The Adopted Son of Abby Lee (Dance Moms Fic)

Chapter 9: Leveling the Playing Field

It was May 8th, which was a Sunday and at Chili's on Touhy in Skokie near Carpenter Road, Abby, Cameron, Julie, Sebastian and Meredith were having lunch.

"I remember we used to come here for lunch on sundays a lot." Meredith said.

"And i'm glad we planned this for a few weeks." Abby stated.

"Question, for you and Cameron, Abby. Which mom is the craziest nowadays?" Sebastian asked,

"Kelly Hyland." Cameron stated. "A few weeks ago, she didn't bring in the prop for Paige's solo and once we dismissed Paige for the day, Kelly came downstairs cursing and when she got in Studio A, she was screaming at me and my mom."

"She's gone off her rocker these days." Meredith commented.

"Mom, Abby and Cameron told me the stories about her during the four years we were living in New Lenox." Julie said, then she looked over at Cameron and smiled at him.

"Julie likes Cameron, i can tell." Sebastian told Abby and Meredith.

"I've seen signs." Abby added,

"Me too." Meredith said. "They'd make a cute couple."

Julie and Cameron looked at each other with confused looks as Abby, Meredith and Sebastian were talking low so the two would not hear them.

"What are they talking about?" Julie wondered.

"No clue." Cameron answered his friend and then they all continued chattering while eating.

"Julie told us about that Cathy lady that owns this studio in Canton called Candy Apples Dance Center and on the scale of one to ten, how annoying is she really?" Sebastian asked.

"If we had to rate how annoying she is, the rating would be 100, Sea Bass." Cameron commented.

"And don't forget, she has a 7 year old daughter named Vivi-Anne who once danced for me late last season, but they left at the Thunderstruck competition in Grayslake and we saw them in Los Angeles and since then, Cathy and her rotten apples have been competing against us and they only beat us once, which was in New Jersey. In addition, Cathy uses some older dancers in her dances as well." Abby added.

"Julie's already seen a picture of how Cathy looks like, so Meredith, Sebastian, here is how she looks like." Cameron showed the two a picture of Cathy and Vivi and with her were, a orange haired boy around 9 named Justice McCort, on his right was a 13 year old girl with brown hair named Kerisa McCullough, on Kerisa's right was an 11 year old girl with ash blonde hair named Taylor O'Lear, on Taylor's right was a girl around 16 with dark brown hair named Sarah Parish and next to her was a girl around 15 with brown hair named Erika Schrade, on Justice's left was Vivi and on Vivi's left was a girl around 9 with brown hair named Kendall Vertes, Kendall danced for the ALDC before her mother pulled her out because of being put on probation. Standing with Cathy were their moms, on Cathy's right was Tanya McCort, the mother of Justice, next to Tanya was Kelli McCullough, who is Kerisa's mother, on the right of Kelli was Nicole O'Lear, Taylor's mother, on Nicole's right was Kim Parish, the mother of Sarah, on her right was Barb Schrade, Erika's mother and in addition there was a around 47 with reddish hair on Cathy's left named Jill Vertes, who is Kendall's mother.

"Cathy's a nutty lady from the smile on her face and Julie was telling us about her." Sebastian stated.

"What he said." Meredith commented.

"We could tell you stories." Abby said. "The girls already told Julie about Kendall and her mother Jill

"Also, this morning, i got word that we're gonna be heading to Nexstar this weekend in Akron, Ohio and you know what means." Cameron informed and he looked at Julie. "Jules, this weekend, you're gonna get a firsthand experience on how we deal with them."