"I'm fine." I assured her, blushing slightly.

"Okay, that's good." She replied, her expression lighter. "I'm always stacking." She wrinkled up her nose nad then grinned at me.

"You haven't fallen yet..." I pointed out, relaxing as she spoke animatedly.

"There's still time." She smirked and laughed when she saw Atlantica yelping as Jesse Williams and Chris Sweet pulled her along the ice.

"Oh crap..." Nycto laughed. "I'll be back okay. I gotta go save, Attie." She winked at Bob who nodded and watched. Nycto slowly started toward the three teenagers, but then changed her course. She paused until they were coming around a curve and then moved left, facing the oncoming traffic of the rink.

"Nycto!" Bradley yelped as he swerved right to avoid her.

"Sorry!" She called back half-heartedly, her eyes riveted to Chris who was on the inner part of the rink.

When Chris stopped laughing and joking around with Jesse, he had only a split second to decide what to do. With Nycto standing right in front of him, he chickened and let go of Attie's hand and swerving to the middle of the rink to avoid Nycto.

Bob saw a huge grin spread across Nycto's face when she turned. However, Chris's sudden disappearance had thrown Atlantica and Jesse off balance and they looked dangerously like they were about to fall.

"AHH!!!"

There was a loud bang as Jesse slammed into the rink wall. Nothing was hurt bar his pride, but from his profuse complaints and whining anyone would think he had a broken limb!

"Fancy meeting you here." Dave grinned as Atlantica looked up to see who had caught her.

"Who'd have guessed." She smiled, sliding back a little, aware of their extreme closeness.

"Eeep!" Nycto watched as Jesse and Chris closed in on her. She moved to the low wall of the rink with little ease and made for an opening in the wall. Seeing that she wasn't going to get out before the boys caught her, she threw her legs over the side and used their momentum to get over.

"Waaa!" Nycto yelled as she started to fall forward.

"Nycto!"

"Thanks, Skye." Nycto sighed with relief and gave the auburn-haired girl a big smile. "You saved my life!" She added dramatically.

"I'm sure you weren't going to die..." Skye laughed in her soft manner, as she helped Nycto stand straight.

"I think Jesse and Chris may disagree with you!" Nycto yelped, hiding behind Skye.

"Don't worry. Bradley's telling them off. They'll stop for a while..." Skye assured her as Nycto followed her eyes to see the usually sweet Bradley giving the other two guys a stern lecture. Nycto giggled and she as she and Skye made themselves scarce.

*~*~*~*

"Howdy!" Attie called Christina and Clint over to the table she and some other people were sitting at.

"Want some coke?" Nycto offered Christy as she picked at some hot chips.

"No thanks." Christy smiled sweetly, sitting beside Nycto.

"Fine then. More for me." Nycto stuck her tongue out.

As Nycto and Christy made small-talk with Clint, Dave decided to take a leap of faith. "Hey Attie..." He forced himself to speak.

"Yeah?" Bob and I are going to the movies tomorrow. You and Nycto wanna come?" Dave asked, realising that Nycto and Attie were close friends from the events on the skating rink.

Bob gave Dave a sceptical look, but waited for Atlantica's reply.

"Ah... I'm already seeing Star Wars with her." Atlantica told him, wishing she was free.

"Oh. We were going to see that too." Dave lied.

"Kewl! Then you can come with us if you want." Atlantica put forward the idea.

"Cool with me." Dave grinned broadly.

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