Brave

Decisions

Much later Elise sat on her bed finishing the test.There was a knock at the door.
"Come on in!" Elise called.
Her mom came in carrying two mugs of hot chocolate.She passed one to Elise and sat on the bed trying to peer over Elise's shoulder at what she was writing.
"What's that?"
Elise shrugged."It's just a small test for the kids at the detention centre.Lots of them have been failing in class so Finn and I thought we'd try and help them keep up.It's just to help them really."
Her mom smiles gently.
"You do a lot with that boy.You're always doing things with him.Do you like him?"
Elise turned away.
"Yes,I like him.But he wants to go to Juilliard,it's a big dance school, and having a relationship would just tie him here.I don't want to do that to him.Besides,I don't know if he likes me or not."
"What would you say if I showed you these?"
Her mom thrust a bunch of papers on her lap.Elise picked her way through them.
"I have too many responsibilities to go to Juilliard.Who would run the detention centre?I can't just leave them."
"Of course not honey but you can write exactly how you And this boy run the centre so that the next person in charge knows how to run the centre.You can write an advert for the newspaper,send it in and then hold interviews.Just remember: I want to meet this boy properly."
Her mom smiles as she leaves the room.
Elise sighs and tosses all of the papers and the finished test into her gym bag. And went to sleep.

The next morning she wakes to the bell ringing and rushes downstairs in her pyjamas to answer it.Her eyes widen at the sight of her mom holding the door open for Finn,while asking him lots of questions about himself.
"Mom!" She says in agony from the stairs.
Finn grins his lopsided grin at her- a grin designed to let her know that she can calm down,he's not going anywhere.-
"Go and get a coffee.We've got some things to discuss." Elise tells him.He goes into the kitchen and Elise goes upstairs to stick her school uniform into her bag and dress in her dance clothes.
When she comes down again,dressed in dance pink and trainers with her bag slung over her back Finn catches his breath.He thinks that she looks beautiful.
"Hey,we'll be late! Bye mom!"
Abandoning his coffee he slings his black night fury bag over his shoulder and pulls on his trainers before they leave for   the studio that is halfway to town.
A Sitting down in the studio Elise pulls her slippers out of her bag and as she does the paper inside crackles.She pulls it out and calls to Finn.
"Finn!Come look over this test!"
Finn took the test off Elise and mentally worked out all of the answers to all of the questions before passing it back.
"Some of these are really hard.Do we want to challenge them that much?"
Elise nodded" Yep because if they're challenged and work out the right answer they'll remember it more.Thats good anddone but I need your help.Mom wants us both to audition for Juilliard this year.She gave me the forms last night.All we need to do is film a video of us dancing to music and send them in.Do you want to try out with me?I need you to!Please!"
Finn laughed "Yeah,now that we're old enough I was going to try out anyways.But we have to remember that we're competition to each other."

A/n I do not know a single thing about ballet but I thought that a competition,especially an auditionwhic