New York Dreams

Chapter 30: "Fire"

The day was playing out like a dream.

They had so much fun taking pictures, sunbathing, staring at the clouds and dancing.

"Okay, girls, we wanna see more dancing," Jungkook laughed, indicating for the boys to sit down in a circle.

Elissia, Zabrina and Luke quickly followed suit leaving just Amanda and Becky standing.

"And singing," Namjoon added, "in Korean," they all said in unison.

"Yeah cause singing isn't hard enough," Becky laughed nervously.

It was so hard to dance in front of them, especially when she wasn't that good.

"Which one," Amanda said, she was rather confident with this now.

She knew she had practiced them to death, she knew every one of them without a doubt.

"A hard one," Namjoon said before the boys began to whisper deciding which one they wanted to see.

"Fire," Hobi finally said and Becky rolled her eyes.

"You weren't kidding about a hard one were you," she said stubbornly although she secretly smiled.

Fire was her favourite choreography, to watch at least. 

They assumed their positions and stopped before the music started.

"Who shall we be?"

"You can be Jungkook cause you're a better dancer than me,"

"Yeah but then you'll have to be Jimin and you can't handle that," Amanda countered back.

Becky looked at her disgruntled.

"Well see it's different when we do this at home, we can be anyone cause it's just us and if we fall over it's fine but this is different cause we have an audience," Becky said, she was trying to find a way for it to look cool.

"Jungkook has the chorus main dancing bit in the centre but then you can sing I can't so what are we going to do?"

"Jimin sings too, they all do, this just isn't going to work," Becky said sighing.

The boys were trying so hard to keep from smiling.

Elissia, Zabrina and Luke shook their heads.

"I can't believe their arguing again," Luke whispered.

"It is rather astonishing," Elissia said amused.

"Okay, we'll just switch between them, we can do this, we've done it before," Amanda said as she walked over to the phone.

"So, you're Jungkook then?" Becky asked laughing tying her hair up in preparation. The music began and they just moved instantly in sync.

Becky took over the lead vocals and Amanda the lead dancing parts.

They were a good team, not like it was the first time they had done this.

The boys couldn't wipe the smiles off their faces. They were actually really good. The best fans they had ever seen perform one of their songs.

Namjoon couldn't take his eyes of Becky.

She was perfect for him, cute, funny and she sang. It was like they were meant to go together.

He smiled at Jimin as he was watching Amanda before a thought crossed his mind. He couldn't do what he was talking about earlier could he. Surely not.

He really liked her and he couldn't bear to see him mess it up.

Jimin was too busy staring at Amanda to notice Namjoon watching him. She moved so effortlessly.

It was intoxicating to watch her.

He longed to dance with her and made a mental note to do that before this trip was over.

"You handled that pretty good, I'm impressed," Amanda laughed turning off the music.

"You've seen me dance it before, I know I'm not as good as you but I guess we have strengths in different areas," Becky said letting her hair fall down again.

"Yeah you definitely the singing over the dancing and me the opposite," she laughed.

"You sing really good you know," Becky smiled.

"Don't patronise me," Amanda said brushing off the compliment.

Becky sighed.

"You should just take the compliment you know," she said harshly turning around to get some water.

"Okay well if I said to you, wow I'm surprised you could actually dance at all, would you think that was a compliment?" Amanda snapped back.

The group rolled their eyes.

"And they're off again," Zabrina said to Luke and Elissia.

"Does that imply, since that was sarcasm, you think I can't dance," Becky asked coldly.

Amanda didn't respond.

"I'll take that as a yes, well at least I can sing them unlike some people," Becky retorted back.

Amanda looked at Becky and then glanced at the boys whose faces had fallen at the sign of a potential real fight.

"Yeah, but that's the sad thing isn't it, you can't do it in public, at least I can dance when I want," Amanda snickered.

Becky clenched her fist.

"At least I have potential to be a singer, you're an alright dancer, you'd never be professional," Becky shouted back.

Everyone looked at each other. This was about to get out of hand.

"As opposed to you, wanting to be a singer but can't and working in a café because you can't get a job anywhere else," Amanda laughed at her.

"You can be such a bitch sometimes, you're still stuck in the same place as me, so much for the teaching career," Becky laughed back watching Amanda furrow her eyebrows.

They walked over to each other and the boys instantly got up to separate them.

"I have waited so long to slap the attitude out of you," Amanda said fighting Jimin holding her back.

"Just try it, I dare you," Becky smirked as Namjoon held her.

The boys were in the middle attempting to calm down the situation.

"I'm stronger than you, I can easily kick your ass," Amanda laughed back, shaking Jimin off and getting just out of reach of Becky.

"You always think I'm so weak, allow me to punch you in the face and prove otherwise," Becky snarled shaking Namjoon off.

The girls scrapped through and found an opening.

They grabbed each and pulled back their hands like they were about to punch each other.

Elissia, Zabrina and Luke didn't know where to look. It had never escalated like this.

The boys froze horrified.

They wanted to run forward and stop them but they seemed lost in the moment.

The girls seemed to move their hands in slow motion towards each other, anger in their eyes.