Disclaimer: I do NOT own Dance Moms (It was created by Collins Avenue Productions and picked up by Lifetime) or Dance Academy (created by Joanna Werner and Samantha Strauss). All characters belong to them, as well of some of the details that you already recognize. I do not own Hawaii (Obviously the island is owned by the state of Hawaii and the US government, etc.)

Pairing: Chloe and Zack (I'm not sure if they'll end up together though ;) I'm definitely open to your suggestions), I might put in some other pairings as well.

Rating: Teen -for safety (It's more K at the start, I'm not sure about later though)

Author's Note: Set during the summer before Chloe's senior year at high school. Chloe is 17 and Zack is 19. This is the first fanfic I have ever written, so please go easy on me :p

I've never been to Hawaii, so I doubt this is an accurate representation of it. I put in a 'boardwalk' and then found out they don't have many boardwalks in Hawaii, so I changed it to 'walkway'. So if you're having trouble imagining it:there's the beach and then a walkway with shops on it.

Also, I started writing this before season 4 episode 8, so I initially wrote it with Paige still at ALDC. Then the drama with Kelly and Abby happened and it was confirmed that Paige and Brooke were no longer in ALDC, so I did some re-writing so that Paige was not in ALDC, but was still best friends with Chloe.

Secret Holiday Part 1

Chloe Lukasiak sits in the small row boat quietly, looking out at the beautiful landscape around her. Hawaii has got to be one of the most beautiful places she has ever seen, despite the fact that she had seen a lot of places with the dance company. The dance company, Chloe remembers guiltily. She should be back home training, not here on holiday. She was now in Abby Lee's senior dance group and the training had become even more intense. She hadn't told Abby that she was going on holiday before she went. She wanted to, but her mom had insisted that she tell Miss Abby that she was going on a compulsory school study trip, because Miss Abby would not let her go on anything else. One of these days, Chloe thinks to herself, she won't put up with everyone pushing her around.
"Chloe," a voice breaks her out of her thoughts. She looks up to see her friend, Brooke Hyland, looking closely at her from the other end of the boat. "You're worrying again. Stop worrying. That's all you've done since we got here last night, try to loosen up a bit." Brooke says as if she can read Chloe's mind. "You can deal with Miss Abby when you get back. But for now, you might as well enjoy yourself, you're already here." Chloe looks towards the shore and can just vaguely see a group of beginner surfers taking lessons on the beach. Paige is among them with a few of Brooke's friends, fake paddling on the sand and jumping up on the board. Paige was still competing in dance, but not with ALDC after the incident occurring between Abby and Kelly.

"Why didn't Paige book a lesson on the actual water? She's a bit too advanced for those beginner lessons, she already has good balance from dance, so she'd probably pick it up very quickly." Chloe says, turning to face Brooke again.

"Although Wendy isn't as strict as Abby, she'll still kill Paige if she hurts herself or breaks something because she is surfing." Wendy was Paige's dance coach at her studio and had been coaching Paige since she left ALDC. "Paige still isn't freaking out like you are though." Brooke replies.

"It's just hard for me not to worry, two weeks is a long time to be away from dance." Chloe replies. "And Miss Abby..."
"... I know, Chlobird, I've been there. But sometimes you have to let yourself have a little fun."
Chloe smiled at Brooke's advice, which had probably been influenced by Kelly's attitude about dance/life balance.

Brooke had quit dancing professionally and was pursuing her music career, which was doing really well. She had a few songs on the top of the iTunes chart and she had really expanded her style, she wasn't just singing upbeat pop songs anymore. She still danced for herself and to stay fit, but competing just wasn't for her anymore.

Chloe, Maddie and Nia were all in the senior group at ALDC now and Kendall was the leader of the junior group with Mackenzie. Chloe fell somewhere between Maddie and the other dancers on the dedication scale. She just found it harder, because she still went to a regular school every day (which Abby frowned upon) because she still wanted to keep her life as normal as possible. She still hung out with Paige every day at school (which Abby also frowned upon) and they had remained best friends. Despite Miss Abby calling her lazy and insisting that she didn't have the passion that Maddie did, Chloe still put a lot of her spare time into dance. Until this trip.

