Page 11 of Untouchable Player

He’s like some sneaky mind-reader. I internally tell him to get out of my head and call him a shit stain, just in case.

Harrison grabs me by the shoulders and plants an exaggerated kiss on my head.

“Do that again and the deal’s off!” I shout after him.

He gives me the finger.

Fucker.

I flop down on my bed and listen to Harrison and half the hockey team pile out of the house and into his car. I can’t believe I agreed to tutor the dumbest, loudest player on the team. I really am an idiot.

I text Katie so I can vent.

‘Guess who agreed to tutor one of the demon’s teammates?’

She doesn’t text back right away and I imagine her glued to her notes at the library.

When she does reply, it’s with a gif of someone laughing so hard milk comes out of their nose.

‘Is he hot?’

That tattoo comes back. The body attached to it. Something stirs in me and I push it out.

‘Ew. None of them are hot.’

‘I wouldn’t say NONE of them ;-)’

‘Who?’

‘That would be telling.’

‘If you say my brother I’m disowning you.’

‘Definitely not. I follow the bro code.’

‘What’s that?’

‘In this instance, no checking out your friends’ siblings.’

I’ll bet the hockey team follow that code too. So I guess, even if that picture was Engels, I won’t have to worry about him coming onto me.Oh who am I kidding?Why would he come onto me? He might not exactly be a pretty boy himself, but he’s a hockey player with muscles. Gay men are just as into that as women are. I know from the tumbleweed on my dating profiles.

I hadn’t even thought to ask what subject Engels needs tutoring in until Katie asks.

Engels is a senior. So if it’s a subject I have no knowledge of, it’s going to be hard for me to tutor him to that level in it. I’d probably have trouble tutoring someone at my level in something like biology or philosophy.

‘Probably sports psych or training or nutrition, if it’s psych I can help.’

‘Thanks.’I send her a heart and she sends me a gif of a cartoon bear squeezing another cartoon bear until it pops.

‘Nice.’

‘Your welcome.’

‘You’re welcome’

‘Fuck off Nate.’

Jesse

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