Breathe. Have a day like yesterday and you've got a ticket to Tokyo. You Can do this Lilia. You are very capable of this.
Bars goes pretty much the same. Third place.
Floor I stepped out of bounds by like 2 toes on my double Arabian. Second place.
Beam. Nailed it. I'm in First place.
I need this vault. And I need it badly. I have to stay in the top 4. Please please please.
I step onto the runway and present. I start running and hit the springboard as hard as possible. Up. Twist. Land.
I've done it!
One vault down, another to go.
My heart is thumping. I close my eyes and clench my fists. Deep breaths. One vault Lilia. Just one. You can do this.
I start running, but I jump wrong. I twist. But wrong. I land. But wrong.
Shit.
YOU ARE READING
Flexible? Or just Brittle. (Wattys2018)
AdventureLilia has been a gymnast in training for 12 years, and suddenly disaster strikes. Will she accept and move on? Maybe work hard to get back where she was? Or take a huge different career path altogether? Only the future knows.
