the summer (a Mikey Fusco Love Story)

chapter 2

"5 miles left" Steven yelled.

As much as I don't want to live here, I would really like to get out of this car. I scooched over to the window of the backseat and rolled it down. This place actually isn't that bad. Nice houses, a mall, a dance studio, a baseball park, a dance studio, some cute boys, a dance studio. I might actually not mind living here.

Ashton and Steven's house was actually really a pretty house. It had a long driveway, and a beautiful front yard. It was two stories, I'm sure much more than they can afford. Actually my parents and Steven's parents send them most of the money that Ashton and Steven possess.

Steven slammed on the brakes sending everything in the car forward.

"God" I said "I can drive better than you and I only have a permit. "

I hopped out of the black shiny car, which I'm pretty sure my parents also paid for and headed towards the door of this temporary house.

"Your room is upstairs on the left" ashton yelled from the car.

"Aren't you coming in?" I asked.

"Oh course I am Braceface." oooh I hated that name. "In just a minute." she said hopping into the backseat of the car obviously to make out with stuckup steven, OMG because they hadn't made out since we stopped at a resteraunt 60 miles ago, what a shame.

I opened the big door to reveal a great room with stairs on both sides. I took the stairs to the right and found the first door on the left which was obviously being used as Ashton's second closet. Really? Am I going to have to stay in here, with the clothes?

"Ashton?" i asked "what are these clothes doing in here?"

"Well actually, I was going through my clothes and thought you could use a new wardrobe."

as much as i hated this idea, some part of me was longing to fit it. To be. To maybe even find a guy.

I inhaled deeply and tried to force out a word of kindess. "thank......ashton...thank you ashton."

I immediantly felt really tired, so I set up a cot

I was dreading falling asleep because I knew what I was going to be dreaming about.

I squeezed my eyes shut and quietly drifted off to sleep.This time me and this mysterious boy were walking through the park when the ground suddenly split in two. Him on one side, I on the other.

I suddenly jumped into reality breathing heavily in my now freezing cold room. This time it was a nightmare, what did this all mean?

I shut my eyes and drifted off back into my dreams. We almost kissed just like every night but it was almost as if that nightmare never happened.

In the morning I decided to check out the dance studio

I grabbed some vans, dance shorts, and a mount pleasant volleyball tshirt and walked down the stairs.

"where you going?" ashton asked me

"to check out the dance studio down the road." i said walking out the door.

I started out into the neighborhood and saw some cute boys down the street. They kind of looked my age, but they looked like jerks. oh well.

I got to the studio and took a good look at the big letters spelling out the studios name.ICON DANCE STUDIO. I noticed some flyers plastered on the big window looking in to the studio. There were people in there. They are great dancers, and get this, they are all boys dancing;) sounds like my type of guy.

Oh my god there so good. I probably stood there for at least 30 minutes before finally deciding to read the flyers.

"enrollment on tuesday, tryouts are necessary."

I held my little girl scream inside my head, fear that the dancers might hear me. but my body language said excited and one of the boys just happened to look over just then and smile at my stupidity.

The boy who laughed was a tall, tan, dark haired, braced face, nice body kind of guy. in other words he was cute.

I immediately sat down in a nearby bench ducking my head out of anyone in the studio's vision. I didn't want to be completely embarassed anymore than I already was.

I grabbed one of the free tryout flyers, which I had plans to mail to my parents.

I started rerunning over the paper when I heard the door open. I looked up from the paper and saw the boys walking towards me, probably for the bench. The boy that I had seen before laughing at me sat down right beside me and helooked vaguely familiar.

"Are you gonna tryout?" I think he asked me

"yes. i hope so." I said

"you're new aren't you?"

"yes. actually" i said "how did you know?"

"well, you are sitting on our bench." he said laughing along with his buddies.

I hurried and got up and took off towards the post office. I had been embarassed enough for the day,I was done.