15 parts Ongoing She was a girl with a dream-big, bright, and unrelenting. A dream to be just like her family, to carry their strength, their grace, their pride in everything she did. Her family was her whole world, the center of her universe-but so was dance, and so was figure skating. Each pirouette, each glide across the ice, each step on stage, was a piece of her soul. She wanted it all, and she wanted it perfectly.
Her dance teacher favored her, and it seemed, at first glance, that life was easy. She had talent, attention, and opportunity all wrapped up in her small shoulders. But as the seasons passed, the pressure began to build, invisible yet suffocating, pressing down on her until it cracked the edges of her confidence. Each competition, each rehearsal, each critique chipped away at the little girl who once danced freely.
Her mother would do anything for her, every sacrifice imaginable, every quiet late night and early morning. She watched her daughter's eyes sparkle with joy, that fleeting light of hope and happiness that could light up a room... but sometimes, she would see it dim, flicker, and disappear entirely. And each time, her mother's heart ached, knowing that the very thing she loved most-her daughter's passion-was being worn down by the very world that promised to celebrate it.
Her father loved her with every fiber of his being. He adored her, cheered her, carried her burdens alongside her. But there were nights when he felt her slipping, losing herself to expectations, to routines, to the relentless drive to be perfect. He feared losing her-not physically, but the spark, the girl who laughed freely, who twirled just for joy. And that fear tightened around his chest like a vise, threatening to crush him as he watched her grow up in a world that demanded more than she could always give.
