I've Fallen in Love with my Best Friend {a Pinn love story}

CHAPTER 5

(Authors note)
OH MY GOD!!! 300 views. You guys are like filling me with so much happiness, I can't thank you enough.<3

(Piper's point of view)
I walk into the locker room to grab a snack in our break and see Finn sitting on the bench, among other things. My heart jumps into hyper speedand starts beating out of my chest. I take slow deep breathes, calming my fluttering heart. Butterflies fill the pit of my stomach making me stiffen my posture, showing extreme awkwardness.

I approach my locker, pretending that Finn isn't there and open it with a creak. I reach through my orderly locker and sense Finn standing up behind me. I gulp, feeling my throat throb with its sudden soreness. My hand finally rests on the punet of strawberries and I pull them out along with a knife to cut them with.

A putrid smell fills my nostrils as Finn kicks a jacket over, revealing a piece of mouldy food. I shiver with disgust and make to exit the dump yard.

"Piper, we need to talk." Finn tells me sternly.

"About what? There are so many things to talk about in a dance studio, like are you going to audition for mr national soloist. You know what, we should talk about it in the next steep." I say descively. I exit the locker room, feeling a sense of relief wash over me as I successfull averted that disaster. Finn follows me into the next steep as I sit at one of the tables.

"Piper, why did you ask to change lift partners." He asks me seriously. I know that it is wrong, but I have to lie. I tell him what I told Emily.

"Look. Being front and centre in that formation just flared up my anxiety. I asked to move so I would feel more comfortable."

"Why didn't our partnership swap places with Summer and Ozzy's then. That would've been absolutely fine."

"Because Emily said that you need to be in the center because of your height but that she could move me to have a different lifter."

"I don't get what the big deal is?"

"We are going to perform that routine at nationals, where the stakes are extremely high. Thousands of people are watching you and if you make one single mistake you WILL be eliminated. Like that. All the pressure will be on front row and center dancers. If I slip up, everyone will hate me."

"Yeah, but if you think you are going to slip up in a group routine why are you auditioning for the female solo?"

"You just don't get it!" I say as I storm off. Why was Finn pressuring me? I just didn't want to be lifted by him. I gave him a completly logical answer yet he still continues to question me. Does he know that I am lying? All ridiculous ideas block my brain to the extent that I don't even realise that rehearsal is resuming at that very minute.

It was only until Summer rushed into the locker room, putting her math textbook back in her locker that my brain decided to reboot. I looked at my phone and sprinted to studio A. Not wanting to get in trouble with Emily.

I walk into the studio, only a minute late and see all the other dancers sitting and chatting amongst themselves. I walk over to where Cleo and Richelle are sitting. They are talking excitedly and I can't help but wonder what about. Surely being absent for only a minute didn't mean that I had missed something important.

"Hey guys!" I say enthusiastically, trying to scope out what they were talking about.

"OMD, Piper the costumes for both of the 10 person routines for nationals have arrived! Can you believe it?" Richelle crys, absolutely ectastic.

"Obviously we haven't ordered any of the other costumes but those two. It is still exilerating." Cleo backs her up.

I smile broadly. We were going to nationals. It was amazing. Emily returned with a more returned and driven attitude then ever before.

"Dancers! Now that we have costumes and one 10 person dance completely choreographed we now need to focus on getting it clean, tight and ready to go. The semi finals routine on the other hand is not as far along. Nationals is only 4 months away and we need to have these finished in a months timeand then only be cleaning them. Nationals is alot harder then regionals. So you need to be fully dedicated. We will run through the finals routine twice and then get to work on the semi finals routine. First positions!"

The music started and set the mood. Henry moves through the dancers, showing us each off a individuals and special. As the dance comes to the final chorus we all get into our formation for the unison section. It goes well but we aren't all in time. Hense why we need to clean it up. We finish the dance in our formation, each striking a pose.

We then prepared to do continue to choreograph our semi finals routine. The routine is to the song 'Waves' by Dean Lewis. The whole concept of the dance is that Summer thinks she is all alone and has to deal with everything by herself but every time she needs us we all go back to her and support. In the end she realises that she isn't and doesn't have to be alone. It is really beautiful routine and Summer really brings that emotion to it.

The song really just gets to you when you perform the dance. A particular section of the dance when Summer realises that she doesn't need to be alone is really stumping us on choreo ideas.

"I will get in some choreographers in to help us with last section tomorrow. Umm you guys can go home early today. I want you here for 9 am sharp. OK. I will see you all tomorrow." Emily tells us, looking a little concerned about our lack of choreography ideas.

I intend to go down to The Next Steep with all the other A troupers after I have retrived my maths homework to do in the small cafe. I walk into the locker room and meet Finn. Great. I decide to ignore him and just approach my locker.

"Piper, why did you actually ask to be switched?" Finn asks me as he stands up, closing my locker.

"What do you mean? I told you why," I tell him irratabley, attempting to get back into my locker.

"You like me, don't you Piper." He says, completely serious. My throat chokes up and my anxiety is sky rocketing. I take a deep breathe, trying to settle my sudden loss of breath.

"D-don't b-b-be rid-ridiculous" I stutter. Before I can say anything more to back this up he leans forward and places his lips on mine. My brain takes a while to process this but as soon as it does I pull away. Looking into his eyes, fury coursing through my body.

(Authors Note)
Hello. Can you believe it, 300 views. I did not expect this. Sure maybe after a year or so but after two weeks. LIKE WHAT. What is Piper going to do? I don't know yet, but you will hopefully on Sunday. I'm sorry if this chapter was rushed but I realised that the story isn't focused on leading up to the kiss, its focused on her refinding her love for dance and a love for Finn on the way. So that was fun. I feel as though I haven't done very well with Finn's character yet, but do not worry, he gets more sincere in coming chapters that are from his perspective.

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