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 Beep, beep, beep, beep! That was a sound Caroline 

knew by heart. It was her trusty alarm clock. "Ahhhhh, 

I don't know what   I would do without you," She smiled 

at it and shut it off. She opened her blinds, " I love 

waking up to the sun shining in my room. I'm probably 

the only twelve-year-old girl waking up four hours 

before school..... But it's sooo worth it." She got out of 

bed and started packing up her stuff. "Math book? 

Check. English folder? Here. Homework folder? Yup. 

Regular clothes? Check. Skates, Routine music, 

sweatshirt? Yup everything here,"   She combed out her 

hair and put on her makeup. "Ugh, stupid makeup, At 

least it means i'm doing well in my routine. I'm totally 

ready for the competition," She smiled at herself then 

went downstairs. "Hi mom! Do you know where my 

skating dress is?" She got down some cereal and 

poured herself some. 

   "Its right over there on the bathroom door. Get 

changed, We have to get going soon,"   Said Mrs. Jay, 

Carolines mother. "Are you all packed? Where is your 

school stuff?" Caroline finished her cereal and got 

into her dress. She put her hair up in her matching 

scrunchie. She got her school stuff and skating stuff 

and got into the car. "I think Brigid is going to start 

training you for the competition. We need to get you 

a new dress. This dress doesn't match your song."

     "Ya.... but you really think she is going to start 

training me?" They pulled into the rink and Caroline 

got out of the car. "I CANT WAIT!!" She ran into the 

rink and got her skates on right away. 

      "Hey Brigid!" Brigid was Caroline's skating   coach 

and Caroline Loved her. "What are we going to do 

today?"

     "Hey Caroline! I was thinking about it and I think 

that you should participate in the spring competition. 

You are ready. Did you bring your music?" Brigid was 

so pretty and nice, everybody who had her loved 

her. When they got on the ice after warming up, she 

stopped. " Caroline, I was thinking and I think you 

need a more complex double jump." I was thinking 

about a axel into a salchow. How do you feel about 

that?" She thought for a while. Carolines salchow 

was down pat but she was thinking about her axle.

 She wasn't very secure with it.   "Um... sure. Do I 

still have to come into it from the sit spin? I asked.

     "Yes, it will be a challenge," All of a sudden the  

rink got just a bit colder, "Just don't forget, you go 

into the axle with the left foot. If you don't then you 

will hurt yourself." Wow, thanks Caroline thought 

sarcastically. That helps lots. The music started and 

so did Caroline. Ba da da da dada dada da da da 

daaaaaaa........ Caroline thought "Ok, the axle is 

coming up, left foot, or wait is it the right foot? Yes, 

the right foot," She got into her sit spin and she felt 

confident about the upcoming axle. "One, Two... Three!" 

She jumped up into the air. She felt unstable but she just 

thought it was a bad jump. As she landed she stumbled 

and fell fast and hard on

her foot. She screamed. Everybody looked and 

stopped what they were doing. Brigid skated 

frantically over and looked at Caroline's ankle. Nikki 

even heard it all the way from the office! "Caroline 

are you ok? Whats wrong? What hurts? What 

happened? Do you want us to get help?" All these 

questions she could not answer. She felt just too 

overwhelmed and confused. Her foot felt like 

someone was cutting it off and just all these people 

surrounding her. 

     She could barely talk and it scared her to have 

people focusing on just her. She was the youngest of 

all the people she skated with, She was only twelve 

and everyone else was at least 16. She 

burst into tears.                    

      "Caroline, Do you want us to get someone to 

help you?" asked Brigid. Caroline didn't know for 

sure. She didn't respond and she felt dizzy. Then, It 

just all blacked out on her. She fainted. As she 

started to wake up, she found herself not at the 

rink... but at the Emergency Room. She looked 

around and saw her mom, Dad, Brigid, and Nikki. 

     " Wh, why am I here?" mumbled Caroline. She 

knew that she had hurt herself but she didn't 

remember anything else after that. She looked at 

her foot and it had a thing on it.

     "You fell on your axle and then we kept asking 

you if you wanted help and you didn't answer. Then 

 we got help. "What, What about the competition? Is 

it going to be healed by then?" She was so worried, 

she was looking forward to this and she wouldn't 

even be able to skate!

     "It will be healed by then, informed Brigid, But 

you wont be able to compete because we wont be 

able to practice," Caroline was furious. She wanted 

this for so long. No matter what Brigid said, She 

would compete. She had a plan. A perfect plan.

                                     ***

     When Caroline got home from school, she 

struggled to get dressed and then went downstairs 

to think about her plan. "Ok.... competition sign up 

sheet. My name? hum... How bout Georgia Lecona.

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