Passion

Passion: Prologue

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Preface

Pop, lock, step, roll.

Roll back, step, turn, hit.

Dance had always been my passion. There's no two ways about it. The way I lost myself in the beat, in the lyrics, in the moment. It's so soulful I just simply couldn't get enough.

I had this mind set since I was two. Ballet, my first dance class. My mom and dad simply could not get me to stop dancing around the house, but they loved it. They encouraged my every move, and I loved it.

When I was five I started tap. The way the shoes hit the floor with such a melodic sound spoke to me, and they spoke such beautiful things I simply could not contentedly fill myself with only two styles of dance. It took me a while to decide which path of dance I would go down next, but when I turned twelve I knew for sure. Hip hop.

Drop, roll, kick, coffee grinder.

Jump, hip, drag, pop.

I thought I knew music when I was doing ballet and tap. It whispered and yelled and professed things to me that I knew words could never explain. Then music with base drops, sick beats, and invitations to a body roll expelled themselves in our world and my life was changed forever.

No matter how much my mom despised this specific genre and how my dad thought it was "gorilla music" my older sister Lindsey was there to encourage me and support my one hundred percent. Her crazy curly bleach blond hair, erratic with each beat in the songs, her smile constant, and her claps proud. I loved my sister to the end of the world and back again. Ever since I started out she would support me and it hadn't stopped since, every day she would bring her friends over and help me choreograph and perfect each new routine; she was six years older than me as she was 8 when I was two, and she was a dancer so she knew what she was doing. Lindsey lost her love for dance when she started law school and realised her dream to become a defence attorney. Although I applauded her for this transition in her life, that meant she wouldn't be around.

My parents would try and replace her for a while but my dance schedule was too much for their already busy work lives. So with the apologetic brown eyes of my mother and piercing blue eyes of my father they told me they couldn't keep doing this anymore, as throughout the years I had gradually added more dance styles to my curriculum and I barely had time to do anything else for myself (homework included), so for that reason among the sympathy I had for all they do for me to continue my dance passion, I forgave them whole heartedly.

At the time I was sixteen, in the eleventh grade and everything was crazy. My sister was about to enter in her fourth and final year of law school, and recently engaged to Ethan, her high school sweetheart boyfriend, so they were planning their wedding after her graduation constantly, my dad got a promotion at the business firm that he'd been working at ever since I can remember, my mother finally got hired for a talk show in New York like she had been dreaming her whole life, and my older brother Frank was about to graduate from Redemption High school (tacky name right?). With all the chaos, life was crazy and I had a dance recital a couple days away. I knew everyone had forgotten about it already, but it was okay, they had so much stress going on right now, and they had been to enough shows that it could last them a life time.

Shuffle, robot, step, step.

Roll, rotate, pop, lock.

Dancing gave me the perfect opportunity to think all of the time, so with that final move reflecting on the erratic chaos around me came to a close and reality came back to me, full force, and let me be the first to admit that it hit me hard.

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Author's note

Hey guys I hope you like this new story. This idea has been nagging at the back of my head for some time now so i thought now was as good a time as any to relieve my overactive brain of this brainstorm. Just though i would let those of you reading in a house of boys know that i'm not sure well i will be updating that story. the plot has kind of lost its value for me, so not really sure when i will be attempting to write that again. however until then i will be uploading this story periodically as i said before this storyline has been causing some choas in my head so just have to let it out.

anyways again i hope you all enjoy this story and let me know what you think! Thank you!

>>megan