Prima Ballerina(#Wattys2015)

Backlash

"Slut" muttered Marie as I walked past her on the way to my rehearsals.

 Crap I can't stand her!

 I whirl around and notice that unfortunately she had her  ""Posse"" with her. The idiots thinking that to get a soloist part you had to be loyal to Marie I kinda feel sorry for them. "Oh I'm the slut now huh? You just can't stand knowing that you got corp de ballet and not a solo. You need to deal with your shit without dragging me into it. Your game of sleeping with the director is OVER! Your family no longer holds power here. Your Mom is likely to go to jail for drug use and I can understand being upset but don't take it out on me.  Your schemes won't work! Now fuck off and stop shouting out lies!" I say staring her dead in the face daring her to try to mouth off to me again.

At that moment I feel a hand on my shoulder I spun around and backhanded the person.... Oh Crap! It was Cameron. "Oh no Cameron" I say leaning down next to him. "I am so sorry I had no idea it was you" I say feeling myself blush badly. As I help him up he says "Hey no problem I startled you while you were in a fight with Marie" he shoots her a glare then continues "And I know from experience that Marie is the biggest bitch in company" He finishes. Marie of course is looking at us with a well... bitchy look on her face. "Oh I see so you fucked Cameron I don't blame you he really is a beast in the bed" she says the bitchy look replaced with a self entitled one.

"I can't believe you would bring that up Marie. The only reason we had sex was you drugged me. All you are is a self entitled bitch who thinks the word deserves to be handed to you on a silver platter" he says then he turns and walks away after a few moments of watching Marie stand there absolutely flabbergasted I follow.

Soooooo........ You and Marie?" I say as we are warming up for rehearsal. He snorts before responding "Trust me she is not my type the only reason I slept with her is because she drugged me it wasn't till the next morning that I realized what had happened. I was mortified. She is not the girl I want to be with in fact I really want her gone. Hopefully the backlash with her Mom will force her to move." I understood where he was coming from I had read the news lately Marie's mother was caught drugging a man that she had no idea was the senator. Long story short her Mom was in a shit load of trouble. I don't get the chance to respond to him because rehearsal starts and its a known rule don't talk while Miss. Lara is talking.

"Unfortunately Marie will not be leaving for New York as I had hoped the recent situation with her mother leaves her here till the end of Swan Lake. I am sorry but there will be some backlash for me putting you as the Prima Ballerina. The director is livid with me but we both know why that is." She says with a look of disgust. "Anyways...You have six weeks to learn the choreography then we will be doing our first performance on The Sixth of July and from then on where will be performances twice a day Friday Saturday and Sunday till September Sixth two full months of performances.You think that will be fine?" She finishes turning to me. Why was she asking me? I don't have an opinion on stuff like this. The board of directors is the one she should be asking. "I think that will be plenty of time to learn the choreography. However is six shows a weekend necessary I would think that even in New York they don't perform that many shows a weekend there are only so many people in Chicago who want to see Swan Lake." I say slightly nervous but I was learning how to stand up for myself if I could stand up to Marie I could be confident in front of Miss Lara. She smiles before responding "The Friday Matinee and the Saturday Matinee are summer schools and camps coming to watch. The rest of them are public performances." That would explain it I was curious about that many  shows.

"Lets get started" Says Miss Lara.