What have you done to me?

Chapter 13

(Hello guys and girls. Its that time again so here is the next update. Now it is unedited as I have spent the last 3 hours actually writing it at the same time as helping sort out my brother's room whilst my dad and brother built his new wardrobes. Also last week kind of got away from me, one minute it was Tuesday and I had 3 paragraphs wrote and the next thing it is Monday night and i had 3 hours to write a complete chapter. Anyway before I start babbling away here is chapter 13. Enjoy!!)

Chapter 13

“1st position, 2nd position, 3, 4, Plié, 6th, run across the floor.  Grand jeté, plie, grand jete, 5th, double turn, 8.  Foutette, arabesque, hold, hold, point, your toes. No no no start again” Lucy looked at her instructor “Mia I have told you countless times you must point your toes and Lucy you need to really extend your front leg on your grand jeté” Lucy and Mia returned to their beginning position to start again and got ready to repeat their routine again. This happened about 5 times throughout the ballet class this morning. They had a few weeks left before their exam and they were really working hard on their piece however they could not get it right. No matter how many times they went through it.

The girls finished their class and were now in the changing rooms getting ready to go home. Mia pulled her dress over her head carefully as to no knock her bun “don’t forget we have tap on Tuesday” Mia said, reminding her friend. Lucy looked at her and nodded “I know my tap shoes are in my locker. I forgot the take them home last week” Lucy admitted as she sprayed herself in deodorant. Once the girls were finally ready, they picked up the bags and made their way back into the dance studio. On the way through they were stopped by their teacher “Mia, Lucy a quick word please” she asked. No matter how harsh she was as a teacher Miss Romanov she was a lovely lady. Mia and Lucy crossed the studio so that they were stood next to her “now girls, your piece is really coming along and I know you are two of my best dancers but you are that focused on your piece you are forgetting some of your basis training” she turned to Mia “Mia, you need to point your toes. You know this you learnt it in your first lesson when you were 3” Miss Romanov turned to Lucy “and you Lucy, you need to extend your leg. You’ve doing grand jeté’s for about 2 and half years now, you know how to do them, you know the correct positioning for them and you are more than capable of doing them. But most of all you both need to relax, stop thinking so hard about the moves. Don’t think of them as a sequence, think of them as individual moves, always think right the next move is an arabesque, the next is a jump. Each and every move you have in your piece you are capable of doing and both yourselves and I know that but you just need to calm yourselves down because the more nervous you get the less you are thinking” Miss Romanov said.

Mia and Lucy looked at her and nodded “we’ll bare that in mind miss” Mia said whilst Lucy nodded along. In truth Lucy wasn’t focusing on her dancing as a whole she had other things on her mind; the main thing being the baby which was growing inside her womb. Once the girls left the dance studio they made their way down to Mia’s car “so are we picking Eve up on the way” Lucy asked as she throw her gym bag into the boot just as Mia did “yeah, I told her we would be finished dance about 2ish so for her to be ready for about half 2” Eve said as she started her car and pulled out of the car park. Twenty minutes late Mia pulled up outside of Eve’s house and beeped her horn twice. A couple of minutes late Eve ran out of the house and opened the back door of Mia’s mini before climbing in “how was dance” Eve asked as she fastened her seat belt “it was good, hard work but good” Lucy said as she turned round and looked at Eve “you know I sometimes wish I had taken dance, I mean I look at the way you to walk and you both have so much grace but then I think of how clumsy I am and realise that I also have to left feet so I would never make it as a dancer” Eve joked. Lucy looked at Eve and shook her head she would have laughed but she wasn’t really in the mood to laugh.