Starting from 1:51 in the first Ep of Dance Academy
Brie's Pov
"Brie! Nikki!" I stop dancing to see my father in his pickup truck waiting on me and Nikki but Nikki didn't hear him because she's still dancing in her own little world. "Nikki!" He honks the horn now and Nikki finally is out of her daze, she backs up a few to let me open the gate. I open the gate and along with Nikki run over to our father. "Aunty Bev just called. The post's on it's way. Go." Looking to the both of us. The only thought in my head right now is: This can change mine and Nikki's life forever! We ran through the herd together, through the stable, and we end up on our bikes on the dirt road to the house. The letters me and Nikki were waiting for was from the top dance school in the country,
which we auditioned for 3 weeks ago.
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Me and Nikki carried our bags through the school looking around not quite believing that we both made it in. We walked through the twisting hallways trying to navigate but then I caught sight of one of the ballerina's in a studio and she looked so graceful. Me and Nikki both looked at her and I knew we were both thinking the same thing. I wonder if one day we'll be able to dance like her? Unfortunately we couldn't stay forever we walked down the same way we came. "Let's ask her for directions." Nikki said pointing to the blonde who had just hit the vending machine. "Nik maybe not I-" Nikki grabbed my wrist and pulled me. "You think you're funny, don't you? Oh I'll wipe that smile right off..." "Excuse us. Dressing rooms?" I asked her gently. "Um." The girl looked at our map.
"Are you auditioning as well? Isn't it exciting?" Nikki fired off she looks up to us and smiles. "I just peed a little in my pants. Ok, so you are... You're here. Just go straight down that corrider, turn left, and it's the second door on your left." "Thanks." "Don't mention it!" She calls after us.
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I set mine and Nikki's bags on the bench my back to her as she change's. We were too busy talking to notice the two boys that walked in one of them walked to the front where Nikki was changing. "Don't let me stop you." Nikki's eyes widened as another boy joined him half-naked Nikki runs behind a pair of shelves and I stand up looking to the two boys. "I have pepper spray in my bag and I'm not afraid to use it." Then the dark haired boy, that was Asian, and super cute walked closer to me while the other boy hung back leaning against the mirror. "Well, I was just standing here, minding my own business." "In a girls locker room?" Nikki say's in a bitchy tone. "Pretty sure those are urinals. Unless you can go standing up?" The other boy laughed at that as Nikki went to look.
Nikki walks back now to the boy who was just talking to me and now is holding up her tank top that is low cut something I can't wear because I don't have boobs, I'm FLAT CHESTED AS FUCK. "Turn around please?" Nikki asks as she takes the shirt from him and he turns his back to her. "So is it an attention thing?" "What?" "You know stripping in front of strangers." I make a gagging sound as the other boy with blonde hair stares at me, grinning. "Cause that's cool. I mean, I'm sure they have support groups." I see Nikki getting tense. "If you're looking I swear I'll use the pepper spray." Nikki turns around to face him and locks eyes with another boy that just walked into the dressing room. "Sorry guys. I'll come back later." "Oh! No we weren't." The boy now standing next to Nikki looks at her while she pulls her shirt on.
"Wait! That wasn't anything." Nikka says as the one boy looks back to her. "I mean, obviously it was something, but it wasn't what-" Nikki said now in front of him as his eyes looked her up and down. "Hey no judgement." Then before Nikki could continue I walked to the pair. "Please can you take us to the girls dressing room? It's an emergency."
"Come on."
"So audition week huh?" He asks looking Nikki in her eyes. "Is it that obvious?" Nikki laughs. "Well, you do have this whole wide-eyed Bambi thing going on and I'm pretty sure your top is inside out." He brushes his hand against her tank top and I roll my eyes. "But hey it's a good look." When the three of us finally reach our destination the boy takes off his shirt in front of Nikki. "Put it back on Ethan!" One of the boys called as he put his shirt on inside out too. Is Nikki smiling? She likes him! "This is you." "Thanks." "Good luck."
"You like him?" I asked once he was out of hearing distance. "Yeah I do." She told me smiling.
Nikki's Pov
"Welcome to the national academy of dance one of the most elite training institutions in the world. You have all been chosen, from amongst thousands of dancers." When everyone else noticed me and Brie just walking in now I mumbled a quick sorry. The one boy from before noticed me and nodded to me before giving his full attention back to the headmaster. "However, we only have room for just a few." Then I noticed a tall, slender woman with the most serious face ever standing in the corner of the room. "It will be your job over the next few days to make sure you're among them." "Okay boys finish warming up and follow me next door, girl's you're staying here with Ms. Raine."
"Développé." Ms. Raine said as she passed by some girls. "And sustain your turnout to the end girls. This is about proper placement not height." She stopped right where me and Abagail were at the barre. "Good. It's Abagail and Nikki isn't it." Then I heard Ms. Raine stop to talk to Brie. "Does that look like a nice line to you?" My clutch on the barre tightened and I felt pain for Brie. "Forget the flourishes. Concetrate on your technique." Two girls were doing graceful spins to classical music and I was standing with Brie comforting her about what Ms. Raine said to her when Kat walked over.
"Hey, 'oops' about this morning. I'm really crap at giving directions." Abagail walked past. "Nikki." I followed her not paying attention to Kat or Brie. Me and Abagail did the spins next flawlessly but when it was Brie's turn she struggled with it. Ms. Raine walked with her clapping and irritated that once again Brie wasn't doing the moves right.
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It was the next day and I was walking with Georgia and Abagail. As they insulted the other students around us. "Can't turn and low extensions." Abagail said looking to one girl who was trying to dance. "Terrible feet." They both said when they saw a girl stretching out. "Breasts." Now they both laughed as we sat down at our table. "Who's that?" I asked noticing the boy from yesterday. "Ethan Karamkov. He's going into third year." I didn't mean to sound worried when I said this but I couldn't help it. "Are he and Kat together?" I asked Georgia. "Half brother." "The better half." Abagail replied back putting our breakfasts on the table. Ethan noticed me smiling at him and walked over to me. "Hey did you have a good first day yesterday?" I smile at him. "Yeah thanks Ethan, I swear if you hadn't helped me I probably would've gotten kicked out the first day." Ethan shrugs as he pulls me close to him and rubs his knuckles into my hair. "Have to go okay? Bye." I watched him go my heart beating faster then it ever had.
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"Every year, girls come into this studio thinking that wanting to dance is enough to make them dancers. It isn't."
"Does that hurt?" The doctor asked me holding up my leg. "Should it?" I ask concerned.
"Get your head out of the clouds and start thinking critically." Ms. Raine said in the studio again.
"Hey doc! I think he's anorexic." Kat called out to the doctor who walked in while she's dancing with the skeleton. "Katrina..."
"You have to face your physical limitations. Not everyone is born a dancer."
"Don't force it. You'll damage your knee." The doctor now tells Abagail. "I'm not this is natural."
"And prepare yourselves for a lifetime of hard work, sacrifice... and, more often than not, dissapointment." When me, Abagail, and Georgia are doing some dance moves Georgia falls on her leg. I stare at her from afar concern plastered over my face. "Don't crowd. Don't crowd. Where does it hurt?" "My achilles." Abagail whispers to me. "If it's snapped she's out."
