its Christmas eve, and will soon be Christmas! hi everyone, ive been gone for a long time, i'm still alive. for Christmas i bring to you a new chapter for Ice princess. I have had a serious case of extreme lazyness and writers block. the two make a bad combination. haha This fic is just about coming to an end. I am currently working on chapter 20 so you wont have to wait too long for that to come out. anyway if you forgot what happened you can reread over the last chapter.

The bell rang Friday to dismiss all the freshman though junior students Clementine stayed at her desk. She had been stressed out all week, and spent half her Saturday and all of her day Sunday studying for finals, while stressing over Nick leaving. She told everyone over and over that she was doing fine, but deep down she wasn't. While she was at school she avoided talking to everyone unless she absolutely had to, and when class let out early for the day, she would rush home on her skates and take an alternate path to avoid running into other people she knew. thankfully Jane wasn't going to be at school for the final remaining days and that made her feel somewhat relived. Friday had came, and Clementine had just finished her last final. The students all stared to pile up at the door anxiously waiting for Mrs. H to dismiss them. Clementine slowly got up from her desk after she had put her skates on. she waited for all the students to leave out the door. Once it was clear Clementine waved to her teacher and skated out the classroom she moved left and right passing students and left the school skating down the alternate path. it was cold outside, and there where storm clouds closing in on her. she skated as fast as she could knowing that it was going to rain soon, and if it rained she would have to stop skating and call for a ride home. "Clementine?" Luke said as he pulled up beside her while she was waiting for the light to change so she could cross the street.

"hey Luke." Clementine turned her head in Luke's direction hearing him call her name.

"need a ride home?" Luke asked as he reached over to press the switch that unlocked all the doors. Clementine was just about to refuse his offer, until she felt a raindrops falling. She sighed under her breath , but smiled nodding her head in response to his question. she slowly coasted over to his car opening the door and got in. removing her skates and opened her backpack to get her shoes out so she could wear them.

"Thanks Luke, so how is Nick? I haven't seen him since..." Clementine turned her head looking out the window to peer out at the rain which fell down from the heavens at a steady pace covering the dry area.

"He's been kinda quiet lately. At graduation practice I looked back at his row and saw him biting his thumb staring off into the distance, normally when he does that it means hes thinking." Luke turned down Clementine's neighborhood driving up to her driveway beside Lee's car and parked his car. "I have a question to ask you."

"go ahead." Clementine said in a faint hushed tone. she never took her eyes from the window and avoided making eye contact with Luke.

"Are you coming to see us graduate tonight?" Luke asked. Clementine could feel him staring at the back of her head.

"yes, i'll be there, but really Luke, I just cant talk to Nick. I feel like if I start talking to him i'm going to break down and have a crying fit, and that's not what I want. I just want to see him cross the stage get his diploma and see him be happy, but once that happens i'm leaving, because if I stay i'm going to bring everyone's mood down with my crying." she reached up to pull her hood over her head, and grabbed the handle of the door pulling it up. she stepped out of the car.

"Thanks for the ride Luke, i'll see you later." Clementine quickly shut his door and jogged up her driveway to going inside her house. she closed the door a soft sighed escaped her lips as she leaned against the door rubbing the side of her head.

"is that you sweetpea!?" Lee called out from upstairs.

"yeah its me!" Clementine shouted back to him.

"Alright, can you bring me a water upstairs?"

"are your legs broken?"

"what? no" Lee started to laugh "if I don't get my water from you I will come break your legs." Lee said in a joking manor. Clementine laughed

"i'd like you to try old man, i'll bring you your water right now." Clementine walked into the kitchen and grabbed a water for Lee she went upstairs to her room and walked over to him handing the water to him taking a seat in a chair across from him at her desk. She gave him a mischievous grin. "here you go old man be careful not to break your wrist opening the top."

"ha ha very funny." Lee chuckled and reached up opening the water bottle he made a crack sound with his mouth "oh no! my wrist ahhh the agony! help." Lee and Clementine both laughed, there was never a dull moment with having Lee as a parent. "Thank you sweetpea, take a look at what was sent to you today from your grandparents." Lee handed her a box. Clementine opened the box her whole entire face lit up as she saw a pair of skates that had her name on them. They where white decorated with a beautiful light pink design.

