Sure.

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 "Hello? Hello?" I groaned and turned toward the source of the voice. The face hovering above mine had pale grey eyes, coupled with a nervous expression. I almost laughed out loud at how pale the poor guy was. "Are you alright?" He asked. I smiled shakily and said, " Not as bad as I could be, how about you?" He sat back on his knees and I realized that we were still on the rink, and other than me and mystery guy, we were alone. "Yep, I'm good." I decided that it was time to try to get up. I grabbed on to the wall nearby and tried to stand. With figure skating, you learn to get up when you fall. I have had wayyyyy worse injuries than this. At least I woke up within five minutes this time.

There have been many accidents over the 9 years that I have skated. Once, I was so frustrated with my inability to accomplish a very hard program successfully and practiced for who knows how long. All I remember is waking up in the hospital with 3 stitches in my head and a bruised arse. Oops. lesson learned I guess.

The next injury was quite bad, I hurt my right leg very badly in a car accident and tried to skate on it... and you can probably guess how that went. There have been a handful of other injuries as well. Guess I'm pretty accident prone.

The thing is, being a perfectionist has its perks, but when you overwork or endanger yourself for perfection, that's not so great. Still working on that though. By now I was already up and trying out skating. It wasn't that bad, I just had a bit of a headache. I turned around and looked at the boy who was currently struggling to get off his butt. I tried to hide a laugh and skated over to him, actually laughing out loud when he fell trying to get up... again.....

He smiled nervously and said, "Uh, I'm kinda- well the thing is, I really can't skate...that well so uh" "Well then why are you even at the rink??" I smirked at the frozen look on his face. I really did feel bad for him but at the same time...

He brushed the ice off his pants and tried to grin reassuringly at me. "I really do wish I could skate, but I'm really not good at it..."

Now, that's something I could empathize with. Wanting to succeed at something so badly. Maybe he just needed a little push in the right direction. I paused, and before I could regret it I blurted out "Well maybe I can teach you?" He smiled.

"Sure."

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