The one that brought us together - Joanne ❤️

Part Two - First day of rehearsals

Dianne's POV
Today was the day me and Joe were starting rehearsals for our jive to take on me. I was so excited to perform this number as it was so energetic and lively.  I was already at the studio warming up and going over the routine to make sure it was perfect in time for Joe arriving. Speaking of joe arriving where was he? I told him to arrive for 8:00am so that we could we would have loads of time to practice. It was now 8:45am and he was 45 minutes late, I hope he was okay.

Suddenly, the door of the studio flung open revealing a very sweaty Joe. He walked into the room apologising over and over, saying that he slept in and then got stuck in rush hour traffic. I just laughed saying that it was okay and that he just needed to make sure that he woke up on time tomorrow so that he didn't get stuck in traffic again. He breathed heavily apologising for a last time, before he pulled off his coat chucking it down next to his bag that he had placed on the floor.

Joe smiled at me saying that he will set at least four alarms to make sure he's up on time, making me laugh. I then told him the dance we were doing, to which he proceeded to tell me this was one of the dances he was worried about. I told him that there was no need to worry, we had two weeks to perfect this dance to which he smiled and asked if we should get on with the dance. I loved how he was still keen to dance even after realising this was one of the ones he was worried about.

Joe's POV
After dancing for about three hours, taking a few breaks here and there, we decided to stop and get some lunch. We had both brought food from home so we sat down on the wooden floor, while learning some more about one another. I learnt a lot about Dianne that day and I felt as though we were closer than we were before and I could feel as though we were going to be good friends. I told Dianne I was just nipping to the toilet, when in actual fact I was going to ring my mum and find out how Alexa was doing. I walked into the bathroom and rang up my mum.
"Hello" my mum answered.
"Hiya mum I was just calling to see how Alexa was doing, is she alright?" I asked.
"Yeah she's doing fine she was a little upset at first but now she's happy colouring and paying with the dogs" my mum replied.
"That's good. Can you put her on the phone so I can speak to her"
"Of course two seconds. Alexa daddy's on the phone for you"
I heard the little patter of footsteps before a small voice answered the phone.
"Hi daddy!" Alexa said excitedly.
"Hiya princess are you having fun with grandma?"
"Yeah soooo much fun. Daddy are you going to be home for bedtime?"
"Yeah of course" I blurted out. I would have to leave at around half six, I'll ask Dianne hopefully she will say it's alright.
"Good. See you later daddy bye bye"
"Bye Alexa be good" I said ending the call.

I walked back into the training room to find Dianne going over the dance. She was so gorgeous, wait no I can't say that she's my dance partner, its bad enough that I have a tiny crush on her I can't let it go any further. Besides she would never like me back.

I walked it behind her shouting BOO which caused her to jump.
"JOE! You can't scare me like that" she said trying to be serious but failing at holding back her giggles.
"Sorry" I said pouting keeping up the act. "Wait can I ask you something?"
"Yeah of course you can Joe what is it?"
"I was just wondering if I could leave at about half six. It's just erm I've got to pick my mum up from somewhere" I lied.
"Yeah of course I was going to say that we can finish at seven but if you need to leave earlier that's fine" Dianne smiled.
"Thanks"

We set off dancing again going over the previous learned steps and adding on some new ones. Before we knew it, it was half six and I needed to leave.
"Bye Joe I'll see you tomorrow, don't be late this time" Dianne laughed.
"I won't I promise. Bye Dianne"
And I set off on my way to 'pick up my mum from somewhere'.

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Authors note -
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- Charlotte x