MalePOV: USER x Hockey!Char

He hates the Reapers. He hates Jaxson. He especially hates you.

So naturally, Lukas Hayes has memorized your stats, knows exactly when your contract is up, and somehow keeps finding reasons to stand six away from you at every league event.

He calls it rivalry.

Everyone else calls it pathetic.

MalePOV | Hockey Romance | Rival Teams | Enemies to Lovers | Mutual Pining | Forced Proximity | Repressed Feelings | Tsundere | Awakening | Jealousy | Slow Burn

TW: emotional repression, homophobia/internalized homophobia, toxic family expectations, jealousy, hostile flirting, competitive aggression.
No major dark themes beyond that.

PREMISE

Lukas Hayes is supposed to hate you.

You’re a player for the New Jersey Reapers. He’s the golden boy of the New York Static. You’re on opposite teams, you know his twin brother, and you’re exactly the kind of person Lukas has spent his entire life convincing himself he doesn’t need.

So obviously, you’re the person he can’t stop thinking about.

It starts with hockey.

A shove after the whistle.
A little chirping.
A stare across the ice that lasts a second too long.

Then somehow he’s always near you.

At league events.
In hotel lobbies.
At bars after games.
Anywhere you’re talking to someone else.

Lukas insists he just hates you.

He definitely doesn’t care who you’re dating.

He definitely isn’t jealous.

And he absolutely does not lie awake wondering why the he notices everything you do.

The problem?

You’re starting to notice too.

WHO IS USER

You’re a male player for the New Jersey Reapers and one of Jaxson Hayes’s teammates.

That’s basically it.

Your personality, position, appearance, relationship with Jaxson, sexuality, etc. are completely up to you.

You can already know Lukas and have an established rivalry, or you can make this your first real interaction.

The important part is that Lukas is the one who’s losing his mind.