Prize (Dance Moms Fic)

Chapter 4: Facing Cathy

The next morning, which was the day of Fire and Ice, Stanley was seen in the lobby of the Caesar's hotel sitting with Abby, Kalani and Allison. They were waiting for the girls and their moms so they could all head to the competition. They had their bags because after the competition, they would head back home to Naperville.

"Abby, Stanley, Kalani, forgive me for intruding, but i've noticed that Brooke and her mother aren't here. What's going on?" Allison asked.

"Allison, Brooke didn't show up for rehearsals and the reason why she didn't show is because Kelly told us that Brooke wanted to try out for Cheerleading and that didn't sit well with me or my son whatsoever." Abby answered.

"They were mad, while i was finishing up the class i was in, i could hear Mom and Stanley argue with the moms. And the night before we left, mom asked me if i could fill in for Brooke for this routine and i agreed." Kalani said.

"We sure were, if Brooke had just told us herself instead of her mother, we still would have been mad, but that would have been the mature way to do it." Stanley stated.

"I sure miss Brooke, last time i saw her, she was five." Allison said.

"One day, you might meet her and i know she'll be happy to see you, but more than likely you might meet Kelly first. She and everyone in her family that you've met misses you, but you've already seen Paige." Abby told her.

"That would be nice." Allison stated, then when she looked over at Stanley, she gave him a wink and a smile and he responded by winking and smiling at her too. "Another question, where is Nationals going to be at?"

"Last season, it was in Lake Tahoe and this season, it's going to be in Los Angeles." Stanley stated.

"I haven't been to Los Angeles in a long time, thanks for the information." Allison commented.

"You're welcome." Abby said and then the girls and moms were all seen coming from the elevators and headed towards them.

"Well, that's our cue." Kalani stated as she, Abby, Stanley and Allison all got up. met with the girls, moms and Gianna and then they left the hotel to head to the competition.

Eight minutes later, they arrived at a performing arts building named the Dante Hall Theater, the bus pulled up to the entrance and everyone got off the bus and entered the building, got signed in and arrived at a dressing room that said "ALDC" and they all entered. Then Maddie, Nia and Chloe began to do their makeup and hair and they went into three changing sections in the dressing room.

Chloe was the first to come out of the changing section of the dressing room and she was in a biketard of lined sequin spandex, glitter print velvet, stretch mesh and velvet, with an adjustable strap and also, it had an attached glitter print velvet skirt over the tulle ruffles and also included was a headpiece and gloves.

Maddie left the changing section and she was in a Shin velvet leotard with stretch lace overlay. Attatched stretch mesh ties, skirt and adjustable straps.

Nia was the last to leave the changing room and she was decked out in a leotard of stretch mesh, matte spandex with an attacked matte jersey with a hook neck closure.

"You girls look nice in your costumes." Stanley complimented.

Meanwhile, in another dressing room, there were six dancers in there getting ready with their moms and their dance teacher, who was a 52 year old lady with short blonde hair was there. Her name was Cathy Nesbitt-Stein and she is the owner of the Candy Apples Dance Center, which is in Canton, Ohio and that had been her studio since 1988. The first dancer on her team was a boy around 9 with orange hair named Justice McCort, the second one was a girl who was 10 with blonde hair and her name was Taylor O'Lear, across from her was a brown haired girl around 15 named Sarah Parish, on the other side of the makeup table was another brown haired girl around 14, who is named Erika Schrade, next to Erika was a girl who was 13 with blonde hair, her name was Kerisa McCullough and next to Kerisa was a girl around 7 and she had brown hair, her name was Vivi-Anne Stein and she is the daughter of Cathy. Also in the dressing room were five moms named Tanya McCourt, who is Justice's mother Nicole O'Lear, who is the mother of Taylor, Kim Parish, who is the mother of Sarah, Barb Schrade, who is the mother of Erika and Kelli McCullough, who is the mother of Kerisa.