In your arms

Chapter 3: Dance dance dance

Riley's POV:

I pull out of our kiss and see that the dancers have started arriving for the auditions. I hear James sigh as he hears the chatter coming from both sides of the office.
"Come on we have to run the auditions" I pull on his hand lightly and grab my clip board and drag him outside.
"Alright dancers listen up!" I call out getting all the dancers attention. I can see most dancers that where on the team last year and loads on new one too which is perfect knowing we have such a big group to choose from, it means we can make sure we have the best team going to regionals. They create a circle around me and get ready for me to tell them how the auditions going to run.
"Ok so welcome all of you, so as you guys know we're holding auditions for are regionals team. There are 12 spots open and we need the best to fill them." I start off.
"We're looking for a range of different styles so show us your best ok" I look at James and nod for him to tell them how it's going to work.
"So we're going to start with freestyle solos and we will then choose 24 of you to move onto choreo from then Ill show you the choreo which you will need to then learn and preform for me and Riley and from there we will choose 12 of you to be the new A troupe" James explains and everyone nods. I tell everyone to move so we can start with solos and i quickly glance at me list and call out there names one by one.
"Ok so Richelle you can go first" I smile as she makes her way to the centre of the floor and starts her solo. I'm blown away by how stunning her freestyle is and how far she has come in only a year. I can remember when she was in J troupe and auditioned for A troupe twice before moving to B and now I think she's definitely ready for A.
I clap once the music stops and call out the next dancer.
"Alfie your next" as I say this I hear James mumble under his breath but I don't quite catch what he said exactly. I nudge him lightly on the arms causing him to playfully glare at me.
We watch him do his solo and it seems to go quite well. He is definitely good enough to move onto the next round but I don't know if James will agree with letting him on A troupe. We watch as he does a few flips and I can see James rolling his eyes which makes me giggle quietly so only he can hear me.
After Alfie, Noah and Michelle went and after I then gathered everyone together in a circle and told them to grab a drink while we choose the 24 dancers.
I drag James into the office and put the clipboard down and sit in my seat while James brought over the chair from the corner.
"So who do you think is good enough to advance to the next round?" I ask while he sits down on the opposite side of the table.
"I don't know there are so many good dancers it's hard to choose" he sighs leaning back.
"Ya it's pretty hard but we have to choose 24 at least it's not 12 straight away" I reason pushing me clip board over to him.
"I wrote down some of the people I think were the best but I don't know if you saw anything I didn't?" He picks up the clipboard and scans through the names before catching his eye on one leaving him silent.
"Really, Alfie?" I sighs rolling his eyes.
"Well he was a pretty good dancer so I don't think it would be that big of a deal if he went throughout the next round" I say pulling down the key board so I can see the names.
"And besides it's not like he's gonna be able to definitely get a spot over all these great dancers" I try make him feel better by pointing to all the names above his which makes James smirk at me, something he does a lot. We then come to a conclusion of 24 dancers out of all that auditioned and we went out to tell everyone.
I looked at my watch as we walked out and saw it was 5:03 so I told James that we may have to ask the dancers to come back tomorrow to do the choreo part of the audition as there isn't enough time he nods as he walks over to the wall and hangs up the clipboard with the names on.
"Alright dancers, over there is a list of 24 names that are moving on to the next round, unfortunately we don't have enough time today so if you could head over here tomorrow same time and we can finish the auditions then" I smile as the nod and rush over to the list of names trampling James in the process I laugh as he glares at me while being stuck in the middle of 32 dancers. We watch as the dancers leave either full of joy or hanging there head according on who made it or not. I watched as they left and couldn't help but see Alfie staring at me again but instead of hiding it after he saw me looking at him he seemed to smirk while walking out with his bag causing me to shudder.
after they leave James walks over and grabs the buckets, mops and clothes to clean the mirrors.
"That was a lot easier than I thought" I sigh in relief as he throws me a cloth.
"Ya apart from that creepy boy" he starts to flip while wiping down the floor.
"Is he still bugging you? I'm sure its not as bad as it seems" I turn to clan the mirrors. I'm not really sure if I should tell him about the looks I've been getting all day so I try make the whole situation simple.
"I don't know, something about him makes me not trust him" I hear him sigh and I try to not think about him and focus on something else.
After cleaning for a little while In silence I see James walk up and hug me from behind making me smile, I turn around and hug him back saving the moment.
"It's not like I need to worry though, right?" he smirks while I bite my bottom lip.
"No you don't" I reassure him and lean in for a kiss. He doesn't have to worry I'm never leaving him even if I was threatened.
"Can you help me clean these mirrors?" I giggle slightly at the fact I'm to small the reach the top of them. He chuckles while grabbing the cloth and jumping slightly to clean the rest of the mirrors.
I stand back and hear my phone vibrate so I walk over to see who had texted me.
"Who would text you now?" I hear James call out from the other side of the room.
"I don't know" I shrug and open up the message and nearly chocking on what it says.