The Mistake

A lost hockey player stumbles into a babbling freshman's room

Logan is a junior defenseman at Briar University, secretly tormented by feelings for Hannah, his best friend Garrett's girlfriend.

A lost hockey player stumbles into a babbling freshman's room

Logan is a junior defenseman at Briar University, secretly tormented by feelings for Hannah, his best friend Garrett's girlfriend. Tucker, his roommate, has already called him out for compulsive partying and hooking up as distractions. One Friday night, Logan tries to find a teammate's party but knocks on the wrong dorm room and meets Grace, a nervous freshman who babbles about serial killers and watches Die Hard movies alone. She lets him use her phone to call a cab, but the line stays on hold. Instead of leaving, he stays. They share gummy bears and action movies, two strangers who shouldn't fit but do—the hockey player hiding his despair behind charm, and the good girl who loses her verbal filter around anyone attractive. By the time credits roll, neither wants the night to end.

Grace fakes her orgasm and Logan bolts into the night

When Logan kisses Grace, a chain reaction begins—hands beneath waistbands, breath quickening, the room shrinking to the space between their bodies. He finishes first, then asks if she did too. She lies, too embarrassed to admit the truth, offering a noncommittal confirmation that Logan sees right through. He bolts almost immediately, spooked by how far things went while he's still tangled up over Hannah. Grace is left bewildered by his hasty exit. For Logan, the aftermath is worse: he's nearly certain she faked it, and the realization gnaws at him all weekend. His reputation as a generous lover is cracking, and no amount of distraction can quiet the nagging conviction that he left a girl wanting.

He shows up at her door to deliver the orgasm he owes

Monday morning at eight-thirty, Logan appears at Grace's door while she's in nothing but a bathrobe. He asks point-blank whether she finished. She confesses she didn't. He tells her he's spent the whole weekend obsessing over it, and he wants to fix the situation right now—twenty minutes before his study group. She agrees. He goes down on her on the edge of her bed, cataloguing every response until he finds what works: slow and soft. She comes, for real, and the stunned gratitude in her eyes nearly undoes him. He gets her number. Days later, they run into each other at the movies on her nineteenth birthday. In a storage closet during the film, they grind against each other fully clothed until both of them climax against the cleaning supplies.