"Ok, ok...take a break guys..." Lylian said and sat on the floor. Everyone else walked out of the room to get some fresh air. They were now rehearsing for the VMA's that were going to air in a few days. They had just arrived in New York that same day and were staying in an hotel in suburbs of the city so there wouldn't be too much fans around. They had almost 2 weeks off where they'd stay in NY for some recording and a few concerts.
Lylian had finished the routine but realized that it was going to be harder than she thought to teach them. Not that they were not good... but there was always someone jocking around...most often Nick because he already knew most of the steps so he was teasing the others. And as she had been told by Amanda and Deryck, Ally really was very good and learning fast but she was always saying that some steps weren't cool enough or that the others were not good enough... and it really was pissing Lylian off.
"You're doing good...don't make that face..." Deryck told her as he sat next to her on the floor.
"Thanks but...I really don't feel like it's going that great..." she sighed before to take a sip of her water bottle.
"You're too nervous...just relax... " he said with a warm smile as he patted her shoulder.
"I was not nervous earlier...but now that I see how slow it's going... I'm just hoping everything will be ready for the show!"
"It will be.. I think the guys are used to work under pressure..."
"I hope so... "
"And you know, they are not used to work with you..." Deryck said. "Tomorrow it will get better, I'm pretty sure!"
"Yeah..you're right!" she smiled thankfully.
"I can't believe you guys have troubles to learn this...it's so easy!" Ally giggled loudly as she walked in the room with Tania and Amanda. "I would have come up with something a lot better..."
Lylian stared at her, anger boiling her blood. She couldn't take this anymore, she knew it would get things worst but she let her feelings goes.
"You better shut up Ally because you're really starting to piss me off and I can easily kick you out alright???" Lylian snapped angrily. "Just leave if you think it's so bad... I never asked you to be here!" she added as she stood up and then stormed out of the room.
"Looks like someone is PMSing..." Ally laughed.
"Come on Ally... stop acting so bitchy! She haven't done anything to deserve this!" Deryck sighed.
"Stop defending her... you have to admit it's bad!" Ally retorted.
"No...it's defenitely not! It's even really cool!"
"Yeah right.." she chuckled. Deryck rolled his eyes and walked out of the room to go see if Lylian was alright.
"What is so funny here?" Brian shouted as he stepped in the room.
"Hey! Nothing! Hey Bri, we still have this football game to play!" Ally told him. "I have to kick your ass...another time..." she added with a grin.
"It can wait you know.." he grinned back.
"Come on..you don't wanna take your revenge?"
"Of course I do... What about tonight before dinner??" he asked.
"No problem!!" she smiled. "Get ready to get killed..."
"Yeah yeah...in your sweet dreams baby!" he smirked. Two minutes later, everybody was back and they chatted together as they waited for Lylian come back.
"Ok... let's get serious now... you have only 3 days to learn this and I'm not going to change it completely because you can't be serious for 2 minutes alright? So put your funny jokes for later tonight and show me some dance moves!!" Lylian ordered as she walked back in the room with Deryck. She didn't like to act bossy but now she knew she had no choice, plus, she was mad because of what had happened with Ally.
They all looked at her with surprised faces. She had never act that way before but they could see she was pissed off and they didn't want to make her even more angry so they did what she told them to and in an hour, half of the routine was learned and pretty well danced.
"Thank you, thank you, thank you!" Lylian whispered, looking at the ceiling, finally happy with what she saw. "Guys, that's great! Tomorrow I'll teach you the couples part so... I can tell you right now who's pair up with who... when it will be only the dancers, Jesse and Ally, Don and Amanda, Jason and Tania, Chester and Rose and Deryck and I..." she told as she looked at everyone who nodded in agreement. "And after, when it'll be BSB with dancers... do you want some changes or keep the same pairs than in the concert?" she asked.
"Maybe some changes would be great..." Nick said. "No offense Ally.." he then winked. She sticked out her tongue at him and laughed.
"Ok... so..." she started, looking at everyone in the room. She wanted it to look great and couldn't pair anybody to anyone... "Sorry Bri..." she thought before to speak again. "Brian with Ally..." she said. Fortunately, Ally and Brian both seemed happy and they high-fived. "Aj and Amanda... " she continued, and giggled at Amanda's happy face. "Um... Rose and Howie... Tania and Kevin and I'll be with you Nick..everyone's ok with this?"
"Yeah!!" the all nodded.
"Good...so... that's it for today!" she sighed and turned around to pack her bag. They all did the same and walked out to the bus.
"So we'll be partners huh?" she heard Nick's voice said.
"Do you mind?" she laughed as she turned around.
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"Of course not! But I was thinking..maybe you could teach me a little part of it tonight...you know, private lessons again?" he grinned.
"I'd love to but ... we're going out remember?"
"Oh yeah that's right..." he faked a pout.
"Poor guy... you won't be able to show everyone how good you are!" she laughed.
