The Facility

Blinking Lights

"And a 5, 6, 7, 8!" Ms. Patterson was clapping her hands and giving all of her attention to the kids as they danced on the stage set up in the exhibition room. The hour was 9:50 p.m. The day; Friday. The month; November.

A song produced by Yoongi was what the kids were dancing to. Everyone had been surprised when he revealed that he had this talent . . . by coming to dance rehearsal one day with his laptop and speakers to play his song which he had apparently been making for them to dance to for forever. All of the students had loved what they had heard and so had Ms. Patterson. The beat had been really sick and cool to dance to. Ms. Patterson was happy that a student's special talent would also be being showcased at the parent- teacher- student meet which would be taking place on the Monday of the week of ThanksGiving. The students at the school were not allowed home for that holiday because the little ThanksGiving break was used to get some serious therapy in. There would be no classes during that week of course. They would only be allowed home for Christmas break.

"Yess good technique Jungkook!" Ms. Patterson said as she clapped to the beat and watched the kids with a smile. She had grown to love all of them while training them in dance for the past couple months. The other students had already used the exhibition room for rehearsal so now they had it all to themselves. These kids seemed to want to practice hard. Their homeroom teacher stood around the back, leaning against a wall with folded arms. He seemed kind of serious even though to her the kids working hard to do their best was something to smile about. They're really giving it their all. The meet was to be next Monday so she supposed that was why. They only had two days of practice left . . .

Jungkook smiled as he kept doing his best. He and Hoseok had a dance solo now as the others surrounded them and clapped.

They high-fived before joining the circle for Prodigy and Ray Ray to do some moves together and then everyone made room for Jesy to bust out some moves. Once she was done they all posed around her.

The music stopped and Ms. Patterson clapped above her head. "Wooooo!" She whistled.

Alex slow clapped around the back where he stood.

Taehyung smiled by all of the encouragement. He giggled in fact, feeling special.

They were all coming forward now.

Jesy wrapped her arm around the person next to her. It was . . . Jade.

Jade looked at her with a frown.

Jesy smiled at her and then told her to wrap her arm around who was at her other side so they could all bow that way.

Jade narrowed her eyes but did as she said.

They all bowed while holding each other in no time and then they started heading off the stage.

"Y'all that was liiiit! Oh my God when my momma sees that she's gon' be so proud! Y'all she'll be so happy that I'm doing other things! Yeah!" Roc was saying excitedly to Taehyung and Jimin.

"I know! My mother will be happy too! I can't wait to see her face! She'll be like 'is that my sweet Taehyung doing such complex and sexy dances? Go Taehyung!'" Taehyung squealed with Roc while Jimin giggled.

Jimin couldn't help but smile when around these two. "My parents will probably . . ." He thought of his father for a moment and wondered what the man would really think of all of this.

"What will they do?" Tae asked as he and Roc grinned at Jimin.

Jimin smiled. "My mother will enjoy it for sure but my father may wonder if I was mainly distracted with dancing while here rather than being disciplined and catching up on my work." He picked up his water bottle from the side of the wall. They were all gathered here now. Some were drying their faces with towels while others drank water. Most of them were chatting.