It was about five in the morning when the first ray of sun appeared through the thin blinds covering the glass window of Yuqi's room. As soon as that first thin line of light hit the white walls in the small chamber, the annoying alarm clock went off, and the girl once sleeping soundly in the bed sat up, startled by the sound, her blonde-ish hair going all sorts of different ways.
-Ugh.-She grunted under her breath, as her warm feet hit the cold, cold floor, beneath her.
Monday morning, the sky outside was barely lit up, with only the fewest of sun rays, while all the other parts rested as a navy blue velvet over everyone's head. It was the middle of the winter, and, of course, Yuqi still had to train.
As she made her way to her bathroom her body shivered under the two coats wrapping her petite figure. When she arrived in the restroom she looked at herself in the mirror and sighed.
She looked down at the silver faucet, with a doubtful look, having a full on stare down with it. With movements of pure doubt, she turned it and in less than one second cold water started coming out.
With an enormous sigh, as to give her courage, she reached her hand under the water, and as soon as the freezing cold liquid hit her skin she hissed, and powered through, with a shivering body, her face washing process.
When the water hit her face a huge shock made its way through her body, and with a blink of an eye Yuqi had already dried her skin.
Her hands made their way to reach for the hair gel and pins, her movements fast because of loads of training, making a perfectly tied bun with her hair.
After she finished brushing her teeth, she went running, in hopes to warm up her body, to her closet, where she grabbed her, already packed, training bag.
The girl threw on a pair of sweatpants, a sweat shirt and then about three coats over it. She then walked toward the kitchen, making herself a warm cup of pure black coffee.
With a warm coffee cup in hand, and training bag, she left the small apartment, at exactly 05:30 in the morning, as always.
Once she was successfully out of the building she was hit by a cold breeze in the face, and as she bit her lower lip, powering through the cold, she put in her ear phones, playing the exact same playlist, that lasted, exactly, 10 minutes and 35 seconds, the exact time that took her to get from her apartment to the studio.
At exactly 5:45 she pushed open the two glass doors of the local dance studio, entering the building with a small smile, towards the receptionist she was already familiar with.
Yuqi walked down the, not so long, hallway of the studio, into "room 02". When she walked into it, she left a relieving sigh, feeling the warm breeze of the heater.
The girl removed her coats, and walked towards the locker rooms, where she put on her leotard and tights.
Yuqi came back into the room, grabbing a pair of pointe shoes from her bag, that she had already adjusted the night before, so she just put them on and started stretching.
As she reached her hand to her feet, she let out a deep breath, just like every other time she stretched a muscle. After exactly 40 minutes of stretching, she got up on her pointe shoes and started rehearsing.
The moves flowed through her body like it was nothing, every turn, every step, was like breathing to Yuqi, she didn't have to think twice about it. Her body was delicate and her expression was of the utmost peace, for the next 3 hours and a half she had her whole mind empty, just focusing on the reflection in the mirror, that truly felt like herself.
