A Street Dancer with a Black Bandana (Xiaoven)

Thirty-Five: New dancers.

December 15th, 10.37 am.

Venti kisses Xiao goodbye, smiling, "Good luck with your performance, I'll try to make it."

Xiao shakes his head, "I'll give you a personal show later. Same notes and everything." He says, grinning.
Venti smiles, "Mkay. I'll text you when I'm there," He says, and Xiao nods, kissing him again.

Venti watches him walk into the stadium.
He looks around, eyes stopping at a familiar person. He looks at Chidle as he walks over to the doors.

He grabs Childe's arm softly, "Dont let Xiao out of your sight. Please." He looks to the side, and Childe nods, "Hes watching?" He whispers, "Yeah." Venti nods, "Just- dont let him go anywhere alone."

Childe nods, smiling.
Venti smiles, looking back, the person gone. He sighs, slipping into the car, and closing the door, and locking them.

He shakily exhales, and begins the drive to the studio.

~

Venti stretches, yawning softly.

Kaeya pinches his side, making him yell out, and punch his arm, "Mother fucker!" He yells, and Kaeya laughs, "Lemme see!" He says excitedly, and Venti tugs up his hoodie sleeve, and Kaeya squeals, "That looks so fucking cool! Holy shit!" He laughs, and Venti smiles, "My arms sore. But, it's nice. She did awesome on it. Shes very detailed on her works." He says, and Kaeya nods, watching him pull the sleeve down as the two new people come in, the two talking. "So...Who are they?" He asks, and Kaeya shrugs, "No clue. But, heard they know the red lights choreography. And ones supposed to do it with you."

Venti shuffles, inhaling, "Great." He says, and walks over, smiling, "Hi! You two are new! I'm Venti~!" He says, and the black and green haired offers his hand, and Venti stares at it, "Sorry, I dont like being touched." He says, and he nods, "Not a problem. I'm Tighnari. This is Al-Haitham." He says, and Venti smiles, "Great! This is Kaeya! And that's Ayato and next to him is Gorou. Uhhmm, Heizou is in the corner stretching. And Scaramouche is the one fixing his shoes." He says, "The others have yet to come but. Yeah!" He smiles, and he looks as Kazuha enters, yawning.

He smiles at him, and Kazuha waves, a gentle smile on his lips. "That's Kazuha over here." He waves, and Kazuha walks over, and he smiles, "Hi. Hows the arm?' He asks, and Venti shrugs, "Sore as hell." He giggles, "Xiao keeps stopping me from peeling the covering off. Its itchy." He whines, and Kazuha laughs, "That's how I felt with my chest one. It was so itchy."

Venti laughs, "I remember that. I smacked your hand each time you'd pull at it."

"Anyways, who are these two?" Kazuha asks, offering his hand. Tighnari shakes his hand first, "I'm Tighnari." He says, and Al-Haitham shakes his hand next, "Al-Haitham." He says, "They're supposed to practice the red lights dance with me. I was unaware." He says, and Kazuha looks at him, "Wait-" And Venti nods, "You're still my number one." He teases, making a kiss face, and Kazuha pushes him away, "Doofus." Kazuha says, "Anyway, I do look forward to working with you two!" Venti says, "If you'll excuse me, I have something to talk to Diluc about." He says, and Kazuha excuses himself as well, walking to Scaramouce.

Diluc looks at Venti, and hums, "I dont know how well I will be able to do this with someone else, Lu-Lu." He says, his tone serious, and Diluc hums, "Its just a test, Ven. It's not a permanent. It just gives the two a gist of it."

"Right, and they know my choreo how?" He says, and Diluc hums, "Because they have been watching for awhile. If you dont like it, that's fine. It's just a one time thing." Diluc says, turning away to speak to someone.

Venti strangles the air, muttering in German, and then he sighs, "Right."

~

Venti and Al-Haitham go first, the dance goes smooth till Al-Haitham's hand touches his shoulder, making him jolt away. "Oh, my apologies. Did I do something wrong?" He backs away, and he shakes his head, "No, sorry. I just- I'm used to someone else so..We can try again." He says, and the music starts over.