Chapter 10The train ride to Lugano for Nationals is hellishly complex, for all it’s only three and a half hours, and Danny is deeply grateful he has no homework to lug through the connections this year. He and his rinkmates arrive at the competition hotel rumpled and irritated, a prickling under Danny’s skin that only leaches away under hot water and the notion that he’s going to spend the entire evening with Noah.
Back in Bern, he’d packed his best button-down shirt and slacks, all the while telling himself that he wouldn’t wear them, that it was just Noah. Giving in to the inevitable in Lugano, he slips into them, fluffing his hair up with the blow-dryer he’d packed in his suitcase, cursing himself for a fool.
Noah meets him in the hotel lobby. Danny notes with no small amount of glee
