Thanks soooooo much for all the reviews. It really brightens my day to come home from school and see some new reviews. Well...I am finally done with this chapter. So Enjoy :) //And remember: I own nothing in this story\\ ...And another thing, I have no clue about how the scores in figure skating are added. All I know is that it is best to get above a 5.4. So please no e-mails saying something like, "The scores do not add up." or something like that. But have fun reading this chapter!
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The speaker crackled again. "5.8, 5.8, 5.7, 5.8, 5.9, 5.9, 5.8."
Ellie's eyes widened as she saw her scores flash across the monitor. She got so excited.
"Performance...5.9, 5.8, 5.8, 5.9, 5.7, 6.0, 5.9." The speaker announced. "Judges standings...1st, 1st, 2nd, 1st, 1st, 2nd, 2nd. Current placement: 1st."
Ellie squealed with excitement as she saw the rest of her scores go across. She got even more excited when she found out she was in first place. She jumped up and hugged her coach. With Taylor being the last skater to go she knew that she won a medal...But would it be her first US title...or a silver medal?
Ellie put her skate guards on and went back to the locker room to find Lizzie and Ethan. She found them right where she thought they would be.
"Ellie! You did it!" Lizzie exclaimed hugging her friend. "You are going to the Olympics!"
"Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh!" Ellie screamed. She jumped up and down for a moment. She then calmed down when she noticed how much of a spaz she was being.
"Calm down there!" Lizzie teased.
"I'm sorry I just needed to spaz out when I wasn't in front of the camera." Ellie laughed. She then turned to her brother.
"Ellie!" He picked her up and hugged her. "I'm so proud of you!"
"Thanks Ethan!" Ellie said as Ethan set her down. "I could not have done it without your little pep talk."
"Glad I could help." Ethan said smiling at his twin.
"Come on!" Lizzie said. "Lets watch Taylor skate."
They all watched Taylor skate on the small monitor in the locker room. Taylor skated very well. But on the last jump of her program, she rotated it beautifully, but skid a little on the landing. Her program ended, and Ellie waited to see Taylor's scores. She was nervous. Which color medal would she be getting? Silver...or Gold?
Since the monitor in the locker room had no sound, Ellie had to wait for the scores to be shown across the bottom of the screen. She looked at the scores, but did not add them up quickly enough...But finally it showed that her marks were only high enough for 2nd place.
"Ellie...You won the gold!" Ethan said.
Ellie sat there for a moment. "I won...I won...I won my first US title!" Ellie exclaimed. She was so excited. She had waited for a gold medal in anything for a long time...she always got silver or bronze since she had been in the senior group of skaters. "Oh my gosh! I can't believe it!" She jumped up and spun around.
Ethan put his hands on her shoulders to calm her down. "Its okay Ellie...Breath..."
Ellie laughed. "Okay...okay..." She sat down on the bench.
Jerry then came into the locker room. "Okay...Ellie and Nicole come on. Time for you to get back on the ice."
Ellie stood up again and left the locker room with Nicole Parker, who won the bronze. Ellie smiled at her. "Hey, congradulations girl."
"Thanks Ellie." Nicole smiled back. Nicole was one of those people who was beautiful on the inside, and the out. Ellie never saw her get angry at anyone, and even when she was having an awful day, you could never tell just by talking to her. She was eighteen and had dark red hair and green eyes, and her smile made her face light up. "You skated a really awesome program, and after that fall you took...wow...You are amazing."
"Thanks Nicole." Ellie smiled. They stepped out onto the carpeted area where they met Taylor.
Taylor hugged both of them as they got there. "You guys did great tonight!" She told them. "Next stop for all three of us...The Olympics!"
"I know!" Nicole smiled. "Aren't you excited?"
"Very." Taylor and Ellie said together. They all continued to talk for a few more minutes.
