I Dared To Call Him Husband (The Man I Married)

13

Though the idea of skating in a ice ring sound scary to her Zuriel still sat tight on her seat trying hard to keep a straight face.
"I will be fine,people like me are the one's you will find on that ice ring right,it's not a dead sentence" Zuriel said continuously to herself in a reassuring manner as Louis drove the car at high speed causing her to feel she was hanging on only a string in the sky and adding to discomfort without the knowledge.

He only slowed down when he came to a round about and pick of speed again after going round.
In addition to her seat belt Zuriel dug her nails into either side of her car seat for safety,wondering if there were no traffic officers in Paris.

******
"Zuriel I did be sad if you don't go into the ring with me" Louis said in an attempt to get Zuriel into the skating shoes and into the ring.

For minutes he had tried every possible way and use every sweet word he found appropriate to utter to her in an attempt to get the his brother wife into the skating ring but the woman had prove more stubborn than he could ever think of adamantly saying "no" to his pleas and request.

Zuriel who was dead scared of the whole couldn't imagine or bring herself to say"yes".

She zeroed her coffee brown eyes at the figure bent before her wanting desperately to shove the pair of shoes under her feet.

She nodded slowly and lazily when their eyes met unable to say no anymore to the persistent Louis.

"Great" he exclaimed as he took off her shoes and began wearing her the roller shoes.

"Skating is actually fun,you won't regret this" he said as he finally did the last buckle and rose up.

"Let's go" he said guiding her towards the roller ring as her heart beat increased.

Though she felt so unsure of herself right now,just as she had felt when her father led her into the court to sign the papers that have brought her to where she was today.
With a heavy heart she felt tears pricking at the corner of eyes and she sniffed in an attempt to do away with the tears which proved successful.

*****
"Hey Zuriel come on,don't be scared" Louis hauled from the farthest corner of the ring leaving a fearful Zuriel embarrassed as a number of curious eyes halted and turned their gaze towards her.
Her heart beat and respiration spiked up as small beads of sweat began to form under her brows and in her palms.

"Straighten up" he ordered.
"Yes just like that" he said in encourage as she began gathering her legs together.  Finally after putting herself together she strained into her full length ready to put what Louis had been teaching her for the past one hour in the ring into practice. She said a short prayer to God to keep her from falling and embarrassing herself  before finally taking her first step. She couldn't help but imagine the disapproving look her mother would have given her if she was here,but since she wasn't and she had nothing to loose she couldn't help but ask herself why she is holding up herself. Doing away with all her fears she braced herself up and rolled further into the ring.
She couldn't help but applaud herself as she traveled down the ring more swiftly and with much ease than she had imagined her inner sense were on edge in joy celebrating her victory as she traveled towards her tutor who had a wide smile on his face happy for  his well-done job.

He had taught so much about roller skating in a short span of time but what hadn't been taught was how to avoid obstacles and that was when her world froze. She had been skating with her eyes up just like she was taught a full blown smile on her lips that she hadn't notice the approach of the young lad until it was too late. She did try her best to avoid him but the young boy also a novice was equally confused and also did his best to avert the encroaching danger but since none of them had an idea on what the other was going to do they ended hitting each other and falling on their side the fall accompanied by series of gasps from on lookers.