Ice Sitting? [Open]

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This was the stupidest thing she had ever thought of. Who in there right mind put on shoes with blades on the bottom and then went out on a cold frozen water and expected to come back off it! Maybe the shoes having a blade on it should have been her first clue not to do this. And then the second one should have been when she saw what she was really going to be doing. That's when she should have ran for the hills! (Well as fast as you can go with bladed shoes on.) But, no Lola had for some reason had to prove to herself that she could excel at this ridiculous sport. So, she had stepped onto the ice and fallen the second both feet were on. Now, she tried to stand up and she did, granted she'd fall right back down. But at least she had tried.



And that lead to where Lola was now, she had worked her way out to the middle of the ice rink. She had flipped and flopped all the way out here and refused to move an inch back towards the exit. It had hurt getting this far the first time she wasn't going to bruise more of herself getting back. She was wet and shivering, she wasn't getting more wet and even colder. Nope, she was done with this ice skating she was making her own sport, ice sitting! She stuck her tongue out at the exit and turned her back to it. Once she got off this ice she was going to play a real sport, basketball! In the gym she was warm, had normal shoes, and didn't fall this much! Plus she was never stranded in the middle of the court freezing her butt off. Curling herself up into a tighter ball she huffed and blew her bangs out of her face. "Point one for team Ice."  

[Kori Ander]

"I do not think that is how you are supposed to be acting upon the ice," called a cheerful voice from the edge of the rink. Kori hadn't quite stepped onto the ice, mostly because it reminded her of the Ice Moons where she'd exiled herself during her transformation, and that was all kinds of painful to recall. She'd come to the entertainment area mostly to look for potential places to do the "hanging out," and sort of drifted over this way naturally. She certainly wasn't dressed for ice skating: a pair of shorts left a good portion of her legs bared, and her loose t-shirt wasn't exactly covering much more. Kori did have a pair of ice skates though: they'd been thrust upon her shortly after her arrival. They weren't on her feet though, but dangling over an arm. Kori looked at them for a moment, then out at the ice, where someone sat while wearing them. Holding the skates up, Kori continued:

"I believe you are to use the skates to work your way across the ice!" Kori waved the skates a bit, hoping to catch their attention. She took a step onto the ice without wearing hers, finding it as slippery as promised. Letting out a noise that was somewhere between a squeak and a giggle, Kori scrambled onto the ledge. Going up never proved much of a problem for the ex-Tamaranean girl, and she was soon perched atop the small railing at the end of the rink. Kori looked across the ice to where the girl sat.

"are you there because it is quite slick?" Kori guessed. She tilted her head to the side, adding further inquisitiveness to the whole affair.

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Lola huffed ignoring the girl at first when she started talking to her. Thinking the girl was going to come out and start skating circles around her. She trough her blonde hair over her shoulder continuing to ignore her as she remained quite. Lola couldn't stand to be beaten at anything. That was the only reason she wasn't asking the girl to help her in anyway. She would rather freeze to death than ask for any kind of help. It was like surrendering and that was unheard of, in Lola's mind.

Curiosity soon beat out the need to be the best when Lola heard the girl squeak and giggle. Lola couldn't help but smile at how happy the giggle sounded. She turned her head just enough to watch as the girl moved to the ledge. Lola shook her head as she watched a smile still on her face. This girl was interesting to say the least. But then again she wasn't the one stuck in the middle of an ice rink.

"I'm stuck," Lola stated simply, "I refuse to get up and hurt myself more to get back." She folded her arms back across her chest as she looked at the girl. "Why are you here? This place is evil! Leave quick and save yourself!" Lola yelled to her throwing her arms up as she fell backwards onto her back. She stared up at the ceiling and started laughing at herself and the situation she was in.

[Kori Ander]

Kori studied Lola as the girl insisted upon her position of stuckness. She did look rather stranded out there, and Kori's admittedly feeble attempt to step onto the ice wasn't exactly convincing the Tamaranean that you really could move on it. Kori tried to recall if she'd ever used skates before, but she couldn't pluck a specific memory about it. Plenty regarding cold and trudging, but Kori... well, Kori could usually fly. Made skating rather redundant, though she'd always wanted to try.

"I am here to examine places for the hanging out," offered Kori. She shifted on the ledge, giving the ice a quick glance, trying to determine if she should attempt to walk across it. "Are you quite certain this place is made of the evil? It does not seem to be committing the acts of wrongness, and--- are you laughing?" Kori looked up, seeing the laughing blonde laying in the middle of the ice. Kori blinked. Generally speaking, laughing was not one of the signs of experiencing something evil, at least, that had been Kori's prior experience. This was definitely not helping the confusion.

"Do you require the assistance? Perhaps I can venture out, and we could use one another to move," suggested Kori. She tentatively lowered a foot to the ground, testing the ice. again, her foot slid ,and again, Kori jerked back, nearly squealing. She frowned, and fidgeted, altering her stance. The skates slid slightly down her arm, and Kori gave them a calculating look. Perhaps... well, it was worth a shot. Kori swiveled, extending a long leg to work at her own shoes, determining that she should at least try to help. Which meant putting on the skates first, or so it seemed.

