If You Stay | Corbyn besson

~Chapter 21~

Corbyn's POV

We arrived early as requested by Autumn as some of the girls in the dance school were fans. Autumn met us at the entrance and took us through backstage. We entered to a world of make up, face paint and costumes. Autumn had edited her make up and added face paint and was now wearing a simple white dress, all the older looking girls were wearing the same type of dress but they were all different colours.

Me and the boys took photos videos and were even given some presents by the younger girls. Soon the dance teacher came and said it was 15 minutes till curtain call and that we had to leave. Which we did after promising to come back after the show.

We took seats near the front and rather central. Daniel, Zach and Jack were having a conversation to do with dance. Meanwhile Jonah and I were talking with Scott who had arrived not long after we sat down about Autumn. I loved how much Scott cared for Autumn, he acted like all the members of the family all at once to her and cared for her with all his heart.

Our discussions stopped when the lights dimmed and general muddle of conversations faded away. The curtains drew apart to reveal Autumn's dance teacher.

" Hello and welcome to this year's dance show. As usual the girls and boys chose the theme and the storyline for each of their dances making shaped to them and their talents. I for one think that this year's show will be the best one my dance school has ever put on...but to decide that it will be up to you" the audience politely clapped as she walked off stage and the curtains once again closed to set up the stage for the first dance. Which was to be the senior squad.

We could hear movement going on behind stage before the curtains opened slightly and my girlfriend came out. She went to the edge of the stage to collect the microphone before returning to the middle to speak.

"As Madame Robinson said once again this year we get to chose the theme of our dance. Unfortunately for me, I was unable to attend dance practice when we decided our theme although what they decided upon I believe is going to make our dances mean so much to you all, as I know it already means alot to me. Intact in the senior squad we all liked it so much we decided that all our duets, solos and trios will all follow the same theme. This theme I am speaking of is our love for family both on earth and in the stars.

"With that in mind we then chose our music and the story for our group performance and on that note please enjoy our senior troops dance based off the impact of choices. We are aware that the theme of this could affect some of you and we are very sorry if it does but please feel free to step outside at any time during this performance" to applause Autumn handed back the mic and returned behind the curtain for the dance to start.

The music started and the girls started to dance. The story was clear, the girls
were all in a car which had crashed and it slowly showed each of the girls dying except one who seemed fine and by the end she was standing alone in the stage before taking some make belief pills and ending it. I applauded loudly with the rest of the audience. How they all moved in perfect synchronisation doing loads of complex moves was amazing whilst at the same time telling a emotional story.

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All the dances were amazing and filled with crazy talent. Autumn's solo was the second last dance to go and was up next. The dances had all been along the same theme which autumn had mentioned earlier but I had a feeling this one was going to be deep and personal.

The lights dimmed again before rising and showing an empty stage apart from Autumn and a make belief grave stone. The song 'not about Angels' started playing and Autumn started to tell a story. A story of a child who had lost their mum. Like she had lost her mum. As she danced I was so captivated by her dancing and the story, I didn't realise I was crying until I felt a year hit my hand. She story ended with the girl lying next to her mother's grave and the audience erupted in aplause. I looked along our row and none of the boys had a dry eye, Scott still had tears streaming down his face. There probably weren't many people with a dry face in this audience whether they knew her story or not.

Autumn's POV

I finished my dance and vowed before going off. I went straight to the dressing room and sat down. My head was spinning just like it had done in the practice and after the first dance. I closed my eyes for a minute listening to the hubbub of people around me. I slowly opened my eyes and got ready to leave after the last dance.

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I went outside to see a load of people waiting for their friends. I could see the boys and Scott talking not that far away. I walked up to them.

"Hey guys, did you enjoy it" I asked they all replied straight away with " it was amazing"," you were so great" and "you're all so talented" I smiled I'm pleased they liked it. I looked at Scott who mouthed "thank you" and pulled me into a hug. I'd done my dance for him and myself, I channelled all my emotion to do with our mum's death and everything into that dance. It meant to much to me and I hope it meant the same to him.

We all started walking to the car, chatting about stuff. I was walking next to Scott and Corbyn, who had his arm around me. I looked up at him and smiled.

"Well done bubba" he whispered before kissing my head. I love him so much.

"Hey Autumn did you know Jack cried" Zach interuppted us.

"Hey so did you" defended Jack, causing us all to laugh.

A/N

I'm so sorry, I'm completely over whelmed with school right now but I'm going to try to write as much as possible but at the moment school comes first.

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