Why Me?

Chapter 27 ~ Dance battle

James POV:
Its the day of the competition and me and Riley are just waiting for the others so we can get ready. Im watching her pace over and back.
'Riley whats wrong with you?'
'Where are they? They should be here by now'
'We have 2 hours before we go on. Maby even more!'
'Still!'
I stop her.
'Riley. Relax. Theres nothing to worry about'
She sighs.
'Easy for you to say. You never worry about a thing'
'What are you worried about?'
'Im just nervous'
'Then dont be. We're all here for eachother. Okay?'
She nods and hugs me.
Miss Kate and the rest of the team approach us.
'Hey guyes' she smiles.
Riley instantly relaxes when she sees them.
'Hey'
'Anyone want to grab some lunch before we get ready?' Kate asks.
We nod.
'Guyes wheres West?' I ask.
We look around and see him comming towards us.
'There you are. Where did you go?'
'I have something to tell you' he says.
'Okay'
'I kinnda got us into a dance battle'
'What do you mean you kinnda go us into a dance battle' Kate asks crossing her arms.
'Well I did. And its with Seeds'
We all look at eachother.
Seeds is a hip hop street dance crew. West has some history with them. He used to dance with them but then moved here without telling them. And now they want to battle us.
'We cant. Its too soon to the competition' Kate says.
'No. Listen. If they want to battle us they can. We dont perform for ages. We can battle them leaving enough time to eat, get ready and rest up' I tell them.
They nod.
"Okay fine. Where?' Kate asks West.
'Outside. We choose the music'
'Lets go then'
Im so excited for this. Its going to be awsome.

We meet seeds outside where a huge crowd has allready gathered.
West goes up to the captain, Marcell.
'Lets do this. You better bring it' he tells him.
'You bet compass'
Compass is a nickname for West since his name is West. Like a compass - North, South, East and West.
The battle begins. This will be good.

We go back inside.
'Guyes what happened? What was that? How did we loose!' West asks.
'Guyes! Look. We lost to Seeds. But do you know what? Im glad we lost to them!' Emily says.
We look at her.
'Why are you glad?'
'Because now we know what we need to do to become stronger and better dancers. West I heard their competting at regionals. Am I right?'
He nods.
'Well now we know what we need to do to beat them. So thank you Seeds! Im that greatfull that Im going to send them flowers. In fact we're all going to send them flowers!'
We all clap and cheer. Emily always  knows how to cheer up the team. Its just amazing.
'So as a team, we're all going to get lunch! Lets go guyes!' she smiles.
We follow her to the café.
We might have lost this dance battle.
But its only made us stronger and we're going to win regionals.
No matter what.