Black Ice by Camille Mackenzie

Author:Camille Mackenzie [Mackenzie, Camille]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-03-06T16:00:00+00:00

As I’m coming out of a triple axel. I see Sage standing in her skates, at the edge of the rink. I stop my forward momentum and watch her from across the ice. She smiles at me shyly and waves her fingers loosely. I realize that she’s been here for a few minutes, I just hadn’t noticed. She looks beautiful with her dark curls crowning her head. She’s even got a black haltered skate dress exposing the scars on her arms.

I hold out my hand and beckon her forward. As she skates toward me, I wish I could give her my eyes. I just want her to see herself as I do.

“I’ve always liked the power in your spins.” She takes my hand and admits.

“I’ve always admired the same in yours.”

We move together as she giggles. “Well mine are better so…”

“Yours are different and we’ll leave it at that.”

She smiles at me and I forget we’re on the ice altogether. I don’t see her suffering in her eyes. I can’t feel how it pains me. I forget that we’re anything but two halves of one heartbeat.

“The start of the Grand Prix circuit is less than three weeks away. To change disciplines now and skate in Pairs would be madness.”

“Maybe. But I’m willing to be a little mad with you.”

“Yuri, I’m serious. We have no routine. No experience as partners. This could be a disaster.”

I spin her around and pull her back into my chest. She goes easily. Because we know each other. We trust each other. I tilt my head to her ear.

“Or it could be the best thing you’ve ever done. Winning Gold in two separate events.”

“Yeah and what do you get out of this?”

“You.”

Sage breaks out of my hold and skates around me. I follow her movements. Dancing along to a song we can only feel. She takes my hand again and we spin together. The sound our skates make together on the ice is all the music I need anyway.

“You said you loved me the other night.” She says suddenly.

I bring us both to a quick stop. Our chests heave up and down as we breathe in the chilled arena air. I glance down at her scarred arm. She looks down at it as well. Then back at me, trying to read the expression on my face. She’s scared that she’ll find rejection, but she doesn’t have to worry about that.

“I remember.” I tell her.

“Was that because we were about to—”

“It was because, I love you more than anything else in this world. More than you love yourself. And I’ll love you until you can love yourself.”

Sage blinds me suddenly, covering my eyes with both of her hands.

“What are you doing?”

“I don’t want you to see me cry. Again.”

I chuckle. “Sage—”

“Why do you love me?”

I wait for the laughter to enter her voice. I listen closely and try to hear her flirty or cute sensibility. It never comes because she isn’t joking. Sage truly wants to know.

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