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 touch the cold metal handle of the door to Elite. Pulling it open, I inhale a sharp breath, reliving the details of the last twenty four hours as I take a step into the studio, entirely betraying my team.
They don't deserve anything less than that, they betrayed me first. At the start of the season, I was dance captain, I had a boyfriend who was captivated by my every word and a sister that loved me unconditionally. I had the studio wrapped around my little finger, but what do I have now?
I've lost my dance captaincy, Michelle has basically taken over my entire life, and no one except from Stephanie can see things from my point of view. Eldon hasn't been treating me in the same way that he used to, he doesn't take my side like he usually would. Although, to be fair to him, after I told him that I was transferring studios last night on the phone he was very supportive, he told me that he believed in me and that he knew I would thrive wherever I ended up dancing.
I'm grateful for his support, I honestly don't know what I'd do without it. Stephanie helped too, we spoke on the phone for over an hour and I talked her through everything that I was feeling, and she agreed that it would be best if I remove myself from The Next Step, and that's when I decided to schedule an audition to join Elite's competitive team.
Elite aren't like The Next Step, they allow dancers to audition throughout the entire season, unlike The Next Step which only allows dancers to audition at the start of the season. Elite has this policy in order to keep people on their toes, they don't want any of their competitive dancers to become complacent, and so they prevent them from slacking by putting this constant threat in place. If I succeed in my audition today, one of the dancers on the team will be kicked off, and instead will become an alternate, which means they won't have guaranteed spot on the regionals team.
We don't have alternates at The Next Step, Kate and Chris say it's because they think it's unfair that there are some people on the team who learn all of the routines just to not be able to compete them on stage at regionals. I think they just use that as an excuse because they don't want to train twelve dancers instead of ten, but what do I know?
Selfishly, I hope that I make it. I'd love nothing more than to thrive at Elite, that's the only way that I can show my old team that I don't need them. I'm better than them, I deserve better treatment than what I received at The Next Step.
I'm still partially shocked by the way Riley snapped at me last night, she completely lost her temper in a way that I'd never seen her do before. It was as if she was completely overwhelmed by rage as she delivered her cruel words, telling me that I'm a shit person with even shittier morals.
If I'm being honest with myself, her words did hurt. She's never been mad at me in that way before, I mean, sure we snap at each other all the time. Not like this though, we're sisters, it's natural for us to bicker, but we've never gotten into a prolonged argument like this, especially not one where I push Riley to the edge. She completely lost it yesterday, but I don't regret what I said.