"But what about some steps...right now??" he asked, flashing a killer smile.
"Now?? But we gotta go back to the hotel..." she answered with a puzzle look.
"We can join them later... plea-ea-ze!" he said, his eyes pleading her.
"Yeah we could... you sure you want to? I mean..you didn't seem to care much about learning steps earlier.."
"That's because I prefer when you teach me...alone... " he smiled.
"Okay...but you have to promise me something..."
"What??"
"Tomorrow when I'll teach everyone the steps... no jocking, no teasing,...only practicing!" she told him with a hard look.
"Yes boss!! I promise!" he chuckled.
"Don't laugh..I'm not kidding ..."
"I know... And I promise you I will act like a very very good student!" he grinned.
"All right...you promised!" she smiled.
"I'll be right back!!" he bounced before to run out of the room to tell the others to leave.
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*** Later, at the hotel ***
"So, you ready to get your big ass kicked???" Ally smirked.
"Hey...watch what you are saying girl!" Mary said. "He does not have a big ass..."
"Nah, I have the most cutest ass in the world!" Brian laughed.
"Yeah right...anyways, you ready?" Ally asked again, taking the joystick.
"Get ready to dieeeeee!!" Brian shouted with a really low voice as Mary and Ally laughed.
"Hey, where's Nick?" Mary asked. "He didn't want to play too?"
"He's still at the dancing studio..." Brian replied, his eyes now glued to the tv screen.
"Why?"
"Private lessons..."
"I see..." Mary grinned.
"SCORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Brian screamed, bouncing on his butt.
"I gave it to you...no more gifts man!" Ally said with a mischievous grin.
They continued playing, when someone knocked on the door. Mary stood up and answered it.
"Hey Gaby... what can I do for you?"
"Are they back from the rehearsal?" Gaby asked.
"Yeah... it's been a little while now... an hour or something...why??"
"Does Lylian stayed longer? Because she haven't shown up yet..."
"Oh yeah, I just learned she stayed there with Nicky boy for a private dancing lesson..." Mary smirked.
"Oh really??" Gaby laughed. "Ok then...I guess I'll go back and wait for her to come back..."
"Why don't you stay with us? There's a pretty interesting football game going on!" Mary invited her.
"Oh yeah!!!!" they heard Ally yelled. "I'm gonna kick your ass another time!!!"
"Wait, it's only the beginning!!!" Brian said.
"I see..." Gaby smiled. "Well, yeah..why not?!"
"Come in!" Mary said as she opened the door wider. Gaby walked in and sat on the bed next to Mary. She saw Brian glancing at her a few times..she knew she had not been really nice with him when she haven't shown up at the restaurant and since then, they haven't spoken a lot. She had apologized and he had told her she could come to him anything she wanted to... a lot of time she wanted to open up to him and ask him tons of questions...but then she'd freeze and walk away.
"Go baby...you can do it!" Mary said, rubbing Brian's shoulders.
"Hey... what about female solidarity??" Ally pouted.
"Go Ally!" Gaby laughed. She wasn't really happy to do this because she knew how Ally was acting toward Lylian but in fact, she had never seen Ally acting bitchy around her friend... and well, Ally was acting pretty normal with her.
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*** Later that night ***
"So, are we all ready to go??" Aj asked for the tenth time.
"Calm down Alex... " Katya answered.
"We haven't gone clubbing for a while...and I heard this club we are going is pretty cool..." he replied.
"Yeah...I've heard they have pretty hot barmaids!" Nick grinned, hoping it would get Katya angry. As a matter of fact, Katya's eyes turned to Aj.
"That's not why I chose to go there!!" Aj defended, giving a 'I-will-kill-you' look at Nick who was holding back his laughters.
"Ok, let's go guys!!" Kevin told everyone. He didn't want to see Katya losing her temper once again. He had seen it once and it was enough. Everyone walked outside and hopped in different cars.
The cars pulled in front of a little club that didn't seem much attractive from the outside. It was on a dark street and there were not much people around.
"That's what you call a pretty cool club??" Katya asked Aj.
"We'll see when we'll be inside..." he replied, shrugging as he stepped out and made his way in the club. Katya sighed, annoyed, and followed him.
On the inside, it was looking great. It wasn't really big but the dance floor was packed with people dancing on the loud Pop R&B and Reggae music. Only a few people were sitting down, sipping a drink but mostly everyone was dancing.
"Ooh I already like this place!!!" Lylian told Gaby as they stepped in.
"Let's go shaking our asses!!!!!" Gaby laughed as the two girls ran to the dance floor.
"I'll go get some drinks!!" Aj shouted so the others would hear him and he walked toward the bar. There were a lot of people around but he finally reached it...and that's when he saw her...
