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Chapter 8

Friday

It was the day before Max's audition and I decided to take her out to an ice rink to calm her nervousness.

I drove to her house and picked her up.

"So how's your routine so far?"

"I think it's ok but what if I mess up tomorrow or what if the judges don't like it!"

"Max calm down you'll do fine."

We just kept talking about how she would do in the audition until we got to the ice rink.

We paid for the rentals and went to put them on. After cramming our feet into the skates, we went into the rink.

I went on the ice and started skating until I noticed that Max wasn't in the ice rink.

"Why aren't you skating?"

I saw Max blush and heard her say "I don't really know how to skate."

"You, the girl who can dance gracefully on the ground, can't do the same on the ice.

"Shut it and help me."

I went toward her and helped her on to the ice. She was right. Her feet kept shaking from the unbalance with her blades on the ice.

I held on to her hand and started skating.

"Nick stop going too fast I'm going to fall."

I didn't say anything and just kept on skating until I felt her hand come out of mine.

I looked back to see Max on the ice looking kind of mad. I skated toward her and was putting my hand toward hers to help her back up.

I saw Max starting to smile and took my hand but instead of me helping her up, she pulled me down to the freezing ice,cold rink.

She started laughing and tried to stand up but failed due to her inexperience at ice skating. So instead I stood up and helped her up as well.

We started skating again and gradually she got better at it but we still held hands, enjoying the warmth of each other.

After an hour of skating we decided to stop and go home.

We gave back the ice skates and went to the car. I drove her to her house and walked her up the steps.

This time I kissed her and nothing went wrong unlike past experiences.

"Thanks for doing this Nick. I feel so much better about tomorrow."

"No problem."

I waited for her to get inside the house.

I went back in to the car and started driving back home glad that Max felt less nervous about the audition.

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