The dancer (ON HOLD)

Thats how its been

Emma

7:00

Everyday like clockwork I wake up. Its weird huh. In the summer teen like me usually wake up at least 10:00 of later. I wake up at 7:00 so my mom won’t hurt me. I dance for a living and according to my mom, for the rest of my life. I started dancing at the age of three. At first I hated It cause I never really got to hang out with my friend at their house. Another reason why I hated it was because I had to start waking up at 7:00. Like seriously what 3 year old would want to wake up at 7:00 in the morning?. Not that many. When I was 3 this is how my mom would wake me up. At first she just shook me lightly. I opened one eye and kept the other one closed because i was still half asleep. when she got out the room i plopped down on my pillow and drifted asleep again. she came back and started to shake me harder that before. "Emma Wake up now, you have to go to the studio." She practically said in my ear. She got out my room to go do whatever she went to do. Again i plopped down on my pillow and drifted asleep again. a few minuets after she came back. "EMMA!! I TOLD YOU TO GET UP AND YOUR STILL SLEEPING. YOU BETTER GET YO BEHIND UP IN THAT BATHROOM AND GET READY TO GO TO THE STUDIO BY 7:20!!!!!! ". I just looked at her in disbelief. Never has she ever screamed at me like that. at least not when my dad was here. They got divorced and ever since then she's been so cranky. my dad loved to spoile me and still does. He's my favorite so far out of the both of them. Anyway i was still looking at my mom at disbelief. a minute after staring at each other she came at me.

You would not believe what she did to me….

A 3 year old girl……..

She picked me up by the neck and slammed me on the floor of the bathroom.

"Hurry up and get ready to go to the studio!!!"

Ever since I was 3 years old she’s been doing that.

Until i was 10

So ever since I was 10, id wake up and do my daily hygiene without waking her. I even learned how to cook an my own becaouse her cooking tastes like crap.

Now I'm 15 years old and really don’t need my mom that much. I am now a young professional dancer too and every dance company want me to dance for them.

I go to a dance academy and it’s pretty OK. I’ve been there ever since I was 3. Everyone loved me and still does. There's one thing that I don’t like though. I attract too many boys. Boys at the dance academy annoy the freak out of me. That’s why I don’t go out that much. But I do have one friend that’s a boy. He’s actually my best friend. He’s not attracted to me in a sexual way. We met when I turned 10. Since now I’m 15, over the years I’ve kind of had a crush on him, but I don’t think he thinks of me in that way. He only likes me as a best friend. His name is Andre by the way. He’s kind of in the same boat as me you can say, but he attracts girls. I keep asking who does he like, but he had the same answer “I don’t like anyone”. So I stopped asking and started observing. I think I’ve narrowed it down to 2 girls he might like.

Anyway, I live in London, its summer and I’m doing nothing but dancing. Every day I have to do different types of dance.

Monday: Ballet

Tuesday: Hip Hop

Wednesday: Acrobatics and contortion

Thursday: Belly dance

Friday: Routine practice

Saturday: Performance day

Sundays are the only time I actually get a break.

My mom always tells me practice makes perfect. You do not know how annoying that is. She always gets on my last nerve. Well as you see, I am always busy. Mostly on Saturdays because I’m all over the place going to do performances back 2 back.