Bash: Just saying high from Amsterdam
Adonis: WELL HELLO
Adonis: I miss that
Bash: *selfie*
Bash: Just the dick, not this face?
Adonis: Fine, I miss your face, too
Bash: I knew it
Adonis: What can I say? It’s a nice face
Bash: So I’ve been told
Bash: How’s LSAT studying going?
Adonis: TBH hiding it from Anamária is harder than the actual studying
Bash: Have you thought about telling her?
Adonis: I’ve thought about it, but I don’t think I want to say anything until I know if I got in somewhere or not. It’s going to be a hard conversation and I’d rather not have that conversation if I don’t have to. Does that make me a coward?
Bash: I don’t think that makes you a coward. I think that makes you smart.
Adonis: *video playing with a dildo*
Bash: This is giving me whiplash
Adonis: Oh, you mean you giving me advice WASN’T supposed to make me horny? Got it.
Bash: Hold that thought, I’m getting lube.
Part 2
Chapter 18
Adonis
The New Year meant new work to do. His final semester of college classes started. He took the LSAT on a busy Saturday, driving to a Boston testing center after telling his mother he was taking the day off from practicing to hang out with friends.
She tried to protest, but he said he needed a break.
“Adonis, you’re goingto the Olympics,” she practically screeched when he told her. “There are no breaks!”
Her tirade couldn’t dull his pride or his determination.
Pride because she was right. He’d made Team USA. They found out the first week of January, and he was still riding that high. Maybe the Olympics weren’t necessarilyhisdream, but he still loved figure skating, and even if he didn’t win a single medal in the Olympics, he would always be able to say that he was an Olympian. And that meant something to him.
And determination, because he was now sure that he didn’t want to continue his skating career after college. The Olympics, he decided, would be a great way for him to end his career as a figure skater. It was time for the next chapter to begin.
It scared him, a bit, to think about all he had to do if he wanted to make Law School happen, but he’d never been one to back down from a challenge, and he wasn’t going to back down from this one.
The Olympics weren’t his only upcoming competition. There were still regional, challenger, and collegiate competitions, and those still mattered. Anamária and Damien (who, despite Adonis’s hints to his mother that he didn’t like working with Damien, was still coaching him) encouraged him to think of these competitions as dry runs for the Olympics.
“It’s a chance for you to practice for the Olympics in a competitive setting,” Anamária said.
