Authors note
So In This book I will be switching who's POV it is soo... this is Ian's
It is also happening at the same time as the last chapter
Enjoy!
I was covered in sweat. My team had just finished going over the dance at the studio, and yes, I do dance. Nobody really knows because I don't make a big deal about it but it doesn't bother me if people do know. Like I know it sounds girly and not as cool as football, which I also do, but that doesn't mean it isn't fun. I mainly do hip hop and jazz, my friends Jess and Leo do it too. We don't really have a studio so our "company" practices in the school gyms after school, but in a few days we are moving to a ballet studio called Port de Ballet or something. I wonder if they're going to make us take ballet classes? I sure hope not.
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I woke up in the morning to my mom shaking me slightly, she was the best. She wakes my other three siblings and me up every morning to make us breakfast and send us off to school, after school she greets us in the kitchen to welcome us home and get us a snack. My dad is great too, he's just a very busy man.
"It's time to wake up honey" she says in her kind voice.
"Good morning," I sit up "thanks for waking me."
She nods and says "no problem" she walks out and shuts the door behind herself. I swing my legs off the bed and onto the floor, and walk over to my closet. I pull out a simple t-shirt and jeans, I put them on and head to the bathroom. I pull the comb a few times through my dirty blond hair a few times, I suddenly see how brown it was, hmm. A year ago my hair was way more blond, oh well, it still looks good.
I walk to my room and pick up my backpack and start climbing the stairs to the main floor. I walk into the kitchen pulling out a chair to sit on as my mom sets a plate piled with eggs bacon and hash browns, I dig in.
"Slow down, you're going to choke!" I look up at her and swallow my food.
"Thanks for the tip!" She laughs and sits down in front of me, "how was dance?"
"it was great, Leo and Jess were chosen to go to the ballet studio that we are moving to in order to teach a class to the dancers there and to introduce our company to theirs." She smiles and responds "fun! Do you wish you could've even chosen to teach the class?"
"Not really, if I did I would have to miss practice. But it probably would've been fun." I glance at the time and curse.
"Ian?" I hear the warning.
"Sorry." I say sheepishly. "Is fudge better?"
She just laughs as I stand up and grab my backpack and keys.
(A/n this is where I just updated, It comes back later)
"Have a great day!" I look back at my mom and smile.
"You too!" I walk out of the house and to my red truck. I drive the familiar route to the school and park in the nearly full parking lot, I walk to my locker and Carter comes up to me and says
"Dude, have you seen Riley?"
"No" he shakes his head.
"Dang." I laugh and shut my locker.
"Do you guys want to come over to my house after school?" I say as Leo and Jess walk up to us. We start walking to our first class. I see Riley and her group of friends walking our way. As I look closer I see a familiar girl in a purple sweatshirt being surrounded by the cheer team. I roll my eyes.
"Sure! see you at lunch!" I hear Leo and Jess say from behind us.
Carter pipes up as they walk away "Sure that would be fun! Could we drop Riley off before we go to your house? And is that the Robins girl Riley has surrounded?" I nod and look closer at the poor girl.
"I think so, isn't her brother. Cole Robins? The old quarterback?"
"Ya, he was so good. I intend to be better" Riley spots us and walks straight toward Carter with a smile on her face. They immediately start kissing, ugh. I look away to see Lydia mumbling something about how they should keep it Pg, I snort and make brief eye contact with her but she looks down quickly.
Once the bell rings I start to walk to my class a few doors down but see Lydia walk past me and to her locker. I leaned up against it waiting for her to close the locker, I don't know what I wanted to say, maybe tease her about the pg thing. I don't know. She suddenly slammed her locker shut and I was about to open my mouth when she turned on her heel and walked away. Wow, that girl has some sass. I turn around and walk to my class plopping down in my chair waiting for the boring lecture my teacher was about to give.
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It was finally lunchtime, I packed all my stuff into my bag and walked out seeing a few girls glance at me. I walk out the door and to my locker, I shove my stuff into it and walk to Leo's.
