Chapter 9 - Star
William looks at me and leans over and says, "Honestly I think you should turn this into a triple salchow." I looked at my notepad and nodded. "I dunno if Crysta would let me though. I am not that skilled." He snorted, "Says you, you are the juniors champion." He leans back and Crysta came down the stairs and groans, "Can someone grab me a heating pad?" William got up and she sat down on the armchair and sighed. I looked at her and says, "You know you don't have to keep your "ok" act up when Dia and your husband is around. You are getting noticeable." Crysta looked at me and said, "I don't want them to worry, and that side of the family is hard to let pains and scraps go easily." I dry spit, "Says the motherly one." Crysta closed her eyes and William comes back with a heating pad and hands it to her. Crysta says a thanks and plugs it in and placed it on her back and she looked at me, "What about this triple salchow?" I looked at William and he says, "It will give her more points and I know she can do it." Crysta gave a sharp breath and shook her head, "I don't want her to get injured if it's a possibility." William stood up and growls, "She can do it and I know she is capable of doing one. I saw her do it when we were practicing!" The door shuts and Arthur walks over and looks at his wife and stared at her. Crysta looked back at him and smiles weakly. "You are getting that much pain?" Arthur says dryly. Crysta turns her head away and huffed, "No. It just eases the dull pains I have." Arthur crouches down and picks her up and hauled her upstairs and I hear their door shut and a run of water upstairs. William hissed and sat back down and huffed, "Your aunt is complicated."
"Yuri! Come snuggle with me!" Victor yells and I hear Yuri scream, "No!" I cringed as there was pounding from upstairs and a crash and William comes back in from outside with a bunch of shopping bags and he sighed, "They have the most weirdest relationship I have ever seen." William says and sets down the bags and I hear another crash. Crysta comes down the stairs in a robe and crossed her arms, "Star dear, do you mind dealing with those two? Akira can't sleep." I nodded and run upstairs and barged into the guest bedroom and yell, "SHUT UP!" Yuri and Victor were on the bed and Yuri slides off and flops onto the floor. Victor waves at me, "Why hello Star!" Yuri stood up and dusted himself off and walks out of the room. "Yuri! Come back!" Victor yells and Yuri responds with his signature scream of a, "NO!" Victor looks at me and smiles, "Oh don't worry I was just chasing him because he didn't want to snuggle!" I shook my head and Akira whines from outside, "Star! Can you read me a story or something?" I opened the door and picked him up and walked downstairs.
Crysta was on the couch and she stood up and took him from me and says, "Akira, you should be sleeping." Her son pats her shoulder and says, "I couldn't sleep." Crysta opens her mouth but she gets cut off by her husband roaring yell, "Where is Dia?!" Crysta stood up as Arthur ran down the stairs and puts on he trench coat and opens the door and he stops. "Hey Arthur!" Dia smiles and pushed her way in and Arthur shuts the door and glares at her, "Where have you been?" Dia waves him off and picks up the toddling Akira and pats his head, "I went out for a walk, why?" Arthur looked at his watch, "A three hour walk?!" Dia nods, "I went to the park and downtown, it was fun, I even ran into Yuri and Victor." Makkachin walks over to Arthur and sat down and grins. Arthur growls and grabs Dia and says, "Look at me Dia, you can't do this! I told you to stay home and rest!" Dia growls back and says, "Arthur…. you aren't my mother nor father…. They can tell me what to do or what I can't do!" Dia storms up to her room with tears streaming down her cheeks. Arthur yells and runs after her and Crysta sniffles and bawls. Akira cries because his mom is crying and Rey comes in from outside and stares at them, "Uh…" I stood there and covered my ears and William walks over to Rey and leads him to the kitchen. Crysta wipes her eyes and says, "Damn these hormones!" She grabs a kleenex and wipes them and Akira whines, "Mom! Papa is mad!" Crysta nods, "I know, he will be fine, just be a big boy and go to your brother ok?" Akira hopes down and walks into the kitchen saying, "Rey! Momma wants me to talk to you!"
