Fics like catching you across the room

Juniors was—Mitch would say it was enlightening, but all he really managed to do was drunkenly make out and exchange quick handies that the other boys brushed off as bros helping bros. It just left Mitch even more confused than he had been before anything happened. Then Steph came along and he could push it down, tell himself it didn’t really matter because he had a girlfriend who he thought he could love forever. But the Leafs got the first pick, and he’d spent a little too much time watching Auston’s highlights, dreaming of what it would be like to play with him if he got the chance. It had sparked something in him that he hadn’t felt before, and then he met Auston, all shy smiles and quiet cockiness, and—. If Mitch is being honest about it, he’d had a crush on Auston’s hockey before he ever even met him, meeting him just pushed it past the point of no return, and Mitch is pretty sure that sums up how completely fucked he is.

Fics like catching you across the room

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