OPEN YOUR EYES (BLIND I) - MUSIQ SERIES PART 2

98. BIRTHDAY

After shopping and lunch, they all decided to go to an ice skating rink and spend the afternoon there so, using the cars they had brought, they split up and headed there. Almost all of them had already skated before, so they were excited to do it, but Heejin had never even worn skates, so she was afraid of making a fool of herself, especially when for that part they would be followed by the filming crew from the program as well as their seniors in order to have more light-hearted content for the final show.

"It's okay if you fall. What's the worst that could happen? That millions of people see it and make memes about it?" Joontae teased her as they put on their skates.

"You really want to die, don't you?" Heejin flinched on him. "Be thankful there are cameras around, or I wouldn't go so easy on you."

"See, everyone? She bullies me!" he joked to one of the cameras and laughed to make sure everyone knew they were just acting playful. "Ruby Jang is my bully!"

"You are just a pain in the ass sometimes," Duyi told him. "If she doesn't know how to skate you should be encouraging her and telling her you will help her, not bring her down."

"Nah, that's too boring." Joontae stood up. "I'll start warming up to the ice. See you!"

After they all had their skates on they quickly went on the ice to get used to it, but Heejin did not even dare to step a foot inside, afraid that she would fall and break something.

"Come on, join us!" A.Jin told her as she skated past her.

"Yes, yes. I'm coming," she said, although she clearly was not meaning it.

Axel was seeing everything from afar, but he knew that approaching her before she even stepped a foot inside would just make her more nervous, so he was chatting with the others while waiting to start helping her.

"Does anyone know how to do figure skating?" Leah asked them from outside the rink.

"I do!" Eunae answered excitedly and sprinted to the left side of the rink. "Everyone, make way!"

As soon as she said that, the others moved aside to give her some space and she then proceeded to skate away, making a few spins and ending on a quad toe loop.

"How am I supposed to go on the ice now?" Heejin muttered to herself as the rest applauded Eunae. 

"Where did you learn how to do that?" Iku asked Eunae. "That was really good!"

"My brother and I really liked skating and one of my friends tried to teach us how to do a few tricks. Nothing much, though," she explained.

"Wait, so Axel knows how to do it too?" Kiwoo asked, and she nodded. "Then he should show us something too."

"Guys, I haven't skated in a while..." he tried to wave them off, but they kept insisting.

Eventually, he had no option but to at least try, to he went to where his sister had been just minutes before and tried out a couple of tricks, ending surprisingly on a double axel that had everyone's mouths agape.

"I'm not doing this! I quit!" Heejin said moving away from the door, making the rest burst out laughing.

"Come here!" Axel smiled and approached her. "Hey! You won't know if you are good or bad at it if you don't try. Maybe you are a natural."

"Yeah, at a natural at breaking every single bone in my body," she said back. "When you all said you had been skating before I thought you casually went to rinks like this with friends to play around, not that you even knew how to figure skate!"

"Why don't we do this? You come to the ice rink with us, and I help you get used to the ice and hopefully get you to skate on your own even just for a few minutes. What do you think?" He tried bargaining. "If you feel like it's too much, we'll just come back here and rest, okay?"