Chapter 2:

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I woke up the next morning to the throbbing pain in my neck from the other night. I shuddered at the memory. I just hope it wont happens again..

I padded out of my bed and into the bathroom that was down the hall from my room. I looked in the mirror, taking the bandages off that were applied last night, there were 8 layers of gaus with 5 big band-aids.

Once everything was removed my eyes widened in shock, the wound was gone! The two holes that were left from that guy’s mouth held! All that was left were blood stains on my neck where the scars should be forming. I must be going crazy; the wound from last night would not stop bleeding…

I growled in frustration and looked at the clock. It was a Friday and currently 8:30 am. Practice for ballet starts at 9:30, it’s time to get ready.

As I was getting my things together, I couldn’t help but feel as though someone watching me…as I looked up in the mirror, I saw two red eyes staring at me, I screamed as loud as I could and whipped around trying to see if those eyes were real or if I was imagining, but I was imagining those eyes…Ugh smooth, I need to calm down…

I hoped into the shower washing away what happened last night, trying to forget the voices, the fear, and well just everything. Once I hoped out of the shower and cleaned all my blood off my neck, I brushed and blow dried my brown hair proudly and marched back to my room packing my gym back full of practice equipment. Today I had ballet practice, soccer, and guitar. No gymnastics sadly, and I made sure to pack a whole damn package of baby carrots.

I will NOT run out tonight.

I walked into my closet and got dressed for my day. I threw on my short ripped light blue shorts with a thin brown belt with a floral print blue tie shirt that showed my belly. Then I tossed on my gladiator shows. I smiled and grabbed my silver aviator sunglasses, grabbed my work out bag, and raced down the hallway down the stairs.

I jumped into my car tossing my gym back in the back seat, speeding off to ballet practice, dreading the meeting with Colton…

“Your late” Madam Yonker said looking at her watch

“Yeah ok,whatever” I grumbled into the changing rooms. Once I changed into the black leotard with a black with purple and blue short floral print skirt I strapped up my ballet points and rushed on stage with everyone else.

“Welcome everyone, I wanted to call this meeting to the you all Grace and Colton placed 1st last night in there shortened performance of sleeping beauty” Madam Yonker said clapping, and everyone else followed along with claps and nice jobs, I smiled and bowed, not really looking through the crowed of dancers for Colton.

“Alright, I also wanted to tell you we have a new student with us today. They heard about us do to Grace and Colton’s performance and wanted to practice with us for a while. Now, I will need you to be calm cool, collected because these boys are famous. Therefore you MUST show self-control, if you don’t, I will kick you off this dance team.” Madam Yonker said in all seriousness. I shrugged it off, they can’t be that famous, besides, I lisin to music, but I don’t pay attention to who is who, so I won’t care.

“Colton, Blake, Mike, Sam, Jarred, Grace, Kashmir, Sarah, Melody, and Sky You are the top dancers so far, don’t fail this school, you will show them basic moves to go with their pop genre. There are five of them, the guys will show them what to do and you girls will step in if they ever have girls come in as extras on stage. Do you understand?” She said addressing us

“Yes Madam Yonker” We chorused, she nodded “Good, dismissed, they are in practice room 6 no get going, the rest of you LINE UP!!” She yelled.

“Who do you think it is?” Asked Sky

“I don’t know, and I don’t care, but if you asked me they should be paying us if we are doing this. As it is we already pay this school” I said back to Sky as we all slowly walked to the room

“Ha want to make an entrance to get them intimidated?” Colton said evilly.

“YES! What should we do?!” Mike said enthusiastically

“Come on guys, let’s go, how are we going to make an entrance…”

“Here is what we will do” Colton said cutting me off and sharing his plan with the 8 other eager people

“Okay and Grace, me and you will enter at the same, you go in doing your amazing flips that you do in gymnastics, then you jump into the air, along with all the other girls, and us guys will catch you all and we will wrap you around are body’s to “Warrior” by Ke$ha and from there, you guys need to keep with the beat and follow me and Grace’s moves” He said taking control.

“OKAY FINE! Let’s go! Before Madam Yonker skins us alive!” I said excited with our plan.

