Brynn's POV
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"Omg!.... Ow!" Ava was laughing so hard that her Pepsi came out of her nose! We're all at the restaurant in the hotels lobby after awards. I'm on such a high from awards! I can't believe I got 3rd! It was literally the best moment ever! To be up there with all my friends and having that title! I'm so happy for Ava that she won back her title too! She seems a bit off though... Like usually she gets super happy over silly things like realizing she has another hour to sleep! (Trust me I've got the snapchats...) But now she seems a bit sad.
At 12:00 a worker finally comes over to all of us and says they're closing so we have to leave. We head into the lobby and into the elevators and put in our floors. Violet gets off at 7, Isabel gets off at 9 so it's just me and Ava.
"Okay V what's up." I say to her and she just starts crying.
"Ava! Talk to me!"
"Mia... Said that.. everyone ha..ha..hates me! And... sh... sh... she does too!" She says between gasping for breaths and I automatically just give her a big hug.
"She sa... sa... said that me and Sadie deserve all of the hate! Like why would sh... sh... she say that?"
"Ava I don't know. But everyone doesn't hate you! You have so many friends! So many people look up to you! She's just jealous."
"I gu.. gue... guess you're right..."
"Now chin up. Smile. Don't let her affect you. Who's the world champion?"
"I am..." She says quietly.
"Yes you are. You don't need to listen to any hate." I say right as the doors ding open to Ava's floor.
"Thanks for everything Brynn." she says hugging me.
"That's what wives are for." I say and she laughs then gets off the elevator.
"Woah..." I say to myself once the doors close and I'm alone in the elevator.
Once it opens at my floor I head down the hallway and go into my room. My teacher and her daughter are still up. Her daughter was my swing in our teams so since I'm not dancing it she has to get ready for it.
She goes into the bathroom and then it's just me and my teacher.
"Brynn I'm very disappointed in you." she says. "You stupidly kept dancing on an obvious injury and could have seriously injured yourself!"
"I'm sorry, but I needed to dance..."
"You should have listened to me! I'm your teacher and in charge of you for the week!"
"But if I withdrew I wouldn't have been 3rd."
"Great I'm glad a trophy is more important then your health."
"Are you even happy for me?"
"No. You were reckless and made a bad decision. You're lucky you've never done anything else wrong or I would have kicked you out."
I'm shocked... I can't believe she would do that just for dancing!
"You're on probation once your healed. Right now you aren't permitted to dance at NANs and probably not Oireachtas."
"But if I don't dance there I can't go to worlds!"
"Well you should have thought about that before you disobeyed me. Now get ready for bed. You still have to be up for teams."
Her daughter comes out of the bathroom and I grab my sweatpants and a t-shirt and head in to change. I go on my phone and open up Google once I'm in there and search something I never thought I would: "Irish dance schools in Saskatchewan, Canada."
Okay my school comes up first. Then our biggest rival school comes up... The Berkley Academy... I don't think I ever could go there. Next is the Saskatchewan School of Irish dance. That's not even a good school... All the other ones are in Alberta... I'll just talk to my mom when I get home. She knows what's going on. Wait I didn't tell her what just happened.
I open up messages then go to "Mumsy ❤️"
Me: Hey, so today once I came back after hanging with my friends Brenda basically ranted at me that she was pissed that I didn't withdraw after I hurt myself and how I could have caused more injury by dancing. Like she's not even happy I got 3rd!
Me: She also put me on "Probation" and said I can't do NANs and maybe not even Oireachtas.
Mumsy❤️: That's crazy brynny... I can call her right now and tell her that.
Me: No let's wait until I get home.
Me: She also threatened to kick me out...
Me: So I was kinda thinking of switching to Berkley...
Mumsy❤️: We'll talk when we get home before we do anything rash
Me: Okay love you
Mumsy❤️: I love you too
Mumsy❤️: I'm so proud of you today princess 😘 I wish I was there!
Me: I wish you were here too! It wasn't the same without you!
Mumsy❤️: It felt weird to be watching from home.
Mumsy❤️: Now go to bed its late😉
Me: Okay okay! 😘😘😘😘
Mumsy❤️: 😘💗❤️💕
My mom is basically my best friend! I'm an only child and she's a single mom so we've only have each other during hard times.
I quickly change and head back into the awkwardness of the room and into my cot. I plug in my phone and put it down next to my globe, medal and sash on the floor.
The day was great until that but I'm still 3rd in the world at the end of it all and no "probation" or anything can change that.
