Dance, Dance, Drama?

T r i o T r o u b l e s

Amelia thought that it felt odd being in a studio without Abby. It had been so long since she had danced without someone's intense watchful eye, be that Abby, Gianna or even her mother or Max. She almost felt like she was doing something wrong by being in there, but she knew that because the camera crew was in here it couldn't be too bad. Though, by the way they were looking around warily, maybe they thought they shouldn't be in here either.

Amelia was sat down, looking towards the mirror, staring at Pressley and Sarah who were standing at the back of the room, talking in hushed whispers, as though they didn't want her to hear what they were saying. And they didn't. Pressley was whispering with unprecedented urgency, "Are we sure about this? What if it's weird? You know she does, like, talk to anyone, right? She's like a freaking dance robot!" She spared a glance at the girl they were talking about, "I don't want to spend time with a dance robot! They suck!" Pressley face scrunched up, just thinking about all the times she had worked with these dance robots.

Sarah, however, just giggled at her friend's face, completely brushing off her concerns, "Press, don't even worry about it! She's nice," Then Sarah looked at Amelia, her smiling face faltering, "At least I think she is," Pressley let out a deep sigh as Sarah quickly corrected herself, "I mean, she's the one who offered, right? She wouldn't have done that if she didn't want to!" Pressley looked unconvinced as Sarah continued, "Just trust me. Please?" Not giving her friend a chance to respond she called out, "Amelia! You ready to go?" While dragging Pressley to the front, an uneasy smile on the girl's face.

Amelia shot off the floor, quickly nodding before turning towards Pressley, the reason they were meeting, "So do you want to just go from the start or," Amelia trailed off, expecting Pressley to tell her what she wanted to do, but she just shrugged noncommittally then gave a half-hearted nod. The older girl just smiled at Pressley, freaking her out slightly, before speaking again, "Okay, so let's just work our way from the start and we'll just see how you go! That sound good, Pressley?" Seeing as Pressley wasn't going to respond, Sarah smiled then nodded, dragging Pressley to the ground for their starting positions.

As the trio started rehearsing, Amelia was counting it out for them, but by the time she got to the second count of eight she was interrupted by Pressley, "Stop! Let's do that again, I screwed up," Before Amelia or Sarah could ask what she messed up, Pressley was back in her starting position and counting it out. Amelia shot Sarah a quizzical look, but Sarah didn't have any answers, she was just as confused. They restart, but soon Pressley called out again, "Let's do that again! It was wrong," Pressley dropped to the ground just as quickly as she said it, forcing the other girls to follow along. 

They did their opening leg extension and Pressley would shout, "Again!" Pressley would do her elbowstand then call out, "Again!" They would go to do their chest roll, but before they could Pressley would yell, "We need to do that again!" It was strange. Amelia had never seen someone other than herself be so critical, and she now understood why Max hated it when she got like this. It seemed like everything they did, Pressley had an issue with.

But soon Amelia noticed something, something weird. Before Pressley would shout for them to do the dance again, she would look at herself in the mirror but then her eyes would flick over to Amelia, almost as if she was comparing the two. Which is exactly what she was doing. Pressley knew that she would be compared to Amelia, so why not fix that problem now? If she made sure that she was as good as Amelia now, Abby wouldn't be able to pick on her come competition. It was a fool-proof plan!

Or it was, until Amelia spoke up, "Hey Pressley," She started gently, "You do know the point of this rehearsal was to do the parts of the dance you don't know, right? Not just do the one section a million times," Amelia looked over to Sarah for reassurance, "We can come back to this part later, if you want, but do you think we can keep going so you can get used to the stuff you didn't do in rehearsal?" Amelia took a deep breath after finishing, already regretting what she just said by the look on Pressley's face.