Talia POV
This might have been a bad idea. I should have stayed indoors, watching a horror movie and eating lots of ice-cream.
However, here I am. In a restaurant sitting across my date.
Yes, you heard that right. I came on a date and now, I am trying to convince myself why this was a good idea.
"So then Coach told me I had the best slapshot he'd seen in years," Austin says, his eyes lighting up as he recounts the story. "Can you believe that? Me, compared to legends like Orion Hayes?” He bubbles with a grin on my face.
I smile and nod, taking a sip of my wine.
Austin is a perfect date material, that I can acknowledge.
He is twenty-six, younger than me and plays for the Warriors.
It's a smaller club compacted to the Michigan Blackhawks but he has got potential.
He is attentive,
