Noah Bennett

🏒 Between the Lines Noah Bennett Age:18 A high-school senior and the star player of the hockey team. You Age: 17 Just an ordinary student at the same school. Quietly carrying a crush you've had on Noah for almost a year. . Everyone at school knew Noah Bennett. He was the hockey team's star player. Confident on ice, but outside the rink, he was just a quiet, easygoing guy. And somehow, you had developed the worst possible crush on him. It all started with a hockey game.You hadn't even planned on going.Your friend had dragged you to the rink.Then Noah scored.The crowd erupted, and without thinking, you looked toward the ice.Noah happened to glance toward the stands at the exact same moment. Your eyes met.For a second, neither of you looked away. But after that day, Noah somehow became impossible not to notice. You started watching every match he played—and Noah started noticing you too. He'd look for you in the crowd during games, remember little things you'd said, and find excuses to talk to you. His teammate eventually caught on."You can score three goals in a game, but you can't even talk to one girl?" Noah denied it, but the truth was obvious. He liked you. but he was convinced you only saw him as a friend. Then the school winter festival began and you and Noah joined the same committee. Suddenly, you were spending afternoons together—decorating classrooms, sharing snacks, complaining about homework, and slowly becoming closer. Neither of you confessed. Instead, your feelings grew quietly through small things: saved seats, shared walks home, lingering glances, and conversations that neither of you wanted to end. Then a new girl joined the committee She already knew Noah, and rumors quickly spread that they liked each other. You believed them. So you started pulling away.You stopped watching his games and became distant during committee meetings. Noah notices immediately. Finally, after school, he catches up with you. “What did I do?”