"You can trust me." (The Next Step 8 x Oc) (Discontinued)

Defying Gravity, Part 2

Kenzie and Heath walk back to the team.
"Oh, oh, they're here, they're here." I say to the team. 
"Um, I have some news." Kenzie starts. "Everything's gone, and we're not getting it back."
Everybody yells questions about it. 
"We're gonna figure it out. Because I believe in this team. I think it's time I let you show the world what you can do, what we can do." Kenzie tells us. "Because that's our super power.  We made this team from stratch. Now look at us, standing at the finals. I didn't do this. We did this. Am I right?"
"Yeah." We all reply.
"All right." Kenzie says. "Antony, can you teach the team you're Hyped In choreo?" 
"Yeah, of course." He tells her. 
"And Jude, can you help him out?" Kenzie says wanting her to be included. 
"Yeah. Yeah. I can." She says. 
"We're also going to need costumes." Kenzie tells us. 
"Oh, actually, I saw a thrift store down the street when Heath and I took the bus back to the studio yesterday." I tell her, but Heath is shaking his head.
"I'm sorry, what?" She asks.
"No, it's OK, never mind."  I say feeling bad. 
"Pete, you, Heath and Dani can do costume sizing." Kenzie continues. "Get it done."
"Aye-aye, Captain." Pete says. 
"Perfect." Kenzie says.
"And I will pay for everything." Nick tells us, we all cheer. 
"OK, we don't have a lot of time, so learn this choreo and let's make some TNS magic." Kenzie finishes. "Let's do it." 
"OK, what size are you?" I ask Antony.
"Medium." He tells me. 

"The costumes have arrived!" Pete announces as him, Nick, Heath and myself enter the room, everybody cheers at us. 
"I had a big say in the decision-making process." Nick tells the team. "Moxie has expanded my fashion horizons, so... There you go. Yeah, oh, yeah, yours."
We start handing out the costumes.  

Ultra Elite dances and does amazing, we just have to pray for no mistakes. 

Heath: Their dance was really polished. The set, the dancers, the tricks. It's going to be really hard to beat, but we can do it.

Am I a little jealous about Heath and Grace's lingering stare, maybe a little bit. Will it stop me from nailing this dance? No of course not. 

Kenzie and Pete go off quickly to talk for a second. 

"I am so proud of you all." Kenzie tells us before we take the stage. "I have had quite a journey this year and... every single one of you has taught me something different. I'm a better dance captain, a better dancer, just a better person in general. For a minute, I didn't think we'd be here. I didn't. But look at us. We're here. And I never thought I'd be able to let go of my old troupe. They were family. They always will be family. But I could always use some more siblings." We all laugh and say aw's.  "Thank you so much for everything. "We just have one more thing to do. Let's go out there and win this."
"Yeah." The whole team yells. 
"A-Troupe on three." Kenzie says as Richelle and Ozzy run in. 
"Ready? Here we go." Richelle say as they join us.
"Ready? A-Troupe on three." Kenzie repeats. "One, two, three."
"A-Troupe!" We all yell. 
Then we take the stage to the cheering of the audience. 
We all come out in pairs or groups. Pete and Ebby, Ethan and Dylan, Jett and Antony and Izzy, Kenzie and I. Heath comes out alone.  

This dance is about a group of misfits who leave their prom to go and have their own party in the parking lot. 

Heath: This dance almost didn't happen. It's full of urgency and passion. It's like all of our nervous energy supercharged it. 

Heath (after some talk of different people): I love how this dance is about us. It's not about the old A-Troupe or Ultra Elite. It's just all of us on stage together. It almost didn't happen, but... I'm glad it did. 

The audience erupt into a wild applause, with that we all take a bow. We then run to the rest of our team to celebrate our dance. 

"The judges have reach a decision. Ultra Elite, please return to the stage.  And The Next Step return to the stage, please." The announcer says, we do so and all hold hands. "And the winner... The Next Step."  
There is wild cheering and applause. The first person I hug is Heath, not just because I like him, but because we are stood right next to each other, the I hug Jett and all of my friends from day 0. 

Heath: We did it. We won. We won Nationals! Lifting this trophy is something I've always dreamed of. Lifting it with Kenzie feels even better. 

Xander, Jett, Dylan, Antony and I do out hand shake of fist bump, twirl, high ten, booty bump and finger guns. 
Then the trophy is passed around the team, after Heath and Kenzie hold it for the audience to see. 
While that is happening, I pull Heath aside.
"So? We did it." I say.
"Yep!" He replies. 
"Turns out you're not such a bad team-mate after all." I say nervously.
"Aw." Heath says and hugs me. 
While we are distracted in a hug we hear the team cheering towards Ozzy and Richelle and see them kissing. 

On the bus back Heath sits next to me, I had an adrenalin rush while we were still at Nationals but then was exhausted after the weekend we had that while listening to music with Heath, I fell asleep on him and  when we arrived home, Heath had already left. I was going to tell him how I felt but I wasn't too sure about it.
"You know I have a picture of on the bus." Says Jett who was sat in front of us on the bus. 
"She does, she can send it to you." Xander says who was sat next to Jett.
"Fine, only if it's not embarrassing." I tell them and then Jett sends it.
"Aw." I say as I look at it. It's Heath and I snuggled up me asleep on his shoulder and him on my head. "Nobody needs to know about this photo."
"I'm pretty sure Ozzy has a photo of you two from before waking Heath up." Xander tells me.
"Oh, okay." I say before Jude and I head home to put our stuff away. 

"Team, I am so proud of you. We did that." Kenzie tells us when we come in the next day, everyone is here including Cleo and Richelle. "Today, it's time for celebration, but tomorrow, we start practising for Internationals."
We all cheer about it. 

I feel so proud that we were able to come together and do this as a team. 

The team splits off to their own conversations, including Heath and I.
"You know, there are cute pictures of us on the bus yesterday?" Heath tells me.
"Really, did Ozzy take them?" I ask.
"How did you know?" Heath asks.
"Jett and Xander took some too yesterday and told me Ozzy may have taken some." I tell him.
"Want to trade the pictures?" He asks.
"Sure." I say and we send each other the pictures. 
Then we hear about Ultra Elite having some kind of problem and gather around Kenzie. 
"Maria left town and close the studio." Grace says in the video. "What are we going to do?" 
"It's horrible." Kenzie says. 
The Ultra Elite members walk in. 
"Kenzie, we need your help." Grace says.

God I hate that girl but their team needs help. Plus I need to start going second chance like I gave Heath.  

Heath: As a guy who's made a mistake or two, I think Grace might deserve a second chance.

A/N:
Well hello, we have finished season 8 which is the first in this book. I am going to make a season like the off-seasons of Dani and Heath at school and then Dani or Heath may or may not ask the other out. And maybe it gets ruined, you will have to see. See you soon for the next season.

XOXO Author.