Love you more

Talks

Faye: 

It's great to be at the bar with the cast. We all ordered a few drinks and continue to talk and laugh a lot, not only talking about Strictly but also about plenty of other things. Giovanni and me are currently sitting with Aljaž and Gorka to, obviously, talk about the show they're planning. However, after a while they start asking things about us or about Steps until I try to lead the conversation somewhere else, being too shy to talk about myself. Gladly, just in this moment Ashley and Pasha join us on our table and ask, if we would like to go on the dancefloor. Obviously we agree, loving the fact that there's usually a dancefloor in bars like these.

Alongside a few others of the cast we to enter the dance floor now, happily dancing around and simply enjoying our time together. We dance for what seems like hours, making it obvious how much we all loved it to dance at Strictly. I briefly spot Ashley and Pasha dancing very close to each other when someone puts on a love song.

"Look, that's sweet." I say to Giovanni while pointing over to them.

"Would you like to dance with me like that as well?" he asks back. I grin slightly at his question before I agree and so, we also dance just as closely together. In contrast to Ashley and Pasha, the cast already knows about us. Not from journalists or something but because we decided to simply tell them while we were at the Strictly tour - and they were all genuinely happy, saying they already assumed that we're in love. 

"Do you enjoy it?" Giovanni asks now.

"Of course. I mean I'm dancing with you, that's perfect, isn't it?" I laugh, only whispering this answer as we're standing so close to each other and don't need to shout.

"That's sweet. But although we purely enjoy it, we should go now. You know that we both need to go back to rehearsals." he reminds me. Oh yeah, dancing with him almost put me away from thinking about our own rehearsals.

"Okay. Let's just enjoy this song and then we'll head off to your house." I say, spotting his nod to this idea. We continue to dance when another love song is played but as soon as he's finished, we walk back to the cast, hand in hand of course. 

"We're going back home now." Giovanni announces, earning a few agreeing expressions from them. "But it was nice to see all of you again." 

"It was a great Strictly meeting." I add. Even if he holds my hand, I'm still shy especially as they're all looking at us. 

"Absolutely!" Ashley exclaims, now stepping next to us with Pasha. "We'll be accompanying  you, we should go now too." 

"We?" Charles asks with a grin. Ashley blushes slightly before answering. "Yeah, he drove me here." 

Seeming to accept this as an explanation, Charles nods and waves us as we all make our way outside the bar. 

Just as we're about to go, I'm suddenly grabbed from behind and pushed back. For a moment, I think that someone from the cast made a joke or crashed into me, because the bar is very crowded by now - but when I turn around, I see him. Travis. My ex. Standing in front of me with the smile he also putted on when he was at my house - or back then, when he abused me. 

I keep standing on my spot, feeling the others looking at me questioning. "Let's go." I announce as confident as possible, deciding to ignore him and just walk out of the bar. But again, Travis grabs me, this time by the hands and I stumble back, almost falling to the ground. 

"Hey!" Giovanni shouts. "What do you even think of yourself?" 

"I think that this girl over here just walked into this bar with her dancing lover. Isn't it like that?"