Her mid-long brown hair were a bit curly and falling down on her naked shoulders. She was wearing a black sparkling tube and a mini white skirt, showing her long tan legs but all Aj could see was her sweet smile and her shinning forest green eyes looking at him. She was like an angel... a sexy dressed angel but... she was probably the most beautiful woman he had ever seen.
"Hello?!?!?" she said, waving her hand in front of him. He suddently came back to reality, realizing she was talking to him.
"Um..yeah yeah sorry..." he replied.
"So, what can I get you sweetie?" she flashed him a smile that made his heart pound.
"Um... 4 beers please... " he said, not really realizing what he was asking. He couldn't take his eyes off of her.
"Alright!" she replied. She walked away for a few seconds and came back with four bottles.
"That's all?"
"Um..what about...your name?!" he asked with a grin.
"What about... 10$?" she asked back. Aj smiled and handed her the money. "Thanks! See ya later honey!" she told him and went over to another guy waiting to make his order. Aj took a last glance at the bar and realized there was another girl... looking great and really sexy too but... not as much as his angel. He finally walked back to the tables and found his girlfriend and the other guys sitting there.
"Beer??" Katya asked when he put the bottles on the table. "You know I hate beer!!"
"Shit.." he murmured under his breath. "Oh yeah sorry... I'll go back there..." he added, now happy with his mistake. "Nick, Brian...come with me! I'll need your help..."
"Alright man..." Nick said, standing up and followed his friend.
"I think you're gonna like what you're gonna see man..." Aj smiled.
"What?" Brian asked with a puzzle look.
"So the barmaids really are hot???" Nick asked, his eyes lighting up. But without Aj could answer, he stopped dead on his track and stared at the two girls trying get the order of everyone around the bar. "Damn...I feel like I'm in the Coyote Ugly flick..." he said as Brian giggled.
"You're right on man...we're like in the Coyote Ugly movie..." Brian nodded, observing the two women.
"Told ya... man look at the brunette... she's...I mean... she's so beautiful!!!" Aj exclaimed.
"Yes she really looks great..." Brian said. "I can't really see the other one..."
"Let's go find out!!!!" Nick shouted, excited. He finally arrived face to face with the other barmaid. She was tall and had long light brown hair with blond higlights up in a messy hairstyle that was looking really cool and making her even more hot. She was wearing a red tank top with only one strap and laced on the two sides. She also was wearing a tight black skirt showing off her long legs.
"Hi! What can I get you?" she smiled sexily at him, her brown eyes plunged into his.
"Oh..um...well... a Sex on the beach please..." he replied, his eyes not leaving her as she nodded and walked away to get the drinks ready.
"That's it?" she asked after telling him the price, always with the same smile.
"Um...yeah...for now..." Nick answered, flashing her his killer smile. He saw her blush a bit as she took the money he was handing.
"See ya later then..." she told him as he was going to walk away.
"For sure!" he replied with a wink and then waited for his 2 friends that were ordering to the other girl.
"You again?" the brunette barmaid grinned.
"Yeah ..." Aj started.
"Oh, and with some friends of yours..." she smiled devishly to Brian who blushed. "What can I get you baby?" she asked him.
"Um.... what are we here for Bone?" Brian turned to Aj.
"A rhum and coke!" Aj said, hoping Katya would be happy with this.
"You have to come by pair to order a rhum and coke??" she laughed as she made the drink.
"Nah...I just wanted to show my friend the most beautiful girl I've seen in my life..." Aj seriously said, his eyes looking at her up and down.
"Really? And what does his friend thinks about that??" she asked, plunging his eyes into Brian's.
"Um...well...um..." Brian tried to reply something. She chuckled and handed Aj the drink.
"5$! Anything else guys?" she told him. Aj gave her the money and pulled her closer to him so he could talk in her ear. "Again, a name would be welcomed.." he said and pulled away, hoping she'd tell him.
She grinned and then looked at Brian. She asked him to come closer with her index finger. Brian leant over the counter to get closer to her face...
"Keri..." she whispered in his ear and sent him a sexy smile before to go to another guy standing next to them.
Aj and Brian then joined Nick who was waiting impatiently for them.
"Damn Bri...what did she tell you???" Aj asked.
"Keri..."
"What???" Aj exclaimed.
"Keri... I guess that's her name..." Brian shrugged.
"Keri..." Aj repeated, lost in his thoughts.
"So Nick..what about the other chick?" Brian asked, pushing him playfully with his elbow.
"Oh man... she's... wow!!! She really could be in Coyote Ugly!" he giggled.
"Did you ask for her name??"
"Nah...I didn't think about it... Next time I'll go, I'll ask her!" he smirked.
"I think you'll stay most of the time there huh?" Brian laughed.
"Probably!!" Nick exclaimed. The trio then arrived at the table where Kevin, Vickie, Katya and Mary were sitting.
"Here..." Aj said as he pushed the Rhum and Coke in front of Katya.
"Thank you sweetie!" she smiled and kissed him but he barely realized 'cause his mind was all to Keri.
