Extra Credit

New Chance

The following week I spent the first few days skipping Professor Calaway's class. I'll admit it was killing my grades not being present in class but it wasn't enough to fail me just yet. I was doing all of my homework and sending it to class with Ally while going to my other classes. I never thought I'd run into him at that point and I didn't for nearly a week.

"Come on girl let's go make that money," Ally said when we were getting ready to work. We had another duet to do and according to our boss we had some real exclusive men out there who had plenty of money.

I fixed my hair and adjusted my make-up before getting up to go out on stage. I was actually having a great time dancing that night. Ally and I were racking up our money like a kid racks up his candy on Halloween. Unfortunately things didn't stay peachy that entire night…About an hour before my shift ended, my boss made an announcement that we had a few celebrities in the building. I didn't bother listening too much since I was busy entertaining a customer. The moment he mentioned Shawn Michaels and Bryan Bautista, Ally and I both froze. Bryan, my uncle, had always been the nicer of the two brothers. He always treated me like a princess although I was his niece and not his daughter but that never stopped him from telling on me any chance he got.

Ally walked over to me and gently grabbed my arm, "We need to get you outta here,"

I sat my bottle of Hypnotic down and told the customer I was talking to that I had to go. He tried to hold me in place so he could finish the song with me, but I yanked my arm from him and turned to head to the dressing room. We saw Sami heading in our direction in a quick pace. I could tell she was just as nervous as I was being in there. I looked around and nearly ran into her trying to hurry backstage. Unfortunately, we ran dead smack into Shawn and Bryan who looked more shocked to see us standing there than we were.

"Sami?" Shawn said as he sat his beer down on the table. She folded her arms over her chest and dropped her gaze from him.

I did the same as the painful stare of my uncle burned a hole right through me.

"Aria…what the hell are you two doing in here?" Bryan asked.

We glanced at each other and then sighed.

"Can we go get dressed…we'll meet you outside." Sami said.

Shawn took a deep breath, "Yeah hurry up."

We casted a glance at each other before heading back to the dressing room to get changed. Neither of us said a word to each other since we knew what they were going to say.  Although we were still mad at easch other, we hooked each other's arm and headed outside where Shawn and Bryan were. We ended up separating since Shawn was parked on one side of the parking lot and my uncle was parked closer to the club.

"Good luck," I told her.

She nodded and squeezed my hand before walking across the parking lot to join her very angry brother. As for me, I folded my arms and headed towards my uncle's car. He was facing his car, smoking a cigarette and shaking his head in disappointment. When I got close enough he dropped his cigarette and then turned around and smacked me in the face.

"Are you out of your damn mind Aria!" he yelled. "What the hell are you doing working in a place like this! Your father would be having a damn fit right now!"

Tears fell from my eyes as I held my face. "I didn't have a choice Bryan."

"Sure you did Aria!" he screamed. "You always have a choice in what you do,"