The competition.
A girl with beautiful long blonde hair was ice skating. She was skating over the ice like a princesse. Her moves were like a swan. She moved on the music as if it wad her destiny to skate. She was wonderful.
The music stopped, and the young girl took a bow.
The people in the room clapped their hands. They loved her.
"That was Buffy Anne Summers, ladies and gentlemen." someone on the speaker phone said.
The crowd went wild. Buffy took another bow and she skated of the ice.
"You did great honey." her mother, Joyce Summers, said. and she gave Buffy a towel.
"I did good, I could have done great, I'm still not good enough." Buffy said.
"You have to stop pushing yourself like this, or you'll never become as good as you want to. And besides, you were real good tonight, you have a good chance of winning."
"But I wont win, I've seen girls tonight who were way better than me." Buffy said and she put her skates back on after putting some ice on her feet so they wouldn't swell up.
"And now Ladies and Gentlemen. The moment we've all been waiting for. The moment when we see who will win has finally arrived. In just seconds from now, we'll know who the next state champion of this annual ice skate competition is." the man on the speaker said.
"May I present to you, last years winner, miss. Willow Rosenberg!!!!" he said again.
Then a woman with brown hair came on the ice, she could skate as well as Buffy, even better.
She was last years winner, and now, she had some envelopes in her hand that contained this years winner.
"On third place!" she yelled.
"Kira Nowel." another girl came on the ice, she was smiling and bowing for the public, she was Kira Nowel and she had just won third place. She accepted a bunch of flowers and she skated of the ice.
"In second place!" Willow yelled again. "Randy Thuffa!" the public clapped their hands again, and then Randy Thuffa did the same as her predecessor. She came on the ice, smiled, accpeted a bunch of flowers, and skated back of the ice.
Mean while...
"You'll win Buffy, I know you will." Joyce said.
"No, I wont, I'm not good enough, I cant possibly be good enough." she said with a disenchantment on her face.
Her mother touched her shoulders and held her fingers crossed.
"And finally we'll know. The winner is...." Willow said and paused for a second as she checked the name on the card in the envelope. Her face turned sour. She didn't look happy with the winner. But she conjured a smile back on her face, this wasn't her competition, she had no roght to be happy or not after all.
"The winner is... Mandy Candy!" she yelled and the crowd went wild again. 'Many Candy' Willow thought to herself. "What a lame as name.' But she kept smiling while she gave Mandy, who really didn't deserve it, a bunch of flowers.
"Congratulations!" she said and shook her hand and as Many was about to make her victory round on the ice, Willow left.
Buffy was disappointed and she left also, her mother still thought she had done well.
But Buffy didn't want to hear it, she was so mad at herself that she didn't win.
When she got outside she saw last years winner, Willow Rosenberg, and another mand taking a smoke.
"You, know, those are bad for your condition." Buffy said to Willow and she pointed at the cigarette.
"Yeah, I guess you're right." Willow said and she threw in on the ground.
"I'll see you back inside." the man said and he gave Willow a kiss on the cheek.
Buffy stared at him till he was out of sight.
"That's Rupert Giles, my husband." she said and she smiled.
"I didn't know you were married." Buffy said suprised.
"We married last year, after I won this competition, we weren't even supposed to get married, it was against my contract if I married a man who was 10 years older then me, they wanted me to marry a guy who was my age. But I loved him, and I still do, so, we married in Las Vegas one night. The they fired me, ripped my contract apart. Just because I married someone who is 34 years old and I'm 24 years old." Buffy didn't understand why Willow told her all of this.
"Look, what I'm trying to say, you should be glad you didn't win. Cause if you did, you'd be stuck to some contract, and you'd never be able to do what you want anymore. You'd forget your dreams, all because of one stupid contest. All though I really thought you should have won. But I'm actually glad you didn't win."
"And why is that ?" Buffy asked with an attitude after hearing this ridiculous story.
"Because now I get to be your coach." Willow said.
"What ?!" Buffy's mouth fell wide open. She didn't know what to say, one of the best skaters she had ever seen wanted to coach her.
"But, But, why would you wanna do that. I'm not even a good skater, and, and, what about you ? You skating future ? I thought you wanted to go to the Olympics ?" Buffy rambled a few sentences.
"I'm not going to the Olympics, I blew my chances. You're going."
"What ?! The Olympics are in six months, and I'm not even half as good as you are!"
"Maybe not, but you're much better then all those girls I saw tonight. They were all over 20 years old, and you, you're only 16 years old. And I think that says a lot."
Willow gave Buffy a card with her name, number and address on it. Told her to come to her place Saturday morning, and that she had to bring her skates.
Then she walked away, headed back inside.
"Why did you blow your chances ?!" Buffy yelled.
But Willow didn't answer and she just walked back inside and waved once before she was out of sight.
The Buffy's mother came outside.
"What was that all about ?" she asked her daughter.
"The best skater I've even known wants to train me for the Olympics." Buffy said and with a smile she got into the car...
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