"I remember mom had showed me these in a book before when in was little. she must have purchased them for me and saved them to give to me when I was able to fit them." she lifted a skate up and saw an outfit inside lifting it up.

"you could use this outfit for the Graduation performance." Lee said to her, and Clementine's facial expression dropped. she forgot that the principal called her to the office asking if she could perform just before graduation starts. she would be performing for an entire crowd of people. its was like a dream of hers to perform in front of a large crowd. Clementine stared at the designs of the outfit thinking to herself. she lowered the dress staring Lee in his brown eyes, she gave him a reluctant sigh and shrugged. She then ran her hand along the design of the skates.

"to be honest Lee I forgot all about the performance. I was so busy studying for finals trying to absorb all of what I learned my short time at this school, that I completely forgot, but yes this outfit will be perfect for my little show tonight." Clementine stood up walking over to her closet she grabbed a hanger hanging her outfit on a hook. "I think i am going to take a nap, i'm sort of tired from having to take test nonstop for the past week, you know I need a good nap before I hit the ice

"that's fine Clementine, just remember you have 5 hours before you would have to be there. if you sleep for more than 2 hours i'm coming to wake you up with a megaphone" Lee stood up and walked over the door. Clementine crossed her arms.

"why? because you will throw out your tonsils from being so old?" Clementine asked.

"exactly." Lee replied and chuckled leaving the room closing Clementine's door. Clementine stared down skates she put them on her desk and walked over to her bed laying onto it placing her phone on the charger. she stared at the window at the rain pouring hard onto the window.

"The rain is a fine example of how much I want to cry right now. I don't know why I keep crying, why I feel so weak. I should be happy for Nick, but deep down i'm not" Clementine said aloud. she then closed her eyes and fell asleep. having a dream about her current situation with Nick. Her dream gave her some sort of closure and made her accept what was going to happen. she woke up and got out of bed walking downstairs to Lee and Carley. "Hi mom, i just came down to say im awake, and I should start getting ready now." Clementine said to them and left back upstairs to go shower. After she finished her shower she got dressed into a casual outfit and blowdried her hair grabbing her flat iron to straiten her hair. Once she finished she packed her outfit, and skates and opened her computer finding a song she wanted to skate to.

"Are you almost ready?" Carley asked as she came in seeing Clementine holding the necklace Nick got for her.

"yes, i'm ready." Clementine picked up her bags following Carley out to the car she sat in the back listening to Lee and Carley talk about food. Clementine stared out the window at the sky a faint smile formed on her lips. she was excited to perform. She also wanted to be in a good mood, because if she wasn't it would effect the way she skated. Finally they arrived to the school and Clementine was allowed into the locker rooms. she put on her practice skates and went onto the arena skating around in laps picking up speed to see if she had stretched correctly before she gone onto the ice. Clementine saw the doors open and the principal enter the areana she skated over to the principal, and they talked about her performance. Once they had finished, clementine continued to warm up and skate around the ring, as soon as guest started to fill in the seats she left to go change into her uniform, and get ready for the event. Once she finished she stood in the doorway seeing every seat was taken with parents, and families, there where even people standing around the ring. The only empty section was for the students who where graduating. Sarah walked over to Clementine from her seat on the bottom row since she was going to do a speech for all the seniors.

"wow you look beautiful." Sarah said to her, her big brown eyes blinked through her thick red glasses.

"Thank you Sarah, I find it strange that the students are graduating the ice arena."

"It's what we do every year Clem, the reason is because it is always raining during graduation, So the principal said why get when we could freeze our butts off instead. so now we have it here." Sarah pushed the rim of her glasses with her finger.

