Forbidden Love

How Can I Do This?

(Gino's POV)

I literally can't do this dance. I'm not physically able to. Everytime I see Alyssa, my thoughts change to Maddie, which makes my knees buckle. 

Well, because she's a very good friend. Yes.

I will pretend like Alyssa is Maddie, it will soften the blow. I try to morph her face into Maddie's, and suddenly I can dance better. Because, I feel confident.

It is natural to feel confident if you're with your gir- I mean, best friend. If she even considers me as her best friend. She probably thinks I'm some sort of wierdo creepy guy who keeps texting her. She probably already has her boyfriend.

How could she not, with that perfect brown hair, blue eyes, perfect tan, shapely figure...

Yup. Definetly creepy.

All I need to focus on is winning my duet. I just need to win. With 'Maddie' as my duet partner.

(Maddie's POV)

"Maddie, are you okay"

My head spun.

Kendall stared into my eyes, trying to figure out what was wrong with my usal focused self.

I knew exactly what was wrong, but I was in an acute state of denial. Was I going to to admit that I thought of Gino as something other than just a really close friend? No. 

Gino is a really good friend of mine. He is like a brother.

See it's that easy to lie. It's called denial.

"Yeah, I'm fine"

Everytime I practiced my trio with Chloe and Kendall, my thoughts kept drifting. This was an easy trio, with emotions I had done for years and tricks I could do in my sleep. My thoughts kept drifting to a particular boy.

One with black hair, black eyes, perfect smile...

Whoa, back up. 

Right now, I just need to be focused on the trio, that's it.

Focus

Focus.

Gino.