Richelle's Story - After The Injury

2. Without Richelle?

The team were now so broken-hearted as they had just found out one of the most valued members of their team wasn't ever able to dance again. Lola felt awful as she knew she shouldn't had broken Richelle's shoe, she realised she should have spoken to Emily or Michelle. She was devastated. She had come to the realisation that committing the number one sin towards another dancer, her best friend also, had backfired on her and now Richelle was paying the price. She felt she had let her down and it would take years for Richelle to forgive her after what she did. The team had no clue of what they were going to do next. They couldn't replace Richelle. No one could.

They all understood that now, they weren't going to regionals unless they could grab a half-decent dancer from B-Troupe pretty quick, and even then, they knew that without Richelle, they weren't getting past the second round. Richelle had done so much for the team, from being East's Dance Captain, to having nothing at all left. Amy, Piper and Lola were now crying as they wanted to go to regionals more than ever, but they were far more concerned about Richelle's well-being. They knew that they couldn't do anything to get Richelle back. They were crushed.

Michelle and Emily soon walked in, stressed as ever, as they had just received the news that Miss Kate was pulling the team from regionals, and that they weren't going to be co-studio heads of The Next Step Dance Studio anymore. Noah had yet to reveal the bad news to the pair that had worked their hardest to get them where they deserved to be...