Blades (she-ra)

Chapter 2: We meet again

A week had past since Adora's unfortunate encounter with the spiteful cat girl. Her hockey games had been postponed for a couple months, but that didn't stop her from going to the freestyle staking sessions every morning at 7. Sometimes she would catch a glimpse of another girl with a warm complexion and dark hair that would make her flinch. Adora doesn't let anything bother her but for some reason she felt a longing to she her again. Catra.
Adora summed it up to feeling like the argument wasn't finished, she must have not been satisfied in her own banter. That had to be it.

Adora skated in sad circles around the edge of the rink with her headphones in. She couldn't get the incident off her mind and it was driving her crazy. As she skated she noticed a poster and quickly turned sideways as her blades shredded the ice till she came to a stop. The poster read "fall ice show: tonight at 8pm" Adora's realization jolted her awake, a week had past and Catra would be performing tonight. "I can't go to an ice show just to see the girl I bumped into, that would be a waste of money" adora tried to rationalize. But she wanted to finish what she started. Perhaps she wanted to apologize, or see how the dress was fixed. Regardless, she had made up her mind to show up, hoping the cat girl wouldn't kill her the next time they meet.

When Adora lifted her eyes from the poster on the glass, she noticed a woman with cat ears in a sparkly red dress walking towards the entrance of the rink. Recognizing her, Adora's first instinct was to hide. She slide off the ice and fast walked to her locker room trying to hide her face the whole way. About halfway to the locker room she noticed the girl was directly behind her and bound to notice her eventually. Naturally, Adora quickly decided to hide in one of the storage closets before the girl had a chance to look up from her phone.
Adora scrambled to close the door behind her and reached her arm out to turn on the small dangling light that was hitting her head. The storage closet was much shorter than her so she had to crouch in order to fit. After a long time of waiting she decided the coast was clear and began to reluctantly open the door. In front of the opening stood an angry woman towering over her. As her two toned eyes made piercing eye contact with Adora's she said

"Hey, Adora."

Adora froze. 'How did she know my name?!' 'How did she know I was in here!?' She panicked to herself quietly.

The woman with her arms crossed kicked Adora, ushering her to get up, Adora did just that. She struggled to squeeze her way out of the small storage room and found herself towering over the cat girl.

"H-how did you know I was in there?" Adora asked, obviously embarrassed.

"You can't just hide in a closet three feet away from someone without them seeing you, dumb ass" Catra snapped

"Well then how did you know my name?" Adora asked

"You're the bitch who ruined my dress, I asked around to see who owed me a favor." Catra replied

"Well your dress seems fine now so I guess I'm off the hook" Adora commented and swiftly attempted to run off before Catra's arm reached out to her side and hit Adora's chest, blocking her way.

"Not the same dress, Adora."

"..." Adora didn't know what to say, she just froze.

"Listen, I didn't want to do this, but my coach said I have to switch to a duet for the winter show" Catra stated

"Okay and? That's not my problem." Adora replied, scared to walk away.

"Oh but it is. See, I might be doing a solo performance tonight, but since you ruined my dress, my performance is now ruined as well. I have a day left to find someone to have a duet with next month and quite frankly, everyone is already taken." Catra turned her head and looked up at adora

"I wouldn't be asking you this but you already owe me and there's no one else. Your going to be my partner." Catra stated

"You're delusional! I'm not even a figure skater! Listen, I'm sorry about your dress but I have hockey duties to attended to." Adora remarked

"Hockey has been canceled for the next two months. Don't lie to me, Adora" Catra replied

Adora's face heated up. Catra certainly had already figured out how to push her buttons and it made her furious.

"Think about it okay. I don't like you either, you aren't my first choice trust me. I'd never be caught dead skating with you in a normal circumstance, but if I fuck up another performance, I'm out. My coach is done with me slacking off. Just know, if you don't do this for me, your gonna have to pay for my dress"

And just like that the girl strutted into the lockerooms to put her stuff up. Adora truly didn't know what to do. She certainly didn't want to take up her time figure skating when she could be practicing with her hockey friends. But she didn't have the money to pay for a dress. In all honesty, Adora was very broke.

Later that day

      Adora showed up at the rink in time for the ice show. At least she had an excuse to show up now, she had to decide what to do after all. She at least wanted to know how good of a skater Catra was before agreeing to spend the next two months with her. Adora took a seat and unbuttoned her collar button, she was getting increasingly more nervous about the show starting. After what seemed like hours of waiting to Adora. The show started. The first two performances were duets from the children's figure skating program. And sooner or later, Catra was up for her solo performance. Adora peered over the edge of the bleachers to catch a glimpse of Catra. There she stood. Outside of the rink, adjusting her ponytail and waiting for them to call her up. She didn't even look nervous at all, Which somehow didn't shock Adora.

"Next up we have Catra, she will be skating a solo performance tonight, to an instrumental song she composed herself-" they announced

Adora was immediately impressed after hearing Catra had composed her own music for this performance. However it made her feel more guilty than anything. She could tell this show meant a lot to Catra and she wanted it to go well. All Adora could do now was sit back and watch.