N0 R3GR3TS

Challenge: try something you couldn't do as a child.

"Don't regret the past, because at one point, it was exactly what you wanted."

Ouch. Damn that hurt like a bitch, I was laying at the bottom of a 5 foot snowboarding ramp and my god I didn't want to move, ever again. I lay splayed out and I could barely breath, the wind had been knocked out of me, hard.

"Whoooo!" I screamed as I sat up, "I did it! I can't believe I actually did it!" I mumbled to myself as I slid myself and my snowboard out of the firing zone at the bottom of the ramp.

Peter ran over to me, out of breath "are you alright?" he looked so worried that I had to laugh.

"Did you get it?" I asked excitedly as I unclipped my bindings and stood up.

"Yeah, yeah but that was a brutal fall, are you sure you don't need the medical people over here?" Peter asked again, he was a persistent kid.

"No, no I don't need the anything kid," I told him yet again. "Let's see the video!" Peter pulled the Canon back to his face so he could play with the rewind button, then held it out to me.

"You were so close" he laughed "but you messed up the landing, you didn't angle your board onto your back foot." He advised me. Once he got the video set up he held it out to me, there was the slope and the ramp, and there I was barreling towards the end of it. I sloppily twisted and flipped, attempting a backflip 360 that my brother had tried to teach me 5 years ago, but I had been too chicken shit to try it back then.

"ohhhhh," peter and I moaned together as I saw myself fall. Damn it hurt to watch it.

"Okay great Peter, than you so much!" I said as I kissed the kid on the cheek, he blushed and I remembered I needed a picture of him. "Smile!" I said and grabbed the camera from him really quick, the camera was on shutter so I got about 10 pics of him. One of them had to look good. He blushed even brighter and turned to head back to the bottom of the slope. "Goodbye Peter, check out my youtube page to see this video tonight, 'No Regrets'" I yelled as he continued down the slope in his over-large boots.

He was a sweetie pie, I had seen him sitting at one of the picnic tables drinking a cup of hot cocoa, with 3 empty cups next to him. I noticed his trepidation right away, because that had been me 5 years ago when I would come to these slopes with my family and they would all do crazy tricks and have the time of their lives while I read a book next to a fire in the lounge and photographed them. So I had asked Peter to film something for me. I was damn proud of myself for my failed attempt at a back 360, I don't care how shitty it was.

I began to head down the slope with my snowboard in hand, my god did my side hurt, I think I had landed on my hip a little bit. And my legs were going to be sore for about 2 weeks.

"Holy shit!" I squealed as a guy fell right next to me, I jumped out of the way for him. but I didn't need to because he wasn't actually falling, he was stopping. He looked at me through his blue Oakley goggles and apologized.

"Sorry for scaring you, but I couldn't help but notice your fall." He said, as he took off his goggles, it was then that I noticed the bright red jacket he was wearing that was obviously the jacket of the Emergency Medical Service on the mountain.

"Yeah, I'm fine don't worry." I said to him and continued down the slope.

"Wait!" I barely got 10 steps though before he had skidded to a stop next to me, again. "That was a nasty fall at least let me look at your hip." He plead, I noticed he had very nice green eyes, I hadn't noticed earlier with his goggles on, but with the sun shining into them and the snow reflecting off the ground they looked extraordinarily vibrant.

"I really am fine, nothing a cup of hot cocoa wouldn't fix," I tried to tell him.

"Then let me buy you a cup of cocoa and check you out." He bartered, and I laughed at his choice of words.

"I think you're working right now, but maybe later I'll let you check me out." I said as I winked at him and he was caught off guard. I walked passed him and started down the slope with camera and board in hand.

"Deal!" he yelled as I was walking away.

I headed towards my room that I had rented for one more night and stripped out of my white jacket and purple snow pants. I had had this outfit, and this snowboard with little turtles on it, for about 8 years. It barely fit, and I had to rent a bigger pair of boots but it got the job done. I'd never have to put my feet into those bindings again. Once my hat, socks, long underwear, and goggles were in a pile on the floor I headed to the bathtub to take a relaxing bath.

I had a huge red mark above my right butt cheek that wrapped around to my tummy. I couldn't wait for that to turn a different color. And my whole body was a little sore from all the falling I did. I fell probably every 5 minutes. And I had tried to go off that ramp about 15 times before I had gotten up the courage enough to actually keep going. I probably pissed a lot of snowboarders off today. Aw well, I thought and laid my head down on the edge of the tub, closing my eyes.

