Solving mysteries

-Chapter 6-

^^Nikki Ahuja (Pallavi Subhash)^^

The Annual Concert.

~Siya's pov~

The Italian dance that I participated in was almost perfect, other than the part where they made us partners with people of the opposite gender. My partner here was a guy who was really really tall as compared to my height. His name was Manan, he was so tall that I reached only till his shoulder and that annoyed me to no limits.

Him being Veronica's ex also added to my dislike for him. And somehow he just had to be my partner. Person you being tall wasn't annoying enough that you had to be the 'still madly lovin' their ex' category of exes and that too when your ex is Veronica. Ughhh.

At that point I had seriously thought of exiting the dance but then I decided against it, because why let memories go just because your partner is a bullshit. Right? I enjoyed the practice sessions of the dance, all the jumping was tiring because I'm a proud panda who sits at home all day unless people downstairs were playing football. I'd always play with tunes when I was at home with occasional crazy dancing, but otherwise I'd be sleeping or eating.

So now, let me properly introduce myself properly, I'm the small lazy fluffy sleepy panda. Nice to meet you. So, back to the topic, there was no free time to waste at school, everyone was busy in improving their own dance forms. Some of the students who weren't into dancing were in the anchoring section for all the 10 grades and their performances.

Anna was into the anchoring, whereas Arya, Nikki and I were in different dance forms. Nikki was in Japanese flower dance and Arya was in Western hip hop. I was having a great time being busy in all the practices and then the sequential practices. The synchronization practice wasn't happening properly.

There were a lot of fights in the dance group because of the same. People weren't able to get where they were supposed to improvise, and because of this the last few days before the costume rehearsal were spent idling around.

In a few days time the costume arrived and they were just so colorful. We had a white formal shirt on which we had to wear a red ankle length skirt with a black cris-cross jacket with a green cloth belt and a black choker as an accessory. While practicing in the costume, people were in complete sync and the dance looked really great.

In the sequential practice I saw that Tarun and Sachin weren't participating in anything when I asked them about it Sachin said that he came in too late, and Tarun just didn't want to participate in anything. I was thankful that I didn't see Rohit throughout the past few weeks or unneeded energy and time would be wasted b*tching about him and the fun in the whole day would be ruined in a matter of seconds.

After talking and joking for a while with Tarun, Sachin and Arnav, who had joined the conversation afterwards, it was show time. The whole group danced with all their energy and the auditorium was filled with loud applause to appreciate our group effort.

Time passed by quickly and the date of the annual concert arrived. Every group was ready to give their best. The purely classical planned Bharatnatyam was turned into a Indo-western mix as the dancers danced to the beats of shape of you turned into a classical tune. The hip hop dance was said to be the awesome-est of them all . The accessories used in the Japanese fan dance were the prettiest and the Chattisgarh dance was the dance including the largest number of stunts, also it was the only all boys dance.

Everyone was proud of how their dances turned out. This was the last Annual Concert performance and all of us were ready to rock it all. Days passed by quickly and soon it was time for the main event.

I was in the backstage waiting for the name of our group to be announced. I looked around at the enthusiastic faces of people looking for that one familiar one I was pulled into the make up room by Divya teacher.

"Why have you applied so less makeup?" She asked me and I furrowed my eyebrows. My face was covered with a ton of makeup making it hard for my face to breathe. She carefully studied my face and then started applying more makeup. By the time she was done with applying all the makeup, my face felt really heavy with all the makeup caked on there.' I don't like makeupp! I want to wash this all off right now!' I groaned as I was literally pushed out of the make up room by all the girls flooding in there.

As soon as I got out of the room I spotted Nikki, with her back towards me. I ran to her and tapped with my finger on her shoulder. She turned around and we both stared blankly at each other before bursting out in laughter. Her face was in the same condition as mine- all caked in make up to the point where we looked like one of the clowns who are going to perform in the circus in a few. after we recovered from the laughter. We talked about fire by BTS and how I know some of the steps and so does she.

We were looking around when we spotted Arya coming out of the makeup room with a frown etched on her face. We could't control our laughter at all. She was looking weird in all the makeup as we hadn't even seen her apply eyeliner on her own. She stomped her way towards us and started complaining about her makeup. Soon our name was announced. The dancers gathered on the entrance of the stage all ready to give their best.

After the performance Nikki, Anna and I met at the backstage as decided. "Should we have a sleepover?" Nikki asked, with hopeful eyes.

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