Crossed blades

chapter four

Lila

i sigh a sigh of relief as i look down at my phone and see that it's finally 4 pm, meaning all theroy clasess are over.

i pack up the matrials i have been studying for i have a test in the next 2 weeks we may all be sporty students but we still had theroy work to do.

as i look at some of the other students in the library i had come an hour ago, i could literally see most of the students in here. i had a feeling we were all cramming for the exams.

the only people i hardly saw were the ice hockey players, and it always amzed me how they passed every single exam even though no one here as ever seen them study.

thinking about them made me feel annoyed it was no fair how come they could just do what they wanted. and all the time, too.

i stand up abretly, making the girl next to me flinch. i give her an awkward smile back with a whisper. appoligize.

as i take my books in my hand with my bag already on my back, i walk out of there fast before i embarrass myself some more.

making it to the girl dorms all the way on the other side of the massivs filed on campus. i open it and see my roommate missing in action again.

Sally she was on the all girl soccer team, and i had no idea if she was the captain or not or if she was just part of the sport.

we hardly talked to each other she was all tomboyish with short, wave black wolf cut hair and earing pices in her ears she had one on her toung as well.

she was tan and she liked wearing streetstyle wear.

But she had a dont mess with me face as well

i wouldn't say we were on bad terms, just that we never bothed to really get to know each other she did her thing, and i did mine. We respected each other side of the room.

i throw my bag on the bed and gron the minute i hit my pillow face first today was slow and with Luca sitting next to me in the two classes we had made me feel even more anxious.

like why was he even bothered to sit next to me today.

i hope it's not about this morning when i spoke up. i can still feel the embarssedment, which is weird because who would be embarrassed about helping their classmates. well me apprently.

my alarm started to ring, and i pushed my face more into my pillow because i had practiced to do it by myself.

i got up and switched off my phone alarm that was next to me on the bed and got my gym bag. There was no way i would change here and leave in my skating figure pracitst clothes.

it was a black tights and a either a long sleve Black shirt or a black top as i look at the empty room and lock up and make way across the felied again and this time to the ice rink.

As I see some of the soccer boys out and the netball teams as well, some are going all in different directions and some getting ready for practice.

i let out a breath happily. Once i saw that no one else was here, and i hoped it would stay like that.

going to the lockers i get changed, i always hated these lockers because it was unisex basically, and the fact there was only one locker, so anyone could walk in on you, not that it ever happened to me.

putting my black hair in a messy bun as i then put on my white skats. i make sure my locker is locked as i way out onto the ice.

as music played through my airpods, i did the ussaly two laps around the ice slowly and stead, then i started to make my way in the middle.

what annyed me more was the fact i haven't even come up with a dance sequence yet as i just stand in the middle of the ice, my one foot behind me and the other in front of me.

i decided i would just do the same thing i did last year. That's move was a flop i still couldn't do a qurdurble spin, so I've been trying to practice that a lot.

as my music starts to play beliver by imagine dragons.

i close my eyes and go to the beat of it. My music wasn't on loud either as i move to it 10 minutes in, and im about to try the qurdrooply spin.

It's basically 3 and then an exstra one in the air.

but then i hear clapping, and that puts me in a panic and surpire already i feel myself falling backward and on my butt.

as i look up, my face was in horror, but then i just see, it's Luca who winces at me as he lifts his hand me. Because I fell

"Sorry, my bad," is all he says as i get up from the ice and skate over to him

"What are you doing here?"

"im here to practice" is all he says with a shrug and i only notice now his in his practice chill out fit a black pants and a black lose top his hair looks like someone as been running their fingers through it but besides that he is fine.

" i thought you said that the ice skaters ould have the ice rink in the evening?"

" Yeah, i did. It's just that you're the only one here, so what's the problem?"