One hour later:

"When you were a kid, was there anything that someone tried to teach you and you just couldn't get the hang of it?" I asked my webcam that was currently filming me, in a café of the ski lodge I was staying at. "Well for me that was snowboarding, my older brother was a natural at it and he tried, and tried to teach me to be as good as him but I just could not do it. Well here I am at a ski lodge in Colorado and I just snowboarded for the first time in years." I was going to show my backflip 360 here once I got this in movie maker. "Not only did I snowboard, but I did a trick! That was a backflip 360, my brother used to try to teach me on the trampoline. We would spend hours practicing, but I simply could not contort my body like that, I had been too scared. Well I'm not too scared anymore, I even got a bruise to show for my efforts." I stood up to pull my shirt up and showed my bruise. "Its petty impressive right?" I joke "and I'm not going to be able to walk up a staircase for the next 6 weeks, but it was well worth it. Today I want you to think of the things you couldn't do when you were a child. The things you were too scared to do or you didn't have the right equipment. And I want you to try to do it. If not today, then soon. But be safe and have help. And remember no regrets!" I pressed stop recording and saved.

"I think that bruise needs some ice." Someone said and I gasped, turning in my seat to look at the stranger, except he wasn't a stranger, he was the medic from earlier.

"I know, I just haven't gotten around to it yet." I tell him. He walks over and sits across from me at the little table I was sitting at.

"I brought you some hot cocoa, but I see you already have some." He points to my almost empty cup of deliciousness.

"Well thank you, but you can have it." I say and he places the mug on the table.

"No, no I got it for you. You know I never did get your name." He says.

"I know, I never got yours either, for all I know you could be some strange serial killer." I say and he chuckles.

"Well mines Edward, and yours?"

"Bella" I answer, and notice he's not wearing a hat, or a jacket, he's in a grey sweatshirt that says DENVER on it and I wish I had put on a nicer pair of jeans, or something other than this plain white T–shirt. He looked too good in that plain sweatshirt, and I probably looked like a hobo.

"Nice to meet you Bella, what's that video you were making?" he asks and I close my laptop.

"Were you spying on me?" I tease.

"I was trying not to, but I couldn't help it. So what was it?"

"Just a video I was making for YouTube." I say vaguely, I didn't like when people asked me stuff like this, I was always afraid they'd think it was stupid.

"I see, but it sounded like it was for a blog or something." He's observant; damn he's going to think I'm some lunatic seeking fame or something.

"It's just a series of videos I have." I say.

"Oh cool, what's it about?"

Ugh, why is he so persistent? "It's called 'N0 R3GR3T's' and that's what I do, stop regretting." I try to explain it.

"That's awesome!" he smiles, and he has a such a nice mouth, I smile back, I'm glad he's not mocking me. "What kinda stuff do you do?"

"You'll just have to check out my YouTube page for that information." I smile and then change the subject; "Shouldn't you be rescuing people?" I ask.

"Well actually I am," he says and reaches into his pocket pulling out a blue bag of something. He rubs the bag between his hangs and stands up. "I'm rescuing you from being sore." And he places the bag gently on my bruise. I gasp at the pain of the coolness but he keeps the bag there. "Just let the skin get numb, and then it'll feel better."

"Thank you," I say and place my hand over his in order to hold onto the bag myself. His hand lingers there for an extra second before he removes it and leans down to whisper in my ear;

"You're welcome," I can feel his hot breath on my ear and I shiver. "I gotta go, maybe I'll see you later?" he asks and I'm speechless for a second.

But then I get my bearings and turn my head so our mouths are an inch apart and whisper back; "maybe" I breathe. He looks taken aback, but then straightens up and walks out of the coffee shop, I watch as his snow pants swish together and he disappears out of the coffee shop.

I open my laptop to publish my video and as I wait for it to upload I realize how cute that guy was. No stop thinking about him I tell myself, nothing can ever happen, you're leaving tomorrow anyway.

Well there it is, this is my first fanfic, and I'm hoping it won't be my last. Hope you liked it, criticism welcome, I actually work better with criticism. Have a good day, until next time, N0 R3GR3TS!