"Are you excited to teach that class?" I was curious, they didn't volunteer, nobody did. Our teacher just chose three people, Leo, Jess and this guy named Oliver, he was in a different class.
"Ya, at least I get to be in a room full of hot dancers" I laugh.
"You hope! What if they are super snobby? Or there are a bunch of girls from our school?"
"That would be awful, but luckily there probably won't be any dancers from our school. The studio is pretty far away, plus there are a ton of closer studios but they didn't want to share with us"
"How do you know so much?" He looks surprised.
"My mom's friend is one of the people over the studio, I thought I told you" oh ya, ops.
"That's right, I totally forgot" he laughs
We walk into the cafeteria and spot our other friends. I head over to the lunch line while Leo walks to our group, I grab a tray and get a hamburger and fries.
I sit down and start eating, we chat a little and joke around. We also plan our night because we are all getting together, after school we were going to meet at my truck. That is as far as we got.
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The rest of the day went quickly until my last class, my teacher held us after the bell for five minutes! I'm pretty sure it was against the rules, so when I finally got to the parking lot I could see my friends by my truck. I also saw the girl from the beginning of school also walking towards my truck, I started speeding up until I'm a few feet from her. Once she gets within a few yards of the vehicle I hear laughter she turns sharply around into my chest, she takes a quick step back and starts walking quickly to the school. I grab her arm before she can get far.
"Where are you going?" I feel her shiver slightly.
"To get away from you" she rips her arm out of my grasp that has loosened from her harsh words.
"Well that's harsh" my friends crack up. "Come on guys, lets go have some fun"
We got to my house and we all said hi to my mom and grabbed the plate of apples she had prepared. Then we went straight to my room, Leo and Carter plop down on my bed while Jess sat on the couch. I walk to my closet as someone turns on music, I drop my backpack and sit on another chair. I look around while everyone else chats, my room is big with a walkin closet. In one corner there is a couch and a chair (the one I am sitting on) facing a tv. My bed is in a different corner, on the other side of my room there is a curtain blocking a secret room from everyone, when each of them had come over for the first time I had made it clear that none of them were to enter or look inside. Of course it made them more curious so I finally told them it was a music room. They believed me because I can play the guitar to an extent.
I am brought back to the group when Carter says "Yo Ian, you need to get yourself a girl." I just laugh.
"I'm sure there are plenty of girls out there who would love to go out with you" i'm sure there are, but are they all bratty?
"Sure" I roll my eyes.
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"Bye! See you tomorrow!" Carter stepped out of the house shutting the door behind him. I turn around and look at the other two boys.
"Ok, I want to hear about how the class goes, so can you guys come over after?" they smiled.
"Ya that would be appreciated, as long as you tell us what we miss" Jess laughed. Leo just stood there waiting for my answer.
"That would be great." I smile as they grab their backpacks and head out. I head down to my room changing into dark gray sweatpants and a red sleeveless tee, I slip on a red sweatshirt and head down to the kitchen to fill my water bottle. I head back up the stairs, unlatch the curtain and pull it back letting it revil a medium sized room with some workout equipment and a dance studio. The studio part has a wood floor and a mirror, in one of the corners it has a speaker system for the whole room.
I turned on some upbeat music and started to warm up. I like to be warm when I go to dance and go over the dances. Once I was done stretching I turned on a song by Ed Sheeran and started to freestyle, I let the music surround me. I soaked it in, then let it all out through the smooth but strong movements. I kept moving till my timer went off and I had to go.
I walk into the bathroom, I grab a towel and wipe the sweat off my face. I look at my watch and run downstairs, grab my keys and run out the door. I turn on the air conditioning and drive to the school.
Once I reach the school I throw the doors open and walk in, I am the first one there. I pull off my sweatshirt and warm up again, I am about halfway through my warmup when our instructor opens the door. He walks to the stereo and turns on some upbeat music, the same kind of music I used for my warm up earlier. As I am doing my warmup the others trickle in, Mr. Romiez walks to the front and starts talking "Let's get started, today we are going to start a dance. I know Leo, Jess and Oliver aren't here, I am counting on you guys to teach the dance to them." We nod.
