The article went viral in the way bad decisions go viral — fast, messy, and impossible to take back.
By 6 p.m. it had 100K views. By 8 p.m., 500K. By midnight, it was the top story on Metro Sports, reposted by ESPN, Barstool, and the official NHL page with the caption: She's wearing two jerseys and we're not mad about it.
My phone died from notifications. I plugged it in and left it face-down in the kitchen. Cole's phone did the same. He turned his off.
"Do you know what you did?" he asked, pacing his living room in my Columbia tee and sweats, barefoot. He was not angry. He was... buzzing. Like before a fight.
"I wrote the truth," I said, curled on his couch, knees to my chest, wearing his hoodie because I was cold and because I wanted to.
"You wrote that I make terrible tacos with to