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Lola slowly sat back up looking at the girl on the ledge. She was rather different, but so was Lola. She seemed to take everything Lola said very literally, now she knew to pick her words carefully. Well, this was going to be tough. Lola was normal very sarcastic trying to help this girl understand what she was saying was going to be interesting to say the least.

"It's not going to trying and kill you evil, but it hurts a lot when you fall. Make sense?" Lola answered the red heads question in a calm tone. "And I'm laughing because the situation is rather funny." This time Lola shrugged before flopping back.

She didn't reply when the girl asked for if she needed help, it seemed as though the girl was going to try. With or without Lola's permission. She watched as she slide a skate on her foot and then the next. Lola smiled to herself this was going to be rather funny. There was nothing Lola could do to help the girl when she fell. She realized then that it had probably been hilarious to watch herself get as far as she did. She knew she had been flopping around like a fish out of water, it had for sure felt like it. Lola didn't want the girl to get hurt but watching her mess up a few times would make Lola feel better about herself. 

[Kori Ander]

"Ah, that is the most heinous type of evil, like the dubstep music or the hipsters," agreed Kori, nodding with the utmost solemnity. She meant every word too: Kori had experienced this sort of thing herself time and time again. In point of fact, she was about to experience precisely the kind of evil Lola described in all too vivid terms. Kori's feet had barely touched the ice when the princess proved as graceless as a charging Griffnax. Kori managed to slide forward a few feet, mostly because of momentum, before her long legs decided that going in completely opposite directions was a workable plan. They parted, spread, and soon enough, Kori was wobbling her arms out, flailing while she performed a very admirable version of the splits.

"This is most unusual!" she called, hazarding a glance from her own situation to Lola's. Lola had landed on her butt, or so she claimed. Kori was most certainly not heading for that kind of wobble. She tried to pull her legs closer together, except her right leg got a little more pulled then her left, making her swivel. There was more wobbling, a considerable amount of arm waving, and finally Kori fell to the ice. Hard. The stunned girl lay there, staring up at the ceiling, almost certain that she could see spinning, chirping birdies floating above her head.

"Evil indeed," Kori said, her voice rather soft. She wasn't sure she wanted to get up again. Maybe in a bit. When the birdies stopped chirping.

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Lola nodded her head in agreement about the dubstep, she couldn't stand it! It hurt her ears and gave her the worst headache. She always felt as though her ears were going to bleed! Her ears hurt just thinking about it! She her head trying to get her mind off what some called 'music'. Lola turned her attention to the girl instead watching as she stepped on. It looked at first like she was going to get the hang of this sport rather quickly. But then her legs went two different legs and Lola couldn't help the smile that spears across her face. This was fun to watch.

Lola couldn't help but burst out laughing when the other girl fell. It was too funny. Now she understood why people liked this. Watching others fail terribly was hilarious. She couldn't stop laughing, rolling around on the ice as she did so, there were tears running down her cheeks she was laughing so hard. She threw her hands over her stomach as it started to hurt,"that was so funny!" Lola barely got out between her laughing fits.

"Get why this is fun now! " She replied finally getting her laughter under control. "It's very funny watching others try!" She smiled at the girl on the ice with her,"By the way, my names Lola." She said with the stupid smile still on her face. She liked this girl, she was different and Lola loved different people. She couldn't stop smiling even though her cheeks hurt. She felt like they were going to be good friends.

[Kori Ander]

Kori tried to scramble on the ice, which mostly entailed flailing. It turned out that being long and leggy didn't help much when you were trying to achieve balance on a slick surface. Go figure. Still, she could hear Lola's words of greeting even over her scrambling. The redhead looked up, flashing the blonde yet another friendly smile.

"I am glad you are pleased! Though," the smile slid as Kori spoke. she fidgeted to get into something like a crawling position. Since her bared knees pressed against the ice, Kori could finally feel the cold seeping through her skin. It was easy enough to ignore, at least for now, as she started crawling. As soon as she began moving, Kori picked up her conversation: "This is not all that pleasant to do by yourself. I can see why you were most frustrated."

Then Kori's hands slid forward while her legs slid back. The end result was Kori splayed out on the ice, slightly dazed, looking up at Lola through yet another birdy-haze. The multiple Lolas greeted Kori though, and the redhead again managed to smile, though the expression looked decidedly dazed. "I am Kori," she raised a hand to wave as best she could, "and it is always good to meet another person! I believe I will be able to reach you soon enough, if I---"

And Kori began  crawling. This was not the baby type crawling she had been trying earlier, but instead crawling in a manner eerily similar to a worm. Kori would throw her upper body forward, land hard, and then scoot her lower part forward, inching up. As soon as her knees nearly touched her stomach, Kori would repeat the process, lunging forward to land hard yet again. It was working, sort of...

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Lola just couldn't stop laughing as the girl crawled and fell, her abs hurt and she felt as though her tears were freezing onto her face. It was the best thing ever to watch and it was really the best thing. She waited as the girl, Kori, crawled until she was to her. "You need to stop now, your going to kill me!"

