Total pages in book: 102
Estimated words: 95393 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 477(@200wpm)___ 382(@250wpm)___ 318(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 95393 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 477(@200wpm)___ 382(@250wpm)___ 318(@300wpm)
“Holy shit,” Cole says from beside me, “you and Koda.”
“Yeah, me and Koda.” I sit down, kicking off my sneakers and grabbing one skate, waiting for whatever will come. Knowing it’ll for sure be a shock for all of them, but knowing that I’m not going to sit here and take shit and criticism from them. I’ll go down fighting for her today and every single day after.
“It’s cool.” I look up to see Andreas sitting at his spot, not even bothering to get ready. “It’s beautiful.”
I laugh at the way he says it, and I’m not the only one. “When did this happen?” Cole asks from beside me.
“Not too long ago.” I don’t give him any details because even if we said we would come out, we really didn’t discuss what we would say.
He shakes his head as I lean forward to tie my skate. “You and Koda?” He laughs as he says it.
“Me and Koda,” I repeat, looking over at him, the smile now filling his face.
“Happy for you.” I sit up, my eyebrows pinching together.
“Well, you weren’t going to go there unless you were a hundred percent sure of it.” He gets up on his skates. “So I’m happy you found her.” He looks around. “And I’m sure as fuck happy she found you.”
“Thanks,” I mumble, trying not to freak out at his words. I put my other skate on, standing up and heading out of the room. My head spins from his words.
I see Koda by the benches talking with Brittany as she looks over at me. “Hey.” She smiles at me.
“Your girl is out there skating around all of the boys,” Brittany observes, and I smirk, looking over and finding Rain right away. She’s skating around a couple of the older guys, and she smirks at them.
“Those extra lessons are paying off,” Koda declares, folding her arms over her chest. “Totally worth the extra five hours a week we are in the arena.”
“I told you,” I say, knowing she’s sarcastic, winking at her. Brittany’s eyeballs almost pop out of her sockets. “Next year, you’ll be on skates.” I point at her, and she just shakes her head.
“You wish.” I skate backward away from her.
“I love a challenge.” I smirk at her as she rolls her eyes at me, making me laugh. I skate over to Rain, who is skating like a boss, going to Luna who is getting better and better as the weeks progress. Not as good as Rain, but better.
I see one of the boys telling Rain that she’s not that good of a skater, and she looks at him and says, “I’ll race you.”
I want to butt in and tell the kid he’s being a dick, but I just stand here now watching it play out. The kid is a good head taller than she is. One of the rookies, Reed, skates over to them, and he asks them what’s going on.
Cole skates beside me. “What’s going on?”
“Kid says he can skate faster than Rain,” I explain as Reed tells them the rules. I watch him point from one blue line to the other.
They line up behind the blue line, and I stand here with my arms over my chest watching, waiting to see if maybe perhaps I have to go in and trip this kid by “accident.”
I see Rain smirk over at him as he says something, and she just shrugs. “Okay, one, two, three. Go,” Reed announces, and the two of them take off. The kid makes the mistake of looking over at Rain, who ignores him and just focuses on getting to the line before him. She takes him with a couple of seconds to spare, her hands going up in the air.
“Yes,” I hiss, holding my hand in a fist and skating over to her. I hold up my hand for her to give me a high five.
“That’s my girl,” I praise her and then sneer at the kid. “Punk,” I mumble under my breath. “Go get something to drink.” I motion with my head toward the bench.
The photographer is on the ice taking pictures, so I skate over to the bench and hold out my hand for Koda, who just stares at it. “I want to get a picture,” I tell her, and she comes over, putting her hand in mine as she walks onto the ice. Her hand is in mine as we gather the girls, who stand in front of us. I pull her to my side, wrapping my arm around her waist, her front is stuck to my side so I can put one hand on Luna’s shoulder, who stands in front of Koda, and put an arm on Rain’s shoulder. I literally have them all in my arms, and I couldn’t be happier.
“You okay?” Koda whispers.