i'm fine

Make it or flake it

Richelle

Today was A-troupe auditions. The studio was closed for three weeks to build a new addition to the building. Studio One. Emily was made the new studio head after Riley quit, and she brought daniel as the new choreographer.

It felt weird being in studio one instead of studio A. I had waited all my life to dance in studio A with A-troupe, and now it was just a rec room?

Lots of new people came to audition, as lots of old people left and moved on. There were people from new studios, peoples from B-troupe, peoples from J-troupe even. And there was Ozzy.

I had learned his name after a few J-troupe classes I had to take. He gets cuter and cuter every time. I might even be starting to warm up to him, but I will never let anyone see that.

I started warming up by doing some stretches and pirouettes. Then, Ozzy somehow danced up to me as if he was trying to impress me. I thought it was cute how he came to me, but instead of showing that i gave him a disgusted look. I really don't like showing my emotions.

He backed away afterwards, even though i wished he had stayed. I liked his company.

"Lots of competition this year, right?" Emily said from behind me, distracting my Ozzy thoughts. I nodded,

"I can take them though." I said humbly. Emily smiled at me proudly.

"I know you can Richelle." She's always been like a big sister to me.

"ATTENTION DANCERS" Emily called out. Everyone stopped to look at her and daniel who was now standing next to each other.

"Before we get the auditions started, if we call out your name could you please form a group in the middle"

I was confused by this, but went along with it.

"Latroy, ... Ozzy"

My heart skipped a beat just hearing his name.

"Unfortuntly, we will not need you for this audition..."

I looked around at them. Ozzy looked so dissapointed and confused and wanted to run and give him a hug, but of course i wouldn't.

They all left studio one practically dragging their feet out behind them. I had to stay focused on my audition though, no matter how hard it was to see Ozzy like that.

Ozzy

I was so ready to show them what i got, and they didn't even let me try. I don't want to be in b-troupe, i feel like i could do so much better than that. If emily wants her A-troupe to be boring and bland and only have one style of dance, then what can i really do?

I'm in studio A dancing my solo that i would have done for the A-troupe auditions if emily would have let me. It's bittersweet because i love this dance but i hate i didnt even get to show it to anyone.

Then she walked in.

My Love. Her hair flowing behind her like it always does. She slowed down when seeing me dancing, and instead of turning away and going she sat down and watched me. It was kinda overwhelming.

I finished my dance, panting. And she's still there just watching me. I walk up to her, to click in her face as a joke and a reminder of how we met, but she smacked my hand out the way before i got to.

She put her brave and confident face on and stood up to straighten herself out.

"I just stopped to say I'm sorry that you didn't get to dance in the auditions" She said sincerly. I held my hands out to hug her with a big smile on my face. She pushed me back with one hand.

"Relax, i didn't come here just for you. Emily left something in kate's office i need to get." She told me. "And your sweaty". I could accept that for now.

"Raincheck on that hug then i guess?" I teased. She just looked at me blankly, no emtion. This was normally the part where she would say something like 'There was never going to be a hug' or something quirky like that. This means progress.

She just turned around and went into the office without giving me a glance. Im sure i saw a smile form on her face before she turned around though.

i did a small victory dance when she couldn't see and then took my things and left.