JUSTIN’S POV
“You can do it, J!” Luke’s voice echoes from where he’s leaning against the board as I cut across them. “You finish this, dinner’s on me!”
“You stingy asshole.” Cooper cuts in. “You’ve got to do more than dinner.
“Fine.” Luke responds at the top of his voice as I settle at center ice. “Dinner and I won’t tell Allison that story about you and that waitress!”
“That story is completely out of context—”
“Boys.” Coach’s voice slices across the rink. “Let him skate. He needs to focus.”
That’s not entirely true because I always hear every word they say during practice and they know it, which is exactly why they do it. But I’ve learned over the last few weeks how to let their noise sit in the background instead of allowing it to distract me. It keeps the silence from getting to
