Written By: ©Tiffany Leigh
Trista pulled her shoulder length wavy locks away from
her deep brown eyes to catch a glimpse of Ella Mae
falling out of her pirouette. She snickered a little
at the 5 foot 5 blonde growing frustrated with her
clumsiness. Trista jumped to her feet at the sight of
Alexis Rae and Arianna walking into the room. The two
girls were both sharing coffee from the same coffee
shop and laughing at each other’s stupid jokes. All
three pairs of eyes met each other’s as Alexis and
Arianna ended their laughter to look at the girls.
“Ladies.” Alexis Rae greeted.
“Miss Rae.” The three of them chimed.
“I like that,” Alexis laughed and threw her duffle bag
into the corner of the dance room, “Have you girls
already stretched?”
“Yes.” The three of them said in unison once again.
“Well then get ready to go across the floor. Alexis
will begin her first dance tomorrow and she needs to
know what you are and aren’t capable of doing.”
Arianna said as she struggled to get her black
Capezio’s over her feet.
“Alright girls, let’s start simple. I want you to do
a 6-point prep into a quad then land out of it with a
perfect, and I mean perfect ladies I don’t want this
half ass shit. Get your leg straight and high. I
want you to land in a perfect arabesque’.” Alexis
looked around the room.
“Can we do a triple instead considering it is only a
warm-up?” Karyann raised her hand.
“Karyann is your name right?” Alexis moved closer to
the dancer. Her green eyes narrowing in frustration.
“Yep.” Karyann’s out spoken personality got her in
trouble a lot. Although the girls at the Beat had all
gotten used to it, Alexis wasn’t a BEAT dancer.
“Well Karyann, you are supposed to be the best dancer
in the United States, people come from every part of
the world to see you. They pay great money to watch
you switch leap into the arms of another remarkable
dancer. They come to see you do your fortes without
traveling. They come to watch a dancer. If you refuse
to dance they way a great dancer should dance, then
you should leave now because honey I know millions of
girls that would love to be in your place, you are NOT
that hard to replace.” Alexis shut Karyann up.
“Well with that said let’s continue.” Arianna laughed.
Although Arianna felt a little intimidated by her she
liked Alexis. She reminded her a lot of herself.
***
“Caitlin Alexander, I’m going to kick your ass!”
Justin shouted from the hallway.
“Gotta catch me first!” Caitlin giggled furiously at
the sight of her best friend leaping through the
hallway to catch up to her.
“Caitlin, come here, I want to tell you a secret.”
Justin laughed.
“Shoot, secret my white ass.” Caitlin shouted. Her
country accent was thick.She stormed through the house
trying desperately to keep her thick blond hair out of
her angelic face.
“Caitlin come on AJ will be home any minute and she’ll
shit if we’re running through the house.” Justin
stopped to catch his breath.
“Screw AJ.” Caitlin stopped in her tracks. Arianna
threw open the door to get view of Caitlin out of
breath and Justin getting ready to ram her.
“GOTCHA!” He shouted shoving her little body onto the
floor then looking up,“Baby.”
“Hi.” Arianna rolled her eyes and made her way past
the two best friends. She hated seeing them together.
Even though she trusted Justin, she didn’t trust
Caitlin.
“AJ, wait up.” Justin jumped off of Caitlin. After
apologizing and reassuring her that he’d be right back
he made his way to the back room.
“What Justin?” Arianna turned to face her bright-eyed
boyfriend.
“What’s wrong? Bad day at work?” Justin turned Arianna
around and began to massage her shoulders gently.
“No, actually it was a really good day. My body is
just tired.” Arianna said. Alexis had put in a good
practice. Not only for the girls but also for Arianna
herself. Alexis and Arianna were growing close and
getting stronger as dancers, together.
***
“Come on Lex, JC is going to be there.” Arianna
taunted.
“So, I’m not interested in JC.” Alexis lied through
her teeth. Since the first time her eyes landed on
his amazing face she was hooked. What she wouldn’t
give to cup her hands on his strong bone structure and
press her lips into his inviting full lips.
“Liar. Come Alexis please, I’ll even send JC to pick
you up.” Arianna said.
“I barely know him AJ.” Tiffany said.
“Yeah you guys only talk EVERY single day when he
comes to pick up Nina. You only blush and giggle 100
times a day around him. I only watch him concentrate
on you when you guys are talking, he never looks up or
around, only at you.” AJ pointed out. Through out the
few weeks Alexis had been there she had definitely
proved her image as a bitchy dance teacher but a great
friend.
“Alright fine.” Alexis sighed. She wanted to go out
anyway. She was so bored that she straightened her
hair, curled it, washed it, then straighten and curled
it again.
“Oh and J is going to be there too.” AJ said as she
glanced over at Justin who was sound asleep on the
bed. His mouth was partly open and loud deep breaths
were escaping his lips.
“Finally, I’ve heard SO much about him.” Alexis
smiled.
“Okay baby girl, well I need to call JC and he’ll be
there at 7, no sooner, no later.” Arianna said.
“See ya.”
***
Alexis looked over her clothes one more time. She
always liked funky outfits but she was always stylish.
Her tan skin was covered in a sparkling pink corset
type tube top with a pair of blue hip hugging jeans.
Her forearms were covered with a flared pink material
like her top. She ran the glitter lip-gloss across
her lips one more time and made her way out into the
living room where JC had been patiently waiting for
her.
He stood up to meet her remarkable jade colored eyes.
She smiled at his kindness. JC was different than
most of the guys she had dated in the past, except her
first love. He was her best friend. She hadn’t felt
like that with anyone until JC came along. He always
said the right thing at the right time.
“You look hot.” JC said as he gazed at her outfit.
“Thank you, you look very nice too.” She said
truthfully. His solid muscular physique was covered in
a black muscle shirt, which had Chinese characters up
the side of his shirt that sat slightly above the top
of the waistline of his dark denim pants.
“Well we should get going yes?” JC said.
“Yeah.” The two left Alexis’s apartment and rode to
the club in silence. Although Alexis felt completely
comfortable with JC she was still shy. They finally
reached the club known as “Daze”. Alexis looked
around the club and realized where they were, “Isn’t
this your work?”
“Yeah, we get in free.” JC said as he took a hold of
Alexis’s hand.
The two walked through the dance floor where Jennifer
and Chris were already dancing. Trista was also on
the floor dancing with random guys. JC made his way
to the bar where he saw Arianna talking.
“Lex! I’m glad you came.” Arianna said over the loud
music.
“Yeah well ya know.” Alexis smiled.
“J is here, he went to get a drink he’ll be back in a
couple of minutes.” Arianna said.
“Oh alright, cool.” Alexis said as she looked around
the club.
“Arianna,” Arianna and Alexis heard Justin shout. The
two girls turned to see Justin standing there holding
water. Alexis’s eyes grew as wide as Justin’s,
“Alexandra!”
“Justin!” Alexis exclaimed then ran into his arms.
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