Vas and Val

Chapter 1

Vasilisas Pov:

A long time ago my figure skating partner move away. He was my best friend in the entire world but he had to move to America because of his parent's work. I was devastated because that meant we couldn't skate together anymore.
After he moved my parents insisted on me finding a new partner. I agreed after a while and they only had one other option. Valery. He was the biggest jerk on the planet. There is just something about him that makes me want to punch him. He always makes fun of my skating. I have enough pressure on me as is with this competition coming up.

I head to the rink. All I can think about is how early it is 7:00 am is not for me. I like to sleep but since we have a competition I have to go in today. I have to deal with all of Valery's nonsense today and I don't have the patience for this.

As soon as I step out of the car I regret my clothes. I'm freezing. I don't even have gloves on. You would think that since I'm always in the rink I wouldn't get cold. Wrong. Nothing could prepare me for the cold in the wintertime. I just run to the doors and slam them shut to get warm. "Cold princess?"
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention. He calls me princess to mess with me. I hate it. I don't need some prince to come to save me.

"N-no," I say chattering my teeth. He just rolls his eyes. I turn back to the fire and warm my hands for a quick second. Valery comes to sit next to me.

"Al isn't in a good mood today. We will have to practice till it's perfect. She's all stressed because of the competition."

"Aren't we all?" I say looking into his eyes. They turn to me.

"Then you best not mess it up" He grins and gets up to walk to the locker rooms. Great. Here we go.

"Warm up now!" Al practically screams at us. I grab my stretch cylinder and start rolling out my calves. I hit a spot and my breath hitches. It hurts so bad. We did so much ballet training yesterday. I don't know how I'm still walking.

After I'm done stretching we start our partner work. We practice our footwork in front of this big mirror. I step on Val's foot. "Watch it." he looks at me and rolls his eyes.

"Shut up Val" I hiss at him. He looks at me with a shocked face. I roll my eyes. I could punch him.

We do this crazy life where I have to stand on Val's leg and he holds my knee and I just glide. We haven't don't it on the ice just yet.

"Vasilisa pay attention"

"Yes. Sorry." I quickly mutter and get back to the choreography. We get to the lift and I slip off of Val's leg. He quickly catches me by the waist and puts me down.

"Vasilisa!" I look at the coach with worried eyes. the coach who just shakes her head in disapproval.

"Just do better princess" I look up almost crying. We have tried this so many times and I still haven't got it. I'm starting to lose confidence in myself as I go again and slip into the same spot. It's the same routine over and over.

"Vasilisa. You should know these steps by now we have a competition in 2 weeks! I'm disappointed." I didn't say anything. I just looked at the coach with watery eyes and then at Val who just had a smirk on his face. I can't believe he was laughing at me right now. I throw him a look and run off to the bathroom.

Immediately after I run into the bathroom I start crying. I sit on the floor and just hug my legs and bury my head in them. I felt so ashamed of myself. Why can't I do anything right!!

I don't know how long I was crying when I heard the door open. I don't look up I just sit there. I don't care who it is. 

"Hey princess are you okay?" 

I looked up. He looked worried. Like seriously worried. 

"Why do you care." I just spat at him. He could obviously tell I was crying. His face softened just the slightest like he almost actually cared. 

"Well you are my partner and we can't work on lifts if the person that is being lifted isn't there" He said it in his usual tone. Who was I to think that he might actually care.

"Right. Do you know exactly what I am doing wrong or am I just being yelled at for no reason!?" I looked up at him with desperate eyes event though I was pissed and angry. As much as I don't like him he is good at skating so I could use some help. 

He grinned offering me his hand. I took it reluctantly. Why is he being so nice right now. "Your turning your foot to the wrong way and you need to let me hold your leg higher than just above your knee." I was very surprised as he was being actually calming. I have stopped crying. "Let me show you." 

He lifted me up with no effort at all onto his leg. He used one hand to hold me there and the other to move my foot the other way so I wouldn't slip. "Is this better princess?"

"Yes very much. Thank you." I couldn't believe that I was actually doing it. I then felt his hand move further up my leg holding onto my upper thigh. It felt more sturdy but I didn't like his hand there. 

I slip off his leg and almost fall on the ground. He catches me by my waist once again and holds me there for a second. He then smirks and lets me go. "Nervous?" 

I scoff. "In your dreams Val." I walk past him to the door and walk out. "Lets go."