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Chapter One

Sam

If randma wasn’t so cute, I’d tell her to bite me

She bea out from her red Team Canada toque She wore her usual prian, her face fully made up—Yuko Tanaka did not leave the house without her rose-colored lipstick

But every ti competition, she proudly topped her outfit with the red woolen hat I’m not especially tall, but she barely reachedher a few extra inches

Her elbow struck just below ain, “Where’s your boyfriend?”

I rolled my eyes at her old joke as I stepped back to let a woh the concessions line This was a brand-new arena in the Calgary burbs built for the Olyh room on the concourse Never was “You know Etienne’s not my boyfriend He’s my best friend”

“Eh?”

I leaned down and repeated firmly, “You know Etienne’s not my boyfriend”

“Why not?” Her brown eyes sparkled

“Because I have a girlfriend Obaachan, stop trolling”

Fine, I used to have a girlfriend Though Mandy had nothing to do hy Etienne wasn’t ht It was ay The end

She h unconvinced that Etienne and I weren’t secretly on the do “Why isn’t he here?” My grand results unless Henry was involved

“Etienne and Brianna didn’t make the Grand Prix Final They’re not at that level, rereat season! But only the top six teams from the Grand Prix events make it They didn’t medal at either of their competitions this fall”

They’d been fifteenth in ice dance at the last World Chaht about it, but they weren’t ot the scores they deserved, but the judging was so political and fucked-up

“Maze turned critical “What did you do to your beautiful hair?”

“Cut it” It was shaved close at the back and sides and longer on top I’d spiked up the front with gel