𝘙𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘚𝘵𝘰𝘯𝘦

𝘈𝘭𝘭 𝘍𝘰𝘳 𝘕𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯'...

𝘾𝙃𝘼𝙋𝙏𝙀𝙍 𝙎𝙀𝙑𝙀𝙉𝙏𝙀𝙀𝙉

𝘈𝘓𝘓 𝘍𝘖𝘙 𝘕𝘖𝘛𝘏𝘐𝘕'...

"5, 6, 7, 8 and 1."

Its had been day to of the rehearsal, and everyone was finally getting the moves down.

Some people of course were a bit off, but for the most part everyone looked a bit more organized.

"Alright Essence, that's all I got for y'all today." Emily said.

Terricka nervously gulped she scanned the room looking for Noah, and within doing so, she saw him already heading towards her.

"Can we talk, after all this?" Noah asked.

"I feel like we talked enough." She said.

After all the bickering and the arguing last night, Terricka decided to put everything to rest. She was tired and frankly, having feelings for Noah and it not being reciprocated was draining.

She thought that they had finally had a break through last night after the argument, when they had settled down and decided to sleep. They hugged and cuddled all night only for Noah to be gone by the morning.

It broke her heart.

"Come on Terry?"

"You can't keep-" She began to say before she got choked up. She honestly didn't want to cry in front of everyone, and make an even more fool out of herself.

"You've made your mind up, and I've made up mine." She simply stated.

"Okay..? That doesn't mean I don't want to talk to you."

"Talk to me about what? What haven't we talked about already."

"We haven't talked about us, and where we going from here."

"Where do we go from here?"

"I don't know.." He said.

"Of course you don't." Terricka said, before walking away.

Terricka had to bare through these practices only for a couple more days as Essences weeding was only a week away.

Essence saw the expression on Terricka's face and quickly ran to comfort her.

She sighed and said, "Oh no Terry.." as she pulled her into the hallway, closing the door behind her.

"I didn't want to cry." Terricka said, as she wiped her tears.

"I know Terry its okay." She said, as she wrapped her arms around her best friend.

"What did he say?" Essence asked.

"Same shit about him not wanting to hurt me, and how he's not ready for a relationship but, I just wish he would change his mind."

"You can't force him to change his ways Terry, he has to do that on his own."

"I know I just, I really thought he liked me."

"Its clear that he does he's just not, ready to allow himself to love i guess and that's okay because there are plenty of fish in the sea, and there are plenty of guys just waiting for a chance to get at you."

Terricka pouted and said, "But I want that fish, and I want that guy."

"Come on, dry your tears. How about, we go out for drinks tonight and you'll see just how much it's your world and he's just living in it."

"I don't know Essie."

"Come on, we haven't had a night out like this alone since I've gotten engaged."