Swan Lake - When Ice Touches the Chords (On Hiatus)

2: |Flicker|

"Yibo come here, you're about to perform."

"..."

"Okay go. I will be watching. Go go, and remember my words. Feel the music, feel the butterfly inside you."

"I will."

"That's the spirit. Now go. I will watch. Go go." With that he went to perform and Zhan looked around and called Katya.

"Katya... come here in corridor please, we need to talk."

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"No no, we can't wait. We have to leave now Zhan, why can't you understand?"

"I know, I know Kate. But please can't we just wait till the result announcement please."

"No no no, I won't take any sorts of risk with you especially when we're in a foreign country. I said no that means a no, we are not staying here anymore, we need to leave now."

"Please, okay how about only this performance? Please just this one. Please Kate."

"Hmmm *sigh*, you're too stubborn to deal with, you know that? Okay just this one."

"Thank you babe,I love you. I will be coming right after." Zhan smiled and winked at Kate, since there's nothing could be done, Kate just rolled her eyes.

"I don't need your love, give it to someone else."

"Haha okay I will. Bye for now. Just wait in the car okay."

"No, I'll be waiting here. You go now." Kate said and Zhan nodded and left to watch the performance.

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"That was a better performance of Do hwa than it was before what do you think Marina?"

"It indeed is, where he scored 242.8 in previous season, he made it to 251.2 in this one. This is surely remarkable."

"Okay now let's welcome, the young skater from China, Wang Yibo. Today his music is 'Kingdom Dance' , by Alen Menken."

"Wow, that's an unusual choice of music. Hmmm, Kingdom, and that red costume... so thoughtful of coach."

"It is,but he looks nervous. now let's see his performance. "

"Go boy, you can do it." All that Zhan could whisper to himself at that moment. None of commentaries were heard by him at that moment. His eyes stilled, ears focused. Only on one person, only on one music.

"Warming up, there he goes. The first one is supposed to be triple lutz, okay successful. Triple lutz followed by triple toe loop, a quadruple loop... ugh he fell."

"But he got enough rotations, he got up immediately and so his programs proceeding."

"His second planned jump is triple axel..."

" But one thing, have you noticed, he's being different today...it's not like he's having nervousness suddenly."

"Yeah, I've noticed it too. It was not in his previous performances though...it feels like he's connecting with the rhythm. "

"Yes, it is..."

Zhan's attention got diverted with the word 'music'. Music always drags him like an addict feels to drugs. He loves music just like an alcoholic adores the alcohol. And now this ice... interesting.