Dancing with the Beast

6. Hi, I'm Renata Bliss

We arrived at the Warehouse a few minutes later. Jimmy and I got along well during the car ride and I could already tell that he is a really nice company. He opened the door of the Warehouse and led me inside. I followed him down the floor and became a bit nervous. I'm usually very calm when it comes to dance lessons but this one felt like a really big thing to me. I did'nt want to disappoint anyone and I also wanted to give Jimmy and his crew a nice result for their video. Jimmy stopped in front of a closed door and looked at me. "So, the boys are waiting in there, they have no idea what's going on. We are going to film everything for a behind the scenes video, just don't mind the cameras. You're ready?" he smiled at me encouragingly. I took a deep breath and nodded. You can do this Keira, just be yourself I silently said to myself. Jimmy opened the door and I followed him inside.

Inside of the room Chandler, Chris and Karl were waiting for us, or rather for Jimmy, because they did not except me. Once we had entered the room, they all kept their eyes on me. "Hi, I'm Renata Bliss and I'm your freestyle dance teacher" I said with a serious face while starting to perform the weird dance moves from the Meme. The boys all looked at me like I was an alien except Jimmy, who was now bursting out laughing and I joined him. The three other guys still looked confused. "Okay, actually I'm Keira and I'm not your freestyle dance teacher but I'm your aerobic dance teacher" I introduced myself. "What? Aerobic dance teacher?" Chandler said, giving Jimmy a death stare. "Oh, I know you! You're doing these dance tutorials and workouts on YouTube!" Karl noticed. "You're watching dance workouts, Karl?" Chris laughed at Karl. "Yeah, nothing wrong with it, just staying in shape, you know? You should try this too." He checked Chris body with a pejorative glance. By the tone of Karl's voice, you could hear that he was mocking Chris for fun. "Hey!" Chris gently poked him in the ribs.

„Okay guys, first of all let me introduce you to Keira. Keira, this is Chris, Chandler and Karl" Jimmy explained while pointing at each of them as if I didn't already know their names from their videos. "And now let me explain this. You guys know the punishment for the last challenge you've lost? It wasn't just recording the song. You will have to do a full music video and that's why I reached out to Keira and invited her to plan and practice a choreography with you." Jimmy stated the whole situation. "Sure, you invited a pretty girl over here just for some dance lessons" Chandler grinned and wiggled with his eyebrows while looking at Jimmy. "Hey" Jimmy picked up a pencil from the desk next to him and threw it at Chandler's direction, but he missed his target. I felt my cheeks slightly blushing from Chandler's words.

"So, we really have to do a music video?", Karl broke the awkward silence. I thanked him in my thoughts for that. "Yes!" Jimmy answered him. "Well fuck you, Jimmy!" Chandler complained. "Oh, I can't do this, I don't have any sportswear" Chris tried to talk his way out of it. "No problem, I've got you. Take this and go change" Jimmy handed everyone a small bag. "I really hate you Jimmy, you're a pain in the ass" Chandler said to Jimmy while leaving the room with the other boys to get changed.

"No! Jimmy! You're serious?!" I heard Chris screaming in anger from the room next door. "Guess they found out that these aren't normal sports clothes"Jimmy chuckled. "Maybe you should run, they might want to kill you know" I grinned at him. "At least the last thing I would see then are the boys in funny aerobic outfits so my death probably could be worse" He answered and we both started laughing.

We both bursted out laughing again as the three boys reentered the room in their aerobic suits. "Jimmy, you're so dead after this" Chris gave him a death stare. "I think I look sexy in this" Chandler joked and did a little model walk in front of us. After a few more minutes joking about the outfits, we finally started the lesson. Jimmy sat down at a chair in the corner and watched the whole thing. I had the feeling that he was watching me in particular, but maybe I was just imagining it. He also threw in some jokes about the boys from time to time. After the first hour of the lesson, I could tell that Karl really did well while Chandler and Chris rather seemed to be hopeless cases.