Scoring Pass: A Sapphic Fake Dating Romance by Lainee Ash

Author:Lainee Ash [Ash, Lainee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-02-14T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

KIDS FILTERED IN AND OUT of the Lynnwood rink all day. Washington was favoring them with the persistent, gray drizzle iconic six months out of the year, but that didn’t dampen any of the kids’ moods. They filled the rink with chatter and laughter, trying on skates, joining the various workshops set up throughout the rink, grabbing concessions with their parents and friends.

All the noise and commotion should have left Ryann itchy and overwhelmed, but she couldn’t help laughing along with the kids as she taught them simple blocks. A cluster gathered around her on the track, listening as she explained mechanics they may or may not have actually understood. It didn’t really matter in the end. All they actually wanted was a chance to try to knock over “the Butch-er,” a chance Ryann happily gave them.

None even came close, but Ryann had fun gently bumping them aside or lifting them off their feet to spin them around and set them back down on the track. The team participated in this charity event every year, and every year at least one kid thought they’d take Ryann down.

“How did you get so many muscles?”

“Can you lift a car?”

“Do you have to drink protein shakes like on TV?”

Kids always came along with the most blunt and odd questions, but Ryann even enjoyed that part of the whole ordeal. They weren’t like adults with all their double-speak and hidden meanings. Kids said what they meant, and they said it right to your face. That was a style of communication Ryann could get behind.

Well, normally.

She hadn’t been exactly blunt and forthcoming when it came to the situation with Devina. She’d been obscuring her true feelings for weeks now. And all she’d come up with for a solution was to bury those feelings even deeper down, bury them for good.

So much for being blunt.

Ryann tried to set that aside as a whistle blew, sending the kids off to their next activity. It was Ryann’s turn to take a break, and she gratefully skated off the track and to a bench to do just that. The hubbub continued around her, a constant drone of noise enlivened by occasional spikes of laughter.

Devina had taken to the track to teach a group of youngsters how to skate backwards. They shuffled, often falling forward in their attempts to push backwards. Devina patiently corrected them while ensuring none of them got hurt, a far more gentle teacher than Ryann had been.

Ryann found herself smiling at the display before she even realized she was doing it. She quickly turned her gaze elsewhere, watching someone, anyone, else.

She still hadn’t summoned the courage to have that much-needed conversation with Devina. First it was Valentine’s. Then the bout. Now this charity event. Ryann kept finding excuses why they were too busy to sit down and talk, but even she could taste the lie in that. They used to text each other endlessly every day, used to hang out in each other’s apartments just doing nothing all day.

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