*.Treading on ice*.

The rink

Ethan's POV:
I'm tying up my skates, ready for the figure skaters to get off the rink. As soon as they're off, I rush on, the only hokey player on the rink since I'm early.

On arrival to the rink, there is a boy and a girl, around my age still on the ice. They do tricks and spins and are completely in sync as he lifts her over his head, still moving.

The brunette girls hair sways with the movement in the air: gracefully and almost inhumanly. I can see the reflection of the ice in her hazel eyes as they stop in front of a 30-40 year old woman. Presumably their coach.

"Amara, come on! You need to be at the end of the rink when the music stops!" Yells the old woman.
"Sorry." Amara mumbles and rollers her eyes making sure her coach doesn't see. We were in between time slots from the figure skaters and the hockey players. I think.

"If you don't get your act together, I'm replacing you with Ellie. So don't test me because you know I will. Got it?" The woman says sternly. "Got it" the gorgeous girl mutters. "Pardon?!" The older lady retaliated. "I got it!" Amara says with a fake, witty smile.

Her and her partner try again and glide through the ice but this time quicker and sloppier. Don't get me wrong it was still amazing but it was way better the first time.

This is what he sees:

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGJWjMEr9/

Suddenly as she is being lifted by her partner he accidentally slips causing her to fall from pretty high. I quickly skate over. She's pushing herself up as you would whilst doing a push up and onto her knees and onto her feet. I arrive and say "Are you both okay?" with a slight bit of concern. After a slight moment. "What do you think" she says deadpanned and sarcastically. I look at her with a 'are you serious' look.

"I got up didn't I?" I can tell she was fed up by the tone of her voice but that doesn't mean she has to be rude. "Well you know if you weren't on the ice rover your time slot you wouldn't have fallen" I say matching her attitude. "Look I don't know if you can read time but it's the passing period where anyone's allowed on." She says white a tone as if I were a child. "No shit" I snap "it's fine" she says with a sickly sweet, sincere smile. "Some people just can't read time" she now says with a mocking tone realising she wasn't being sincere at all and was just a good actress. My face gets even angrier.

"But seriously don't worry about it we're leaving early anyway, hockey dude" she parts my shoulder as she skates away. Her partner glares at me as he follows after her.

Amara's POV:

Well..he was hot. But so damn stupid.

Ethan's POV:

It's after team practice and coach yells for me to come have a word with him. "Yes coach?" I ask politely. "So here's the deal: the coach for the figure skaters has a student that needs help with speed and strength. You're my fastest and strongest player so you are doing it, thanks" he pats me on the back and walks off. "Wait! I don't wanna do that!"I yell "you'll live" he ends the conversation with. Ughhhhhhh!

577 words.