Let Me Just Dance

"You will never succeed at anything!."

         I was on stage - a stage so big ten thousand people could fit on it, but I was the only one on it, the curtains were velvet red and as you look out you could see rows and rows on seat, every seat had someone in it, and I recognized three faces - my mothers, fathers, and sisters eyes were staring at me. I felt chills up my back, as they continued to stare. Suddenly a soft, quiet music started to play. A music so soft it matched the rhythm of my heart beat. Without realization my feet begun to move to the music, I looked down, and saw that I was wearing nothing but a t-shirt, tights, and pointe shoes. My whole body begun to move with the music, suddenly my mind began to join in as well. I moved as passionately as my body would let me, I let my mind and heart lead me. I danced so hard and passionate that I begun to cry, and as my tears begun to pour, my legs begun to grow weaker, and weaker with every move I made. Without a warning, I clasps on the marbled stage.

     "Get off the stage!, you suck!", I heard a man say, I gathered my thoughts, and attempted to open my eyes, one eye at a time. Every thing was still very blurry, I pulled my bangs out of my face, I felt something liquid on my palm, I looked and it was blood, I was bleeding.

     "You humiliated yourself, I told you" ,a lady spoke, I looked out into the crowd, and it was my mother, she was laughing with my father as he pointed at me.

       "You pathetic little bitch, you should have listen to use", my father yelled. Suddenly everyone in the crowd started to point and laugh at me. Some started to throw things at me. I had just been humiliated be my own family, I begun to cry. I quickly got up and started running off the stage, with my face in my palm.

       "You can't run from this, everyone knows you fell. your a disgrace to this family. You will never do anything right" I heard someone say, but didn't bother to figure out who it was.

       "Failure, failure, failure, failure!." they all chanted.

I woke up crying, and dripping in sweat. I threw the blanket off of my quivering body, and sat up placing my feet on the cold carpet. I placed my head in my palm, whipping my dreaming tears away. I turned to look at my alarm clock 7:30am - time for school. I got up, and headed towards the bathroom. As I placed my bare foot onto the icy cold cement floor, I shivered turning on the light; I squinting my eyes. I looked at my self in the small mirror in front of me, and pulled my bangs out of my face, on my forehead there was a scar, with dried up blood attracted to it. "Thank god for bangs" I mumbled to my self.

       I walked over to the shower, and turned on the hot water. Undoing my bra, and stepped out of my panties, and into the shower. As the hot water came in contact with my cold body I shivered, it felt so good. I tilted my head back and ran my finger throw my hair. I grabbed my loofah, and begun to scrub my sensitive skin.

       I finished showering, and dried of my body. I rapped the towel around me and begun braiding my wet hair, I didn't have time to do anything special with it. I was running late.

       I ran to my closet grabbing a t-shirt, a pair of skinny jean throwing them on, then slipped my feet into a pair of flats. I quickly grabbed my backpack and ballet bag, car keys and ran out of my apartment. Hurrying into my old Toyota Camry, I pulled out of my apartment parking lot.

        I pulled into the school parking lot, in such a hurry I didn't realize how close I has parked next to the car beside me. Grabbing my backpack, I aggressively opened the driver seat door, hitting straight into the other cars door - Shit!.

       Getting out of the car I pushed my door shut, I squawked examining the the car. There was only a little scratch.

       "Excuse me Ms.", a voice said from behind, "whats going on here?". I quickly got up and turned around, but was blocked by a tall muscular figure.