The dance project: YouTube boyband

Chapter 9

"Hi guys! Are we ready?" James shouted as he walked in.

We were all sat in a circle with the girls stretching and the boys lazing around.

"I want to learn how to do the splits!" Caspar laughed.

"That would take you a long time casp," Gigi said.

"Yeah but I want to be flexible," Caspar sighed, quickly we all burst out laughing at him.

"Come on everyone, we haven't got long, this is the last rehearsal before the shoot." James said clearly stressing out.

We all sighed but stood up. Getting in our places for the start.

We began with the solo, watching as she practiced it through then we added in the lift sequence. It was fairly ok but needed a lot of work. The boys tended to be super clumsy and spend most of the time laughing or dropping us.

James then wanted the next section to be a partner section so he began to teach us the routine. We carried on learning the dance and got very close to the end.

Joe picked it up the fastest and Caspar the slowest out of all of them, even though it wasn't difficult for them.

We spent time after time going over the dance and completing it and finally after about 4 hours, it looked almost perfect. Perfect enough.

James told us if we all did well he had an announcement for us all. We all wanted to know what it was because after filming we presumed the whole project would be over.

"Ok guys, before we finish I've got an announcement." James declared. "As you know, tomorrow we begin filming for the video. After that the project is over."

Everyone sighed and looked at each other realising we only had one more day of all of this left.

"Didn't Jenna say there would be some live performances?" Alfie asked.

"That's what I'm getting to," James explained. "We have made a decision to have two pieces to be ready for performances. We haven't got any booked yet, but as soon as the video is filmed, there will be a few offers."

I looked at Joe and smiled. He gave back a half hearted smile then whispered "how am I going to remember another one?" I burst out laughing at him.

"You'll be fine," I replied. "I'll help you."

"Thanks," he smiled.

"Ok so have we got any requests for second one?" James asked.

Almost instantly five hands shot up. Each of the boys had their own ideas of what they wanted to do and clearly they were all desperate to share them.

"Caspar?" James asked. Caspar cheered and the rest of the boys sighed that Caspar got picked first.

"Well, I was thinking, how about one of Conor Maynard's songs? Just for the banter really!" He laughed.

"Any other suggestions?" James asked steering away from Caspar's idea.

Once again all of the boys shot their hands up quickly waving them about like they were in primary school.

"Marcus?"

"I'm feeling a Marky butt butt rap, even better we could do my song "I'm famous" then that's combining mine and Caspar's idea in one, because my song features Conor. I'm clever what can I say?" He laughed.

"I agree with Marcus!" Caspar yelled.

"Please someone help me be sane," James cried.

"How about like a rap song- that would be amazing! Then we could do like a huge hip hop thing," Joe suggested.

"That is actually a really good idea!" I replied.

"How do the rest of the girls feel about that?" James asked. All of the girls nodded except for Taylor who frowned and didn't look too impressed.

"I don't do hip hop," she stated fairly bluntly.

"It's not hard though Taylor, with your ability you should be able to pick it up quickly!" James said.

Hip hop sounded like a really good idea because it would give us a chance to try different styles.

"Song ideas anyone?" James asked, "wait, let me ask the girls this time!"

"How about something by Drake?" I suggested. Joe nudged me and smiled.

You can't go wrong with Drake really.

"Sounds good, which one though?" James asked. He kept asking me and Joe because he was clearly fighting a losing battle with the others.

"Controlla?" Joe suggested.

"Even better, Conor's version!" Caspar yelled from the other side of the room.

"No Caspar! We are singing it!" Joe replied.

"Controlla would be a really good one and I feel like it would make a really good number, as a live performance."

"I'm so excited," I whispered to Joe.

Hip hop was one of the styles I did enjoy however I preferred ballet. This time though I felt like this hip hop number was going to be so much better.

"That's set then guys, we film tomorrow then have a day off, then the next day, we start!"

We all began cheering because we were all so excited.

"So come in your hip hop gear ready next session! I'll see you tomorrow for filming guys, have a good nights sleep ready." James instructed as he dismissed us.

On our way back to the changing rooms we were all walking an a clump when Caspar stopped the group in the middle of the corridor and decided to make an announcement.

"Ok, tonight, 8pm, dance squad party in the jaspar household - be there or get out of the squad!" Caspar laughed.

I looked at Joe who was shaking his head, clearly unaware of the party going on tonight. "You up for a good party?" I asked.

"I guess I've got no choice!" He laughed.

"Bring your own booze!" Caspar yelled.

"No booze! We can't have a hangover for the music video! James and Jenna would kill us!" Alfie yelled.

"Just one each then- no more!" Caspar continued.

"I'll see you by the car in a minute," Joe said as we approached the changing rooms.

I walked in to the changing rooms and as soon as the door slammed shut I was bombarded with questions by the other girls.

"What's going on between you and Joe?"
"Is there a connection?"
"Is there something we don't know?"
"You've been really close today, what's going on?"

I just burst out laughing. I didn't know what to reply to them with.

"I've been staying at joes because I've had some troubles at home." I admitted and their faces dropped.

"Do you like him?" Taylor asked.

"Yeah as a friend," I replied.

"No as more!" Seana sighed.

"No, of course not."

I didn't like Joe as anything more as a close friend. With good hair, a gorgeous smile and beautiful eyes.

Maybe I did.