Just a boy ~ Shawn Mendes

chapter 1 ~ the app

First chapter!

My legs KILL! "Ow, how long left?" I asked miss Abby (dance moms lol)

"2 minutes. Come on Paisley, can you hear the other girls complaining?"

"No, because they're on their phones over there." I pointed causing me to flinch at the sharp pain. Overstretching box splits is apparently the equivalent to labour, so let's just say I'm NEVER having children because this pain is hell! My name is Paisley and my best friends and I are some of the top dancers of our age group in the Southern area of England.
Its not like we want to be the best, its just that its been our hobby for 12 years, since we were 2, so we have got good at it. But it seems like I'm the only one left that wants to do it, the others are too caught up in social media to care, well most of the time anyway.

After dance class

"Why weren't you guys stretching?" I questioned my 4 friends.
"We were watching vines!" Bailey, who looks like she just stepped out of a magazine cover shouted, always the dramatic one.
"What?"
"Its a new app" Ivory and Skylyn said at the same time. Weird. They were twins, but still.
""You can post 6 second videos and if someone plays it, it gets 1 loop." Emiline explained, she has the same hair as me and also looks like a model.
Why do I have to be the uglier one?
"Oh, okay." I was genuinely intrigued.
"I've got to go guys, see you tommorow, and don't forget to bring your taps again Bailey." I chuckled and walked outside and got in my mums car. I think I must have fell asleep because the next thing I knew I was in my comfy double bed and my Pomeranian/German Shepherd mix puppy, Sesame, was snuggled up next to me.
What's the time? It was a pinky purply colour outside. I looked up at my glittery silver walls and looked at my clock, 04:25am.
I was wide awake and I knew trying to get back to sleep would be a no go. Nothing a little early morning dance won't fix. I smile at my thought and get out of bed, still in my leotard. My phone bleeped and I almost had a heart attack at the suddenness of the blazing white light that emmited from it. A message from Emiline popped up on my home screen.

Hi, this is a scheduled message from your much loved best friend Em . I hope u remembered that the others and I won't be at class for the next 3 days, I thought you 4got cos of what you told Bailey
Anyway, we r gonna be in a hotel in london by the time you get this xx
The music festival is gonna be great
Miss u LOADS!!
Em x

Great! How could I forget about the festival, and more importantly why didn't they say goodbye when I saw last saw them? Oh well.

I had the loft bedroom as my mum and her boyfriend said I could pick whatever room I wanted, and me being me wanted to have the biggest room with a skylight, I was an only child so I didn't have to consider where siblings wanted to sleep, which was a bonus.
I used my phone as a torch and silently tiptoed down the first set of stairs and then the second to the "garage". When we first moved into this house when my mum and her boyfriend Will had been together for at least 2 years she had made a rule: that I have a suitable dance space with soundproof walls, a barre, mirrors and surround sound. Will didn't mind though as he knew I went to a lot of comps and needed to practice, and he could afford it as he was a successful car sales director.
I pressed the light panel and decided on a light purple colour,(this was just something Will put in for me) to go with my mood.
20 minutes later I had choreographed a 2 minute contemporary peice to the song "firework" by Katy Perry
You know what, this is good enough to film
I looked in the mirror and decided on my favorite part: backwards scissor kick, slide down to swim through, straight into an ariel.
Wow!
I got my phone from the dock and thought for a moment.
What if I put this on vine?
Within the next 10 mins I had downloaded it and made a profile. It was still really new so I had to type the name in on the app store to find it because it wasn't that popular.
My username was PaisleyBrookes01
I put my phone on the tripod that I always keep in here and started to record...

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