The Next Step: Jiley later on

Chapter 27 Announcement Time

I am going to switch it up today! There will be no James or Riley POVs instead it will be the dancers POV and Michelle's POV. :)

Richelle's POV

Noah and I just finished showing James the duet we choreographed for a dance competition. "Great job guys, but I think you should add some more lifts." James suggests. "Yea, I think we could too." Noah agrees. "Yea maybe." I say. I thought our dance was amazing but I guess we could improve it. Noah and James mentioned some lifts and I'm not really paying attention until Noah snaps me out of my daydream.

"Ready Richelle?" He asks. "Huh? Oh yea." I say getting in position. "Richelle, what are you doing?" James asks. "Umm the Grand Jete?" I ask confused. "Oh ok I thought we were doing that last but let's see it." James comments. As soon as Noah and I complete the lift I go over and drink from my glass water bottle.

I get confused when I hear laughing. I turn around and both boys are laughing at me. "What's so funny!?" I ask. "Richelle...." They couldn't finish the sentence because they're laughing so hard. "It's just a water bottle!" I say inspecting the water bottle. But they just continue to laugh harder. "This is ridiculous! Don't waste my time." I say walking out and heading to the juice bar. I could still hear them laughing and I don't even now what I did.

I walk into the juice bar and see Sophia, Addy and Olivia in the juice bar. "Hey Richelle. Are you coming to Sophia's sleepover?" Addy asks. "I don't know" I answer rude. "What's the matter? You look mad." Sophia asks staring at me. "It's Noah and James. They won't stop laughing and I don't know why." "Well what did you do before they started laughing?" Olivia asks. "I did a grand Grand Jete with Noah and then went over and grabbed my water bottle and they just started laughing." I tell them.

Just then Riley comes and sits down. "Hey! Whatcha talking about?" Riley asks excited. "Umm nothing" I reply. "How is baby Jiley?" Addy asks. Ever since Riley and James told us that they were going to have a baby everyone has been talking about it. I even heard some musicians talking about it. I mean how did they find out?

Riley's face saddens when Addy asks that. "I'm gonna go. I will be right back." Riley stutters and hurries out of the juice bar. "That was weird." Sophia exclaims. "Yea it was." I agree.

I get up to order a smoothie and come back to see the girls laughing. "Not you too!" I say mad. "Richelle, I think I know why the boys were laughing." Addy says. "Why?" "You ripped your shorts." Sophia tells me. "What!" I quietly yell. They nod their heads and I storm out forgetting all about my smoothie.

I enter studio A and see Noah and James sitting on the floor talking. They haven't noticed I'm here so I quickly grab some extra shorts out of my purple and gold dance bag and put my bag in my cubby and walk down the corridor to the washroom. I hear voices behind me and I turn around not wanting them to see my rip. "Oh Hi Richelle, why are you walking funny?" Mason asks. "Cuz I just am!" I say walking backwards. They just shrug and walk the other way.

I thought I was in the clear when the boys went the opposite way, I felt someone behind me. "Oh I am so sorry Richelle." Gracie says. I turn around to face her. "No, No I wasn't paying attention." I say walking into the washroom as fast I can.

After I changed and threw away my shorts I walked to studio A and saw Noah was still there talking with they other boys but James was no where to be seen. Probably with Riley as those two are inseparable.

Noah notices me and winks knowing that I figured out why he was laughing. I glare at him and he realized that I am mad.

When everyone was back in studio A James and Riley came out. "We have an announcement." Riley announces. "We are going to have A-Troupe auditions early this year. Also we will only have 10 dancers on our team." James adds.