Colton grabbed the remote to the outside speakers and looked for the song. And said in his deep load voice..

“5, 6, 7, 8, a 5, 6, 7, 8,” and played the music.

The guys went first dancing into the room like wild animals, Colton hanged back like planned. Then the girls went in and jumped into the guys arms and were raised above their head.

Then it was our turn.

Colton ran out first, followed by me doing three front flips, transitioning into a twist in the air that lead to my jump into Colton’s arms.

From there we all in sync winged the performance.

By the end all of us were all on the ground with one knee pulled into our chest, one leg stretched all the way out, one hand above our head, and the other on the ground. The girls were in the second row, and the guys ended up in the first row.

We heard clapping when the song was over, we all smiled and stood up and took our bow. That’s when Colton began to speak…wow he loves to talk…

“Hey guys enjoy the show?”

“Yeah!” five voices said.

I looked up startled a little and saw five really hot guys. They all kind of looked the same though, just different hair styles, they all looked 6’1, there were 4 of them and they all had brown spikey hair.

“My name is Colton”

“Im Blake”

“Im Mike”

“Im Sam”

“Im Jarred”

“Im Grace”

“I am Kashmir”

“I am Sarah”

“I am Melody”

“Im Sky!”

“I’m Grace Hart” I said happily

The guys nodded and induced themselves, they guy with curly brown hair spoke first.

“I am James, that’s Conner, Ryan and Kaden” James said smiling

“Alright now that introductions are over, why are you here, what do you know and what song do you need to dance to? AND WHO ARE YOU?!” Mike said

The guys laughed, I hit my hand with my head

“Hey Mike?” I said

“Yeah?”

“Shut up, lets get started, give me the CD you are dancing to, do you have one?”

“Yeah here it is” Conner said and handed it to me

“Thanks” I said yanking it out of his hands. I trudging over to the boom box

“Ok so there are 11 songs on here, which track first?” I said looking over

I saw the 5 boys tackling each other and the girls were swooning while the guys were laughing

“What the...almighty then…lets get started, what do you have so far for this song?”

“Oh we have this” James said doing the craziest pelvis thrust. The boys did it all at the same time while jumping all over the place while singing with the music totally off key.

“Alright aright, so you need a crazy type of music dance? That’s like that?” I smiled. Maybe this will be fun…

“No, we were kidding, we have nothing” Said Kaden

“Okay, then let’s get started. First things first you will need to…” I trailed off and so practice began.

“Alrighty then boys let’s go, 15 minutes left of practice, you’re doing great.” I said

 “Good, now show us what you have, as fast or slow as you want. AND FOCUS!”

“What about music?” piped Conner

“No music for now, we need to concentrate on what to else should be added” I said simply. I smiled and walked up to Kaden.

“Psst, no Doritos in rehearsal” I said yanking the chips out of his hand.

“WHAAAAATTT!!!!!” He cried,

“I KNOWWW I AM SORRYY!!!” I cried back, that got a smile out of him

“See you’re not that disappointed. Now please dance!!!!” I complained

They showed us what they got, and they all seemed like they had a lot of fun

The guys performed the simple steps quickly and effiecntly, they even sang while they did it. They were okay, they were no prodigy, I don’t know why Madam Yonker empisised how famous they were…they seem like they sing at clubs and school proms.

 “Very nice, and practice is over!” I cheered, everyone else did to.

“Hey all of you seem really cool, we are playing at the club After Life, we could put you guys on the VIP list for tonight” Said Caden smiling

Everyone talked at once excited to tell them they could go, along with there names.

“I cant go, but thanks anyways!” I said waving bye. I wish I could go but clubs are not my thing……I think…an I have homework…and yeah…

“UGH AHH BAH BLAH BUR Rawr…” I said as I was in the dressing room.

“Hey, hey are you all right?!” Colton said as he walked in

“YES I am perfectly fine!” I said frustrated then frowned, and suddenly very, very, very tired.

 “How did Phoenix get back stage?” I said suddenly looking up at Colton

“She was a back stage hand…” he began

“No she wasn’t, I have seen and talked to all stage hands, did you sneak her in?”