Brooke had just turned 21, which made her legally an adult. She had wanted to go on holiday with a few college friends and had offered to bring Paige and her "twinnie", as they liked to call Chloe, along with them. They also invited Maddie, Nia and Kendall but Jill had said that Kendall was too young to go on holiday under the guidance of a 21 year old and Nia hadn't wanted to irritate her RND ('Chronic Pain') with the stress of breaking Miss Abby's rules. Maddie had declined, because she couldn't take time away from dancing, but she promised not to tell Abby where they were and to keep them posted on what was happening back at home. Christi and Kelly trusted Brooke enough to supervise the girls and make sure they didn't 'get themselves into any trouble'. Paige's doctor had also said it was a good idea, and that it might help Paige relax, because she was still having the occasional panic attack despite leaving ALDC and her dance coach had agreed to let her go. Abby would never understand though, so Chloe just couldn't tell her or tell anyone that she was going on holiday. She understood that Abby just wanted the best for her and for all of the girls to challenge themselves like Maddie, but this would be her first proper holiday since she started dancing and they were really excited.

Chloe's phone beeps from inside her pocket and she stops rowing for a moment to read the text message.
'Maddie: I hope you guys arrived safely and are having fun. Try to bring a lei back for me, xoxo'
Chloe smiles. Despite the competition between the girls in the company, they were all close like sisters. Chloe quickly texts back 'We arrived safely and just started looking around this morning. Will send you pics soon and will definitely get you that lei! xoxo'. She pops her phone back in her pocket and her stomach rumbles, indicating that it's probably time for her and Brooke to head back to shore.

Chloe and Paige met up at a little cafe near the beach for lunch, whilst Brooke went shopping with her college friends.
They sit outside the front of the cafe, deep in conversation.
"I'm loving this holiday. The beach is amazing and I walked past a boutique on the way here with the cutest dresses, we have to go in later," Paige tells Chloe as she sips her fruit tea lemonade. "Plus I haven't worried about dance and winning and homework all day."
"I wish I could say the same about dance, but it's been bugging me since we got here. " Chloe complains, poking at her ice cream. "And I miss mom and Clara."
"It might take some time," Paige suggests. "Maybe you just need a distraction or..."
Chloe doesn't hear the rest because she's distracted by a guy jogging down the beach, in the opposite direction from where they are. The guy is tall, with tan skin and dark brown spiky hair. He's very toned and fit looking. Although his back is to her and she can't see his face, he looks extremely familiar...
A finger snaps in front of her face. "Earth to Chloe!" Paige says. "What were you looking at?"
"There was this guy...with a dancer's body."
"Oh God, you're hallucinating about dance now? Maybe YOU should be the one that has to go see a doctor from now on." Paige teases.
"Ha-ha, very funny. I thought I saw...never mind, that's impossible. Let's go see that boutique you liked." Chloe says, trying to convince herself that she saw wrong.
He's not even in Hawaii, he moved back to Phoenix.

They are now in the boutique and Paige is shoving things at Chloe to try on. "You would look so amazing in that, it's really your style!" she babbles excitedly.
"What about you?" Chloe asks, slightly confused as to why Paige hasn't picked any clothes for herself yet.
"We'll do you first, and then do me. I want you to pick a nice dress...because we're kind of going to a party tonight...with College kids."
"What?" Chloe exclaims.
"I met this really nice group of local college kids while I was on the beach today and they invited us to a bonfire party on the beach tonight. They invited Brooke's friends as well, so we're all going."
"But Paige..." Chloe starts to say.
"We don't have to drink or do anything we don't want to; we can just go and see what it's like! If you don't like it, we'll go back to the hotel. Now try on this little black dress."
"Okay, fine." Chloe sighs.
When she comes out of the dressing room to show Paige the dress, Paige squeals happily. "You look so gorgeous; you HAVE to wear this dress tonight. Now that you're settled, I can go pick a dress for myself too."
Chloe looks in the mirror and decides that a little fun couldn't hurt.

