Alright guys! Gosh it's been a while huh? I'm so sorry, I so didn't expect it to take so long, but now I'm back, and this chapter is pretty great if I do say so myself.

This chapter wasn't so hard to write, so hopefully that will reflect in the writing. I am super proud of it though, but let me know what you think of it.

We meet a new character in this chapter... You know what, I'm going to shut up. You'll see what I started to get at when you get that far in the chapter. Trust me though, it's a pretty nice surprise. :D

Everdeen's POV

The next week and a half went smoothly. I hadn't gotten much better at my triple axel or my pearl spin yet though. I saw Seth at the beach again though, and we chatted for a while until the sun started to set.

Melody has become a bit like the younger sister I've always wanted, and I now call Julianne Julia. We've become a lot closer in the small amount of time we've known each other.

My new program started out with some graceful choreography before heading into some back crossovers and a nice triple toe that I sometimes fall on. After that comes a double sow triple toe combination. Then a pretty layback into a hair cutter into a beilman combination spin. Then a back sit spin into a back pancake spin. Next comes my double axel double loop. Next is a beautiful fan spiral and a spread eagle. Next is a little more choreography and then is where Kayla plans on putting the pearl spin, but for now I practice it with a regular layback. Then I head into a nice triple sow which I still land with two feet most of the time, and the last jump of my program is supposedly going to be a triple lutz triple toe triple loop, but I don't know if I'm ever going to land that before the ice show. Then there's more choreography and footwork, and then after all that, my program is over.

It's a long and demanding program. The hardest one I've ever had, but for some reason Kayla thinks I can do it. I think I might be able to do it eventually, but not before the ice show. I mean, that's just insane. It was only my first time competing at nationals this year. I'm not going to get a world level program in just a couple months. It could take years before I finally get it.

Either way, Kayla thinks I can do it, and she's the professional world class coach, so she's probably right.

I've certainly taken a lot of falls lately. My triples are getting better, just not the triple axel. My layback is getting better and I am getting a little closer to a pearl spin, but I just can't seem to keep my balance.

I got off the ice and started taking my skates off when a very energetic and excited Melody came bouncing over to me.

"Everdeen, Everdeen! Guess what!" She sang.

I couldn't help but smile at her enthusiasm. "What?"

"My big brother is coming to watch me skate today! I want you to meet him!" She said, still bouncing up and down on her toes.

I smiled. "Sure! What's his name?"

"Damion. I've told him all about you! He's really nice and he's your age."

"When will I get to meet him?"

"He's just parking the car right now, he'll be in really soon. I'm going to go wait for him! I'll bring him in here when he gets here." She smiled and bounded out of the room, almost crashing into Julia who had just turned the corner.

Julia raised an eyebrow at me.

I laughed and smiled. "Something about me meeting your older brother Damion." I explained already knowing what her question would be.

She laughed and nodded before heading over to put her stuff on the bench next to me. "Got it. I figured it was something along those lines."

Not five seconds after I went back to taking my skates off, I heard a deep voice say, "I'm coming, slow down Melody."

I turned to Julia and she nodded knowing I was wondering if that was their brother.

I smiled and had just turned back to taking my skates off, when someone, who I assumed was Melody came racing in.

I looked up to meet Melody's smiling face yet again, and turned to the door to see a man as large as Seth in both height and muscle mass.

I looked up into his eyes and I saw a smile spread across his face slowly. The smile was across between happiness, adoration, confusion and surprise.

Just like with Seth, his eyes had a hold on me and when he finally blinked, I was able to blush and look back down at my skates. Here we go again. Now I'm going to be socially awkward just like I was with Seth, and he's going to sit there like he doesn't care if a bus comes and hits him as long as the last thing he sees is me.

Melody didn't like the fact that there was no noise, so she filled the silence. "Damion, this is Everdeen. Everdeen, this is Damion!" She smiled proud of herself.

I laughed and stood up and shook his hand. "Nice to meet you."

His returning smile was breath taking. "Same to you."

I looked at my feet again and walked back to my skates to wipe them off.

"So you moved here from Minnesota, right?" He asked me.

I nodded, still focusing on wiping down my blades. "Yup. Central Minnesota. Around the twin cities. Are you guys from around here?"

"Yeah. We're just about ten minutes from here." He replied.

I nodded and put my skates back in my bag and stood up. "I'm going for a quick run. I'll be back in time for the next session though. Melody, Julia, are you guys skating that session?" I turned to the two of them.

Melody frowned and shook her head. "No. I'm not, but Julia is."

I nodded. "Got it. Well have a great session guys! I'll see you on... Thursday or Friday Melody?"

"Friday." She smiled.

I nodded. "Alright, I'll see you then. Bye guys!"

"Bye!" The three of them called as I walked out the door, already starting into a jog.

The weather was actually really nice out today. By nice I don't mean beach weather though. It was nice because of the fact that it was slightly cold out. That's how I like the temperature. It wasn't hot, and it wasn't freezing. Well, I'll admit that by some people's standards they might think it's freezing, but having grown up in Minnesota my whole life, and being a figure skater, I don't even end up using a coat for more that half the winter.

