a perri kiely dream

♡ chapter 15 ♡

I woke up the morning after with a start. I had a dream about a weird man always behind me following me where ever I went and that I didn't know about it but at the same time I had loads of senses telling me he was there following me. Automatically I swivelled my head into every corner of the room the rising sun is touching. Nothing.

Shaking away the thought of someone following me, I get out of bed and take a shower. I woke up quite early so I have lots of time. I have a lovely relaxing wash, letting my thoughts wonder for some time. I turn off the water when I hear my phone buzzing, next to the sink. Wrapping a towel around myself I pick up the phone; it's perri.
"Good morning" he says sounding surprisingly awake as I raise the phone to my ear.
"Hi! Why are you up this early?" I ask, walking back into my room to pick out an outfit.
"I don't know. I didn't sleep well." Perri hesitantly replied.
"Oh! Why not? We have a busy day today! Ash won't be happy if we are tired" I say putting the phone on speaker so I could get dressed.
"Well. Yes I know. To be honest.." he broke off
"To be honest what?" I asked curiously.
"I couldn't stop thinking about you" my heart moved up to my throat.
"You couldn't stop-"
"About the situation you are in! Not just you don't worry hahaha" perri interrupted. But was he telling the truth? Something in his voice told me he really was thinking of me. Just me. I pretended to believe his cover up though. "I'm fine" I replied, "honest I am. I'll see you today anyway!"
"Oh yeah, that's why I called I was wondering if you wanted a lift? Hold my hand on the way!?"
"Hold your hand!?" I exclaimed.
"Ughhh I meant listen to hold my hand by Jess Glynn!!! The song! The song!" Perri practically shouted down the phone. I hold my stomach from laughing and say "okay okay I'll see you in an hour!"

Taking my time, I pull on a pair of pink and purple tie dye joggers with a tight white, cropped skin. After trying to put my crazy hair into a bun of some kind I give up and decide to wear it down for once. I apply minimal makeup and slip on my white converse trainers. After I have had some porridge and a big glass of water I am ready to go and I just sit around waiting for perri. When perri finally gets here I quickly close and lock the door, shove my phone, drink and keys into my bag and jump into the car. "Hi again! How are you?" Perri says looking me in the eye which gives me butterfly's. "Yes I am alright thank you, where's the promised song!?" I laugh. "Oh yeah!" Perri plays hold my hand and we sing along to it twice on the way there.

In the studio there is a boy, probably a few years older than me standing in the corner, obviously Kelvins replacement. A few times I feel his eyes on me which perri also notices and we exchange a glance. "Right guys let's get right into this. Get into your starting positions, Aidan you can just sit and watch this first part until the partnering where you will be with izzy." I look at perri again and see him eyeing up the so called Aidan. I feel like I recognise him from somewhere. Shaking my head I get back to focus. When we get the the partnering section Aidan is told by Ash to go and join me. He doesn't need telling who I am. "Hi" he says when he gets to me. I smile. "Okay Aidan we are going to go through it slowly and just try pick it up as much as you can okay?" We go through it and Aidan picks it up well, he lifts me easily and only messes up once when we dance it properly. Through out the hour Aidan keeps on talking to me which is quite irritating. "How long have you been dancing here?" He asks whilst we are holding each other's waists and I am leaning back, supported by Aidan. "About two weeks," I whisper back. "What's your favourite colour?" Weird. "Orange.." I say in a different to normal voice. "What about you?" I added out of politeness. "Oh um blue, how long have you been living in the area?" He asks wanting to continue conversation which I did not. As we were doing lots of complicated foot work side by side I whispered back, annoyed, "about a year about 10 mins from here, why?"
"No reason, where did you live before?"
I cast him a confused look and stopped doing the choreography messing up that eight and quickly trying to correct myself. "Izzy stay in time!" Ash commands over the music. I nod at him and quickly whisper, "why does it matter to you now please stop I need to concentrate," he doesn't say any more for about half an hour.

We finally finish for the morning and go for our lunch break. I see Aidan looking around and quick as lightning, I duck under the crowd of dancers and re appear next to perri. "Hey," I say, still looking around to see Aidan with Sam and Mitch. I sigh with relief as perri asks how Aidan was. "Good, he picked up the choreo very well but didn't seem very focused,"
"What do you mean?" Perri said as we both sat down with just a few inches of bench between us. "He kept asking me a load of weird questions, I don't know I just got a bit of a strange vibe from him." We sit there, eating, in silence for a few minutes, listening to the twittering birds singing their songs in 100's of different harmony's. The warm sun found its way out of the clouds and shined down on us, spreading warmth through my body. "Your hair looks nice today," perri cuts through the silence, beautifully. "Really!? Thank you, it's a bit of a mess really." I smile at him and we look at each other for a moment. I think of the moment we had in my lounge before Jordan came in and I think he is thinking of it too as it's gets a little awkward and we break eye contact. "You basically just said my hair is a mess as they are pretty much the same," perri finally says. I laugh and tease him by ruffling his hair to make it more messy. We talk for ages about Harry Potter, dance and other random stuff until we realise we were meant to be in the studio five minutes ago.

That afternoon we teach Aidan the opening and work more on the partner work, there is a part at the end of the partner work where we have to run round in a circle and dance about 4 eights with another partner. When we stopped in the circle where we were meant to get into our new partners I see perri edge slightly closer to where I am standing and coincidently me and him get paired together which I am over the moon about. Dancing with perri, like acturlly with him not just alongside him, was incredible. It was like magic. For the whole 4 eights, which was always over too soon,  we stared each other in the eye, hitting every lift to perfection. Then we had to go back to our original partners to practice the first part of the partner section. "Hi again!" Aidan said, too enthusiastically. I roll my eyes when he isn't looking. "Hi."
"So did you have a good lunch, what did you have?" He asks as we begin the routine.
"Perri and I had chicken and bacon sandwiches from the vending machine." I reply, trying to focus on the steps of the routine. "Ahh, you and perri are close?" He asks. "Umm I suppose, I don't know," it's true. I don't know what mine and Perris relationship is at the moment. "So what do you like to do?" What do you think you muppet?? "Well, dance." I reply. He nods and bites his lip, most likely trying to think of another personal question. I catch Perris eye and he grins at me as I indicate to Aidan and role my eyes for the second time. "Yes I know dance but what else do you like to do, like what music do you like to listen to?" Aidan persists again. "I Love Jess Glynn," I respond in a flat voice.

At last rehearsal is over for the day and Jordan asks me if I want to come to Nando's with him, Starr, Perri, Mitch, Geo, Nathan and liv. I agree and I leave the studio, happy to be rid of Aidan.

*what do you guys think of Aidan? Let me know! I hope you enjoyed the last few chapters xx*