Jerry came over and broke up their little pow-wow. "Okay girls...we are setting up the podium right now. Nicole you go on first...Then Taylor...and then Ellie. You know wave to the crowd and everything. You girls know how it is done. And be ready for a lot of pictures. So remember to smile."
"Alright." They all smiled at him.
They waited a few more minutes. The news reporters were not to speak to the girls so they could get onto the podium on time. Finally they told the girls they had everything set up.
The speaker crackled. "Winner of the bronze medal...Nicole Parker!"
Nicole skated onto the center of the ice and she then stopped while she smiled and waved to the fans. She then proceeded to the podium.
"Here is your silver medalist...Taylor Johnson!" The speaker announced.
Taylor had her usual huge smile on her face as she skated onto the ice and waved to the crowd. She also stopped center ice and waved to the crowd and bowed. Ellie knew she loved every minute she was on the ice. Taylor then skated towards the poduim.
"And now...The 2005 United States National Champion...Maire Craft!" The speaker announed.
Ellie smiled and glided to the center of the ice. She stopped and waved to the fans. She noticed how mainly of them were on their feet cheering. She loved it. She then went over to the podium and shook Nicole's and Taylor's hands. She then got up on the top podium to recieve her medal.
Ellie smiled as she watched Taylor and Nicole reciever their medals. Then it was time for her to recieve her first gold. She bent her medal down and the medal was placed around her neck. They all were given yellow flowers.
"Here are the US champions...and The three Ladies who will be representing the UNited States of America at the 2006 Olympic games this winter." The announed told the crowd.
Ellie felt like she was dreaming as she looked around the arena. She was going to the Olympics.
All of the girls stood on the podium as they held their flowers and they heard their National Anthem. When the anthem was over the girls once again smiled and waved to the crowd. They all got up on the top podium as the press continued to take pictures.
"Hey...On the count of three, blow a kiss." Nicole suggested.
"Okay." Ellie said. Taylor just giggled.
"One...two...three." Nicole said and all three girls blew a kiss to the crowd.
About ten minutes later, the girls got off the ice only to get jumped by several sports and newspaper reporters. Ellie and Taylor got pulled to the side by ABC news for a quick interview.
"Welcome back. I am standing here with the gold and silver medalists, Taylor Johnson and Maire Craft." Jennifer (the news reporter) said to the camera and then turned to the girl. "Hi girls how are you doing?"
"Pretty good." Taylor and Ellie said, but not in unison.
"Now, how does it feel to be on the Olympic skating team?" Jennifer asked.
"It feels awesome." Taylor said. "We both talked about how awesome it would be to make the Olympic teams, but it is so much better than I ever thought."
"Oh yeah." Ellie added.
"Now, you two were expected to win this competition and I think that people now are probably thinking that you two will be on the podium at the Olympics as well." Jennifer told them. "What do you have to say about that?"
"That is one of things we hope to do, maybe even a clean sweep this year, but its one of those things were anything can happen so no one should get the idea that two medals have already been taken." Ellie said.
"And it is one of those things we all want to win, but don't want to go around and get a huge ego about it and then do something to mess up." Taylor said. "We are taking it one day at a time right now and just praying for the best."
"Well good luck to you this season." Jennifer told them to end the report.
"Thank you." They said and then walked off to go find their friends.
"Don't you think it is really crazy people already think we are going to win at the Olympics already? I mean, we just made the team." Taylor said.
"Really crazy." Ellie agreed.
"But, I think you and Nicole are the two best people to be going to the Winter Games with." Taylor smiled at her teammate.
"Thanks Taylor." Ellie said. "I was just about to say the same thing." She was really glad that the other two skaters on the team were Nicole and Taylor.
Ellie ended up getting jumped by a newspaper reporter shortly after she had met up with Ethan and Lizzie again. The whole night was crazy...But a night that Ellie would remember the rest of her life. And if making the Olympic team was this awesome, she only thought about how much better it would be if she actually won a medal.