Lola touched the girls arm as her other hand went to her stomach to try and calm her laughing. Now, they were both stuck, stranded in the middle of the ice skating rink. Well, this was a total disaster. "You know we are now both stuck, with no way out." Lola stated smiling at Kori. This was the most fun she had had in weeks. She was now wondering why it had taken so long to find someone she liked.

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Megs could not help glancing at the two strange girls now sprawled out laughing in the center of the ice rink. Not sure what they were doing. Some sort of ice game perhaps? He gave a shrug and looked back down to finish tying his skate. Did not really matter. The rink was big enough. Plenty of room for them to go on with their business while he minded his.

During this recent exploration of the entertainment complex he was excited to see the large patch of ice. It had reminded him of a time in his youth, growing up in the prison. It was wintertime and some inmates managed to smuggle a few buckets of water out to the prison yard, using it to create a patch of ice. Then one of them, Number 0097, fashioned a pair of skates for the small blue skinned boy. They were crude, made out of an old pair of shoes and pieces of metal, and the patch of ice was quite small. But the young alien had a blast using his imagination to pretend he was skating across the arctic. An endless expanse of ice with no bars or concrete walls. Why at one point he even pretended some penguins came to join him. He chuckled to himself at that memory. The silly things we think up when we’re young.

He made a final knot in the laces and inspected his handy work. Okay enough reminiscing, more skating. Leaving his trench coat and glasses on the bench Megs made his way to the edge of the ice and with a little jump he was off. Gliding across the smooth surface with a lot more grace then one might have expected. A smile crept onto his face and he picked up a little more speed. A jump and a twist and he was now skating backwards, smile growing wider. Yes this was just as much fun as he remembered. Even if there weren’t any penguins.

(Thought the girls could use a little eye-candy ;D )

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Lola's laughing quickly ceased when she saw the man step onto the ice and start gliding across it. If it was possible there would be steam coming out of her ears. She sat up crossing her arms over her chest. She glared at him as he skated around, when he turned backwards the glare intensified. This was unacceptable for her, she could not be the loser. To Lola everything was a game. There were losers and winners, and she was not about to be a loser.

"We cannot be shone up be a guy!" Lola hissed to Kori as she ever so slowly got up. She spread her arms out to keep balance. Her tongue was sticking out in deep concentration. She looked rather funny to anyone who was watching her. She picked up one foot and placed it down. She didn't fall. She smiled through her hands in the air and jumping up. And boom, she was sprawled out on the ice once more. Oh, this is so going to leave a bruise...

Lola couldn't figure out how to do this stupid skating thing. It made her more than upset. Even more so now that the stupid guy was skating backwards! Backwards, its hard to do this going forwards! Lola yelled to herself. She groaned as she rolled over and began to push herself up yet again. She was going to get this even if it killed her!

[Kori Ander]

"My apologies, I do not mean to be doing the killing," offered Kori, frowning slightly. She couldn't help but feel a slight dip in the pit of her stomach at the thought of doing so. She shifted, trying to figure out how it was that she was doing the killing. It took Kori several seconds to realize that Lola did not literally mean killing her, but was instead talking figuratively. The alien blushed slightly, but tried to brush the thought aside. No reason to get too worked up about it.

As for being stuck, Kori was about to suggest a fix for that. As she turned, however, someone else entered the rink. Kori turned to watch as the man effortlessly and quite prettily skated about. Instantly the alien felt quite awkward and coltish, all knees and elbows. She even forgot what it was that she had been working so hard at remembering. She turned to Lola, her mouth open to ask, only to find the girl glaring and crossing her arms. Per usual, Kori didn't understand, and found herself looking from male skater to female and back, trying to draw some connection between them. Perhaps this was Lola's ex-boyfriend? He looked a little old for them though. Father, perhaps?

 Then Lola cleared the whole thing up for Kori. Can't be shown up? But... Kori looked over and pointed, "He has clearly had more of the experience in the skating. It is unlikely that we will be better than him," she offered. She tried to continue as Lola stood and fell, but instead opted to sit quietly throughout the process. When Lola hit the ice again, Kori suddenly remembered what she'd wanted to talk about earlier. She almost instantly brightened.

"We can use each other!" she said, almost chirping. "We can push against one another and balance! That is why I came onto the ice! Perhaps we can call the man over and he can do the helping!" Kori moved, flailing her arms to somehow either lean against Lola or catch attention, or, if possible, do both at once.

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This was turning out to be a very enjoyable venture Megs mused to himself as he glided across the ice. Twisting so that he was skating forward again he went about drawing imaginary figures. First he skated a circle followed by a figure eight, then another circle. Still he couldn’t help but notice the two girls continue with their strange activity. One stood up only to fall again. The second time they came into his line of sight the other girl seemed to be flailing her arms.

Hmm. Perhaps what we have here is a pair of damsels in distress. Something he could hardly walk away from. Or rather skate away from in this case. So Megs abandoned his circle skating endeavor and headed down the rink towards the center. He slowed as he got closer finally coming to a slow stop in front of the two. “Everything alright?” Megs asked, an inquisitive sparkle to his green eyes.