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Tuesday went pretty much the same as Monday. Well, all the academic classes did. Once we got back to the ice skating rink, things were different. This time people expected me to be able to skate. Once I walked into the locker room everything went quiet. Lauren and Jessica were both glaring at me while all the other humans looked at me as if I was a monster. I didn't know what was going on, but I had my suspicions that Lauren had something to do with this. She was still pissed at me for my performance yesterday, I could tell that much from one look into her face. She wanted to be the best in the class and, because of me, she wasn't. I ignored them the best that I could, for once glad that figure skating was such a competitive sport. I had gotten used to this kind of treatment.
I went into my locker and was surprised by the site. Alice must have switched my clothes when we're here last night. Instead of my stretch jeans and lucky t-shirt I had a practice dress. It was a dress that I had bought right before the qualifiers. For once I wasn't mad at Alice for switching my clothes. The dress was beautiful but simple. It was long sleeved with a short skirt and made out of lime green spandex material. It was also covered in sparkles. What kind of skating outfit doesn't have sparkles?
"You're welcome!" Alice said to me. Who said I was going to say thank you? I smiled and rolled my eyes at her while grabbing my tights and making my way to change. The dress fit almost the exact same as the first time I put it on. The only difference was that some of the muscle I once had disappeared so it's just a tad loose. Of course, it wasn't so loose that anyone would notice. I walked back into the main portion of the locker room, once again ignoring the stairs I was getting.
"Leave it alone." I whispered to Rose as I put my hair up in a tight ballet bun, a lime green scrunchie wrapped around for decoration. She was about to protest so I just whispered don't. She nodded her consent but the glare was still on her face. I smiled in thanks before making my way into the rink. I wasn't ready to tell everyone I was Ellie Hart, but I knew it wouldn't be long before everyone knew my secret.
"Make sure eat you try and stay off you toe." Jackie instructed us, her eyes on Lauren when she said this. I couldn't help the small smirk playing on my lips. Jackie had corrected everyone, including the Cullen's, on something. Except me. And we were only 5 minutes into the lesson. Lauren saw the smirk that had formed on my face and sent me a glare that would have sent anyone else running. Unless you had competitive experience. Or have faced a bloodthirsty vampire. Or the met the Voulrti. Or had a newborn army lead by a psychopathic red head on the way to kill them. I just smiled back, not wavering in my foot work.
Jackie had decided that instead of working on jumps and spins right away we were going to perfect, or at least review, the basics. Meaning that we would be doing crossovers, turns, at edges, and stroking for at least the rest of the week. I didn't really mind doing these things. One reason was it kept me from having to do things that my hint at my secret identity. Two, it gave me time to think. Third, last but not least, I kind of needed to review. The practice was good for me after so long out of the game. I was lost in my thoughts when the sound of the body connecting to the ice startled me. I went into a One-Foot snowplow stop before turning to see what had happened.
"In that class, and is why we try to stay off the toe pick." Jackie said, her voice betraying the laughter was holding back. I knew from experience that if she was in been hadn't been hired by the school, she would've laughed. My smirk grew a tad as Emmett's laugh filled the rink. Lauren started to turn her glare to him instead of me, but after one glance at his huge muscles her glare turned back to me. I just smiled angelically at her, which pissed her off even more.
"Are you okay?" Jessica asked, the only person to actually show any concern for Lauren.
"I'm fine." She snapped her expression a weird mix of anger and embarrassment. She got up and brushed herself off and looked like she just wanted to storm off the ice. Just another thing that proved she would not have competed against me. Well, against Ellie Hart. Not only did she fall in crossovers, which was never an element I competed under Ellie, her attitude was not one of an elite athlete.
"Let's try doing some forward edges. Bella, can you start?" once again, I was glad that I insisted everyone at the recall me Bella. Knowing Jackie, she would have slipped up by now. I smiled at her and took my place before a question crossed my mind,
"Inside or outside?" I asked,
"Inside." She responded. I should have known. You know the saying "saving the best for last"? Yeah, Jackie doesn't believe in that. When I started skating she told me about how much she hated outside edges and that hate for them just never went away, even when she mastered them.
I completed my turn without any problem when someone else from my past walked in. Out of everyone in the world, this was the last person I expected to come in. Judging by the look on Jackie's face she didn't' know about it either. Ravine Velez. The girl that helped ruin my dreams.
"Hey Ellie. Nice edges. I really am sorry about qualifiers." She shouted to me. Crap. Everyone knew my secret. I didn't think anything but one word. Crap.