i'm fine

Dance your heart out

Ozzy

A few weeks had passed now and I was on TNS West while Richelle was on TNS East. I got to be on A - troupe, but I was going against my love. It was very bittersweet.

We were now setting up for the dance-a-thon that piper had come up with. It was for Heather, the neutral grounds barista, who we were trying to convince to join our team. I remembered attempting to hit on her to "help" Henry and chuckled.

"What's so funny?" I whipped my head around in shock, but it was only Richelle so I put my chilled face back on and looked her up and down.

"Nothing just remembered something," I said as she rolled her eyes. "What are you two doing here anyway?" I asked, referring to Lola.

"Not that it's your business, but we're here to talk to Michelle."

"Are you sure you're not here to talk to me?" I said slyly.

She looked me up and down awkwardly. "Very sure," she said and walked around me to Michelle and Henry who were hanging up bunting.

I shrugged my shoulders. It was worth a try.

Richelle

I couldn't tell if he was joking or if he was an actual mind reader. One of the only reasons I agreed to go with Lola was to see him, but I wasn't going to let my guard down.

"Very sure," I said, looking him up and down. He didn't have big muscles like Noah, but I didn't mind.

I walked past him with my head held high and went to Michelle who was hanging up decorations with Henry.

"Hi, Michelle," I said, startling her and making her drop the bunting. Henry sighed and picked it up for her putting it in place.

"Oh, hi Richelle. Hi Lola. What do you need?" Michelle asked, stepping down from the ladder.

"Nothing just came to look around," I replied with a fake smile. Lola didn't question it because she was the only one I had told about Ozzy. I had only known her for a short amount of time but already trusted her so much. My wall instantly came down around her.

I looked around the studio, my eyes briefly stopping on Ozzy. Lola must have seen the disappointment in my eyes when I saw he wasn't looking back because she nudged me slightly and asked,

"Why do you give him such a hard time if the feelings are mutual?"

"I honestly don't know" I replied, shrugging my shoulders. "But you know me, I always put my guard up around people."

"You don't do that around me" Lola half-joked, pushing my shoulder lightly.

"Maybe, but that's because you're my BFF" I laughed, slinging my arm over her shoulder to lead her out of studio A.

Ozzy

We had been dancing for about 4 hours now. everyone else looked hype, but my knees were getting weaker and weaker.

My energy instantly rose again seeing Richelle walk in with Lola. They sat on the bench watching everyone dance and small talking to each other.

This was my one chance, so I wiped my hand through my hair and danced over to her.

"Her girl, where'd you get those sneakers?" I asked, "They look like dancing shoes." I spun around once. Lola chuckled but Richelle had no emotion on her face so I continued.

"Wanna dance?"

Her face lit up a bit but then went blank again, "Um, no.". Lola looked at her like she was crazy.i shrugged and danced back to the centre of the room. No matter how many times she shot me down, I knew I was getting through to her.

Richelle

Lola nudged me hard.

"Ow!" I exclaimed, rubbing my arm. She put her hands on her hips as if she was waiting for me.

"Go and dance with him, Richelle," She told me sternly.

I shook my head hard "No. No way". But before I knew it, she was dragging me across the dance floor to where Ozzy was and patted my shoulders before telling Ozzy "She's all yours" and turning around to sit on the bench again.

Ozzy raised his eyebrows but then held out his hand for me. I sighed and rolled my eyes to act like I didn't want to do this, even though inside I was squealing like a little girl, and took his hand. I saw his whole face light up and he took my other hand and started twisting his body to get me to dance too.

soon I let myself go and we were doing turns and tricks together. I was even laughing with him. 1 hour passed easily and I decided not to keep Lola waiting, even though she was now happily dancing with everyone, especially Kingston.

"I'm going to go now Ozzy," I said, looking over at Lola who was being spun around by Kingston. He noticed me look at them and smirked.

"You know one day we could all go on a double date," He said spinning me around again.

"I wouldn't go that far" I laughed, stopping myself from dancing to the new song that had just come on. "But I did have fun," I said, before I could stop myself. He completely froze.

"You-you had f-fun with me?" he stuttered. Michelle tapped his shoulder to let him know he was out now.

"It was all worth it," He said and went to sit on the bench with his head in the clouds.

I tapped Lola's back and asked if we could leave now. She nodded while waving bye to Kingston. While we were walking out of Studio A I nudged her with my body.

"So you and Kingston, huh?" I teased and she smiled.

"Oh shut up, you and Ozzy were like two little lovebirds over there."

Love. I liked the sound of that.