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"Ellie!" Ethan shook her to wake her up the next morning. "Ellie! Wake up."
Ellie opened her eyes and stared at her brother. "What?"
"Look...Look at this..." Ethan put a news paper in front of her face. "We are stars!"
Ellie took the paper and looked at it. It was the sports seaction and there was a picture of Ellie and Ethan from the night before. The article told about the three girls who made the Olympic team. It also had pictures of all of them with their coaches and friends after they won. The picture of Ellie and Ethan was perfect and they looked so much alike in it, even though it was a black and white photo.
"Pretty cool there Ethan." Ellie said handing the paper back to him. "Now let me get back to sleep!"
"Okay sis." Ethan said. He then went back to admiring the picture.
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Two nights later, it was time for the Exhibition of all the Olympic contenders. Ellie loved exhibitions, it was the time she could go free with her skating, and if she fell, who cared? There were no judges. Not to mention she was going to try something very unique in her exhibition program that night.
Ellie watched the Nicole skate to her program of "Quit Playin' Games With My Heart" by the Backstreet Boys. It was pretty interesting to watch. Nicole was an awesome skater. Ellie heard that she could do a triple axel, and may even be doing it in the Olympic Games, but she did not do it at Nationals so she could for sure get a place on the Olympic team.
"Hey Maire..." Ellie heard a voice say. She turned around and saw Jason Storm, the silver medalist in the Men's divison and her old rink-mate, standing there.
"Hey Jason." Ellie said shyly. She had not seen him since she moved back home from Texas. They trained together and even thought about going into pair skating together, but decided against the idea. Jason was only nineteen years old, but one of the best male figure skaters that she had ever met. Jason was tall and muscular, he had shady blonde hair and goregous blue eyes. Ellie thought he was just plain out hot, but they were just friends. "How are you?"
"Pretty good." He smiled at her.
"Not the smile...Not the smile..." Ellie thought to herself. His smile was awesome and it just made her melt.
"I haven't seen you in a while." Jason said as he sat down next to her on a chair. "Its been so strange around the rink without you."
"Yeah, I missed you too." Ellie said.
Jason leaned closer to her. "Is it cool to call you 'Ellie' in public, or is that still a no?" He whispered.
Ellie laughed. She used to kick Jason whenever he would call her by her first name at competitons. She used to only let a very few people call her "Ellie' but that was all different now. "Its alright. Everyone knows my first name."
"Oh, okay." Jason said. "So how have you been?"
"Good." Ellie told him. "You?"
"I've been alright." He replied. "So when are you leaving?"
"Sometime tomorrow." Ellie replied.
"Oh..." Jason said. "Are you going to an other competitions this year?"
"A couple...why?" She replied.
"Just wondering." Jason said quickly.
They talked a few more minutes. Pretty much about nothing, but Ellie thought it was nice to talk to him again.
"Jason!" Jerry called from the door. "You're on next!"
"Coming." Jason called. He then turned back to Ellie. "You'll watch me, right?"
Ellie smiled. "Of course I will."
Jason smiled at her once more. "And how about a hug for good luck?"
"Alright." Ellie said as she stood up and gave Jason a hug.
"Thanks." Jason said. He then left the locker room.
Ellie sat back down and smiled. For once he was the one who asked her for a hug. She was the one who normally asked for a hug or something before she went to do a program or something.
Her attention then turned back to the monitor as she watched Jason get onto the ice. The crowd loved him as you could tell by all the cheering. He began his program of, "Tearin' Up My Heart" by Nsync. It was a very interesting program, he had a quad toe loop and a quad salchow in the program. He had been named the "Quad Prince" since he thought the quad was such an easy jump for him.
"Hey girl." Taylor said as she sat down next to Ellie as she watched Jason skate.
"Hey Taylor." Ellie said.
"Nice costume." Taylor said looking at Ellie's outfit for her routine. "What exactly are you going to do?"
