Trick of Fate

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I wake up to the smell of pancakes. I walk down stairs to see a stack of pancakes and 2 plated but nobody around. I walk into the living room and I am picked up from behind. I give a faint type scream. Charlie sets me on a chair.

"Your parents had something to do so I made breakfast. Oh and my parents are on a cruise so I'm here for the next 2 weeks!" I feel happiness when Charlie says he is staying. I take a bit of pancakes and fall in love. "These are AMAZING" I say to Charlie, "I would marry these pancakes."

Charlie laughs and starts to eat his food. I get up to use the bathroom when I see a massive spider, I can't help but scream. Charlie comes running "what's wrong mer?" I point to the bug. "Aww, mer. " he kills the spider for me and gives me a hug. "I'm terrified of spiders." I tell Charlie. "Shh Meryl it's okay. It's dead let's finish eating then we need to meet up with Marina."

We eat our food and make weird faces at each other. Charlie and I drive to the rink and go in and lace up our skates. We are early so we practice basic techniques today will be our 4th month of doing off- ice lifts and today we are doing them on ice. "You're safe with me. " Charlie tells me as we skate around. "I know." I reply. "I'm just worried, everything is going so fast. The olympics are coming we are dancing to Schereazade."

"And we will do great, Meryl."Charlie says. He's alway so confident we've never competed together. I used to compete with Scott, who is also going to Sochi with my friend Tessa.

I wish I had Charlie's confidence in everything. Our dreams of being olympians are coming. We only have what? 6 month left? Or less. An we were invited to Stars On Ice after.

"We have fans." I say to Charlie, "twitter fans, Instagram fans. They think we are romantically involved. That's Marina's doing for telling the world. "

"Well, that's good. Just don't worry. Come on let's run the program."

We run through Schereazade. There is one lift I'm not comfortable doing on ice. Charlie is understanding, he explains to me how he will never let me fall. We going I to the lift I'm looking at the ice straight up and down. Before I know it I'm set down.

"See it wasn't that bad." Charlie smiles at me. "You're right it wasn't! Axel challenge? "

"Axel challenge." Charlie and I take turns seeing how many axels in a row we can do. I can do 16 and Charlie can do 15. I laugh and rest my head on Charlie's shoulder as we just leisurely skate around the rink. I look up at Charlie and for the first time notice his true beauty. He's no longer the boy I hit doing an axel. Charlie stops me as I go to do a set of twizzles. "Wait. Mer, there's someone in the way. They are really close." I'm so glad he told me I thought I had more room than that. "Thank you, Charlie."

"I told you I'm the eyes you're the ears and I'll protect you." Charlie looks down at me. "Okay now let's twizzle together. Then we will go to Starbucks." We do a set of twizzles and Charlie grabs my hand and we skate off the ice, clean our skates and guard them. After we place them in the bag we head to Starbucks.

"Meryl. Charlie. What's it like to be invited to the Olympic team." The paparazzi asks. I burry my head in Charlie's chest. "The same way everyone feels. We are excited. Now if you excuse us." Charlie walks aways with my calmly. When we arrive at Starbucks I order what I usually do and Charlie orders the same. "Let's go home. " Charlie says as we get back in the car. We are stopped by a fan.

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