A Christmas Love Story (Ricky Garcia)

Chapter 10 - Ice Skating

Zoe's P.O.V.

It was a beautiful day and I were sitting in my bay window and talked with mom about life. I told her that I miss her loads but that life here isn't so bad after all. I told her about all my new friends and about that I'm happy that I got to live with Uncle Joby. In that moment my phone went off, I picked it up and the screen showed a picture of Ricky. I smiled and pressed the answer button.

"Hii Ricky!" I said.

"Hey Zoe, what's up?" He said.

"Nothing much, just chillin at home. What about you?" I said.

"Same, but I was wondering if you wanted to hang out and go somewhere with me?" He said.

"Oh I'd love too!" I said.

"Great! I'll be at your house in 20 minutes. I'll see you soon" He said.

"Okay, see you soon!" I said.

We hung up and I walked downstairs and told uncle Joby that I was going out with Ricky. I then put on my shoes and put my crossbody bag around me. As I were done, I said bye to Joby and walked outside to wait for Ricky. While waiting I decided to scroll through instagram for a bit.

"Zoe!" I heard a voice say.

I looked up and saw Ricky coming down the street. I put away my phone in my pocket before running up to him and giving him a big hug.

"Hiii" I said and smiled widely.

"Hello there" He said and smirked.

We decided to go into the centre of LA so we catched a bus. As we where walking down the streets of LA, I felt christmassy for the first time this year. We came to a big square and I spotted an ice skating rink.

"Look! Let's ice skate!" I said excitedly.

"Okay, as you wish M'Lady" Ricky said in a posh accent.

I giggled and followed him as he grabbed my hand and started running towards the skating rink. We rented some skates and put them on before walking out on the ice together.

"It was ages ago since I last did this, I was like 13 and now I'm like Bambi on the ice" I said and held tightly onto Ricky's hands while shakingly standing there.

"Well you're a cute little Bambi so it's all good. I'll show you how to do it, come on" Ricky said and let go of one of my hands.

He started to skate and as I held tightly onto one of his hands I followed.

He skated around with me and I took some steps as well after a while. After about 10 minutes I had really got into it but I didn't wanted to let go of Ricky's hand so I kept on holding it while we skated together. I laughed and had such a good time. We played around and danced around in a circle. We became like little kids who chased eachother and at one point I even held onto Ricky's back while he skated with me gliding after behind him.

"Let's try a lift!" He said all of a sudden.

"What? Are you serious? You know I could die" I said.

"Come on, you trust me right?" He said.

"Yeah of course I do..." I said and bit my lip.

"Then let's do it" He said.

I nodded and skated away a bit from him to get some speed. I turned around and he was standing with his arms out, ready to lift me up. I smiled and started to skate towards him. I felt him putting his hands on my hips and lifting me up. I stretched up my arms in the air.

"Woohooo! We did it! We actually did it!" I said and smiled widely.

Ricky then puts me back down again but as my skates touched the ice, he continues to have his arms around my waist. I look up at the tall boy infront of me and meet his eyes. I stared deeply into them and got lost in those beautiful green eyes. I felt myself getting all warm inside and small butterflies flew around in my tummy. I looked at his lips, they looked so kissable. Oh my god, I'm actually falling for him. We stood like that for over a minute until Ricky broke the silence.

"Uhm do you want to ice skate some more or do you wanna grab a hot chocolate somewhere?" He said as he pulled away his hands from my waist.

"Hot Chocolate sounds amazing!" I said and smiled.

"Then let's go!" He said as he grabbed my hand.

We went off the ice skating rink and switched back to our shoes and returned the ice skates. We then walked over to this cute little café beside the rink and ended up sitting there for a really long time, sipping on hot chocolate and talk about everything. After that he walked me back home and that night I sat in my bed and talked with my mom again. I told her about my day with Ricky and that I think I love him.

A/N

Hello from me who's now back home in Sweden 🇸🇪 I'm at mom's house right now and I've missed her so much so it was so nice to see her again ❤ Hope you all liked the chapter! I have had a minor writing block on this story actually but don't worry. Today at the plane, the best idea hit me while I was watching a movie. I think it's going to be really good so look forward to that 😉 Now I'm going to spend some time with my mom so bye for now!