“I would never sneak her in especially after that gift it was meant to be just me and you for the rest of the night” he said

I frowned “Look Colton-“Hey wait! I have a gift for you! But I need to take you there!”

“Um okay now?” its prob something stupid…

“NO! Later, I will pick you up at your house at say… 8 pm wear something hot.” He said winking leaving while putting his new jacket on. I smiled changing back into my short ripped light blue shorts with a thin brown belt with a floral print blue tie shirt that showed my belly. Then I tossed on my gladiator shows. As I packed up the rest of my bag I felt those same eyes on me from earlier, but this time, I dident look up, for fear that I would be right. I traveled into my bag and grabbed my package of baby carrots. I smiled and grabbed my silver aviator sunglasses, grabbed my work out bag, and raced down the hallway back to the rehearsal room. Looking at the clock on the wall I panicked ballet practice ended at Noon and then at 12: 30 I had soccer practice.

I raced out to my car and floored it to the soccer field.

“Heeeeyy coach, whaaazzz goin on here?” I said pointing to the camera crew below. They set up huge lights in two sections of our field, one in front of the goal and one in the middle of the field, with six to seven people at the two stations, each of them holding cameras behind a huge fan that was blowing the girls hair al around.

“A photo shoot, so put your war paint on, suit up and get down there!”

“What the hell Coach, we are supposed to practice, I don’t want my picture taken.” I said firmly

“Please Grace!”

“No! Plus I dident even bring my things!” I said lamely

“I have a duplicate in my car, you always do this, now go get change” I growled and grabbed my uniform changing into my number 21 jersey.

“Hey Kim, can you put my war paint on?” I asked brushing my hair and interrupting her photo shoot’

“Grace, you interrupted me!” she whined playfully

“So, interrupt me as much as you want I don’t want my picture taken.” I said firmly, while eating my carrot.

From there on we took lame still pictures, so after wasting an hour of group shots and individual shots, I got bored and decided to raise hell.

“Hey give me that docking station, let’s make things fun” I placed my music player in and began playing music.

“LETS HAVE SOME FUN!: I screamed grabbing the other girls and throwing soccer balls at them. I could hear the clicks of cameras going like the paparazzi,

Walking out of the door I'm on my way can you tell me just where I'm going

Occupational skills would you give me a clue what to do cause my minds in motion

Just trying to relax I find myself on the couch with big plans but there's always tomorrow

Is something wrong with me or the way that I'm thinking

Then The girls retaliated and chased me all around the field till I tripped and we created a dog pile on me right in the mud

Come on Come on and tell me why you're staring

Come on Come on it must be what I'm wearing

Come on Come on and tell me why's it taking so long for you to recognize and stop

Another day in the sun I'm having fun feel the heat sneaking up on me

I take a look in the sky a plane goes by is that the reason that I can't breathe

I take a look and I wonder why, why these birds don't fly

It's hard for me to see and I believe my oh my

As the music continued playing we got into a huge mud war, soccer balls were going everywhere, we were doing tricks like you step over the ball with one foot and swing around it while bringing the ball along with the other foot, then we bounced the ball in-between two people, and so much more.

[Chorus]

I took a trip to the bar does my money go far can you show me just how to spend it

Moving around I like the sound I find myself looking pretty stupid

If I had a gal she'd be in a dress I better slow my drinking down

If I don't get it together tonight they're gonna run me out of town

At the end of the photo shoot the photographers managed to get all 22 girls in a group shot with the Coaches and co-coaches.

“Alright coach, if you make photo shoots more like this, then I will be happy, to get my picture taken.” I said. As I said this, one foot was on the ball, one hand was on my hip, and I was eating a carrot and he was standing in-front of me while the photography to his last picture of number 21 from behind me, because I am 5’4 practically everyone towers over me, and my coach is a 6’4 tall body builder, so the photographers wanted a “shot that would show star player number 21 doesn’t fear anyone, not even her coach.” They even gave me a carrot so I wouldn’t say no.

“Alright well I need to go, I am already late for my lesson, it’s time to go!” I said as the picture photographer took his last picture.

I sped off in the my car still muddy, grass stained and icky from the photo shoot.

Oh well, its only practice, its not like we are preforming…