Brave

Trouble & Mall Trips

|Emily's P O V|
Amanda, I hate her so much, she just walks into my studio and has the nerve to ask about auditions, how disrespectful and rude.
"Actually, Amanda's right... At my studio, we did auditions for a Nationals team after winning Regionals."
"Thank you, Michelle"
I gave her an annoyed smile and turned back to Amanda. God why did Michelle have to help Amanda, she's so cute yet so incredibly clueless.
Amanda and I went back and forth until she finally left, this party was supposed to be fun, why did she have to come and crash it?
The B-Troupers and J-Troupers had made their way out of Studio A at this point. Miss Kate came out of her office,
"What's going on? Why was Amanda here?" Miss Kate looked around the room, then her eyes stopped on me.
"Emily? What is going on?" Miss Kate said sternly, why does she always have to pick me?
"She came in here looking to audition for our Nationals team... but we're not holding auditions... right?"
I really don't want to do auditions, why can't we just keep the same team we have now?
"To audition for our Nationals team?" Miss Kate looked confused,
"Well Miss Kate, at my old studio, when we won Regionals, we re-auditioned to get on the Nationals team. It was an open audition, so people from our studio and from all the other studios in the region come and audition for our Nationals team. It gave us the best people on our team." Michelle said.
Maybe she does have a point, if we have the best members from the entire region on our team, it's more likely we'll win Nationals.
We had a group vote on if we wanted to hold auditions or not, majority voted to have auditions, so I guess we'll be getting new team members.
The party ended, the first half of the party was nice, ecspecially the part where Michelle talked to me, but stupid Eldon had to get in the way.
Instead of going home and relaxing, we're all stressing about the auditions in a few days. Most people are coming to The Next Step tomorrow to rehearse solo's, but I don't have to worry about that, neither does Michelle. Miss Kate gave both of us spots on the Nationals team because we're dance captains... which means Michelle is free tomorrow... Maybe she'll want to hang out with me?
I see Michelle walking towards the door. Crap, she's leaving.
"Michelle!" I yell, Michelle turns around at me.
I walk up to her, this is no big deal, you're just asking her to hang out, it's not like this is a date or anything.
"Are you free tomorrow?"
"Y-yeah, why?"
Okay good she's free, now to see if she wants to hang out...
"Do you wanna like, hang out with me tomorrow?"
Please say yes, please say yes...
"I would love to."
Michelle's face turned a light shade of pink, she gave me a warm smile. She is so freakin' cute.
"Great, so what do you wanna do?"
"Can you come to the mall with me please? We can have like a shopping day, I mean if you like shopping."
I love shopping, and I certainly do not mind going to the mall with Michelle.
"Sounds perfect, how about we meet at my house at one? My mom can drive us there. I'll text you my adress tonight."
I hugged Michelle, she smells so good, like flowers, heaven and vanilla. She's also so warm and soft, not like a gross warm, but like a comforting warm. I wish I could hug her forever, having her in my arms and me being in her arms is the best feeling in the world.

|Michelle's P O V|
Emily's hugs are one of my favourite things in the world, even though I've only had a few of them. If her hugs are this amazing, imagine what her kisses would be like... I want her so badly.
Emily let go of the hug, I could still smell her hair, which smelled sweet, like strawberries.
Emily walked out, and Eldon walked in to Studio A.
"Michelle, I see you and Emily were getting along pretty well there." Eldon nudged me with his elbow jokingly.
"Yeah I guess, she invited me to go to the mall with her tomorrow."
Eldon smiled, "Well, I guess your first unofficial date is at the mall, have fun."
"I wouldn't call it a date... She doesn't even like me like that, she's straight."
Eldon started to laugh,
"Michelle, I'm telling you she likes you. There was so much emotion and sexual tension in that hug..."
I pushed Eldon jokingly, "Stop, she's just a friend, she doesn't like me like that."
Eldon started to walk away, "She does! Have fun on your date!" he called back.
I lightly bite my lip, tomorrow is gonna be amazing.

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I walk up to Emily's doorstep, oh my god, it's happening, we're going to spend hours together, alone... shopping and talking, having fun.
I take a deep breath and press the doorbell, this is it.
The door opens,
"Oh, hey Michelle, what are you doing here?" Riley said, I'm kind of disappointed to see her, I was excpecting Emily.
"I'm actually here to see Emily..."
Riley's eyebrows raised,
"Really? I didn't know you two hung out. She didn't even tell me you were coming over."
"Oh well, we're going to the mall so..."
Emily walked out the door past Riley,
"Make sure you get to the studio to practice your solo." Emily said to Riley.
"Yeah, ok ok." Riley said then shut the door.
We started to walk down the street,
Emily looked at my outfit, her eyes travelling up and down me, does she like my outfit? Does this outfit look bad?
"That dress looks really good on you." Emily said, I felt myself starting to blush, I looked down at my dress, it was my pink skater dress, I started to smile,
"Thank you, you look really good too."
Emily looked at me, then looked down and smiled, "Thank you."
She is just so flawless...
We talked about things like dance and Regionals and school for the rest of the walk to the mall, when we got into the mall we headed into a clothing store, I looked through skirts and Emily looked through the dresses.
"You know Michelle, you would look great in this dress."
Emily picked the most hideous looking dress off the rack, it was ruffly, it had cheetah print and it was satin.
I laughed, "Maybe I'll wear that to the next school dance."
Emily laughed and put the dress back on the rack, and I pulled a skirt off the skirt rack, it was a dark pink skirt with a floral design and I really like it, it would go good with alot of tops I have.
"What do you think of this skirt?" I asked Emily, she looked at the skirt and smiled, "It's pretty Michelle, why don't you go try it on?"
I smiled, "Okay, wait here. Tell me how it looks."
I walked into the change room, and tried on the skirt. It fit pretty well. As I open the dressing room door I feel a painful tug on my hair. I look over and my hair is knotted on one of the clothing hooks, how did I even do that?
I tried to get my hair off the hook,
"Shit!" I felt my hair being pulled when I tried stepping back.
"Michelle? Are you okay in there?"
Should I ask her to help? Fuck it, I need her help.
"Emily can you come in here and help me please?"
Emily opened the door and walked into the change room, "Oh my god Michelle, what did you do?" I could see Emily laughing. I felt myself beginning to smile, "It's not funny, please help me."
Emily began to untie my hair,
sucsessfully releasing it from the hook.
I turned around to face her, our faces are only a few inches apart, I start to panick, I knew if this continued for too long, I would do something stupid and ruin our friendship. I awkardly shuffled around her, my face was red and I just felt like a huge mess. "Thanks."
Emily gave me a weird smile, "Okay... no problem. Now are you gonna buy that skirt or not?"
"It depends, do you you think it looks good?" I did a spin for her, showing her the whole skirt. Emily smiled, "It looks great, I'm hungry, can we please go eat?" I rolled my eyes jokingly at this, "Fine Emily, but you're paying for lunch." Emily laughed, "Yeah right Michelle."