Double Treble (Book 1 of the Ava and Mia Series)

Chapter 8

Ava's pov
It's 7:30pm and we're here at the Marriott! We just arrived because it's thanksgiving today! We were at my grandparents house earlier for thanksgiving lunch and they're all super supportive. My grandmother used to Irish dance and she was 3rd in the worlds once when she danced!

We checked into our room and it's huge there's a king bed and a twin bed so me Mia and Sadie are sharing the king bed and my mom gets the twin bed. Me and Mia are dancing solos tomorrow and Sadie is doing solos on Saturday. We just put on our tan and now we're running up and down the hallway trying to dry it. I go and hide behind the vending machine and when I look out I lock eyes with a little blonde girl holding a giant blue dress bag and I wonder if she's my competition. My mom calls us all back in because we need to rest before our big dance day! We're scheduled to dance at 8 and we have to get up at 5:30! We lay out all of our wig stuff and make up to save time in the morning. Sadie picks out her outfit because she has a bit of a reputation now because she won all of her prizewinner dances at a feis our teachers took her to. Me and Mia were both sick so we couldn't go. I'm really nervous because I'm in my actual age group now, U8, and I'm really nervous because a lot of girls are really good.

I go down to the ice machine to get ice for us. Me and Mia like to drink ice water in the mornings before competitions to wake us up. I go down and there's already a mom down there. She notices my tan legs and dance jacket and says "are you Dancing this week at oireachtas?"
"Yeah I'm in U8 and I'm doing solos"
"Oh my daughter Lucy is U8 and doing solos too! It's her first oireachtas and first year dancing so we're really just here for the experience. It will be great if she recalls but I'm not putting too much pressure on her"
"Well this is such a talented group of girls so I bet she's really good too! What school does she dance for?"
"The Francis-O'Donnell Academy."
"Oh my sister danced against a girl from there in novice. She did really well! I remember from her results her name was like Kylie or something."
"Chloe maybe?"
"Yeah! She's really good! Is that your daughter too?"
"No she's my niece and she's also doing solos in U8. She's a nice little dancer."
"Well I'll be sure to look out for them tomorrow and I'll tell my sister too. She's my twin and her names Mia and she's doing solos too! Oh wow I should go back my moms probably wondering where I am. It was nice talking to you Mrs...."
"Collins. And you are?"
"Ava. Ava Peterson. Nice to meet you Mrs.Collins. Good luck to Lucy tomorrow!"
"Thank you good luck to you and your sister tomorrow sweetie!"
I turn around and walk back to my room.

When I get back my mom pounces on me "Why did that take so long?"
"Sorry there was a crazy long line."
"Well Mia would have been faster. You needed to be in bed 17 minutes ago. If you do bad it's not my fault."
"Okay mom" I mumble I slip into bed next to Sadie and quickly fall asleep

Mia's POV
We just arrived at the Marriott! We came from my grandparents' hours because it's thanksgiving and we always have dinner with them.

We check into our huge room, and I run and jump on the huge king bed. There's also a twin bed, and mom says that Sadie, Ava, and I are sharing the king bed and she's gonna have the twin bed. I can't believe Ava and I are dancing solos tomorrow! I'm already so nervous, yet so excited!

We just finished putting on the last layer of tanner, and now we're all running around our hallway waiting for it to dry. Ava stays out a few minutes after Sadie and I head back into our room.

"Time to get ready for bed!" Mom says. Sadie protests but Mom says, "I want you to dance your best tomorrow so you have to be well rested." Sadie doesn't have anything to say to that. She just continues picking out her outfit for tomorrow.

When Ava comes into the room she says, "Oh I need to go get some ice!" I totally forgot about that! Ava and I always drink ice water before we dance.

Ten minutes later, I'm in bed next to Sadie but Ava's still not back.
"I should've sent you to get the ice." Mom grumbles, and I hate when she says that I'm better than Ava. It makes Ava feel like she's not as good as me in like anything, and that's not true at all!

By the time Ava slips back into the room with the ice, I'm already drifting off to sleep. I hear mom scolding her, but I try to ignore it and think about the big day tomorrow. I really wanna qualify for NANs and make top 30! Before I can think anymore about tomorrow, I fall asleep.