Vas and Val

Chapter 5

Vasilisa's Pov:

I see this really cute boy walking towards me smiling. He looked to be British, and taller than me. Taller than Vas. His smile was really nice. He is pretty far away so I am caught starting at him.

I can't help but think about yesterday with Valery though. I don't think I could ever forget that. 

He walks up to me and stops in front of me. I smile at him. "Hi, I'm Nick." He is a little British.

I smile at him. "I'm Vasilisa." 

"Its nice to meet you Vasilisa. What are you doing here at the rink?"

"Oh, I just had figure skating practice. We have a competition coming up really soon." I get all excited for the competition and you can see my smile beaming at him. 

"That does sound exciting! What do you compete in?"

"I compete with a partner in free skating and rhythm dance. Other categories too but those are the main two." I say brightly. I can see his smile fade just a bit. Did I say something wrong? He seems really nice.

"Oh, your partner, are you guys a couple, like dating?" I can see hes a little nervous so I just smile at him.

"No, we just skate and compete together." His facial expression immediately relaxes and I take a breath too. 

"I don't mean to be all stalker-ish but I see you come by the coffee shop all the time and I think you are really pretty. Can I get your number. I get if you don't want-"

I cut him off, "Sure!" 

He smiles brightly. I get my phone out of my pocket and hand it to him. He types in his number and I text him my name to make sure he got it, which he did.

"You know what, why don't you come join me for dinner. I'm kind of hungry and you seem really nice!" I say to him. He looks a little flustered, like hes trying to understand what I just said. Then his face lights up. 

"Yeah that would be-" He gets cut off by the door of the rink opening. I turn my head to see Valery stepping out of the rink. His eyes fixed on Nick. His eyes look mad. 

I turn so I am facing in both their general directions. "Nick this is my skating partner Valery and Val this is Nick." I try to say that as calmly as possible.

"What is he doing here Vas." Valery turns towards me and takes a step closer not breaking eye contact with a scared looking Nick. 

"Oh, we were just about to go get dinner together. Don't worry about is Val." I look at him and smile then turns to me looking a little more calm. 

"No you aren't, you are coming with me." I turn to Vas and look at him with a stern face. 

"Who said that." I spat at him. He better not ruin this for me.

"I did, lets go." He steps towards me and grabs my hand. I yank my hand out of his and step towards Nick and I take his hand. 

"We are going to dinner and you are not stopping us." I start to walk away with Nick but then I feel a pair of strong arms pull my waist and hoist me over there shoulder. This is becoming a habit I don't like at all.  

"Hey! Valery put me down!" I scream at him. He doesn't put me down but he turns to Nick. 

"If you so far as go 6 feet to her, I will make your life a living hell okay?"

I feel bad for Nick. He was being so nice but Valery just had to come ruin what could have been a nice date. As Valery starts to turn back around I glance at Nick's phone signalling him to text me later and he got the memo. I smile to myself and stop fighting Valery.

He carries me all the way to his car and puts me down in the passenger seat and goes to the drivers side. I am pissed at him right now.

"Why the fuck would you do that Valery! He wasn't doing anything!" He turns to me. I could see a look of hurt flash through his eyes but that quickly disappeared.  It turned into a look of anger.

"I didn't want you to have any distractions before the competition. We need to focus on winning." I look at him and just roll my eyes as he starts driving off towards my apartment. 

"He was harmless. If you didn't want me to have any distractions then why did you kiss me yesterday!" That seemed to have shut him up. 

"That was all a big mistake, none of it should have ever happened.' He looks at me with no emotion whatsoever. I scoff out loud.

"You were the one that pinned me up against the wall to make sure my ankle was okay. That's not such a good idea!" I start to raise my voice the slightest bit. 

"I couldn't help myself Vasilisa. You needed to be shut up because you were being so dramatic. All you could think about were your mistakes so I gave you something else to think about instead so you could do better." I can't believe him right now. 

"So you don't care about how that made me feel? That was very selfish of you to think that you could just kiss me like you have been waiting your whole life then go back to being an asshole. All you care about is yourself and your career!" I yell at him. I feel kind of bad saying all this and I don't mean it all. I can see his eyes through the mirror. 

"I have always cared for you. You're just too full of yourself to even recognize it." His voice stayed surprisingly calm when he said that. 

"Oh, really! So you cared when I was crying in the bathroom? You cared that I was starving myself because coach told me I wan't fit enough and that doing that took a huge toll on myself! You care that my parents are yelling at me constantly to be their perfect child. I don't think you do." He pulls up to my house. I open the door. 

"Leave me alone Valery. Unless you start to actually care." 

With that I just storm into my house and go to my room and sleep. The next couple weeks are going to be interesting.