The cloud cover added a nice atmosphere, and I remembered those spring and summer days where I sat outside, squinting up at the clouds.

Usually my sister Kendra would join me. She had long black hair and green eyes, very different from my dirty blonde hair and blue eyes, but as they say, opposites attract. We are twins, believe it or not. Fraternal obviously, but still.

Continued on my jog as my phone rang.

"Hello?" I answered as I picked up the phone.

"Everdeen!" A voice I knew very well squealed.

Speak of the devil, it was Kendra.

"Hi Kendra. How's Minnesota?" I asked, saying Minnesota in a strong Minnesotan accent.

She laughed. "It's not the same without you. I miss you! You're never on skype anymore. Have you gotten all my texts? You never respond! How's skating? What skills are you working on? When's your next competition again? Because I definitely want to come. Gosh I'm already excited!" She said only taking one breath in the middle of her speech. That's Kendra for you, she talks a lot, really fast, and makes sure to ask so many questions you can't remember them all.

I laughed at her eagerness. "Chill Kendra! Um..." I tried to remember how she'd started, and totally failed. "One question at a time!"

She sighed and in my head I could picture her rolling her eyes at me. "Have you gotten my texts?"

"Um... I'm not sure... I don't really get much of a chance to check them. Sorry!" I said.

She sighed again. "Well check them more often! It is so annoying! I miss you so much!" She told me.

I smiled gently even though she couldn't see it. "I'll try my best, but no promises."

"But Everdeen!" She started but I cut her off.

"Hey, you know how awful my memory is! I get excited when I remember to actually get into pajamas before bed." I rolled my eyes. "That happens so rarely that I get up and I practically have to make a cake!" I laughed it off, but it was true. My memory was awful.

She laughed too. "Yeah, I guess. Well how's skating? What skills are you working on? Can I come to your next competition? When and where is it?"

I laughed. "Kendra! I'm not going to remember every question you ask! Slow down. Let's see. Skating's pretty good, not insanely awesome, but pretty good. Um... Kayla had me start working pearl spins and triple axels..." I trailed off trying to remember the other questions she'd asked.

"That's so cool!" She said, even though I could pretty much hear her fingers tapping away at the keys on the keyboard of the laptop I knew was in front of her. She didn't know anything about skating, but she was really supportive of me. We had all sorts of jokes about how she knew nothing about it, nor was she any good at it.

"Um... What were your other questions?" I asked, giving up on my hopeless memory skills.

"When and where are your next competition and can I come with you?" She said, not totally focused because I assumed she was on youtube watching a triple axel or a pearl spin at the very moment.

"Course you can come! You're like, my superfan! Whenever you don't come I never do very well. I'm still mad that mom and dad didn't let you come to Nationals with me. I mean, yeah, you were going to miss school if you came, but you're a great student! Let me think here, I don't think I have a competition until state which is all the way in August or so. Seattle's having an ice show that I'm going to be in though. It's in like, oh, two weeks or so. You should ask mom and dad if you can fly down here. I bet Kayla could help you out with a place to stay or something." I told her smiling.

"Okay hold on." She said. Next thing I know, my eardrums are being blasted out and I feel like I'm going to go deaf. "MOM! DAD! CAN I GO DOWN TO SEATTLE IN TWO WEEKS TO SEE EVERDEEN'S ICE SHOW!" She screamed at the top of her lungs.

Take it from me, she has got a REALLY loud scream. It was insane!

I heard a muffled response and then Kendra was talking to me again. "They said probably. I'm so excited! Like honestly, it's going to be awesome I can already tell. What outfit are you going to wear? My favorite is the light purple one, with the dark purple and blue gems. I think you should wear that one!" She told me.

I laughed. "I don't know, the music doesn't really go with it. I was thinking the black one with the dark colored gems. The music is really slow and graceful, and people have always loved black on me. Have you not noticed that's the color they put me in for every single photo they take that's not for competition?"

"Yeah I guess. It's just that it... Black! Black is boring. Almost as boring as white."

I groaned. "I know, I hate white dresses, but black isn't all that bad! I love black. It's graceful, and elegant. Which is exactly my style!"

She sighed yet again. "I guess. Well, I have to go. Holly is coming over in like five minutes or so."

I smiled. "Tell her I said hi and that I miss her and the rest of the gang!" I told her.

She laughed a little. "Will do."

"Bye."

"Bye."

And with that, I hung up and smiled. I'd missed talking to Kendra. Even though she's super annoying at times, she's my sister and I love her to death.

The rest of my run was uneventful and when I came back, Melody had already left, and Julia was putting her skates on.

I joined her and she told me her brother had left too to take her home but had said he'd be back to pick her up later. He said he might even come early to watch her skate, but I couldn't help but wonder if it had something to do with me.

I almost burst out laughing at my thoughts. Why would he care about me, someone who was rivaling his sister in something she obviously loved? I couldn't fight back a grin as I put my skates on.

