"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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Blue Flames (Yuzuru Hanyu)
FanfictionYoung skater Miki Nakamura gets a little more than she bargained for when she posts her own version of Notte Stellata online. (Yeah, this fanfic will include Yuzuru Hanyu, I'm getting there slowly okay?) (And no, this is not a Yuzuru x Female OC, Y...