the 29th of april had, by far, been one of cosima's new favorite days in her life. taking a bunch of classes and meeting everyone really made her feel at peace about the whole situation. she rarely had to deal with sean which made her feel even better, but then there were those moments. the small glances she'd catch from him. when fans would ask to get pictures of them together and she'd have to smile although feeling his touch on her back made her not want to.
she just let go of the whole thing. sean, on the other hand, wasn't doing any better. even worse maybe. cosima was all he could think about. the only thing. but sean was excited for the next day to come as she was assisting him in class.
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"you are still assisting my class right?" sean asked as they entered the building.
"of course," cosima muttered as she walked in, in front of sean and he sighed in relief.
when sean's time to teach had come, cosima followed him on stage and the people clapped for them. they both smiled and waved. cosima went to set up as sean began to speak. "hi, everybody. it's such an honor to be here and i'm very happy to be teaching with cosi, even if i did have to drag her here from america," sean let out. the dancers laughed and cosima gave a tight lipped smile before shaking her head. she knew exactly what he was doing.
as time went on cosima helped sean the whole time. when sean had everyone sit down so he could talk and play the song before he started teaching, cosima held her head bowed, closed her eyes and took in sean's words.
"and let's begin," sean let out after some time. cosima looked up quickly and began to assist sean in dancing.
it took sean a while to teach his choreo but after he finished, he had cosima dance a couple of times on her own as well as with the dancers that came to learn. then the two of them watched all the dancers. sean checked his watch and looked up at cosima. "i'm almost done teaching," he said.
"oh, i know," cosima spoke up. "i've been checking."
sean chuckled and nodded, despite the pain. "so i guess that means i'll be helping you teach your class?" he asked.
"no, actually. maybe next time," there were those words again. "i mean unless you know the new choreo."
"new choreo?" he furrowed his eyebrows. "when did you even have time for that?"
"last night."
"we were together last night."
"you fall asleep in seconds and i was up most of the night."
"i thought we were going to dance together."
"i thought you meant what you did," cosima said and sean immediately stopped in his tracks. "wanna learn the dance? take the class."
and that's exactly what sean did. as the room filled with people wanting to take cosima's class, sean had in some way found his spot in the front of the class. he would do anything to show cosima how truly sorry he was and what he actually meant were not the words that came out of his mouth.
"i want everyone to remember that is a space of growth, don't be afraid to mess up. to make a mistake is to learn. we're all a team. we're all learning together," cosima said to the class as she paced back and forth as she watched the dancers. she felt moved. she carried her eyes up and down along sean as she walked by.
she was very impressed in his effort to still learn the dance. in his effort to make things right.
it was almost time to have people start dancing in groups. as cosima come back sean's way, he called for her. "i could go first," he smiled. "i mean, so if anyone feels nervous it could help."