I must not be getting enough sleep at night or something.

For some reason, Seth popped into my head. He was such a nice guy and his smile was amazing. I couldn't help but compare him to Damion. Damion's smiled was just as breathtaking.

I frowned when I realized a smiled had crept onto my face while I was thinking about them.

I had this feeling of warmth when I felt about them, and I can honestly say I'd never felt it before. I hadn't felt it with Louis the one time I'd tried going out with someone. Though I admit, he didn't get much of a chance. I was always busy and couldn't hang out much so pretty soon, our relationship was ended. Long story short, I never even got my first kiss.

Anyway, I think it's almost unnatural to feel like that just when you think about someone, I mean, I met Damion just earlier today, and I've only talked to Seth three times or so. It's the kind of feeling I read about in fairy tales and fiction books. This stuff doesn't happen in real life.

If that was true though, then why did it feel like it was actually happening?

I tied the last knot on my skate and smiled at Julia as she stood up to head out with me.

After putting my gloves on and grabbing my binder, I smiled as I turned to Julia.

She smiled back and I remembered why I never cared about relationships before. They got in the way of what I really loved. Skating.

So with that reminder, I went out to skate with a smile and skated my best.

The thing is... Why did I feel a pang of guilt?

I shrugged it off, and even landed a few triple axels, on the harness of course, but it was still an accomplishment.

About twenty minutes into the session, I looked over my shoulder without realizing it and saw Damion walking to a seat. He smiled brightly at me and I smiled back, before feeling stupid and metaphorically bring myself back to the ice.

We worked spins for a while, and after working through my usual spins, including my combination spins, I started to work my pearl spin again.

I was getting really annoyed at myself because I wasn't exactly in a layback, it was like, halfway between a layback and an upright. So like, my layback when I first started only, add the fact that my foot is directly over my head and that's me.

Well, no, scratch that. That's me for about half a rotation, and then I fall and probably look stupid.

I've always been a perfectionist, I know that about myself, but I can't help it and I annoy myself to no end because of it.

It ends up where I do a clean jump and I come back and tell my coach I have to do it again because my position in the air wasn't right and she tells me it looked fine and won't let me re-do it because it's 'a waste of time' and then I can't help by feel annoyed as I go into the next jump and then I fall because I'm focusing on the awfulness of the last jump.

So on the next spin I tried to lay back further, only when I did that, I couldn't get a hold of my leg.

My coach decided to leave it there for the day, despite my protests and we moved onto choreography before the zamboni came out.

I rocked out to some Kelly Clarkson on the way home and the cars around us probably thought I was insane, but for once, I didn't really care. Because I was having fun, and that's all you need. For the most part.

Anyway, when we got home I went up to my room, and grabbed a random book I'd brought from Minnesota and started reading it.

Within the first page I knew exactly what book it was. I'd read it many, many times before.

It's called Uncommon Earth, and it's really good. I love it so much.

I sank into a comfortable position on my bed and read for a good hour or so until Kayla called me down for dinner.

"Okay, hang on while I finish the chapter!" I called back to her.

"Alright." She said.

About a minute or two later I was downstairs and at the table, practically inhaling my lasagna.

Kayla smiled. "I take it you like lasagna?" She laughed.

I nodded and swallowed. "It's always been one of my very favorites. That, and spaghetti." I told her and took a sip of my milk.

She smiled. "I'll keep that in mind." She told me.

We laughed and went back to eating in silence like we normally did. You would think that since we barely knew each other, and that she was my coach it would make it an awkward silence, but it wasn't. It was comfortable even.

When dinner ended I read Uncommon Earth some more and fell asleep reading, as usual.

Well? What do you think? What to think of Damion? Gosh, things are getting complicated now, even if Everdeen doesn't know it yet. Gosh things could go any way now.

I am going to explain right now, that yes, Damion is a wolf and yes he did imprint. In the next chapter you may or may not figure out why that's possible, and if you don't get it from the reading, then I will explain it in the author's note at the end.

The concept of two wolves imprinting on the same person, is something I like to call a double imprint. So if I refer to double imprint in my author's notes every so often, that's what it means.

So what are you guys thinking? You haven't met much of either of them, but so far are you liking Damion or Seth?

Oh and I almost forgot, what do you think of Kendra? Personally, I love her, but that's just me.

Wow, you guys have a lot of things to tell me, this chapter was pretty big. Next chapter is bigger, and the chapter after that is super super important. Like, I can't tell you how important. I mean, let's not forget that so far, the story has no connection to the title. That's going to change around chapter six and seven or so, and you'll get what I mean when we get there.

Review, I'm dying to hear from you guys! I want to know what you guys think! I'm at the point where I swear, I'm going to end up checking the reviews every ten minutes! In return for your reviews, I will work on the story RIGHT THIS INSTANT! Yes that's right. As soon as I post this chapter, I'm going to work on the next one. So this chapter will probably be up by at the latest Sunday, but that's only because I have figure skating stuff both tomorrow and Saturday.