Friends/co-partners in public, lovers in private.

It was... hard to say the least, pretending that you both were just friends when all you both wanted to do was just hug tighter than how friends should do.

But Alysa's schedule made it hard for her to reveal it to the public easily. But she had promised that when she could, she would do so, she had promised it.

And so, she did do it. She went along with her promise very well, which relieved you so much because now you were no longer just a friend to her, you were finally now her girlfriend and able to be so in public without the fear of judgement.

(You can be whatever you want, ice skater too, or you can be a chess prodigy, whatever you want, up to you)