Nico and the Gotham Ghost

The Art of the Cartwheel

Thanks for being patient. I'm sorry about the late update but I was away at camp with no internet and now I'm at my trailer with limited internet access so it will be a while until my next update. Sorry. Please like and comment. :)
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"Wake up, wake up!" Nico heard as something jumped on top of him. Slowly he started to open his eyes as he woke up.

"Come on...Katie, get off of me." he moaned as he stretched his arms.

"K, but you have to get up." she firmly told him as she jumped off the bed.

"Fine, fine I'm getting up." he said as he turned his head to look at the clock beside the pull-out couch, in the Grayson's trailer that he had slept on. "Oh come on Katie!" he exclaimed as he finally got a good look of the clock. "It's six in the morning!"

"Yep and we start practice at seven so hurry up! Everybody else is already eating breakfast." Katie said as she rushed to the kitchen part of the trailer.

"Little sisters." Nico mumbled as he started to get dressed in a black tee-shirt and jeans that the Grayson's had managed to find him from around the circus. As he was getting changed he started to wonder. Had he ever been that annoying? If so he felt a little bad for his sister Bianca. So he quickly pulled on the tee-shirt and sprinted to the dining area of the trailer where the rest of the Grayson family was.

"Hello Nico how was your sleep?" Mary asked him after he had sat down.

"It was great actually." he told her as he helped himself to some rice crispies. "The couch definitely beats my month long rock bed."

"Why would you sleep on rocks?" Dick asked him.

"There wasn't any where else to sleep." Nico replied.

"That would suck!" Dick declared as he was very fond of his little bunk bed in the back of the trailer.

"Yes, it does kind of suck." Nico agreed.

"Are you going to practice with us today?" Katie suddenly asked from her place beside Nico.

"I don't think that I can Katie. I don't know how to do what you do." Nico told her.

"Aww man!" Katie huffed as she crossed her little arms. "What about a cartwheel? Could you do a cartwheel with me?"

"Umm..I don't actually know how to do one." Nico mumbled as his face turned a bright red that only showed up more on his pale face.

"That's fine Nico." John said as he began to wash everyone's dishes. "I'm sure Dick and Katie would love to teach you the art of the cartwheel."

"Yes! This is going to be so much fun!" Katie exclaimed.

"Ya, we'll have you up and cartwheeling in no time Nico." Dick told him as the two of them hurried to finish their breakfasts so they could drag Nico off to the arena where they would be practicing.

Half an hour later Nico was standing in the middle of the main circus ring still trying to figure out how his little sister got him there in the first place.

"So you've really never done a cartwheel?" Katie asked him looking a little skeptical.

"I swear I have never done a cartwheel." Nico told both of the disbelieving Grayson kids.

"Wow! That's just crazy!" Exclaimed Dick as Nico silently chuckled. "We better start practicing then!"

An hour later his cartwheel lessons thankfully ended when John and Mary called the kids over to practice. Nico had officially fallen so many times that he was pretty sure he was going to be more black and blue the next day then white. Thankfully though he was able to pull off a few satisfactory cartwheels to appease the duo.