AN: For some reason, the document manager's acting up. So, sorry if the spacing looks different. For this chapter, thoughts will be 'thought' instead of italicized if the italics don't show up.
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Despite the late night, Leon had gotten to the stage early in the morning.
He built up speed and then smoothly bent into a tight ball as he spun in the air and then curled out of it at just the right moment to deftly land on one foot and skated along as if he hadn't just pulled that off.
"That was a pretty cool move."
He smirked as his back was to the speaker. "I wondered when you would speak."
Sitting in the audience seating closest to the stage, Sora sheepishly grinned at having been caught watching him practice for the past ten minutes. I thought I came in quietly.
Apparently, she hadn't.
"I didn't want to interrupt." She stood up to the divider of the ice rink and the audience as he skated over to her. "To my defense, this isn't your allotted practice time."
"Hm," he placed his palms along the top of the divider and leaned in, the angle making him tower over her not as much as he would have had he been standing straight. "I would not have expected you to be nit-picky about the practice times."
"I'm usually not," she said a little distracted with his face being very close to hers. "But May doesn't like to share practice space; hence the schedule."
"I don't mind sharing the space."
She rolled her eyes at him. "You're willing to share my practice time? You're too generous."
"I can be generous," he lowly stated, "when the occasion calls for it."
He gave her a slow smirk though it didn't look quite as intimidating as it usually did. No, it was anything but unapproachable, judging by the way she stepped closer to him. He, in turn, skated back a little while still looking at her. To his satisfaction, she already had her skates on so he didn't have to wait for her to do so.
She went to the opening in the divider and slowly skated towards him, to which he skated backwards but was only a few feet away. She sped up a little to catch up, as he expected her to do, however, when she reached him, she skated in a wide arch to get ahead of him. His head followed the motion and he felt amusement when she continued to speed up and away from him, but only a few feet ahead.
She languidly made waves in the ice. Her head turned back and a brown eye merrily laughed at him.
You want to tease, do you?
Well, he didn't need to be told twice.
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