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The song was coming to an end, and Alek was finishing with a sequence of spinning, changing positions with his arms and free leg to look like a moving blur. When he finally finished the spin and came out into a backwards glide on one leg with the other out behind him and his arms stretch out for balance (like this), he looked over and saw what he dreaded the most. People. People were there and watching him do such a girly activity. The teenager didn't seem to notice him, good. But the little Aphrodite girl, she had been in his class a few times the year before. She'd seen him. s**t! The look on his face mimicked the thought in his mind. The sword fighting instructor was so distracted by the fact that someone had seen him that he didn't notice how dangerously close he was to the edge of the lake and crashed backwards into a mound of snow that was twice his size.

CRAP! She was coming over. Okay. Alek knew he had to stay calm. Maybe she hadn't seen his face and didn't recognize him. If that was the case he just had to stay hidden in the snow mound. "Um..y-yeah." He said, trying to sound like someone else while remaining in the snow. "I'm fine. Don't bother checking. Why don't you just run a long and find with of your friends to play with kay?" Oh Hermes PLEASE let her not have seen him and walk away without checking who he was. PLEASE keep her from knowing. No one could ever know that Alek McCoy, sword fighting expert was actually a figure skating pansy. Not even a cute little girl.

It pained him to lie to Amy. It really did. Little kids just wanted to have fun and be loved. He understood that, and loved them like no one else would. Kids were always his softy spot. "I'm fine." He said, loosing his fake voice for a second before quickly catching himself. "I mean fine! I'm...fine..." He said again in his fake voice again. She sounded so worried, but he couldn't let anyone know. It was too embarrassing.

Crap. She figured him out. With a heavy sigh, Alek slowly arose from the snow, a large amount of it still on his head so he looked a bit silly. Looking around to make sure no one else was there to see and turned his attention back to the Aphrodite girl. "Look Amy. You're one of my best students. You learn slowly, but your dedicated. I find that great in a little girl like yourself. But there are some things that a need to keep secret. I didn't want everyone, including you, to find out. However now that you know, I can't have it spread to anyone else. Understand?" He had to make sure she'd keep that secret. Hopefully she'd understand.

"Nothing to worry about kiddo. It'll take more than a little snow to keep down Alek McCoy." He laughed as the little girl climbed onto the mound and thus positioned herself just right for him to lift her up on his shoulders as he stood. Looking up to her with a grin he asked, "Well, no one's close enough to make out my face. How about a ride?" He stepped back onto the ice with the small brunette on his shoulders and began gliding and spinning to keep her entertained.

After about half an hour he figured it was probably time to quit for the day. He sped back to where his bag was and put Amy down before sitting in the snow-sand mixture and pulling his skates off. He removed the blades which magically shifted back to his swords, αριστερά and δεξιά. ((put them into google translate Greek to English >xD)) Alek smiled to the little girl. "Hope you had fun. It's about time I got to the arena to work on my sword skills." He got up and looked down to her with a smile. "Now remember, this is our little secret. Right?"