"I would rather be cold than have my clothes soaked and wet, its not really that could outside the ice anyway." Clementine stopped talking as the principal spoke. he called her name and she gave Sarah a pat on the back before she entered the ice ring and went down to do her usual prayer to her parents. The arena was now Silent. Clementine waited for her music to start which was quick paced. Clementine felt that if this was going to be her last performance for Nick, she wanted to show him and everyone else a performance they would never forget with tricks spins and things to keep the audience on their feet. She wanted it to have the audience feel good instead of emotional like her performance against Jane. "here we go." Clementine mumbled. She stood there waiting for the music to start as it did it was slow and elegant. Clementine moved around the ice in an elegant way she looked out at the audience all around her as she occasionally spun around once while skating towards all the seniors sitting in the specific spot. she noticed that there was a television crew filming her, she felt excited, and felt her heart nearly skip a beat, however she didn't take her focus form her performance. she skated over to the seniors and the music stopped along with herself. Clementine shouted the schools name and the year of their graduation to the top of her lungs in a microphone that she had switched on. all the seniors went wild. Clementine turned her back to them and she pumped her arms in the air to get the senior crowd and the audience to go wild, as she pumped she kept a same rhythm only because she was counting in her head when her song was going to start up again. she took off at full speed the second the music started playing. it was jazzy and quick, she chose a good beat to get the audience all in a good mood. Clementine did trick after trick keeping the audience on their toes and cheering for her. she skated over to the seniors again and did her famous tornado spin spinning as fast as she could, but this time she lost track of her sights and started to spin uncontrollably until she slowed down with the music she marched on the ice with her feet in place and reached up pressing the button to use the mic again and speak. "we are the class of!?"

"2015!" the audience and graduates shouted and once Clementine dropped to the ground doing the splits the entire audience went wild. Clementine smiled ignoring the ice cold feeling got back onto her feet she waved to everyone and passed the tv cameras skating to the exit of the arena where Carley and Lee stood going to greet her. Clementine skated into their arms excited. They left the arena and the principal spoke calming the audience down.

"alright everyone give Clementine one more round of applause and lets get this show on the road." the principal said and Clementine waved to everyone and went to the locker room. She walked over to her locker, and sighed changing oufits she grabbed the bag with her skates and outfit and left out of the locker room going back to the arena to watch the ceremony. she cheered for all the graduates and stayed up until the point Nick crossed the stage, after that she pulled on both Lee, and Carley's hands.

"i'm ready to go." she turned around and slipped out of the door walking with lee and Carley.

"you should have at least stayed to say congratulations Clementine." Carley said to her and she shrugged.

"all I want is to get home." Clementine got into the car spending most of the trip in silence. once they got home she ate dinner and was about to go to sleep when she heard Lee call her name. she went downstairs to see a woman in a business suit sitting in the living room with Carley. "whos that?" Clementine asked Lee who waited for her at the bottom of the staircase.

"you will find out soon." Lee said to her, he reached out placing his hand on her back and walked her over to the woman. The woman at on the couch wearing a grey business suit she had a suitcase in her hands. a smile curved on her bright red lips as she met eyes with Clementine. Clementine smiled to her. "alright ladies you can start with your introductions." he said to them and the woman nodded her head deciding to speak first, but before the woman could speak Clementine recognized her.

"oh my god, you're Claire Park! you're a talent scout!"

"correct, since you already know who i am i wont take much of your time with why i am here. I mean its pretty obvious isnt it? After we saw the footage of you going against Jane at your school's event. My boss sent me here to offer you a spot at our school. As you may, or may not know we only seek students who are dedicated and have a talent that we know for sure will have them working their dream job. Clementine would you consider giving up your life here, and moving to California to attend school for Los Angeles school of performing arts? I spoke with your Carley, and Lee, they said if you want to go they would send you with me back to the campus where you will be living in a dorm on school grounds. There will be students on campus from ages 14 and up. You will be in our junior dorm section with staff members who are there to help take care of you, and once you turn 18 if you are still attending our school you will be moved to the adult dorms." As Claire spoke Clementine listened closely she thought about Nick and the rest of her friends. She knew Nick was going to be leaving across the states and he would probably move on and his feelings for her would pass. She also thought about Carley and Lee, they had been her guardians for so many years and raised her to be the girl she is today. They always told her if an opportunity came up that she should take it and they would be there to visit her as much as they could.

"I am honored that you have came to me. I really am Could i please contact you back and let you know my final answer? i just need time to talk with my parents, and think about everything." Clementine said to her. Claire nodded and gave Clementine her business card and a pamphlet. Clementine held onto it and reached out to shake Claire's hand she went upstairs to her room and sat down on her bed. "my dream is coming true, and so is Nicks, so why do i feel like i should turn this offer down?" she said to herself and laid down on her bed using her phone to shut off her lights. "i'll think about this once Nick leaves tomorrow. i should get some rest so i can meet Nick at the airport." Clementine grabbed onto her pillow falling asleep.

-end of chapter 19

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