Pretty Kaur the 17 year old junior that attends West Bridge high was sitting on her couch in front of her tv on a warm and sunny Saturday morning eating recess puff cereal when she suddenly got a text from her best friend Gurjot (Gr-jooth) it read
"Aye be at my house in 10 we're having our first Jodi Bhangra practice."
After she read the text she didn't respond. She just gulped up cereal and rushed up the stairs and got changed and ready for practice. Pretty was initially confused as to why Gurjot wanted her to be on his team so bad, but she didn't mind because it was Bhangra (bang-raw) and that was her favorite style of dance she would pick it over all the other dances she was experienced in like hip hop, lyrical, and ballet because when she danced she felt a surge of happiness and energy with a zest of excitement. When she danced it made her forget all the bad things and made her feel a sense of self-worth so to her dance was who she was, it defined her. Another thing she loved about Bhangra was that it embraced her ethnic background despite being half punjabi. She was out the door in seconds then when she was in her car she remembered that she forgot to tell her mom that she was leaving but she left it as is. When she made it to Gurjot's house before she knocked on the door she thought to herself
"Wait... Did he say Jodi team? What does that mean again? Oh yea! Jodi means couple-DAMN IT! I don't wanna dance with a guy I've never even done Bhangra with a boy before and I doubt Gurjot counts cause that's only at party's. Shit I've only been on an all girl team. Well it can't be all bad... I guess."
With that she proceeded to knock on the door but on the second knock the door opened to reveal a boy towering over her wearing a red t-shirt and black Adidas soccer sweats and nike slippers with mismatched nike socks and a gutti (the hair wrap thing that younger Indian boys wear, it's not a hat)
"Aye Gurjot, so the saaps (sups) are in your car ri-oh shit sorry my bad."
The boy said this right before he crashed into her and when she looked up to see his face she had to tilt her head up all the way up
"It-it's alright..."
She managed to stutter this awkwardly while trying to give him eye contact. Then he moved over a bit so she could squeeze her way through the door. On the other side of that door the whole team was already there and she noticed a few familiar faces then Gurjot spoke up
"So uhh since everyone's here now I'll introduce you guys to each other because you guys are all strangers.. To each other not in general, but you guys really should already know each other since we all go to the same school. Well first imma pair you up with your Jodi since I assigned them so just get to know each other like your likes and dislikes, skill level, hobbies and just other crap like that."
He pulled out a little crumpled piece of paper from his tiny shirt pocket then opened it up and started reading off the names
"Pretty and I are the red Jodi, Karen your Jodi is AP but he's getting the props and you guys are blue, baljot (bal-jooth) you and Amneet (um-neeth) are the green Jodi , Ranveer (ran-veer) and Pari (perry) are the pink Jodi's, Amanvir (uh-man-veer) and Ovi (oh-v) you guys are light blue Jodi, and lastly Henry you and Zoya are yellow."
With that everyone partnered up and when pretty walked over to Gurjot with a smile on his face a reddish cheeks he asked
"So uhh you're on the team?"
