Chapter 20Danny sits in the kiss-and-cry, able to do nothing but gape at the scoreboard as his world comes tumbling down around him.
Sure, his short program score seemed a little low a few days ago, but that was nothing. Judges are as fickle as children, and there’s no doubt he’s a little off his game a bare week after being publicly outed. Whispers and stares have followed him ever since he arrived at Worlds. And, of course, Noah’s been dodging him the whole time. So sure, he’s a little out of it. A third-place finish after the short programs was probably the best he could have hoped for, all things considered.
But clearly the only reason he wasn’t lower in the rankings is that he landed all his technical components and didn’t give the judges an excuse. Because in his free, just a few m
