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Brooke and I had actually talked about this, and we decided to play it the way any other in-love couple would We’d attend functions together, and e traveled, she’d be in my bed with me if I rated a room on my own That was never known until the start of the season, and single rooms came not only by seniority, but by performance Still, preseason we most likely would all be paired up with roommates

Well, that’s not exactly the arrangement we came to In fact, she specifically said she would not be in my room, since she was not about to flaunt that in front of her father I conceded that she would have her own roo her on road trips She just doesn’t know that part yet

“You’re the only one that knows this is a shaave the coach We started dating a few o, fell hard and fast, blah-blah-blah Not much else to tell”

“Going to be weird seeing you all cozy with a chi—,” Dax starts to say, but lare redirects him “I mean…Brooke”

That’s the truth In the three years we’ve been friends, neither one of us has had a serious girlfriend In fact, in ht years of life, I never really have I ths of time, but I’ve never been in love

And I’ one you’re supposedly in love with are probably two different things As a professional hockey player, I think casual datingable to hook up once a week for dinner and aa woala—you know, like ar after

But this thing with Brooke

Our fake “serious” relationship is probably going to play out in a vastly different way Especially if her father is to believe us

“This ht,” I admit to Dax

He chuckles as he twists the cap of his water bottle He points it at ure it out, bud Maybe you should read some romance novels or some shit My sister reads them all the time and says that if men read them, and acted like the dudes in those books acted, wo blow jobs”

I can’t help but snort Dax’s sister, Willow, is the last person I’d take dating advice froh M&M’s when I have a chocolate craving