Winter had been training her butt off for this moment - again. She had been skating since she was four and competing since she had been six; and she was good. She took silver in junior regionals her first year and gold three years running after that. When she was nineteen, she even qualified for nationals - except it was because of skating that she had attracted her stalker. That was two years ago, and she hadn't skated since. And up until six months ago, hadn't stepped foot in the rink. But she had yet to perform in front of a crowd where people could see her; stalk her. She was performing in twenty minutes and was technically late. But she still stopped abruptly in front of the rink's building, stopping right in front of Noëlle's path. "I-I can't- I don't think..where's Mum? She's going to keep them away, right? I don't want them near me.." She meant people.









