A New Turn

Chapter 18

CAITLIN POV

I didn't sleep much that night. Even thought I really wanted and needed to. Bloody jet lag. Bloody Louis Tomlinson. Bloody my actions. Not to mention the fact that I had mentioned that I was 'still hung up' to Harry. My life was all over the place.

I eventually fell asleep in my crazy thoughts. I don't know how but I did.

My alarm began sounding it's usual buzzing drone, signalling for me to get up. Today was my first day at Pulse and I was so fucking nervous. Yet not as much as I was last night, talking to Louis.

I woke up and headed into the bathroom down the hall, doing my best not to wake up Harry and Louis as I did. It was still pretty early.

I stripped down and stepped into the running fountain that was the shower. The hot water hit me like a ton of bricks, I needed that. I was freezing. London weather was awful in the morning.

I jumped out and chucked on my grey dancing shorts and a loose fitting purple singlet, my favourite dancing outfit. Over the top I threw on a black Vans hoodie that I actually think Harry had gotten me at some point.

I stepped out of the bathroom, with my pyjamas in hand and padded softly back towards my room. I made my bed, folded my pyjamas nicely on top, grabbed my dancing bag and headed downstairs to grab some breakfast.

As I entered the kitchen, I saw Harry sitting at the island bench chomping on toast with who knows what on it.

"Morning! How's you sleep?" He asked me with a particularly chirpy voice.

"Yeah fine but why are you up so early?" I wondered.

"I forgot to tell you. The first Up All Night concert is tonight and we have a whole lot of press and interviews and stuff. We bought you a ticket if you want to come tonight."

"Are you serious? That would be amazing!" I was flattered that Harry had thought of me. Then again, why was I surprised? It was Harry we were talking about here.

"How are you getting to dancing today?"

"Um Danielle said she would pick me up." Danielle danced at Pulse as well. I'd been contact with her since I'd gotten my acceptance letter but I still actually met her in person...But there's a first time for everything. And out of luck, she happened to be Liam's girlfriend. It truly was a small world.

"Awesome. Well tonight, be ready by 5:30 and a car will swing past here to pick up you and Danielle and Bri." I was going to see Bri again! Now that I couldn't wait for!

Just as he finished talking, a knock sounded on the door. I imagined it was Danielle.

"Ok awesome! I'll see you guys backstage tonight then!"

"Good luck for today!" Harry yelled at me as I ran towards the door. I opened it to see a very beautiful girl that looked about my age with tan skin, very curly brown hair and green eyes.

"So you must be Danielle."

"And you must be Caitlin. And please, call me Dani!"

"Nice to meet you Dani! Shall we go?"

"Yep lets go!" I gave a final wave to Harry and shut the door. I had grabbed a banana and juice for the road. I would just have to have something else when I got there.

I jumped in the front seat of Dani's car, slamming the door behind me. She jumped in the driver's seat and started the engine. She pulled out of the driveway and we started the journey towards Pulse.

She asked all the usual ice breaker questions, including if I was single. I didn't tell her the Justin story. I thought I'd save that one for later.

I asked her about Liam and all the usual relationship questions. They seemed truly happy. I shipped it. Payzer.

Then she dropped this question. "So Caitlin, are you crushing on anyone?"

My heart began drumming in my chest, and I didn't even know why. Maybe it was because anytime anyone said the word crush it made me think of Louis and his smile and his abs. Ok snap out of it.

"Um maybe on someone a little bit, I dunno. It's difficult."

"Oooooooooooo who is this mysterious dude? Spill!"

"Ok but you can't tell anyone. Not even Liam."

"Ok ok ok I promise cross my heart. Ok who is the mysterious man?"

"Fine I'll tell you. I think I like Louis."

"YOU LIKE LOUIS?!" She was astonished. I don't really know why. It wasn't that exciting, was it?

"I dunno, maybe." But then I proceeded to tell her the stories of yesterday. What a cold day.

"Oh sweetie. Oh sweetie. Oh sweetie."

"Yeah yeah yeah I know. I just had no idea what I was thinking."

"Ok if it makes you feel any better, I'll do anything I can to get you two together." As soon as she said that, she pulled into a car park. In front of me was a massive sign that said Pulse. God, I was nervous.

I grabbed my bag and jumped out of the car with Dani. We both strolled in. Dani headed up the stairs towards the studio while I stayed down and walked towards the main office.

Inside I saw a middle aged woman with a pair of squarish black glasses, blonde hair pulled back into a nest pony and a black jacket.

"Hello may I help you?"

"Ah hi. My name is Caitlin Smith and I was accepted here about 3 months ago."

"Ah yes welcome. Your audition scores were amazing. I don't think I had ever seen anything like it. Well yours and Danielle Peazer's." I heard Dani was good. I couldn't wait to see her dance.

"Um thank you."

"Actually you're in the same class as her. Which is the highest group in the school, I hope that's ok."

I just shyly nodded. Was I really that good?

She handed me a timetable with a whole bunch of classes and rooms on it. I felt like I was back in high school.

I thanked her, looked at my timetable and headed up the stairs to see Dani waiting outside one of the rooms. I took it that it wasn't open yet.

Just as I opened my mouth to talk to Dani, the door opened. A slightly older female with short brunette hair and was dressed head to toe in black. She looked really friendly with her hazel eyes. According to my timetable, her name was Cathy.

Me, Dani and about 8 others walked into your typical dance studio. Mirrors on one side of the room, bars on the other. Stereo in the corner, speakers in various places. That kinda stuff. I just kept following Dani, unknowing of what to do next. We placed our bags down and the girls seemed to be putting on their jazz shoes, so I did that.

Suddenly, we were all standing in the middle of the room, waiting for Cathy to talk to us. I got some odd looks from some of the others but I didn't really give a crap. I'd earned my way here and I was going to prove that I had.

Cathy walked over to us and started talking about her plans for the day. We were going to keep going over exams so I would have to catch up on that. But I'm a fast learner.

"But before we begin, Caitlin, how about you come show us some your style?"

All eyes turned to me. All I could think was HELL NO but everyone began moving towards the mirrors and sitting down and facing me. Cathy went over to the stereo and placed a cd into the player, I think she just wanted me to make up something on the spot which was even more nerve wracking.

Shit.

A/N

EVERYONE GO READ FIRST LOVE BY CLAUDIA_1999 AND A PERFECT DISGUISE BY --Bri--!!!!

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