"This dance is going to be a hip hop dance," I smile. "We are going to learn and perfect in as little time as possible because we are going to perform it to the dancers at the new studio. It's called Some Kind of Disaster by All time Low" He turns on the music and shows us the dance, it doesn't look too hard but it definitely has some challenging sections. We all get into a few lines as he starts to show us a dance, after a while we tried the dance with the music.
We start in a crouch facing the back.
I'm a liar, I'm a cynic
I do a turn and stand up facing front.
I'm a sinner, I'm a saint
Grape vine, jump into a wide stance, hands straight back.
We finished doing the small part we learned and did it a few more times. Soon enough we were done. I packed up and headed out, when I got home I grabbed a cookie, healthy right? I walk downstairs and into my room, I close up my studio because I forgot to close it earlier. I head back down stairs and wait for Jess and Leo. I pull out my phone and scroll through my texts, nothing new. After a few minutes I hear a knock at the door, I open it to see Leo and Jess.
"Hey, we have something very interesting to tell you." Leo smiled. I was curious, like what were they talking about. Oh well, they'll tell me eventually.
"Ok?" Jess smirked. "So let's go up to my room to show you what we learned today."
"Is your room even big enough? Like I know you have a big room and all but for three of us?" I smile. We walk into my room and I turn around and look at them seriously.
"I'm going to show you something that only my family knows. It's not huge because you guys already know part of the secret. I would like to keep this a secret, like I said it's not a big deal but do you guys promise you won't make a big deal out of this?" Ok so I knew I was building it up but in all honesty, it was fun.
Leo says. "Ya whatever dude"
"No problem" Jess smiles slightly and looks at the curtain.
"Wait, are you going to show us what's behind the curtain?" Leo says excitedly.
"Maybe" I walk over to the curtain and unclip it. The light fabric slides down the slanted bar at the top. I flip the light on and turn around to see their reaction. Jess simply walked forward into the room and stared. Leo stood there, mouth open, he shut his mouth and turned to me.
"Why would you keep this a secret?" He looked stunned.
"Well like I said I don't want to publicize the fact that I dance. I don't exactly keep it a secret, if anyone saw it, like at a party they would know and might ruin it." Jess turned to listen to our conversation.
"I guess that makes sense but why not tell us?" He gestured to himself and Jess.
"Well," I thought for a second. "I guess I liked it being my own place. Plus there wasn't a reason to bring it up" Jess nodded understanding.
"Then why did you tell us?" I walk over to the speaker system.
"I guess there was an actual reason, we need it to dance." They nod. I press play on the music to end the conversation, they start tapping their feet to the music our prior conversation forgotten. I walk into the center and start doing the dance. The music repeats and they join in, we keep doing the dance until we need water. I turn down the music and walk over to my water, I take a long drink thinking about my day. Only then do I remember.
"What did you guys need to tell me?" They look at each other then at me. Leo begins to speak. "Let's just say we know a lot of people" He glances at Jess, then back at me. "You know that girl from school? The one with the purple sweatshirt?"
"Ya?"
"Well she dances there. Like it's not a big deal, just, surprising."
Jess pipes up "I talked to her after" I look him straight in the eye, "she said it was her first hip hop class, which is crazy because she is really good!"
"How good?"
"She had the dance we taught down by the third or so time we ran it" my eyes widened slightly.
"What was the dance to?"
"Juice, by Lizzo." I walk over to the speaker and play it. They start doing a simple routine, well it was to me. I join in as the song repetes, we go through it twice before they stop and I do it again. Once it's over I stop the music and sit down in the middle of the floor, I look at them and smile a little. Jess looks at his watch and stands up grabbing his water bottle.
"Well I have to go," he turns to Leo. "Do you want a ride?" He nods and gets up.
"Well, see ya" I shut the door behind them. I walk into my moms office to see her hard at work, She looks up and smiles.
"How did it go?" I sit down and start talking.
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