A month has passed since the whole break down with the family and I was ready from my competition. Crysta growls as she tries to put on her coat, "Arthur! Can you get me my purse?" Arthur pokes his head down the stairs and looks at her, "Um yeah, and boy, we have to get you a new trench coat." Crysta snorted, "Well duh!" She looks at me and said, "Star hon, do you have your skates and uniform?" I nodded and Arthur hands her purse and her pass and she puts it on her neck and looks at him and smiles, "They will do great mmkay?" Arthur snorted and says, "I know Star will but I dunno about Dia." His sister comes down the stairs and storms out of the door and slams it shut. "Fff, hon. You could of kept that to yourself," Crysta kisses him and exits out of the house and I followed her.
"Rey!" Dia yells and Rey looks out of the car and frowns, "Yeah?" Rey asks and Dia shouts, "Have you seen where Akira put my skates? I asked him to watch them and now they are gone!" Rey disappears into the car once more and then pokes his head back out, "Akira has them inside the car." Dia nods and hops into the car. Crysta had a bit of trouble getting in and Arthur had to boost her up. "Gah!" Crysta cries while we were driving and shouted, "I hate being pregnant!" Rey snorted and Crysta gave him a death stare. "Star, I'm gonna drop you off with… Dia… and you rush in ok? Crysta and I are gonna be a bit late, but we will be there for your routines." I nodded and Dia huffed, "Ok."
The building was packed with people and Dia and I wormed our way to the register to draw our spot. Dia drew 3rd and I drew 7th. "Star!" I turned and saw Nico coming over and a few news crew followed him. Nico looked annoyed and he smiles at me, "What did you draw?" I holded up my number and he laughed, "Last? Wow you are lucky, I got first, William got second." There was a gasp and Nico turns and Victor and Yuri walked over to us, "Hello!" I facepalm, "Why are you here?" Dia asks and Yuri groans, "I wanted to support you guys!" He holds up his Makkachin kleenex box and barked. Yuri pulls his husband passed the flashing cameras and they swarmed after them. Nico whistled, "Good! I hate cameras!" He turns back to me and smiles, "Good luck ok?" He walks away and Aaron smiles at us before following his boyfriend out.
"Nico Morgenstar skating first. He is dancing Star Sky." says the announcer and I sat down and looked at him. "Oh god oh god!" a few girls scream and I snorted. The music starts and Nico flew gracefully across the ice and he does and a amazing footwork and did a pancake spin and turns it into a upright leg spin and jumped into a triple axel into a quadruple salchow. The crowd roared and I got nerves kicking up. Dia stares at her hands and say, "I can't watch." I agreed with her but the audience was mesmerized.
"Now skating, number 3, Dia Monroe!" Dia quickly take off on her right foot and she spin three times before landing back on her right foot. She quickly go into her next movement a triple Salchow. Dia starts on the back inside edge and she make three rotations before landing on the back outside edge of her left foot and she swing her right leg out. She do a few luts and a flips before she ends with a biellmann spin and finished with a sit spin. Even though she rusty and wasn't in the best mood she still played it off perfectly as if nothing had happened in the past month. She looked free and unrestrained.
Nico skates onto the ice with William and a new face. Nico won first place as usual with a large gap between him and William. The new guy that got third was close behind William's score. Dia and I tied for fourth which was rare.
I was talking to other skaters and asked them how they were doing. "I did so bad on my salchow…" one girl said and Nico pats her shoulder, "Aww it's ok! You will do better next time!" He says and grins before getting swept away by Aaron and a few cameras. "Sheesh he is popular." Dia huffed. I smiled at her, "Well he is the world champion." Victor and Yuri whisper to me, "Might want to watch out…" Arthur runs over and grabs me and Dia and says, "Hospital, now!" We looked confused and were shoved into the car and we heard screams from Crysta.