Brave

Starting Something

|Emily's P O V|
I wake up and look at my clock, 10am. How did I manage to sleep this late?
What day is it? Wait it's Saturday, I have dance today. I make my way to the washroom, wash my face, brush my teeth, stuff like that. I crawl back into bed and look through my social media. Getting dressed and stuff can wait, dance doesn't start until 12:30 anyways.
After checking instagram and facebook I make my way out of bed. I look through my closet for something nice to wear. We're having a celebration for winning Regionals today, so we're expected to wear something nice. I look through all of my dresses, oh my god I love this blue one, I love how the zipper goes halfway down the front, I also love the black detailing, yup, this is the one. I throw on the dress, it looks good, but what am I going to do with my hair? I brush out my hair, maybe I should do a crown braid. I secure the final bobby pins and look at the result, maybe I should wear it like this all the time. I put on some light makeup, throw on my shoes and head out the door, it's only 11:30, but by the time I get there it will be around 12, besides, I like being early.
"Mom! I'm ready!"
My mom walks out the front door,
"Riles, remember to lock the front door when you leave!" my mom shouts,
"Yeah mom!" Riley shouts back.
I sit down on the passenger seat, do up my seatbelt and turn up the radio. The drive was relitavely silent, which gave me time to think.
I hope Michelle likes my outfit...
I haven't seen her since Regionals, so it's been about two weeks since I've seen her last.
I think she might like me, I know it's crazy, but I have this feeling she might like me back. I can't get my hopes up though, it's more than likely shes straight. But I swear when we hugged, she leaned in like she wanted to kiss me, but then again, she didn't kiss me. She backed away. She's so complicated sometimes, so many mixed signals. I wish I could just ask her if she likes me... But doing that might risk me losing her friendship, or things getting weird, and that's not a risk I want to take.
My mom pulls up in front of The Next Step, "Have fun Emily, I'll pick you up after." I hug my mom and get out of the car, I shut the car door and make my way inside. As I open the front door, I take deep breath. I look at the studio clock, 12:20. Wow, that took longer than usual. I walk into the Studio A hallway, I peek my head in through the door. I see Stephanie, Tiffany and Beth talking by the food table. Giselle, Chloe and Riley are talking by the windows. West, James and Daniel are by the office. I didn't expect to see Daniel here, he must have healed fast. Wait, where are Eldon and Michelle? I open the door fully and take a step inside Studio A, I have a better view of the other side of the room this way, oh there's Eldon, he's with some of the B-Troupers. Well, that's weird.
I still can't find Michelle though...
Maybe if I go to Squeezed and get a juice, by the time I come back Michelle will be here... I hope.
I walk downstairs into Squeezed, it looks completely different, I walk up to the register to order.
"Did you guys renovate or something?"
The cashier laughed,
"No, this is a new place called Culture Shock. Squeezed went out of business."
Squeezed went out of business? Really?
"Oh well, you guys still serve juice right?"
The cashier smiled, "Yes, what flavour?"
"Orange please."
"I'll be right back with that."
A few seconds passed, the cashier came back with my juice, I paid her and started to make my way back upstairs to Studio A. As I am about to walk out of Culture Shock, I feel a warm, soft hand on my shoulder, I turn around to see Michelle's pretty brown eyes looking at me. Oh my god, that dress, is she trying to kill me? She looks so sexy and beautiful and perfect...
"Emily, hi."
She smiles at me, god why is her smile so captivating.
"Oh, hi Michelle, how are you?"
"Good, how are you?"
I'm better than ever now that you're here.
"Oh, I'm good, wanna head upstairs?"
"Yeah, I just came down here to look for you."
She came down here to look for me? I can't believe she just said that, maybe she really does like me...
"Oh, well you found me." I giggled, I never giggle, oh god she made me giggle, I must like her a lot more than I thought I did.
"Yeah, Miss Kate wants you to be up there with everyone else."
I felt my heart sink, of course it was Miss Kate looking for me, not her. God why did I even think she came to look for me because she liked me, I'm so stupid.
"Oh, yeah, yeah we better go upstairs then I guess."
Maybe she was making up an excuse to come find me? Maybe I should just flirt with her, see how she reacts... well, here goes nothing.

|Michelle's P O V|
Emily and I walk into Studio A, I can't keep my eyes off of her. Her wearing that dress is the hottest thing I've ever seen, and her hair is just so, perfect. I could never braid my hair like that.
I look across the room, Eldon gives me a thumbs up, thankfully Emily's back is faced towards him, because she would definately think somethings up if she saw him giving me the thumbs up.
"So how's the party so far?"
Really Michelle, that's the best you could come up with?
"We just got here Michelle." Emily laughed.
"Umm..."
Say something, just say something, talking isn't that hard.
"By the way, you look great in that dress." Emily said, quickly looking me up and down. I think I just died, is this a dream? Is she really checking me out, complimenting me? Is this real life?
"Oh, th-thank you. You look great too, I wish I could do my hair like that."
Emily lightly grabbed a piece of my hair, "I think I could teach you some time."
I know I'm blushing, I have to be, there's no way I can keep my cool right now, she just touched my hair amd offered to braid it, this day is going great, best day of my life.
"That would be nice." I smiled at her, then Eldon walked up to us, Emily excused herself and went to Stephanie and Tiffany.
"Really Eldon! We had something going there."
I can't believe he just did that to me, damnit Eldon.
"I know, and I had to stop you two before you started to make out on the Studio floor."
"Why did you really come here?"
At this point I'm annoyed, what if we did end up making out on the Studio floor? Would that really be so bad?
"You need to ask her out soon."
I lowered my voice, and told Eldon to lower his, incase anyone could hear us.
"What? I can't just ask her out, I don't even know if she's a, you know, lesbian or not..."
Eldon laughed, "To everyone else you and Emily just look like friends, but I see so much more, you two have a connection, and I think I have a way to get Emily to admit her feelings towards you, I just need a few days."
"Please don't do anything stupid Eldon..."
"I promise. Hey, in a few days, you'll have yourself a girlfriend."
I hope he's right, I hope whatever trick he has up his sleeve works...