As Lily arrives back from her break, she passes the viewing window and something catches her eye. Lily walks over to the viewing window to find her coach up on the beam. "Coach WOW"Lily mutters as her coach jumps into a straddle jumps down, cartwheels across then jumps backward landing her back tuck. Lily quickly runs back to the mats to confront her coach. " COACH COACH WOW I DIDNT KNOW YOU WERE A GYMNAST"Lily screams as she runs into the gym" what I'm not or I wasn't" she says back trying to deny it. "Your lying " Lily yells" fine I might have done a little tumbling back then but I got cut after the first day of the olympics" her coach says teary eyed" mhmmm" Lily says very interested" now get back up on that beam you have lots of work to get done" her coach yells" yes mam"She says back and climbs back on the beam." 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-1 start up now"her coach yells, Lily jumps up into a straddle lands onto the beam, front tucks forward, then backwalk overs to the other half of the beam and smiles. "Great now that you are warmed up time for the bars"her coach says Lily nods her head and runs over soon the bars. Lily starts to stretch out her arms with some arm circles,then does a hand stand against the wall to stretch out her muscles. After a few minutes her coach comes over and yells"get on the bar time doesn't stop running. "' yes mam''She yells with a nod.
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Olympian At Heart
Non-FictionAbout a girl named Lily.Lily is living a double life, one as a gymnastics Olympian, the next as a scared little girl on chemo therapy battling Leukemia.
