On his way to realizing his Olympic dream, Tom Alan Baranowski finds himself in the midst of a dilemma. His traditional Japanese coach is insisting upon an arranged marriage between his biological daughter Erika and adopted son Tom Alan, who are partners on the ice. Tom Alan loves Erika, and his coach literally saved his life, rescuing him from an abusive home. How can he say no?<br><br>Somewhat resigned to his “not so bad” fate, everything changes when Tom Alan meets British ice dancer Milo Fisher. The spark between them is almost hot enough to melt the ice beneath their blades, and the two fall into an affair.<br><br>What about Erika? What about loyalty? What about gold? For Tom Alan, the impossible throw quadruple jump is suddenly the least difficult thing in his life.

Quadruple Flip

Tom Alan started the next segment of Romance Under the Rings.He had gotten wind of the Ben Thornton scandal in bits and pieces back in 2012, but it wasn’t as big a deal in Japan as it was in the UK and the US. He’d immediately searched the web then for the alleged nude pics of Benjamin Thornton, and also the porn video featuring Adam Stoker, the brother of Thornton’s purported lover.


Tom Alan had searched for both again after starting the movie the night before. Had he been in his own room, in his own house, in his own bed, he’d have put both, when he found them, to good use—maybe. Ironically, he wasin the home of another one of the characters in the movie. His interim coach Irina Mischen was Ben’s best friend’s mother. Her daughter, Kat Mischen, was an Olympic medalist herself, but now lived on her own.


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