" alot actual Luca you know i hate it when people watch me practice its already nerv wraking when i have to do it in front of hunders of people " i all but fold my arms at him as he rolls his eyes at me.

and then stares at me his ligut green eyes that always as a play glem in them his arms folder over his muscle chest.

and my heart panics for a momemt, maybe even for second, why i didn't know.

" Come on, princess, it's just me, and besides your, not that great to look at." He tease ,me as he puts his gym bag on one of the seats as i watch him

I fake gasp at him as I put my hand to my chest with mock offense as I go back to my stance but now I'm moving back on forth on the ice a little habit I gradually grew

"What are you doing?" i ask

" Getting on the ice, duh wait, dont think you can have the ice all to yourself, princess," he says as he takes out his skates.

i stare at him blankly for two reasons the nick name he magical came up with today and the fact his actual going to get on the ice as he ties his skates together.

i remember i was forced to go with him a year ago to buy them.

all because my mother was scared, i would turn into a hermit if i didn't go out at least 3 times during the summer hoildaaays, and Luca had no problem draging me along.

or maybe his mother forced him too because his mom and my mom were best friends they both met each other when we were 10 years old, and i just happened to be learning how to ice skate then.

but luca he was already a fast skating at that age, so in a way, i kind of felt envious of him.

" Earth to princess Lila Morau you good?" im snaped out of my thoughts as i look and see a huge hand in front of me and then luca who's already on the ice next to me.

"yeah im good and stop calling me princess,"

"I think not it suits you" he says as he flicks my forehead lightly

I push my head back and the. Glare at him I swear if my eyes could shoot lazes he would be dead years ago.

" but luca im been dead seriours ugh buts it not luke you will listen to me"

"Look who got smart" he says as he skats backwards and then back to me

I take in a breath as I calm myself down and then point to the other side of the ice because I was a mature adult so I wouldn't argue with him.

"you use that side of the rink and ill use this one" he gives me a dissidsfied look.

"Why?" His head tilted like a puppy it amzed me that this man could women so easily

"What do you mean why we both need a good amount of space besides you'll probably be running mad like you ice hocky playeers do well i try to figure out a new dace sequence"

he doesn't say anything but starts to skate backward slowly so we are at least apart away as he then says loud enough

" You know you sure aren't shy when it's just us two. Why not talk more like that around other people?"

i glare at him and turn around my back to him as i skate toward the other side, not bothing to awnser him as i hear him chuckle.

Luca Bennett is my best and only friend since i moved from the U.S. when i was 10 years old at first i hated his consent chatter, but after a while, i got used to.

after all, i was always the quiet one as he spoke and made all the friends he could he could find it was like he was a magnetic to other loud and enthusiastic people.

we went to the same elermenty school and then high school and now we even in the same college.

And where he went he just knew how to talk to people unlike me I kept to myself so somehow after getting to college we just drifted aprat not permanently just at college.

as take in a breath in and out i only now realize that both my airpods fall out when I fell so skating over to where luca is doing some exercisers .

"Luca, did you see my Airpods?" i ask him he stops as he then takes out one of his own airpod from his ears

'Sorry, what did you ask?'

"i asked if you have seen my Airpods i must of let them fall when i fell," i say as i skate over to him.

his on the ice sitting down legs streched in etheir direction as i look down at him and he looks up with loopsy smile on his face.

'Nope, i didn't, but you can borrow one of mine. we close enough to listing together'

i dont say anything but just stare at him using his earphones like we some type of coulpe, but then my heart panics again, making me feel all butterflies insides, but i push it away.

becuase me and luca , never i dont like him like that were best friends thats it as look down at one of his airpod thats his hold out in his hand waitting for me to except it or not like a some gift.

And my heart pounds again I scrunch my nose internal my face netuel as I think to myself maybe I should listen to my mother and get my heart checked out yes, I'll do that becuase there's no way

Luca Bennett no what no is like a big teddy what no more like a gorilla yeah thats right I'll get my heart checked out

As my arm is out thinking of taking his airpod or not.