The four walk inside the Praise Dance Worship Company building. The lobby was pretty empty looking, even the desk where the receptionist sits was empty. "We must be one of the first ones here," Jeremy says to Westly, Zara, and Norah.
"Well, it is Saturday, and we don't know one hundred percent if we're the first ones here." Westly said.
'I see a big space with a lot of room and all I can think of at that moment was, will I get in trouble for riding my skateboard across the white marble floor?' Jeremy says, slightly grinning.
'Yes, Jeremy, you will get in trouble for riding a skateboard inside the building.' Westly shook his head, 'This place just updated their security cameras.'
'And why would you want to do something that isn't beneficial for anyone?' Zara wondered as she tilts her head.
Jeremy scratched his head in thought then says, 'You know what... thinking about it, that's probably a dumb thing to do.'
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Zara sat alone in the Foundation studio while the others decided to go to the food court.
She had her headphones on, and her eyes were closed.
David walks in with his guitar case his hand, he turned his head to see Zara sitting up against the wall with her eyes closed.
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David Maddison - Contemporary/Jazz Dancer
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'Since being at Praise Dance Worship I haven't really spoken to Zara. She has always kept to herself and only talked to Francine.'
He set it down and went to change.
When David returned, Zara was in the same spot, 'Is she asleep?' he wondered.
"Zara?"
No response.
"Zara!?"
This time the girl massaged her shoulders and opened her eyes to see David looking at her.
She put her headphones down around her neck to hear him clearly, "Yes?"
"Hi." He smiled and gave a little wave.
Zara stared at him for a moment and reluctantly nods at him.
"Uh, hi." She says before placing the headphones back on.
'David and I haven't talked, like ever, so when he called my name a part of me was surprised, but when he said "hi" the look in his eyes made me think he wanted to say something else.'
David decided to do some jumping jacks in the corner of the room.
Not even fifteen minutes passed when the others returned, Jeremy was the first to speak, "Well look who it is! David!" He walked up to him, and they gave each other a bro hug.
"Hey,"
Westly walked over to them as Norah made her way over to Zara.
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Veronica clapped her hands to get everyone's attention, "Okay! Listen up everyone, miss Allison has something important to say."
Norah jumped up and skipped over to them with others behind her, Allison smiled looking at them.
'I've been thinking, Veronica is a senior and so is Westly, Tyler, David, Emmett, Jenny, Catelynn and Kelsie. We'll need a new dance captain next year, a potential leader. So, I think starting this year we're going to have co-captains,' Allison smiled.
"Things will be changing around here." Miss Allison starts, "And we'll be hosting auditions to find who will be co-captain with Veronica," this news shocked everyone, including Veronica.
"Uhm, miss Allison, why didn't you talk to me about this?" The blonde asked.
The woman turned to her and put on a soft smile, "Because I wanted it to be a surprised and I prayed long and hard over the summer about this." She turned back to the others and said, "The people who I want to audition is going to be the sophomores and juniors."
Norah jumped up and down with a raised hand, "Oooh! I know I'm new, but I'll work very hard!"
"That's nice to hear, Norah," Allison smiled.
Veronica crossed her arms annoyed and let out a groan.
Zara who was standing behind Francine raised her hand. "Yes, Zara?"
"Um, can I sit this audition out?"
'I here to dance and glorify God in my dancing. But I don't know about being a dance captain, at least not yet.'
Miss Allison frowned but nodded, "Okay, that's fine, is there anyone else who don't want to become dance captain?" She looked at everyone and Samson lifts his hand.
"Sorry, I don't really myself as dance captain material," The boy says causing Jeremy rolled his eyes at his best friend, "Dude, you need to have more confidence in yourself." Samson looked at him and nodded.
"Sorry." He frowned.
"It's okay Samson, no one's forcing you." Miss Allison smiled.
"Okay, so Zara and Samson are out, how about the rest of you?" She asked the younger classmen as the seniors stood to the side.
Norah was excited and she wasn't shy enough to hide it.
"I'm ready!" She beamed, they laughed except for Veronica.
"Yeah, so am I." Francine said with full confidence but inside she was a little nervous.
Jeremy shrugged and stepped forward, "Sounds fun,"
'Being dance captain wasn't on my list of things to try, but now it is.' He smiles at the camera.
"Awesome! Okay, so who' wants to go first?"
"I will- if you don't all mine." Francine says and they shook their heads smiling.
"And I'll go second!" Norah shouted.
Miss Allison nodded and turned to Veronica, "Veronica, since this an audition, I'm going to need you to sit back and let them take the place of being captain for a few days."
Veronica nods.
"Okay! Each of you are going to take Veronica's place as the captain for three days. Then I'll choose who'll be fit to be Veronica's co-captain and future captain of the team."
Everyone cheered.
"The audition starts tomorrow starting with Francine." Allison smiled as she walked away.
Veronica clapped her hands, "Everyone! Let's get back to work please!"
'I'm excited to see who'll be the next captain after Veronica.' Westly grinned.
'Being captain sounds so much fun, but also tiring,' Catelynn said in a peppy voice, 'Too bad I can't audition.'
'If Norah does get chosen to work along Veronica as captain-' Tyler shook his head, 'I just hope Veronica will finally stop treating her poorly and start to treat her like a sister in Christ.'
'Here at Praise Dance Worship, we treat each other like family.' Kelsie smiled.
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The Stage Is Set
General FictionNorah has been dancing for as long as she can remember, the first time she started dancing was beside her mother on the big stage. She was three years old and Samantha saw potential in her daughter. Norah first took interest in dancing at the age of...
