Falling for the Foreigner

Chapter 3 - You are gonna kill it

My next lecture took forever to get over and so did the third lecture. Finally it was lunch time and Emily took me to the cafeteria with her and invited me to sit with her on their table. Jake was already seated with another guy and they were fighting about which football team was better: Barcelona or Real Madrid. Typical boys. "Nyra this is Wesley, Wesley this is Nyra ", Emily introduced me to the green-eyed boy. " Well almost everybody knows her. You are kind of the new talk of the town" I never realized until now that almost every eye was one me and I felt uncomfortable. My only question was "why?" .

"Well you know you are pretty, you are a nerd and you are from a different country. Pretty and nerd do not go together usually ", This time it was Jake who spoke. This time I actually laughed, like loudly and well of-course I attracted more attention which immediately shut me up. I could feel the heat in my cheeks. I quitely started to eat the dhokla my mum sent me in my lunch.

"Does anyone of you know know when will the audition for the dance team be?" I finally ask. "None of us are into dance but we'll take you to dance room and you can ask yourself", Emily says. "Oh god...Nyra if Wesley doesn't talk to you for the rest of lunch don't mind him",Jake says and Emily goes into a snickering fit. I follow Wesley's gaze onto a red-head who goes and sits on a table across ours. Oh wait she sits with Liam.

"Is she friends with Liam?"

"Friends would be an understatement . Liam , Amy and Andrew are like best of friends. They stick together like when glue when Liam is not at soccer practice "

"Liam plays football? That's not possible , he is like a total nerd and he has glasses" "Well you should know he is the best player in the soccer team",Jake informs.

"It's football, not soccer." This seemed to have grabbed Wesley's attention away from the girl.

"Oh no no no it is soccer", he immediately says.

"Football" "Soccer" "Football"

"Shut up assholes! You guys are giving me a headache "Emily says we immediately shut up.

"Our Wesley here is in love with Amy since 9th grade and he still hasn't told her. He just stares at her from here. Loser", Jake says with a smirk. I can see Wesley is furious but he ignores him and continues to stare and eat.

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After the day ends, Emily takes me to the dance room as she promised. The room has a mirror on one wall while the other 3 walls are colored red and yellow and have railings on them. This room is so much bigger than my dance room in India. I just stare at it in awe.

While I was staring another lady in her mid-20s walks in from the next room. "How can I help you?" "I want to audition for the dance team. So when are the auditions?"

"The auditions will begin tomorrow and are for 2 days. You need to prepare your own choreography, no copying someone else's work. I will see you at the auditorium after school. Good luck", she says and goes back into what seems like her office. "Wait, so you have only one day to choreograph a song?, Emily asks in pure shock.

"I'll just do a choreography I did for myself in India." "Oh, then you are gonna kill it. I suck at dance so I finally have a friend who will help me become a better dancer.", Emily has a huge grin on her face as she says this. She reminds me so much of Maya, my best friend in India.

"Obviously" ,I laugh.

Emily leaves with Wesley in his car because they had to do some shopping for his mom. I take the bus home after an extremely tiring day .

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As soon as I step a foot in the house, my mum starts showering me with questions about my day. I hate when she does that. I tell her about Emily, Jake and Wesley. I fake being tired and then go to my room. The first thing I do is group video call. "It's 2:30 am here but we knew you didn't care and you would call", I smile at my friends and at how well they know me. "Firstly what did you wear today?", Sarah asks. Very typical of her. "A cropped sweatshirt and black, ripped jeans" "Get new clothes girl and something different please", Sarah remarks.

I decide to ignore my fashion critic. "I also found a Maya over here." I say.

"What do you mean?", Maya asks with her eyes narrowed down to slits. "I only mean that she is kind of a very cheery person like you and mainly, she doesn't know how to dance" "Definitely a Maya"

"Definitely a Maya", Jash and Sarah say while Maya just glares at the screen.

I tell them about how I can't forget Liam's eyes and I also tell them about Wesley's crush on Amy which Jash can very well relate to.

They are more excited and nervous about the dance auditions than I am. That's why I love these people, they support me in everything. The 3 of them have always attended my dance competitions and I know I will have no one to support me like them over here. We end the call because they have college tomorrow. I hate the time differences.

I just practice my moves the remainder of the day, trying to remember the steps of the dance I choreographed almost a year ago. My parents being supportive didn't disturb me the entire day, they just came to call me for dinner.

It is the adrenaline and nerves mixing that has left me sleepless. I cannot wait for tomorrow.

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