Moonlight Dances

Chapter 7: Teacher

Three weeks later, Nejire was getting excited again. Ryuko, being the sweetheart she was, asked her to be a bridesmaid at her wedding. They planned on making her fiancé's niece the flower girl, and the bridal party was multiple people from the ballet class and some of Ryuko's friends.

It was kind of concerning. Did Ryuko not have enough friends to have a full bridal party?

Nejire was slightly jealous when she said her maid of honor was an old friend of hers.

The wedding was in October and it was only July. They probably had planned on getting married before he proposed and that's why they already knew what was happening.

At the time being, Nejire forgot about going to college. Even if she did want Ryuko to pay for it, the wedding was probably going to take a lot of money so there was no point. She could still be successful without college! It would be harder but she could totally be successful!

Ryuko had Nejire teach classes for the time being. She'd get paid to do it as well. Nejire had been taking ballet classes since she was six. She definitely knew the steps the younger classes had to learn. she just wasn't allowed to teach her own class because she didn't know the stuff that Ryuko wanted to teach.

Of course, Ryuko wasn't always gone, she wasn't there on Mondays, Tuesdays, or Wednesday's. She was there every other day of the week. Nejire's mother was definitely a bit irked about driving her every day.

The little ankle biters pissed her off but Ryuko offered to pay more if she handled them until everything was planned and she could go back to work. A little girl was complaining about not wearing her tutu until a recital, another was crying over getting tripped, and then one was just crying for no reason. There was a reason she had Mirio help her now.

It was the third week of doing this and Mirio seemed pretty good at handling the little kids and just spotting the adolescent classes. Some of them were just horrible at doing things and he had to spot when they were about to make a mistake and help them.

"I forgot why you were teaching these classes to be honest." Mirio laughed.

"Ryuko is busy as fu...dge and needs to plan her wedding so she left her favorite student in charge," Nejire was stopped by a bunch of angry tweens who thought they were the favorite, "one of her favorites. I'm getting paid twenty per class. So sixty dollars a week."

"That's pretty good. It's our third week so you have at least 100?" Mirio asked. Nejire had to think about that. Wha

"To be honest, I forgot how much I've made. I know it's like 115. I really forgot." She gave a small giggle and watched the students finish up. They were doing the same thing she did at their age. It was boring to watch, it was just the exact thing she had done. That was so boring to teach.

The kids left and she stopped for the day. Classes for Wednesday ended at three. In summer they ended at three, in the school year, they last for a while. Nejire wasn't Ryuko and didn't want to stay for two more hours. That woman was a perfectionist.

Nejire skipped out of the studio and Mirio followed her. They had plans to go to the mall. Mirio adored going shopping with Nejire, just because it was fun. He of course stood outside of dressing rooms.

She was still wearing her ballet clothes. The leotard, a pair of black shorts, and ballet slippers. Mirio actually had a car because his parents were well off enough to afford one. She could change in the back of his car.

He unlocked his black Camry. It was small but nice. The seats were a very nice leather and Nejire talked about living in the car with him driving. Sometimes it wasn't a joke. She wanted to run away and be free. Her parents were absolute sweethearts and would die of worry if she ran off, that's the only reason she didn't leave. If she had parents as strict as Kaoruko's, she'd totally run away with out a care in the world.

Kaoruko's parents didn't love her like Mirio did. Did she mention Mirio and Kaoruko were very close? They wouldn't admit they were dating because Kaoruko's parents basically knew about everything she did, but they probably were dating. Nejire would learn sooner or later and they were unlucky enough to have it be sooner.

That little segment of Kaoruko is over now, back to bored Nejire.

In the backseat of Mirio's car, Nejire got dressed. Mirio made sure he didn't accidentally look at her and made sure to drive safely. He hit a speed bump and she fell to the ground trying to change.

"You rat!" She shouted and continued to put on a pair of shorts under her shorts. She didn't feel like changing her shoes to her converses, so she just kept her ballet slippers on (the ones from Ryukyu). She put on her light blue top and crawled into the front seat to buckle up.

"You took a while." He laughed.

"Yeah, I kind of fell at that speed bump."

"Oh, you thought that was a speed bump?" Mirio asked.

Nejire's blood went cold. Hell no, what did her friend do?

"Did you- Did you run over a kid or something?" She asked in fear.

"Ha! No. That was a speed bump." He reassured her. Just to make sure, Nejire looked back. If people were still driving over it, it couldn't have been an innocent child or adult. She exhaled and relaxed.

"Ok good." She laughed.

"Kaoruko, Yuyu, and I wanted to go camping but there was an extra room in the cabin. You wanna come with? It's only three days."

"Oh it's cabin camping? Then totally." Nejire hated tents and RVs. Mirio probably didn't know she didn't mind it. She hated being able to move the place she slept in, and sleeping on the ground was uncomfortable. Sleeping in a cabin was cool.

She could call Ryuko and tell her she's not gonna be able to go to class. So yeah, she could go if she asked her mom and dad. She would at least get to travel. There wasn't any camping spots near her.

(I NEED TO BUILD RELATIONSHIPS AND ACTUALLY DO SOMETHING TO PUSH THIS STORY ALONG OMG, YALL GOT IDEAS CUZ IF NOT, CHAPTER 11 OR SM IS GONNA SUCK MORE THAN THAT MOMENT IN TWO HEROES WHERE I DIDNT SEE ENOUGH TSU. Like- Did Ochako really have to be there?

Imma shut up before I get cancelled by Ochako stans.)