Chapter 2:
Routines
"Oh no! My routine is so complicated and long! I'm never going to learn it in a month!" Hika cried.
But she knew she just wanted someone to talk to.
She tried talking to her mother but she was busy and her father was on a business trip and wouldn't be home for several days.
Hika learned her routine surprisingly quickly.
She memorized in even less time.
Her competition was 3 weeks away now.
She needed to get better at all her tumbling and her slide to the floor move and her leap pass.
She was excited and nervous a few days before this her coach had said "It's good to be nervous. You'll be better that way."
Somehow Hika didn't think that was true.
Hika practiced and practiced and after 2 weeks of practicing she got all of her stuff down good.
Her coach told her. "Go home and rest. You're going to need it with the competition in 3 days."
"3 DAYS!" Hika yelled. "I thought it was in a week!"
"They changed it because 1 of the judges could not be there on that day." siad her coach.
Hika went home and told her mother.
Then Hika went ot her room.
She worried and worried.
She was very nervous about the competition and she didn't know how to get over it.
What ever she tried meditating ,reading, writing, eating, nothing helped.
She practiced in the morning her poses that were in her floor routine, she practiced the routines in the afternoon and slept through dinner again and through the night.
She did this repeatedly until the day of the competition came.