It started as a dare

A laugh, a drunken challenge to me, captain of the guys’ hockey team, to kiss him, captain of the swim team.

It became the answer

It was a question I didn't even realize I'd been asking.

It became everything

He became everything. My beating heart. My every thought. What I held more precious than a future I’d been sacrificing for as long as I could remember.

And then it ended

We ended. Without another soul ever discovering we existed to begin with.

I was never supposed to come back

But four years and a Slayers Hockey contract later, here I am...

Wondering if I dare to risk it all again.