When new girl Michelle joins A-troupe, everything changes. What'll happen now that Emily's throne is up for grabs? With love comes scandal, sex and secrecy, and with these dancers, there's always a price to pay.
The Next Step TV show reimagined as...
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I'm drinking juice with Michelle in Squeezed, and I'm surprised at how easy it was for us to plan our dance, I've not had a chance to get to know her much, but I'm surprised at similar our humour is, I haven't laughed like this since James and I were on good terms, it's refreshing.
Our hour is up and we're getting ready to head upstairs to studio A, I'm excited to put our plan into action, I think this dance is going to go really well.
"I'll go get Riley and James some juices, you head up and I'll meet you there in five," she tells me from across the table, smiling brightly.
Hanging out with Michelle is so different from hanging out with Emily, Michelle isn't always obsessing over someone to hate or bitching about someone else, Michelle is just light hearted and the conversation has been light and easy for the whole hour.
"Okay, see you in five," I tell her, standing up from the wooden table and heading out the door.
Walking upstairs, I pull up the song for our contemporary duet, we both decided to do a contemporary piece as it's both of our strongest styles.
I reach the door for studio A, and swing it open to step inside.
Looking up from my phone, I see a sight that I never wanted to see in my life. Riley is pinned up against the wall at the opposite side of the studio, her legs wrapped around James, but what makes it worse is that he's kissing her neck, and her head is rolled back- she's letting him do it? She doesn't even have a top on.
The longer I stare at them and hear the moans of pleasure fall from Riley's mouth, the angrier I get. How dare he do that with her, I thought he would know better than to manipulate her into being with him.
All I see is red, I can't contain my shock anymore. "What the fuck are you doing to her?" I yell at James from across the room, running towards them to break up their little rendezvous.
James helps Riley out of her entanglement around his body, shielding her body behind him, he looks like he's protecting her- from me? That's ridiculous, I should be the one protecting her from him.
She creeps behind his shoulders, aligning herself behind him, hiding herself from me.
She peaks her head out from behind James, and seeing her behind him looking so vulnerable only fuels my anger even more.
"Riley, step away from behind James!" I yell at her, I can feel my eyes widen with the anger that's surging through my body right now.
James rolls his eyes at me and pulls his eyebrows down to show his anger with my intrusion.
"What the fuck man! She's not stepping away from me, she hasn't even got a top on!" He shouts at me, pushing Riley back behind him so that she is completely out of my sight.
She hasn't got a top on because he manipulated this poor, innocent girl into falling for his lies.
I can't take anymore of this, walking over to James, I grab him by his shirt and slam him against the wall next to Riley, bringing my fist up to smash into his right cheek, taking all of my anger out on this using piece of shit.
