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[beyondtheblonde]

Elle Woods loves her life. With the stress of finals rolling off her back, she's officially halfway through law school. She has a wonderful boyfriend, the sweetest dog anyone could ever ask for, the greatest friends, a fun job that helps her make enough to stay afloat. Sure, she has to grapple with student loans for the first time ever, but everything seems to be working out anyway.

And today she has a bright, clear, winter day, frigid but sunny, and she's dragged Emmett out to the slopes, so it's basically perfect. Okay, so she's not sure where Kagura came from because some of her friends swear it's always been there but she's heard other people say otherwise, but she's never been out this way before herself. Whether it's a landmark or a mystery, it's still got a pretty nice beginner's slope, and it's time Emmett learned how to ski.

"I'm the one from Malibu," she points out as they approach the slope. "Shouldn't you be the one teaching me?"

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[beyondtheblonde]

"Perfect," Elle says, leaning forward just enough to examine his handiwork. "How are you feeling? Balance okay? With this, as with any sport, the best thing you can do to maintain your balance is to engage your core. If you start to feel unsteady, you just suck in here, really tighten that back. Cool?" When she's showing someone how to do something like this, it's hard not to slip into pilates class mode, admittedly, but she really just wants to teach him the best she can. This part, she thinks, might even be more fun than the actual skiing. "So to move forward, we're just gonna keep the feet parallel and push off with the poles."

[driven_as_hell]

"I think my balance is okay," Emmett says, shifting his weight the slightest bit as if to test that. It seems like kind of a lot to take in, but Elle really is a good teacher, even if it has been a while since she's gone skiing, and he thinks that more than anything might work in his favor. As long as he can remember everything she's told him, maybe this won't go too terribly. If nothing else, though, it'll be something they can laugh about later. He doesn't want to take himself so seriously that that won't be the case. "I'm not falling over yet, but I'm also not going downhill yet."