Ellie looked down at her outfit. It was a a pair of tight black pants and metallic green spagetti strap tank top. She laughed. "Just guess."
Taylor rolled her eyes. "Never mind...I know...I know." She said.
"When are you going to skate?" Ellie asked.
"Right after Caley Philips and Thomas Andrews." Taylor told her. She could tell by the look on Ellie face that she had no idea who the pair was. "You know, that ice dancing pair who won the bronze."
"Oh yeah." Ellie said.
Taylor and Ellie watched Jason finish up his program on the monitor.
"Damn that boy is fine." Taylor said.
"You could say that I guess." Ellie said, not wanting anyone to know that she thought he was hot.
Taylor gave Ellie a look like she knew something. "Okay Ellie."
The two girls continued to talk as they watched the other skaters preform. Taylor was called to go do her program about fifteen minutes later. Ellie then decided to go finsih getting herself ready since she would be going on pretty soon; She was the second to last to go for the exhibition.
Ellie tied her wavy hair into a half ponytail and then checked her make-up to make sure it still looked alright. She then took her black skates and laced them up. She was soon called to get to the carpeted area. She looked at herself in the mirror one final time and smiled. She was so ready to skate her new exhibition program she made up a long time ago, and was now ready to show it to everyone.
Ellie waited while she watched Heather Sallor and John Beyer, the gold medal winners in pair skating, finished their program. They soon got off the ice and both of them wished Ellie luck. Ellie was then told to get onto the ice.
"Skating next is the new US champion...Maire Craft!" The speaker announced.
Ellie smiled as she skated out to the center of the ice. She got really excited, she had the attiude, the outfit, and a great crowd. She knew she would do a wonderful job with her program. She crossed one foot over the other and then began to look down.
The music to Britney Spears, "You Drive Me Crazy" began and Ellie immeditatly began skating to the upbeat song. She really got the crowd going with the sassy way she skated to the song. She did her fancy footwork, as well as her favorite jumps and spins. For her final jump, which was supposed to be a triple salchow was going to be a little different.
Ellie skated backwards and then sprang into the air, but instead of rotating three times, she prefectly rotated four times and landed it prefectly. She finally landed the quad salchow which was something she had been working on for three years.
Ellie finally ended her prefectly skated program. The music ended and Ellie just stood on the ice with her hands abover her head, watching as all of the audience cheered for her. She then jumped up in the air; she was so excited that she finally landed her first quad outside of practice.
Ellie waved and blew kisses to the crowd. She loved the crowd's reaction that she always got after she skated. She then got off the ice and was greeted by Jason.
"Was that a quad I saw you do on the monitor?" Jason asked.
"It sure was." Ellie smiled as she sat down on a nearby bench to put her skate guards on.
"You do that a couple more times and you may get the title of 'Quad Princess'." Jason teased her.
Ellie and Jason began to walk back to the locker room when they were stopped by ABC sports news. Ellie was asked to do a quick interview.
"Welcome back, I am standing here with Maire Craft who has just become the first female skater to land a quadrupile salchow in the public eye." Jennifer (blonde reporter lady) said. She turned to Ellie was smiled when it was mentioned that she landed a quad. "Now, how long have you been working on this jump?"
"About three years." Ellie replied.
"Do you think you may have a quad in your program at the Olympics in February?" Jennifer pressed on.
Ellie shook her head. "No, the quad for me is just a fun jump, I don't think I will have it in my program unless times come to drastic measures." Ellie said.
Ellie wrapped up the interview fairly quickly. She was happy to land the quad, but she wasn't a show off about these kinds of thing.
Ellie then had to run backstage to quickly change into a red, white and blue striped shirt and then booket back from the dressing room to get on the ice for the grand finale, which all the champions where to take part in.
When the night was finally over, Ellie still tried to convince herself that she was not dreaming. Everything was going to prefectly, but she was happy that everything was going her way for once. She only wondered what the downfall would be.