Zack Torres completes his jog up and down the beach and decides to have a cool-down jog on the walkway next to the beach before having to go back to his Uncle's house to change for the party tonight. He's doing his freshman year at College now, as well as continuing competitive dance with his old company in Phoenix (Cathy and the Candy Apples didn't have a senior group). Zack had decided he wanted to become a dance teacher and he was doing the course he needed in College for it, but his college had suggested that he try exchange for a month to Hawaii, where they had a campus with a really great dance teacher. He had been here for two weeks already, staying with his uncle that happened to live here. He was really enjoying his time so far.
As he was passing what looked like a girl's clothing shop, something caught his eye in the window. There was a girl facing away from him, sitting outside a dressing room. What caught his eye was her hair. It was long and blonde. A blonde so light that he'd only seen it on one other girl before...but it couldn't be her. Now you're just imagining things, he thinks to himself, there's no way SHE would take time off and come to Hawaii.

The girls are at their hotel getting dressed and putting makeup on.
It's 7pm and the bonfire party is about to start.
Chloe sighs in frustration. "I can't get this eye liner right. I wish Mackenzie was here."
"Why, what's wrong with it? It looks good!" Paige reassures.
"I think it's too dark."
"No it's not! It makes your eyes look...smoky." Paige argues.
"I guess." Chloe agrees reluctantly. "Now we have to pick shoes to wear."
Paige grins evilly and pulls out two really tall pairs of stilettos from her suitcase.
"No. Oh no. No, no, no!" Chloe protests. "It's on the beach; we don't want to sink into the sand. We don't need these, we're tall enough already!"
"Oh come on, we can take them off when we get to the beach. But can't we just wear them down the walkway in front of the beach?"
"It says strictly in both of our contracts 'Students must not wear high heels'. If we fall in these, we could hurt ourselves. And even worse, our dance teachers would KILL us."
"And they say I'M a worrywart. Well, I'm wearing these. You can wear flats." Paige says indignantly.

Half an hour later the girls are walking down the path leading to the beach, Chloe wearing the black dress she bought with smoky makeup and flats. The dress was long sleeved and high cut, but skin tight and short, so the look was classy but gorgeous. Paige's dress is a strapless one, hot pink and edgy, with neutral make up and stilettos.

They get to the beach and Paige takes off her shoes and holds them in her hand.
Brooke turns to them. "Remember, no social media. No putting anything on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Tumblr, Keek or MySpace. Not even Snapchat! Try to avoid other people's cameras too, even on the walkway above the beach. We don't want Miss Abby knowing that Chloe's here and Wendy knowing that Paige went to a party wearing stilettos."
"Got it." They both reply.
"Okay, my friends and I are going to go get some drinks now, you guys go make some new friends. And don't stray too far; I need to be able to keep an eye on you."

Zack threw on some khaki shorts, sandals and a white tank top.
"Uncle Dan!" He called back into the house. "I'm going to the party now!"
"Have fun. And behave!" is his Uncle's reply. Zack grins and walks out of the house, making his way down the boardwalk. Because the exchange school is still linked to his college, the college students here had accepted him with open arms. He was always being invited to go places with people and made lots of new friends. Speaking of friends, Zack thinks as he approaches the beach, there was one of them now. Christian Reed stands on the beach pouring drinks for people when he looks up and sees Zack.
"Zack 2!" he yells. "Want a drink?"
"Why do you keep calling me 'Zack 2'?" Zack replies, taking the red cup that was offered to him.
"I told you already!" Christian says. "I already have a really good friend called Zack, back in Australia. But I'll start calling you 'Hawaii Zack' if you want."
Zack rolls his eyes and laughs good-naturedly, but his laugh is cut short when he sees a light blonde haired girl standing near the bonfire alone. It's the blonde girl from the store earlier and even though she's not facing him, he definitely recognizes her now that she's standing up.
Zack walks over and taps her on the shoulder. The girl spins around and there's no doubt that it is the one and only, Chloe Lukasiak. He's shocked by how different she looks now in her dress and makeup. She has grown up a lot and he thinks she looks beautiful…

"Chloe!"
"Zack?"