Hux felt elated as he glided around the rink. Finn gripped Hux's arm tightly; it actually made it more difficult for them both to skate, but Hux didn't mind.

"You're doing well so far."

Finn chuckled softly and tried to stand up a bit straighter, only to wobble a bit and grip onto Hux's arm tighter. "You sure about that?"

Hux nodded. "Of course I am, here," he moved out in front of Finn, still holding onto Finn's hands and turned so that he was skating backward. "Stand up straighter and don't worry, I won't let you fall."

You're doing pretty well there casanova.

'Stop distracting me,' Hux chastized. He would have glared at the image of the supercomputer, but he didn't want to freak Finn out.

I'm giving you a compliment. Say, thank you.

Hux resisted the urge to roll his eyes and focused back in on Finn. Finn still had a tight grip on his hands, and he looked down at his feet.

"You have to stop bringing your knees together," he said, "you'll never get your balance if you don't stop."

"How did you get so good at skating?" Finn asked suddenly.

"Oh, uh...I went out to places like this when I was younger," he lied, and this time he did glance over at where Kylo would be. The supercomputer gave him a thumbs up.

"That must have been fun." Finn tried to stand up straight, but his poor balance still made that problematic. "I didn't get to go out to a lot of places when I was younger."

"Oh...what did you do then?"

Finn looked at him, and Hux thought that he saw a frown pull at the other's lips. But he wasn't sure, and it was soon gone from Finn's face.

"Ah," Finn tried to shrug but nearly fell. Hux had to steady him. "Mostly stayed home...it wasn't too bad though with my like...three brothers. We always got up to something."

"You have three brothers?"

Hux couldn't imagine it; he couldn't imagine having one sibling, much less three of them.

"That must have been...fun..."

"Yeah..."

They fell into a weird silence, and Hux wondered if he had crossed some invisible line.

'Do something!'

Ask him about the play.

"Um...how's the play going?"

Kylo floated behind Finn, and Hux could see it roll its eyes.

Finn raised an eyebrow at the question. "Um...fine? I mean, I think the way the teacher is pushing this...alien thing, or whatever is ridiculous. But if you're going to make Shakespeare more interesting, I guess."

Hux groaned. "I do not understand why they couldn't just...do a normal version of the play?"

Finn hummed, "Well...there are a lot of versions of the plays. I guess it makes sense that the teacher wants one of their own."

"I still don't see much of a point."

"Are you just saying that because you're on costumes?" Finn grinned.

"Excuse me?"

"Well, a space setting would put a lot of work on you guys."

Hux scoffed; in all honesty, Dopheld and the others had been doing most of the work, but Hux didn't want to give the impression that he was lazy since he most certainly wasn't. He just had other priorities.

"Oh please, I'm not-"

"You two seem to be having fun."

Rose and Rey had skated up next to them. Rey seemed to have more of a handle on it at this point. She still held onto Rose's hand and wobbled a bit, but she seemed much more balanced than Finn was at the moment.

"Oh yeah," Finn nodded. "Hux is a good teacher."

Rey and Rose shared a look for a brief moment.

"Here, let's switch," Rey said suddenly, and before Hux could say anything, Rose and Finn had switched places.

You would think Rey and Finn would switch instead of Rose and Finn.

Hux ignored it and watched as Finn and Rey skated off, wobble all the way as they went. He looked down at Rose, who didn't seem all that happy to be skating with him.

"I'm surprised you're still here," she said.

Hux slowed his own movements. "Why is that?"

She shrugged and let go of his hand, moving in a circle around him. "Usually, when someone's boyfriend or girlfriend gets hurt or has to leave, they go with them."

Hux narrowed his eyes at her. He had the faint urge to correct her, Dopheld wasn't his boyfriend, but...well, he could feel Kylo staring at him, even though Hux was sure it was impossible. But he didn't want to get shocked again.

"Dopheld said he didn't need me to take him home."

"It's still weird, I think."

Hux nearly told her off, but Kylo stopped him.

Okay, you should go.

'What, why?'

Just like I knew, Dopheld would get knocked into and go home. I now know that this is as good as we're going to get for today. So, we should go.

Hux didn't understand why the supercomputer was being so insistent. He certainly didn't see any reason why he should leave right this moment. He looked over to where Finn and Rey were; they were laughing together about something, and then Hux watched as Finn slipped and fell on his butt. Rey slipped and fell no too long after.

"Why were you so eager to switch?"

"I wasn't eager."

Hello, Hux, I said, let's go.

"You didn't put up much protest."

Rose folded her arms. "Once Rey sets her mind to an idea, it's hard to talk her out of it."

Hux could feel his legs start to move again and frowned. 'What are you doing?'

I said, let's go. I'm trying to look out for you, you know that?

"The idea that she wants to fall on the ice?" Hux couldn't stop himself from glaring at Rose this time around. She stuck her tongue out at him.

Kylo moved Hux to the edge so that Hux could exit the rink. 'Am I going to say goodbye?'

They know you're not the type for that kind of thing.

Hux couldn't deny that, but he did want to say something to Finn at the very least. He did want him to think that he was rude. Hux thought he could feel Kylo sigh, oddly, but he didn't mention it. He took off his skates and went to return them. He turned to scan the rink once more, trying to find where Finn had gone off to.

He spotted him, still with Rey, on the opposite side of the rink with Rose quickly joining them.

You don't have to say goodbye, Finn isn't going to hold it against you. He's an understanding guy.

'What is with you,' Hux thought.

Just then, he saw another group of three walk up to the trio, two girls and one...Hux narrowed his eyes.

"Dameron."

Poe Dameron was another schoolmate that Hux didn't talk to but he a great dislike for him. Hux considered him loud and arrogant, so of course, he was pretty popular around the school. Hux watched as Dameron and his...friends, whatever, started up a conversation with Rose, Rey, and Finn. He could see that Dameron zeroed in on Finn and looked like he was trying to smoodge up to him. He couldn't tell if it was working or not.

Well, look, now your mood is ruined.

'Shut up.' Hux turned around and left.

the two with poe at the end are supposed to be jannah and zorii