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Well there you go! I promise to poast the next chapter sometime this week. I am getting so many more ideas for this story. And it will fully cover the Olympic games. Well love ya all!
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The speaker crackled again. "5.8, 5.8, 5.7, 5.8, 5.9, 5.9, 5.8."
Ellie's eyes widened as she saw her scores flash across the monitor. She got so excited.
"Performance...5.9, 5.8, 5.8, 5.9, 5.7, 6.0, 5.9." The speaker announced. "Judges standings...1st, 1st, 2nd, 1st, 1st, 2nd, 2nd. Current placement: 1st."
Ellie squealed with excitement as she saw the rest of her scores go across. She got even more excited when she found out she was in first place. She jumped up and hugged her coach. With Taylor being the last skater to go she knew that she won a medal...But would it be her first US title...or a silver medal?
Ellie put her skate guards on and went back to the locker room to find Lizzie and Ethan. She found them right where she thought they would be.
"Ellie! You did it!" Lizzie exclaimed hugging her friend. "You are going to the Olympics!"
"Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh!" Ellie screamed. She jumped up and down for a moment. She then calmed down when she noticed how much of a spaz she was being.
"Calm down there!" Lizzie teased.
"I'm sorry I just needed to spaz out when I wasn't in front of the camera." Ellie laughed. She then turned to her brother.
"Ellie!" He picked her up and hugged her. "I'm so proud of you!"
"Thanks Ethan!" Ellie said as Ethan set her down. "I could not have done it without your little pep talk."
"Glad I could help." Ethan said smiling at his twin.
"Come on!" Lizzie said. "Lets watch Taylor skate."
They all watched Taylor skate on the small monitor in the locker room. Taylor skated very well. But on the last jump of her program, she rotated it beautifully, but skid a little on the landing. Her program ended, and Ellie waited to see Taylor's scores. She was nervous. Which color medal would she be getting? Silver...or Gold?
Since the monitor in the locker room had no sound, Ellie had to wait for the scores to be shown across the bottom of the screen. She looked at the scores, but did not add them up quickly enough...But finally it showed that her marks were only high enough for 2nd place.
"Ellie...You won the gold!" Ethan said.
Ellie sat there for a moment. "I won...I won...I won my first US title!" Ellie exclaimed. She was so excited. She had waited for a gold medal in anything for a long time...she always got silver or bronze since she had been in the senior group of skaters. "Oh my gosh! I can't believe it!" She jumped up and spun around.
Ethan put his hands on her shoulders to calm her down. "Its okay Ellie...Breath..."
Ellie laughed. "Okay...okay..." She sat down on the bench.
Jerry then came into the locker room. "Okay...Ellie and Nicole come on. Time for you to get back on the ice."
Ellie stood up again and left the locker room with Nicole Parker, who won the bronze. Ellie smiled at her. "Hey, congradulations girl."
"Thanks Ellie." Nicole smiled back. Nicole was one of those people who was beautiful on the inside, and the out. Ellie never saw her get angry at anyone, and even when she was having an awful day, you could never tell just by talking to her. She was eighteen and had dark red hair and green eyes, and her smile made her face light up. "You skated a really awesome program, and after that fall you took...wow...You are amazing."
"Thanks Nicole." Ellie smiled. They stepped out onto the carpeted area where they met Taylor.
Taylor hugged both of them as they got there. "You guys did great tonight!" She told them. "Next stop for all three of us...The Olympics!"
"I know!" Nicole smiled. "Aren't you excited?"
"Very." Taylor and Ellie said together. They all continued to talk for a few more minutes.
Jerry came over and broke up their little pow-wow. "Okay girls...we are setting up the podium right now. Nicole you go on first...Then Taylor...and then Ellie. You know wave to the crowd and everything. You girls know how it is done. And be ready for a lot of pictures. So remember to smile."
