Beneath the Surface

Chapter 16 - Skating

"Wake up, wake up!" I hear and slowly open my eyes. I groan. 

"Not yet mom!" 

"No, it's not mom but you have to wake up sunshine.", 

"G?" 

"Yes, I need you to wake up, your dad told me to because he's taking your mom to the supermarket for groceries right now and I have to get out before they come back." 

"Shit G, you dressed alreay?" 

"Yes, just come home with me k? Dad is covering saying you are hanging out at a friends house today and going ice-skating with her." 

"I love you you're amazing!". I smile and hop out of bed walking to the bathroom and turning on the shower. 

"No time to shower!" I hear out of the bedroom 

"But I-" 

"You can shower at my place just grab yourself some sporty clothes and get here." 

"OK, ok Jeez, calm down!" 

We get to her place and shower quickly before leaving to the rink. 

"I'm so excited to skate I love it! You know it was always my dream to become a professional figure skater when I was younger. The winter olympics was the only thing I was allowed to watch." 

"Wow, then why don't you start skating?" 

"Because I've never ever been on ice before." 

"Anyways, happy that the exams start tomorrow so you have a day of." 

"I know! And spending it with you is the best ever!!" 

We arrive at the rink and put on our rental skates. 

"Ouch, these kinda hurt" 

"Yes, I know, especially if it's your first time wearing them but trust me it will get way better once you're on the ice." 

"Yes, but what if someone from school sees us together?" 

"Then I'll just tell them I'm your comfort teacher ,(yes irl my school has these), and that you wanted to thank me for what I've done for you." 

"Or you tell them you wanted to make sure I was doing alright even outside of school or that I was home alone and feeling down and you didn't want me to do anyhting hurtfull to myself wich, now I talk about, I've been clean for 2 months" 

"Oh my god, I'm so proud of you!" 

"Thanks!"

We wander to the side of the rink and she slowly steps on the ice before me. Her legs are wobbly but she reaches for my hand to get me on the ice. I take it and we slowly wobble forward whilst she's explaining the basics to me. 

30 minutes in and neither of us have fallen on the ice yet, 

YET. 

I hold her hand and we are starting to feel more stable on the ice. 

"Can we go a little faster?", I ask, 

"Yeah, sure". That being said she moves faster and is ddragging me behind her as I try to cath up. 

"Hold on, I can't go this fast." 

"Sure you can! Just don't be scared if you fall it's not that bad!" 

"Ok, I'll try.". I trust her and go faster cathcing up to her easily. 

"Thanks, I'm really feeling it now. Wanna race?" 

"Sure, it's a little crowded though." 

"Yeah, but it's all children and it's 4pm so they won't stay too long I think.". 

Making this wild guess purely because I am hoping they'll leave soon. 

"We'll have to get of, they are gonna repolish the ice or whatever it's called." 

"I call it the icemonster car wetting the ice." 

"Great, and you want to become a figure skater?" 

"Yeah, if I would skate here I'll glue big googly eyes onto it." She has a big smile nd we wander of the rink onto the side to look at the big machine doing it's business. 

After about 10 minutes a bunch of people have left and the ice is ready. The doors open and we are the first to skate onto it. 

"It slides so well now" 

"Yes, I love it now let's race.".

At first I was sceptical and a little scared of the slippery fresh ice but it was way more fun to skate onto fresh ice then the ice full of holes and scratches. 

"3! 2! 1! GO!". We leave and I am going very fast arriving first at the other side and crash into the bords with the skates as I still haven't figured out a proper way to stop. 

"Watch out there ok, didn't you hurt yourself?!", G has arrived 2 seconds after me. 

"No, I'm fine mostly because..I WON!" I was carefully doing a little dance. 

"Woohoo, I won, I won!" I sing. 

"It's very empty now don't you think?" 

"Yeah! That means we can skate very fast now!" 

"I know!! And the ice will last longer." 

"Let's gooo!" 

I continue skating and she tries to get to me but I am going too fast. 

"Slow down a little!"

 I try to stop and wait for her thinking she was far behind but I fall instead and she crashes onto me. 

"Gosh, I didn't know you were so close to me"

 "Sorry, did I hurt you with my skates?", she asks worried. 

"Naaah, I'm fine. You?". She doesn't answer. Instead I see her laughing and blushing. 

"What?" I ask. 

"It's just funny how I always manage to fall far you.". I am 100% sure I am blushing and I smile whilst butterflies form in my stumach. 

"Come on, let's get up.", I say and she reaches for my hand once she is standing again. As I pull onto it to get back up she loses her balance and falls forward onto me, her messy brown hair lying on my chest. 

"Or you ok?!" 

"Yes sure, lucky I fell inbetween your skates or it could've ended worse.". Her beautifull smile appears again and her head is still on my shoulder. 

"Let's try again, I promise to not pull you down this time.". She looks around for a split second and kisses me quickly on my lips before standing up. I turn myself around on my belly so I can push myself up on my knees and slowly get up and back to skating. The clock on the side of the rink shows it's now 5 o'clock wich means time for us to get of and back home. Dad's in his car waiting for me and I say goodbye to G before getting in and driving back home. 

"How was it?" 

"Soo much fun! We fell only once and she fell on top of me because I didn't realise she was right behind me and-"

I told him all about it and he smiled the whole way home. 

"I hope you enjoyed it but I can't cover for you untill you are 18 and when I cover the same rules will keep on applying, OK?"

"Yes dad". 

We arrived back home and I told mom the same story the only diffirence being the name of the person I went skating with. They were both happy for me, both for a diffirent reason but kind of still the same reason. They saw me happy, but dad was happy for me and G and yes he has told me that it wasn't allowed and he only did this because he wanted to see me happy instead of shattered. Mom was happy because she was happy I had good friends, wich I allow her to be happy for though except for Joseph I don't really have any good friends. I spared them any other details and went to my room to revise for my exam tomorrow. I hadn't done all that much today but I had completely repeated and revied it all.