Jace

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The minute we arrived at the venue we ruled out three girls. Callie, Nesta, and Sara were sent home after screaming and throwing themselves at us asking for an autograph and picture. How they managed to hold it together for the five minute interview, I have no idea.




I spotted Jace immediately. She was the only one with blue streaks in her hair and was sitting in her left splits on her phone watching a YouTube video. She didn't look ready to dance; her hair was down, she wore an oversized off the shoulder shirt and dance shorts and was snacking on almonds from a plastic bag. The other girls had their hair slicked back in ponytails or buns and wore either a costume obviously recycled from a previous recital or competition, or a bra top and spandex shorts.




"When do we start?" I asked Matty, taking my seat at the end of the table next to him.




"Fifteen minutes," he replied, taking his seat. The other girls moved around stretching or just talking. Jace laughed loudly by herself now in her right splits. The other girls all had normal blonde, brown, black, or the occasional red hair. Jace had blue. She wasn't like the rest, and I could tell Niall agreed with me. He sat on the other side of Matty and leaned over him to talk to me.




"She's odd isn't she."




It was a statement, not a question.




"Yeah," I nodded. "But that's what makes her stand out."




I saw her stand and disappear inside the dressing room with a large black duffle bag.




"Liam do you have the order sheet?" Zayn asked. I fumbled around in the stack of papers in front of me and nodded, pulling it out between two score sheets for different girls. There were fifteen girls to watch today, then fifteen more tomorrow, and the next day, and so on for a week. At the end of the week we made our final decisions and chose three to dance for us during the Where We Are tour. I skimmed across the order sheet.




1. Katherine Steel




2. Janell Sawyer




3. Callie Hendrick




4. Caytlin Herrman




5. Bethany Curtis




6. Stephanie Curtis




7. Nesta Ryan




8. Sara Willem




9. Jacelyn Rock




10. Riley Gianna




11. Ashlyn Knight




12. Emily Dene




13. Kayla Snipe




14. Grayson Darter