"Alright." They all smiled at him.
They waited a few more minutes. The news reporters were not to speak to the girls so they could get onto the podium on time. Finally they told the girls they had everything set up.
The speaker crackled. "Winner of the bronze medal...Nicole Parker!"
Nicole skated onto the center of the ice and she then stopped while she smiled and waved to the fans. She then proceeded to the podium.
"Here is your silver medalist...Taylor Johnson!" The speaker announced.
Taylor had her usual huge smile on her face as she skated onto the ice and waved to the crowd. She also stopped center ice and waved to the crowd and bowed. Ellie knew she loved every minute she was on the ice. Taylor then skated towards the poduim.
"And now...The 2005 United States National Champion...Maire Craft!" The speaker announed.
Ellie smiled and glided to the center of the ice. She stopped and waved to the fans. She noticed how mainly of them were on their feet cheering. She loved it. She then went over to the podium and shook Nicole's and Taylor's hands. She then got up on the top podium to recieve her medal.
Ellie smiled as she watched Taylor and Nicole reciever their medals. Then it was time for her to recieve her first gold. She bent her medal down and the medal was placed around her neck. They all were given yellow flowers.
"Here are the US champions...and The three Ladies who will be representing the UNited States of America at the 2006 Olympic games this winter." The announed told the crowd.
Ellie felt like she was dreaming as she looked around the arena. She was going to the Olympics.
All of the girls stood on the podium as they held their flowers and they heard their National Anthem. When the anthem was over the girls once again smiled and waved to the crowd. They all got up on the top podium as the press continued to take pictures.
"Hey...On the count of three, blow a kiss." Nicole suggested.
"Okay." Ellie said. Taylor just giggled.
"One...two...three." Nicole said and all three girls blew a kiss to the crowd.
About ten minutes later, the girls got off the ice only to get jumped by several sports and newspaper reporters. Ellie and Taylor got pulled to the side by ABC news for a quick interview.
"Welcome back. I am standing here with the gold and silver medalists, Taylor Johnson and Maire Craft." Jennifer (the news reporter) said to the camera and then turned to the girl. "Hi girls how are you doing?"
"Pretty good." Taylor and Ellie said, but not in unison.
"Now, how does it feel to be on the Olympic skating team?" Jennifer asked.
"It feels awesome." Taylor said. "We both talked about how awesome it would be to make the Olympic teams, but it is so much better than I ever thought."
"Oh yeah." Ellie added.
"Now, you two were expected to win this competition and I think that people now are probably thinking that you two will be on the podium at the Olympics as well." Jennifer told them. "What do you have to say about that?"
"That is one of things we hope to do, maybe even a clean sweep this year, but its one of those things were anything can happen so no one should get the idea that two medals have already been taken." Ellie said.
"And it is one of those things we all want to win, but don't want to go around and get a huge ego about it and then do something to mess up." Taylor said. "We are taking it one day at a time right now and just praying for the best."
"Well good luck to you this season." Jennifer told them to end the report.
"Thank you." They said and then walked off to go find their friends.
"Don't you think it is really crazy people already think we are going to win at the Olympics already? I mean, we just made the team." Taylor said.
"Really crazy." Ellie agreed.
"But, I think you and Nicole are the two best people to be going to the Winter Games with." Taylor smiled at her teammate.
"Thanks Taylor." Ellie said. "I was just about to say the same thing." She was really glad that the other two skaters on the team were Nicole and Taylor.
Ellie ended up getting jumped by a newspaper reporter shortly after she had met up with Ethan and Lizzie again. The whole night was crazy...But a night that Ellie would remember the rest of her life. And if making the Olympic team was this awesome, she only thought about how much better it would be if she actually won a medal.
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"Ellie!" Ethan shook her to wake her up the next morning. "Ellie! Wake up."
Ellie opened her eyes and stared at her brother. "What?"
"Look...Look at this..." Ethan put a news paper in front of her face. "We are stars!"
