Hockey Imagines 2 [On Hold]

Nikita Soshnikov ~ TML (12/11)

Ice skating date... (865 words)

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"Nikita, I am telling you, I don't want to skate." I huffed, crossing my arms across my chest and stared at him in an angry manner. "I am horrible at ice skating!"

"But, you never tried ice skating, no?" Nikita looked at me like a lost puppy, tying up the skate laces before adjusting his beanie securely on his head.

"I've tried it once," I struggled to get my winter jacket on before continuing the statement, "and I broke my arm whilst trying to attempt to stop."

"I can be your skating teacher." Nikita chuckled in a low tone, shaking his head in amusement as he wrapped his scarf around his neck. "I promise, I won't let you fall down and embarrass yourself."

"Can I trust you, Nikita?" A sigh left my mouth, debating whether I should give the hobby another shot. "I just didn't have a great experience from the last time I went..."

"I'll be there to catch you, Y/N," he walked up to the door frame, leaning his body against the wood door. He brought his hand up to my cheek and gently caressed it before pressing his lips on the same cheek. "I'm not going to be some jerk who's going to leave you, sweetheart..."

"Thank you for the assurance, Nik," I smiled up at him, pressing my lips against his, kissing him in a passionate way. We just stood there for five minutes before pulling away. "Now come on, we don't want to get there before it closes for the night."

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"Just hold my hand, Y/N." He held his hand out for me to grab a hold of. Grabbing his hand in mine, I gripped it tightly as I slowly strode across the ice rink; not letting go of him. "Remember what I told you," his Russian accent was a bit thick as he was enunciating the following words, "I won't let go of you and I will be here to catch you."

"I know, Nikita," I rolled my eyes at him before he let his hand slip out of my grip and he went ahead to skate on his own. "Oi! You're going to leave me all alone?"

"I trust you, Y/N." Nikita gave a thumbs up before he continued to skate away. It came to him naturally as a part of his job is to be out on the ice and skate around for 60 or so minutes a few nights a week for 7 months or more. "You can do this!"

"I swear, if I break a bone or something," I had a hold of the boards and tried to skate without letting go. "I will literally have you sleep on the couch." My legs were wobbling due to the nerves and the fact that I might fall down again.

"Y/N," Nikita yelled across the rink, "if you attempt to skate all by yourself without my help whatsoever. I will take you out to get some coffee or hot chocolate or whatever you prefer after this."

"Oh, you are so on, Soshnikov," I grinned in an evil way to myself, letting go of the boards before I started to skate across the rink in a confident manner. I managed to successfully complete a few tricks here and there, leaving Nikita in a shocked mood.

"I-I thought you said you weren't good at ice skating?" Nikita was flabbergasted as soon as I stopped to speak with him about my recent accomplishment.

"Oh yeah, about that," I giggled, scratching the back of my neck to avoid awkward silence, "I actually know how to skate. I just broke my arm when my friend 'accidentally' collided with me."

"Oh, you are such a little-" Nikita playfully scowled at me before he felt something fall on him. Looking up at the sky, he started to realize it was currently starting to snow.

"Well, we don't want to ruin this romantic mood, do we, Mr. Soshnikov?" I smiled from ear-to-ear, bringing my arms up and around his neck, pulling his body down to my height.

"We most certainly do not, Ms. L/N," he let out a chuckle before kissing me in the same passionate way he had before, but he was much more gentle with this kiss.

"I love you so much, Y/N." His blue eyes looked deeply into my E/C eyes and I looked back at him.

"And I love you so much, Nikita." I pressed my lips against his once more as the snowflakes continued to make the current moment more romantic.

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I'm sure some of you guys may or may not have read the 'mysterious' message that I had posted earlier on my message wall and I would like to explain what that meant! So, for the next '15' (well now 14) days, I will have a little countdown to Christmas as I will post ONE imagine nightly leading up to Christmas. I will reveal the player of which the next countdown imagine is down somewhere... Hope you guys enjoyed this imagine! Have a GREAT rest of your day or night and I'll see you tomorrow!

- Priya 😀

...If you have read down this far, tomorrow will be an imagine with Brendan Leipsic! 😋