Norminah «One-Shots»

Dancing With A Stranger

Normani stares into the full body mirror in front of her. Her eyes examined her dress, she hopes the dress was beautiful enough for tonight's performance. Tonight she was performing a broken tango dance with multiple others. Her partner Brad hasn't shown up yet. He texted her he was on his way. That only made normani worry if he'll make it in time. Dinah wanders inside normani's dressing room. "Mani, the dance is about to start. Are you ready? Is Brad on his way?" Dinah raised a question. Norman rotates with a sigh. Her face explained it all. "Yes, I'm ready but no he's not here. I didn't rehearse my ass off for him to not be here on time.." Normani confesses with a frown. Dinah approached her and placed her hand on her cheek. "Whether he shows up or not- I bet they have someone else that'll be grateful to dance with you." Dinah claimed. "yeah...but I just don't like being stood up. I would have never done that to anyone else...but it always happens to me when I need them the most." Normani mumbled looking up at Dinah. "Hey, he'll be here and if not, I have someone that'll help you. Okay?" Dinah let out. Normani nods. "Promise?" She asked. "Yes, ma'am," Dinah said when the dressing room door opened with the stage director standing there. "It's time. They're about to bring you guys onto the floor." Nancy alerted her. Normani nods. She glanced at Dinah who placed a soft peck on her forehead. "Don't worry. It'll work out in the end. I'm here. You'll do amazing out there." Dinah reassured her. Normani pulled away from Dinah's embrace and headed out of the room and went to stand with the others getting ready to be called out for their group dance. Dinah looks at Nancy. "Brad...he's not coming." She announced. Nancy shrugged. "Well, she's going to need a dance partner," Nancy told. "If not, she won't be able to perform," Nancy said walking away. Dinah bit her lip and looked around the room and rushed out of the dressing room. She jogged down the opposite direction of everyone else and watched her surroundings and snook to Brad's dressing room. His suit was in there. Dinah slipped inside and closed the door and rushed to the clothing stand and grabbed his tuxedo. Surprisingly, he was her size. She locked the door and got changed. She left her white & black converses on, quickly did her hair and reapplied red lipstick and looked at herself. "You got this...anything for normani. Follow her lead but also take the lead. Imagine only the two of you in the room. No one else." Dinah muttered to herself giving herself a pep talk.

"Ladies and gentlemen, thank you all for coming out tonight. We have a special performance. A dance group is here to perform a broken tango dance. I heard some of you adored tango, so this is for you all. Let's welcome The Resolution." The announcer said as everyone clapped. The group stepped out onto the dance floor. Normani looked behind herself and didn't see anyone. She sighed as she was about to walk away when she saw dinah rushed up to her in the tuxedo. "Dinah? Why-" Normani started to question when dinah interrupted her. "No time to explain. We have a dance to do." Dinah said grabbing normani's hand. Normani smiled as they headed out onto the floor and got in place like the others. Everyone waited for the show to began. Once the music started placing everyone did the routine. Everyone started with someone different until halfway through the dance. Dinah was now with normani. Leading her and even got help from normani herself. Dinah didn't know the moves that well but with the help of normani, she was doing just fine. Normani was upset Brad stood her up but that would all go inconspicuous because her dinah was there...to take over and make this night memorable.