Ellie took the paper and looked at it. It was the sports seaction and there was a picture of Ellie and Ethan from the night before. The article told about the three girls who made the Olympic team. It also had pictures of all of them with their coaches and friends after they won. The picture of Ellie and Ethan was perfect and they looked so much alike in it, even though it was a black and white photo.
"Pretty cool there Ethan." Ellie said handing the paper back to him. "Now let me get back to sleep!"
"Okay sis." Ethan said. He then went back to admiring the picture.
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Two nights later, it was time for the Exhibition of all the Olympic contenders. Ellie loved exhibitions, it was the time she could go free with her skating, and if she fell, who cared? There were no judges. Not to mention she was going to try something very unique in her exhibition program that night.
Ellie watched the Nicole skate to her program of "Quit Playin' Games With My Heart" by the Backstreet Boys. It was pretty interesting to watch. Nicole was an awesome skater. Ellie heard that she could do a triple axel, and may even be doing it in the Olympic Games, but she did not do it at Nationals so she could for sure get a place on the Olympic team.
"Hey Maire..." Ellie heard a voice say. She turned around and saw Jason Storm, the silver medalist in the Men's divison and her old rink-mate, standing there.
"Hey Jason." Ellie said shyly. She had not seen him since she moved back home from Texas. They trained together and even thought about going into pair skating together, but decided against the idea. Jason was only nineteen years old, but one of the best male figure skaters that she had ever met. Jason was tall and muscular, he had shady blonde hair and goregous blue eyes. Ellie thought he was just plain out hot, but they were just friends. "How are you?"
"Pretty good." He smiled at her.
"Not the smile...Not the smile..." Ellie thought to herself. His smile was awesome and it just made her melt.
"I haven't seen you in a while." Jason said as he sat down next to her on a chair. "Its been so strange around the rink without you."
"Yeah, I missed you too." Ellie said.
Jason leaned closer to her. "Is it cool to call you 'Ellie' in public, or is that still a no?" He whispered.
Ellie laughed. She used to kick Jason whenever he would call her by her first name at competitons. She used to only let a very few people call her "Ellie' but that was all different now. "Its alright. Everyone knows my first name."
"Oh, okay." Jason said. "So how have you been?"
"Good." Ellie told him. "You?"
"I've been alright." He replied. "So when are you leaving?"
"Sometime tomorrow." Ellie replied.
"Oh..." Jason said. "Are you going to an other competitions this year?"
"A couple...why?" She replied.
"Just wondering." Jason said quickly.
They talked a few more minutes. Pretty much about nothing, but Ellie thought it was nice to talk to him again.
"Jason!" Jerry called from the door. "You're on next!"
"Coming." Jason called. He then turned back to Ellie. "You'll watch me, right?"
Ellie smiled. "Of course I will."
Jason smiled at her once more. "And how about a hug for good luck?"
"Alright." Ellie said as she stood up and gave Jason a hug.
"Thanks." Jason said. He then left the locker room.
Ellie sat back down and smiled. For once he was the one who asked her for a hug. She was the one who normally asked for a hug or something before she went to do a program or something.
Her attention then turned back to the monitor as she watched Jason get onto the ice. The crowd loved him as you could tell by all the cheering. He began his program of, "Tearin' Up My Heart" by Nsync. It was a very interesting program, he had a quad toe loop and a quad salchow in the program. He had been named the "Quad Prince" since he thought the quad was such an easy jump for him.
"Hey girl." Taylor said as she sat down next to Ellie as she watched Jason skate.
"Hey Taylor." Ellie said.
"Nice costume." Taylor said looking at Ellie's outfit for her routine. "What exactly are you going to do?"
Ellie looked down at her outfit. It was a a pair of tight black pants and metallic green spagetti strap tank top. She laughed. "Just guess."
Taylor rolled her eyes. "Never mind...I know...I know." She said.
