My Best Friend, The Bad Boy

23 | Ice Skating Adventures & Hot Cocoa

Kaillie's POV (not edited)

For a couple weeks, it was like Carter and I were just sailing to our new horizon, not knowing where it was going to take us, just going with the flow. There was no awkward situations or no talks of becoming more than friends. It was calm, like we were slowly sailing back to how we were before; comfortable with each other, back to our definition of normal by our standards. It doesn't mean that he wasn't on my mind constantly, just that there wasn't anything big that happened to make my mind whirl in a million and one confusing and complicated directions. The calm waters are nice to be in, they don't conflict you, but instead they relax you.

As it's early December now, the snow has started to paint a cold shade of white upon the canvas of trees and ground around town. Carter and I were just walking around, after we had deemed it too cold to just sit on the bench, like we usually would in warmer in weather. We would just get colder the longer we sat there. It kind of made me want hot cocoa, but that would involve going back to one of our houses, and we've decided to go out.

You know, many people around the world seem to have this conception that all Canadians can skate well, as though we were born on ice. Well, I hate to tell you but it's not true, whether you ant it to be or not. It's as simple as not everyone is into doing that, or is raised with it. As Carter and I walked around, bored, an idea had crossed his mind, you see.

"Hey, do you want to go skating?" he had asked me. After I shot him a weird look, I had reminded him that I do not indeed know how to skate. He said he'd teach me. Our local rink was open for public skating, and that is why I am sitting in Carter's car right now as we drive over for me to learn how to skate. Basically, I'm probably going to fall on my ass a lot, but hey, it's all for learning and fun, right?

As we pull in to the parking lot, I tell Carter, "You're going to owe me hot chocolate or something for the fact I'm going to fall on my ass at least once." The cold weather outside, and the cold air that'll be inside keeping the rink frozen makes me want hot chocolate even more than I did when we were just walking out and about.

"That can probably be arranged," he says with a smile, "And I'll be there to catch you!"

"Mhmm," I murmur, knowing he'll probably want to skate fast around the rink at least one.

"I will!" he defends himself, with this cute little smile on his face. I really need to not think like this right now, I'm trying to do an activity with him, I can't be staring at his lips and remembering that kiss. It's almost like I need to shake myself or something, so it stops crossing my mind while I'm trying to do things that are not remembering it.

For the reason that my thoughts are being a little distracting, I spaced out a bit as we parked, trying to focus my brain on the events happening around me instead of the one happening in it. Fortunately for me, he takes that as being nervous about skating and not anything else. Or at least I hope.

He turns to me after he stops the car, giving me an enthusiastic smile. "Ready?" he asks me excitedly. Growing up, he skated a lot more than me, obviously, and has a love for it. The fact I agreed is probably making one of his dreams come true. I've never agreed to him teaching me before, always saying that I would go with me family or get legitimate lessons, neither or which really happened. I'd say oops but I don't know how sorry I actually am. It's never been a huge interest of mine, but now I also unfortunately know I'm going to fall a lot in front of Carter now, which makes me feel like maybe I should have tried a little harder to skate more before today. Oh well?

"I guess we'll see how this goes," I say with a laugh as I get out of the car. He follows suit, getting out of the car as well, and grabbing the skates from the seat behind him. When we went to Carter's house to grab everything, his mom was about to leave to go off to work, and she smiled when Carter said he was going to teach me how to skate. Apparently he's talked about the fact I need to learn before? I can't decide whether that's a good thing or not.