[G-Winners] Winter's Shadow

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Welcome to another one of my posts as part of the amazing #gwinners. Well I’m here with another story so I guess I didn't learn my lesson the last two times and so I'm making my way into this winter theme and making a dumb winter story of mine own. In fact I think it has further awakened my inner untalented unskilled writing demon :point_right: :point_left: so uh without further ado let's get into the story.

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P.s This is completely a work of fiction

In this little town that snows just as prettily as our dear protagonist’s smile, there lived a professional ice skater.

This year, Bobby decided to lay off of the Olympics and take in the beauty of his own little town.

But it wouldn’t make any sense to not go ice-skating in the lakes glazed over by ice.

And holding on to this thought, he goes over to the local winter gear shop and buys some basic ice skates.

Christmas evening, he heads over to the biggest lake in town. It wasn't an official ice skating rink or anything. Bobby just found that lake more amusing than the local ice skating rinks and he wanted to skate alone. He wanted to do it without any pressure for once. It was also daunting to skate in the dark. After a long time he actually felt excited to skate again.

It was almost magical. You could see all the pretty lights in the distance from the lakeshore. The town was so different during Christmas. Bobby could almost taste sparkles in the air.

But that was strange because where he was, there was hardly any decor. No one cared about this little part of the town. The lake, although huge was pretty much useless to the townspeople.

But Bobby ed his times out here. The first time he had gone ice skating was in this lake. He'd finally bought his first ice skates with the money he'd been saving for the past three years.

That first day, he had come with his best friend. His friend knew how to skate. But he didn't know how to skate on the ice. Bobby was always in awe of how his

friend could skate so well. He never thought something like that could happen that day

His friend slowly maneuvered into the ice. Bobby hadn't still gotten into the ice. He wanted to watch for a little before going in. It was strange how his friend kept saying he was fine. Bobby was feeling weird about this now.

His friend falls. Once. Twice. Bobby laughed. His friend got back up again. He called out to Bobby and said he was a scared cat. Bobby yelled out to his friend, asking his friend why he thought that.

"Because you're over there and I'm over here". Now Bobby thought to himself he had to go in. He puts on his skates and slowly approaches the frozen over lake. Bobby thought the ice seemed like it was angry at them. But he also thought that that was crazy. So he slowly steps into the ice.

The moment he tries to slide over a little, he falls. He stands up and falls again. This time, he sees a crack on the ice. And then, a scream.

The ice under their feet was cracking. Rapidly. Bobby saw his friend standing with his feet as far apart as he could keep them. His friend told him to get off the ice. And the slate beneath his friend falls out.

Another scream. Bobby's friend was now under the ice. Bobby could feel one side under him give away. In that moment, he made the hardest decision ever.

He quickly got off the ice. He went around the crack and stood a few feet apart from the spot that had given out. Bobby didn't know what to do. He screamed for help. He tried to get closer, but the ice was falling in.

He got out of the lake side and ran to the first person he saw. Frantically, he said to the man "m-my friend. He's under the ice. It gave out. He's under the ice."

A week later, Bobby was at his friend's funeral. He felt so guilty. He blamed himself. He thought it should have been him. His friend's brother said so himself. Bobby was confused as to how he was still invited to the funeral.

And now he was standing here again. Twelve years later. He skates into the ice with a pick-axe in hand. He goes to the center and cracks the ice beneath him. And he falls in, laughing.

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So that was the story folks. Believe me, I had a very different story line in mind. It was supposed to be like Bobby goes out skating in this lake he had ice skated for the first time in, the ice would give out and he'd find himself under but not in water, rather in a land of fairies. I don't know what happened. I write like this in essays so maybe that's why my teacher looks at me funny. But I hope you enjoyed. Till next time, :wave:

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