"When are you going to skate?" Ellie asked.
"Right after Caley Philips and Thomas Andrews." Taylor told her. She could tell by the look on Ellie face that she had no idea who the pair was. "You know, that ice dancing pair who won the bronze."
"Oh yeah." Ellie said.
Taylor and Ellie watched Jason finish up his program on the monitor.
"Damn that boy is fine." Taylor said.
"You could say that I guess." Ellie said, not wanting anyone to know that she thought he was hot.
Taylor gave Ellie a look like she knew something. "Okay Ellie."
The two girls continued to talk as they watched the other skaters preform. Taylor was called to go do her program about fifteen minutes later. Ellie then decided to go finsih getting herself ready since she would be going on pretty soon; She was the second to last to go for the exhibition.
Ellie tied her wavy hair into a half ponytail and then checked her make-up to make sure it still looked alright. She then took her black skates and laced them up. She was soon called to get to the carpeted area. She looked at herself in the mirror one final time and smiled. She was so ready to skate her new exhibition program she made up a long time ago, and was now ready to show it to everyone.
Ellie waited while she watched Heather Sallor and John Beyer, the gold medal winners in pair skating, finished their program. They soon got off the ice and both of them wished Ellie luck. Ellie was then told to get onto the ice.
"Skating next is the new US champion...Maire Craft!" The speaker announced.
Ellie smiled as she skated out to the center of the ice. She got really excited, she had the attiude, the outfit, and a great crowd. She knew she would do a wonderful job with her program. She crossed one foot over the other and then began to look down.
The music to Britney Spears, "You Drive Me Crazy" began and Ellie immeditatly began skating to the upbeat song. She really got the crowd going with the sassy way she skated to the song. She did her fancy footwork, as well as her favorite jumps and spins. For her final jump, which was supposed to be a triple salchow was going to be a little different.
Ellie skated backwards and then sprang into the air, but instead of rotating three times, she prefectly rotated four times and landed it prefectly. She finally landed the quad salchow which was something she had been working on for three years.
Ellie finally ended her prefectly skated program. The music ended and Ellie just stood on the ice with her hands abover her head, watching as all of the audience cheered for her. She then jumped up in the air; she was so excited that she finally landed her first quad outside of practice.
Ellie waved and blew kisses to the crowd. She loved the crowd's reaction that she always got after she skated. She then got off the ice and was greeted by Jason.
"Was that a quad I saw you do on the monitor?" Jason asked.
"It sure was." Ellie smiled as she sat down on a nearby bench to put her skate guards on.
"You do that a couple more times and you may get the title of 'Quad Princess'." Jason teased her.
Ellie and Jason began to walk back to the locker room when they were stopped by ABC sports news. Ellie was asked to do a quick interview.
"Welcome back, I am standing here with Maire Craft who has just become the first female skater to land a quadrupile salchow in the public eye." Jennifer (blonde reporter lady) said. She turned to Ellie was smiled when it was mentioned that she landed a quad. "Now, how long have you been working on this jump?"
"About three years." Ellie replied.
"Do you think you may have a quad in your program at the Olympics in February?" Jennifer pressed on.
Ellie shook her head. "No, the quad for me is just a fun jump, I don't think I will have it in my program unless times come to drastic measures." Ellie said.
Ellie wrapped up the interview fairly quickly. She was happy to land the quad, but she wasn't a show off about these kinds of thing.
Ellie then had to run backstage to quickly change into a red, white and blue striped shirt and then booket back from the dressing room to get on the ice for the grand finale, which all the champions where to take part in.
When the night was finally over, Ellie still tried to convince herself that she was not dreaming. Everything was going to prefectly, but she was happy that everything was going her way for once. She only wondered what the downfall would be.
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Well there you go! I promise to poast the next chapter sometime this week. I am getting so many more ideas for this story. And it will fully cover the Olympic games. Well love ya all!