Inner Beauty

Chapter 3

Atticus POV

    I woke up to the sound of my alarm and I slowly made my way to the bathroom.

I took a warm shower which felt amazing and brushed my teeth after putting in my brown lenses.

I started preparing our lunch and put it in the oven to stay warm.

My alarm rang again and I knew it was time to wake Way up. I walked to his room and opened the door, staring at his sleeping form lying on the bed.

He looked very peaceful but it was time to start the day so I sat down beside him and patted him gently.

I strongly believe in the words 'treat others like how you want others to treat you' so I always treated him gently.

I felt a movement beside me so I told him to wash up and make his bed.

I pecked his forehead and headed down to make us breakfast. I toasted the English muffins I baked earlier and I started poaching the eggs while whipping the egg yolks in a double boiler.

I was almost done when I felt a familiar embrace and our routined peck on the cheek.

I patted his head as usual and plated the Eggs Benedict, I packed some on the side for Mell as I didn't like the fact that he wasted money on bad breakfast at the cafeteria.

His parents are away most of the time just like our parents so we usually go to his house and stayed there however long we wished for.

We ate our breakfast while talking about everything and anything.

We finished our breakfast and I was packing our lunches, Way vacuumed the floors and we were off.

Every Tuesday we had our co-curricular activity(CCA) in the morning and our courses in the afternoon which I find to be very refreshing to start off the day with dancing.

I parked the car, Waylen grabbed our bags which had our dance outfit which consisted of a black sweatpants and a white shirt. We exited the car and entered the school compound.

We had a performance to showcase next week Tuesday to celebrate the commemoration of our school.

It was a big event where our school invited famous figures who had graduated from the college and Multinational-Corporations(MNCs) to thank them for their support and funding put in for the school.

We had an uneven number of ladies to men ratio so I chose to partner up with Way.

The choreographer of our dance routine added classical with a touch of ballet into the performance.

Way and I were one of the leading dancers and since we were a male pair, it made us stand out more than the others but our choreographer loved this new concept.

We had one more practice session next Monday and all the hard work we put in will finally be displayed.

We had 20 minutes before the CCA started so I ran to Mell's CCA venue which was a studio on the other side of the school.

On my way towards the studio, I bumped into Maverik but I had to rush off so I shouted an apology while running off. I reached the studio and there were already several people inside chatting waiting for their instructor.

I called Mell out and handed him the Tupperware asking him to pass it to me during our lunch break. He grinned and gave me a hug, I patted his back, turned around and started running towards my CCA's studio.

When I returned to the studio, I quickly changed into the dance attire, sat beside Way chatting with him about what new cuisines we should try next.

Our choreography teacher said that we will be going to the venue to practice our routine briefly and to mark down our dance positions.

We were walking to the largest venue we have in the college which is the indoor sports hall. It had a huge stage for our performance and a large space for the whole college population to sit in.

Way nudged me and nodded towards a certain direction.

My head snapped in that direction to see Maverik waving at us like a kid meeting his idol.

I got embarrassed so I gave him a quick wave as our instructor asked us to take our positions on stage.

Some badminton players all stopped to watch but their instructor gave them a quick scolding asking them to focus.

I looked at Way panicking internally, He gave me a small smile telling me it's going to be alright.

'Just focus on giving our best as we need to show how much we have improved over the years to our dads.' I took a deep breath and tossed him a relaxed grin as we fell into position listening on for the starting beat.

I held Way in the air and caught him as our dance routine came to an end.

'Well done to Waylen and Atticus, both your chemistry is timeless! Learn from both of them Glenda and Jenson, you guys are also part of the lead dancers with them, what happened? I put you guys together  as you are dating one another, I hope to see improvements during our next session. I want both of yall to go and practice with Atticus and Waylen. The rest, please review the routine, I will be leaving early so you guys are on your own. I hope to see a complete routine and we will be practicing with the outfits next Monday before the official performance. See you guys!'