
The hockey gossip accounts are going wild.
Hayes and Montgomery throw down mid-game! Bree Matthews' drama finally comes to a head?
Sources say the fight was over Hayes' ex, Bree Matthews, who was recently dating Montgomery.
My stomach drops.
I shake my head. “No way. They wouldn’t fight over her.”
