Hope

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I was staring at him, and didn't notice I was getting closer the rink's edge as I accidentally fall. I stand up as quickly as I could. I look around to make sure no one saw me falling, that'd be so embarrassing.

After my fall, I started skating around, I see Yuzuru talking to Brian and Javi. He was already putting his skates on. I try to ignore the fact that the two times Olympic champion was here and try some footwork but I just couldn't ignore it, so I got nervous and fell one, two, three times.

I stopped a bit to recover myself. Brian, Javier and behind them, Yuzu, entered the rink. I felt like my heart would stop at any moment, I was very nervous, I took this course to be a better skater, did the test and passed it with the best scores. What if I do everything wrong or bad and Brian thinks I don't have a good potential for being an Olympic skater? I have to try my best in here.

"Okay guys, Javi do the footwork from your FP and Yuzu, your jumps please." Orser orders the champions and both of them started showing what they were capable of doing.

I was observing them as I felt a hand on my shoulder.

"Okay (Y/N), I wanna see what you can do." Brian claps and crosses his hands.

I nodded and get velocity for my jumps, as I skate I saw Yuzuru doing his triple axel, it was perfect, then looked at Brian's face, he looked like a proud father. Javi was doing footworks, seeing him doing them looks so easy and when you actually try, you can really see how devoted he is to this sport, which isn't an easy one.

Watching the champions gave me inspiration, I stopped trembling and focused on my triple loop.

I turn backwards, crosses my legs and jump! As I finished, Brian stands his thumb up.

"That was a good, but you could have done it better, try it again, it was a bit too fast."

"Okay!"

As I turn back, I saw Yuzuru quickly turning back too. For a moment I thought he had seen my jump, but of course I was just raving. It's just impossible for me to get the attention of one of the greatest skaters.

I try again and again and every time Brian had something to say. "Look up!"," more energy!","Wait a little bit!".I was enjoying every moment though.

[Time skip]

It was the end of the day and Brian had already said goodbye to us. I was at the bench, drinking water and resting. Yuzuru was still on the ice, he had already passed his programs and now he was just doing footworks.
He looks tired but didn't want to stop skating. I laugh and shake my head.

Javi was skating as well but he had already finished for today, he got off the ice, sat next to me and started untying his skates.

"So, what did you think? Brian's really harsh isn't he?" He laughs.

"Well, a little bit. But I don't want to rest in here, I came to win!" I close my hands in a fist and looked at Javi with a determined look. We both laugh.

"So, I guess you already know Yuzuru right? I mean, what a stupid question, everyone who skate and even the ones who don't know him right?" The Spanish skater asks joking.

"Yeah, I first heard of him because of the the Sochi Olympics, and after that I've been following his steps. The way he skates... Catches me every time." I looked at him and then at my skates.

"Yeah, he's pretty amazing, I really appreciate this guy... Okay, I'll get going now. I'm really hungry. Good night." Javi says and leaves, shouting good-bye at Yuzuru and he waves and smiles back. How can a twenty-three year old man be so cute?

I was pretty tired but I still wanted to skate, without being pressed down by Brian Orser's orders.

I skate for a while, always keeping distance from Yuzu, I wanted to say hi to him but I was very shy. I hate when I get shy. So I was just minding my own business.

I decided to practice a little bit my axel, I'm not very good at it, so I usually don't try it very much, I don't wanna hurt myself, but now I need to improve it.

I was skating fast to get impulse, I prepare myself and jump, I don't know what I was thinking but when I jumped I realised I was in "Yuzu's territory" and panicked, I missed everything and fell awfully on the ice.

I hit my left knee in the floor and it was hurting very much, I couldn't stand up. Suddenly, I hear someone skating towards me, when I look up there was a hand and behind this hand there was him.

"Are you okay? Can you stand up?" Yuzuru asks concerned.

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