Oh God, Jack was terrified. Forget Johnny's dance anxiety, he was the one who had to dance in front of hundreds of people! Yeah, the idea of all that attention sounded awesome, but not when he could mess-up and make a fool out of himself and his date at any time!
Jack was clumsy, that was a fact he'd accepted years ago, so how could he bloody forgotten that until he was standing right outside the Great Hall, seconds before he had to dance gracefully in front of the entire school?!
"Calm down, Jack" Cedric whispered with an encouraging smile.
" 'Calm down?!' " Jack stressed through gritted teeth, clutching the elder teens arm tightly "I'm gonna fall flat on my face, embarrassing you, me and the entire school!"
"Did you 'fall on your face' when your Head of House taught you the dance?"
"No...?"
"See, nothing to worry about, and if you do fall I'll catch you" Cedric promised, patting Jack's clenched hands.
Jack wasn't sure if he fully believed him; no one had even caught him when he fell, they normally pushed him, but as the Hall's doors swung open with the sound of trumpets he didn't really have much of a choice but to trust him.
As they walked in the Great Hall burst into applauds, surprising Jack so much that he nearly screamed and back out of the room. Thankfully Cedric gripped his hand tighter so he couldn't flee.
"I can't do this! I can't do this!" he whispered over and over again under his breath as they made their way onto the dance floor.
"Deep breaths" Cedric instructed as they turned to face each other and got into position, his right hand squeezing the Goth's waist reassuringly "Pretend no one else can see us, Okay? It's just you and me"
Nodding quickly, Jack focused all of his genius attention on his dates face as the music picked-up and Cedric began to lead him backwards in a swaying motion. Maybe he could do this. It was only this one dance he had to get right. As long as he didn't let his eyes wonder from Cedric's and pretended that no one else was in the room he would be fine.
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Hidden Talent
أدب الهواةSick and tired of the constant humiliation in the Xiaolin world, Jack discovers a secret about his family lineage and finds a way to really shine. Coming into his family inheritance, will Jack fit in at this Magical world as a 'good' student or will...