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"But I wanna feel all that love and emotion. Be so attached to the person I'm holding."

Stephanie Grecchi
Jazz Dancer

I sit down in Miss Kate's chair and spin around, bored out of my mind. She is looking and re-arranging her files in her cabinet behind me. It has been like 15 minutes. She turns around and places £15 in front of me on her desk.

"Kate, I asked for 10," I say confused as my eyes shift towards her and she is smiling.

"I gave 5 extra so then we could do it every time," She says kinda stuttering as her cheeks light up pink. I smirk.

"So you like it Miss?" I tease her. She chuckles.

"Stop teasing me," She says looking at me. I stand up and kiss her. My phone starts ringing so we pull away from each other. It's Emily. I answer it.

"Hey Em," I say.

"Steph, where are you?" She asks me. I have to think of a lie. I don't want anyone knowing about this.

"I just went to the Studio to, to rehearse. I wanted to see if I could put some weight on it." I say.

"Okay, but come home, dinner's gonna be ready." She says. I cut the call.

Miss Kate
Studio Owner

When Stephanie says that she wants to put more weight on "it", I can't stop thinking about what she is talking about. Does she have an injury? Because if she does then I'm afraid she's out. She's an amazing dancer and them times when she came late, fainted was definitely not like her.

"I have to go," She says and puts her jacket on. I nod and wave at her as her presence in the Studio leave

Stephanie Grecchi
Jazz Dancer

I open the door to Emily's house and see Emily run down the stairs in her Hello Kitty PJs? She hugs me and I hug her back.

"Finally you're here! Come eat," She says bringing me to the dining room.

"I'm loving the Hello Kitty clothes?" I chuckle. She smiles.

"Shush." She says. I chuckled again and so does she. The sound of her laugh makes me happy because I've missed it. Ever since she's been with Michelle, it's like she's been taken away from me.

"Okay guys, dig in!" Her mum, Elaina, says smiling.

"You know what, I got something, custom made, for our house!" She exclaims. I raise an eyebrow.

"Ugh, what is it?" Emily asks. Elaine is bursting with a smile.

"Its a family portrait! Of when you were younger because, tomorrow is the anniversary of when we bought this house as a family and it's our Family Fun dinner!" She says. As she says more and more it just makes me feel more lonely.

Emily Beaton
Michelle's Girlfriend

Family Fun dinner is this thing we do every week on Tuesdays, partly because we love each other and partly because it's my dad's day off. Its when we share our good times as a family and just have a laugh, it's really nice I guess. My mum goes on and on about it and I can't help but notice Steph look down.

"I love you all, I don't know what I would do without you guys," Mum says. Riley smiles. Stephanie gets up aggressively and storms out. What just happened? I follow her to my bedroom and she's packing everything back in her bag.

"Steph, what are you doing?" I asked her. She turns to me with tears down her face.

"I'm leaving," She says, sniffling. I come closer to her as she finishes zipping her bag up.

"What, why?" I ask her. She turns back facing me with more tears falling.

"Why? You wanna ask why? Maybe because I don't feel loved? Or that you have parents who love you, everyone just has everything and is perfect but I'm not!"

"Steph, I love you." I say. She looks up and shrugs.

"You don't love me. You love Michelle!" She says.

"That what this whole fight started with Stephanie! What is it with you hating Michelle? I love her and I'm sorry you can't be okay with that."

"I hate her because she took my best friend away!" She shouts.

"I'm right in front of you!"

"Your never with me at dance, even outside, you never talk to me anymore! She drags you away from me! And your always with her. One day you hate her the next you're literally on her!" She says throwing her hands up. She's talking a little too loud.

"Steph, you're being too loud," I whisper. She sarcastically smiles.

"Oh, I'm being too loud? I'll just be louder," She shouts. Before she speaks, I just cover her mouth and go closer to her. My other hand is on her back. She looks confused and shuts up. I remove my hand from her mouth.

"Sorry," She says. I slightly smile, partly because of her and partly because of how close we were. She sits down on the bed with her head in her hands.

"Hey it's okay," I say to her. She starts crying again.

"It's just, I'm jealous of you, you have someone who you love and they love you too. I have no one. You have a family who love you. I have basically no one. I love you, but, I'm jealous of you. I'm sorry, I shouldn't be dropping all my shit on you," She says crying. I wrap my arms around her.

"Hey, Steph, it's okay. Even if you have one person that loves you, it doesn't matter because you have someone ."

"I'm sorry for being loud. I guess it's really scary to open up to people and say how you really feel, especially to the ones you love . And when you're different, it's really hard." She says. I nod. She looks at me and I look at her. We're centimetres away and the thought of kissing comes to my mind.

Stephanie Grecchi
Jazz Dancer

Of course the thought of kissing her comes to my mind. I want her to feel that way too but I guess it will just never happen. She's too in love with Michelle, I'm kind of fine with that, but I love Emily.

"Listen maybe we should-" I say before she kisses me. I kiss back obviously because it's what I've wanted for so long. I deepen the kiss and we land on the bed (💀🙏).

Yes!