Silk & Cologne | Miguel O'Hara

Chapter 12 - Danger

Within a matter of minutes we arrived at the docks and one quick ferry ride later, we arrived at the small island where standing proudly, towering over us, the Statue of Liberty watched over the city. I had never seen it up close before, and it was pretty cool to look at. I had hoped to save this moment with my mom when she came to visit, but I suppose now was as good a time as any.

Toya and Touga seemed to stare at it in awe, both muttering to themselves in Japanese as they took some quick pictures on their phones as we walked.

"There's the stage!" Hannah spoke up, freeing us all from our trance on Lady Liberty as we found the mounted structure.

It was a fairly large stage. There was enough room for a DJ set up and plenty of space for dancing. We'd have a lot of room to work with. "I'm already predicted a pretty intense routine here,"

"Right? Look at all this space," Hannah beamed. "Now keeping in mind they might add in strobe lights and pyrotechnics, but still, we've got a lot of space,"

"So how do we wanna go about this?" I looked at my group members, eager to hear out their ideas.

"I can measure up the stage and figure out placements for the routine," Hannah smiled.

"Toya and I will research METRO'S albums so we can get a feel of his music and figure out what moves will fit," Touga had an eager grin on his face as he was already searching away on Spotify.

Kasey crossed her arms, a proud smirk on her face. "Well, I took the initiative and messaged METRO directly,"

"NANI? !" The twins gawked at her in surprise. - WHAT ?!

"You really think he'll respond?" Hannah asked curiously.

He was quite a famous musician. I didn't know too much about him, but I knew he was very successful, and with all that, understandably very busy.

"Well, until we hear a response, why don't we follow Touga's idea and listen to METRO's music to figure out what kind of routine we'll do?" I suggested. "It will help give us an idea of what his new song might be like,"

We all agreed, and after finding the security guards and explaining the situation, they agreed to let us practice for a while before the park would close. I felt the sea breeze blow through my hair as I stood on the stage, looking out into the harbor as I took in the view of the city. It was pretty nice to look at. I couldn't imagine what the view would be like while swinging through the city. If only.

We did some warm ups before Touga played various songs from his latest album. He was the most familiar with METRO's work out of all of us and walked us through the motions, showing and teaching us different movesets. He was a pretty good teacher. Turns out during his off time he'd teach dance classes for young kids back in Tokyo.

Until METRO's new song came out or if he'd be willing to send us an early copy to practice with, this was the best we could manage for now.

We practiced for just over an hour or so before the security guard informed us that the park would be closing soon to start preparations for the festival. We gathered our belongings and as we were packing up, I felt my Gizmo vibrate as I looked over to see a new message from Gwen.

"How did your first day go? Tell me all about it so we can hang!" - Gwen

"Just packing up for the day. Meet up at my apartment in a little bit?" - Lisa

"Sounds good! We'll bring the food!" - Gwen

We? Who's we? I raised a brow at the message as Kasey and the others waved at me, calling me over.