Kent: Billy is such a helpful guy and he's willing to land a hand no matter when or what.
How can you not slash that?
Lending A Hand
It was already week six of the actual competition, and Kent was really feeling the pressure. Sure he'd never been in the bottom and all the tweens loves him but he knew he isn't as talented as some of the other dancers, he just has the personality and it helps him a lot. Kent has always been a bit insecure about himself and it wasn't helping his confidence that he has stepping this week. As soon as he knew he was going to do that routine, he knew he was toast. It just seemed hard from the start and the first rehearsal didn't help. He kept hitting himself and being off beat and there was Billy who had been in the bottom three times already and still wasn't worrying. He got most of the steps rather quick, Kent suppose that was the benefit of being technically gifted, but as always the emotion didn't get through, the down side of being technically gifted.
There were still five contemporary dancers in this competition and when it comes down to it Kent knew he's only number four. He and Lauren got by on personality and versatility, they were good at everything but wasn't amazing at any of them, not on the same level as Chike, Rob and Billy were at contemporary, it made him feel a little bit badly because even though he wants it and works hard to do well and get his personality across and just sell the routine he knows he isn't as good as some of the others. But hey since when does the best dancer win, and if the best isn't going to win than he might as well win. But this routine might just put an end to that dream.
He could already hear the comments from the judges ringing in his head it had feel but it just wasn't there/I think you'll see it in playback/you're presence makes up for the lack of technic Kent really didn't want that happening to him. He'd heard the judges tearing down Chike and Billy for weeks because of their lack of emotion, he's heard them praising Jose for his presence, he wants to stay in between, he wants to have a great presence and good technic, he doesn't want to end up like Jose. It's not Jose's fault that the judges act like that to him, but if he was the other guys he just might resent him for getting that praise so easily.
The first rehearsal was now over and Kent was lying on the bed trying to think of something other than the disaster that would happen in just a few days. Previously he'd shared the room with Alex but he's left so now he had it all to himself. He liked it sometimes but not now. He was a little envious of the rest, except for Lauren who also lived alone. Rob was having a hard time with the samba but he lived with Jose who was doing both contemporary and Paso doble, so they had all the support and understanding they needed in close reach. Chike had Billy with him, and he is just the most helpful guy, not that he really could help with that paso doble, but at least on a mental level which was also totally unfair. Kent had no one with him except when the group hung out together and that wasn't really the time to discuss the struggles he was having. He wanted someone now and he had no one. It was late and he wanted to rehearse more but he couldn't bring himself to do it when it went that badly in rehearsal. Because of that he decided to just get ready for bed and deal with the entire thing tomorrow, but as he came out of the bathroom after showering, brushing his teeth and what not there was a knock on the door.
He opened the door and there were Mr. helpful and Kent's partner for the week himself. "Hey I just thought I'd come check up on you, you seemed a bit off at rehearsal. So are you okay?" Billy obviously went right into the reason for his visit whiles stomping into Kent's room and sitting on the bed, well Billy Bell can't really stomp, but still he walked in not caring about the small talk most people start of with. "Yeah kind of, I just have a lot of think about now." "Like what? More Lauren stuff?" Kent just look chocked at that. "When has there ever been 'Lauren stuff'?" "In real life, never, in front of the cameras, some. Come on I'm just picking on your womanizing ways. What's the real problem? Tell me and I'll help. Well you know try at least."
Kent took a deep breath and sat down on the bed next to him and proceeded into telling him many of the things he'd had on his mind lately. The pressure of the competition, the struggles with the stepping and his insecurities about his talent. By the time he was done just blurting out all the issues he had he was in tears. Billy was chocked and didn't now what the right thing to say was, that fact didn't stop him from speaking though. "okay so you have a point." Kent looks up at him big eyed, this is not what he wanted to hear. "You're not the best technician here, you have a massive personality that leaves that unimportant though. You think you don't deserve to be here? This competition is a personality contest more than a dancing contest, always has been. Dancers compete on this show to be put on the map so they can move on the bigger and greater things, they don't aim to actually win. You have been noticed by so many people for both your dancing and personality, will you have a career in actual dancing, probably if you wanted to, you can still train a lot more to improve your technic, but it doesn't matter if you do cause you are probably gonna be on Broadway by the end of this year making more money and making more of a name for yourself than the rest of us." Now that was more of what Kent had in mind. He did feel a bit better but he knew he was still gonna get butchered in the stepping.
"Come on farm boy, it was just a first rehearsal, we'll work on it for as long as it takes for you to nail it." Kent looks up at Billy with those sad eyes of his "What if I don't nail it, and completely let you down while performing it" Billy puts a hand on Kent's leg and looks directly in to his eyes, something that gets Kent's full attention, while telling him that's just not going to happen, regardless of what happens on stage they will both have done their best and that's all either of them can want. Makes sense that he would see it that way, the guy does after all want to perform his krump again because of the stretch and effort it demanded even if it kind of sucked.
Billy stayed in Kent's room talking to him pretty late until he finally went back to his and Chike's room. He left Kent feeling just a tad better about himself but he was far from over it. At the moment though he was satisfied since Billy had promised to practice their routine as long as possible the next day. At least one good thing came out of this whole disaster, he got to spend so much time with Billy. Because Lauren is cute there is no denying that, he wasn't lying to the cameras, but she's so girly. Which obviously makes Billy more his type. He is not only gifted but he's nice, funny and cute. These things made Kent rather happy that at least they weren't doing a routine similar to Billy and Jose's African Jazz, that could have gotten awkward, but still why stepping. The gods didn't need to take the no touching wish to that level of difficulty.
Turns out when they were practicing the next day that Kent really had gotten all the difficulty but without the lack of touching. Seems as Billy really had taken his promise to help Kent seriously and he kept touching and placing Kent's body the way Chuck had showed them the day before. Billy's touch really was hot and Kent being a farm boy in a place with like ten other people didn't really have much experience in these warm feelings caused by another person's presence. I mean come on he's a teenage boy he's felt these feelings just not by someone he's met in person.
Billy didn't seem to notice Kent's increasing nervousness though or he just pretended not to as to spare Kent the embarrassment. Naw didn't really seem possible, Billy would have loved to joke about that, he must have not noticed Kent reasoned. As the time went on the situation only got worse though. Kent started to feel like a freak because who in their right mind gets all hot and flustered watching someone stepping? Alternating between the watching, the dancing and the touching really wasn't working out that well for Kent if his growing erection that would soon lead to an awkward conversation was anything to go by. He was starting to think up an excuse for them to stop practicing but Billy seemed to be in the zone or something and wanted to nail it hard.
Eventually they did it excellent and they were both ecstatic even though Kent's mind were a little bit preoccupied and that would just get even worse when Billy did the worst thing ever. Hugged him. And there was no way he could miss feeling that bulge. He didn't even tense up though just kind of grinned. The entire thing made Kent really uncomfortable, the closeness, the grinning it all made him want to crawl into a hole and die. "Ehh, ehh, that, it's not, ehh:" by the time Kent had gathered as much mental status to utter those, kind of, words Billy had let go and was just looking at him while Kent was trying to form a sentence to explain the rather obvious situation. "What isn't it? Cause I'm pretty certain i know exactly what that is." He finally said to him when Kent stopped even trying to speak. "well yeah, but it's not why you think it is there? Oh crap.." was all more Kent had to say when Billy firmly put his hand on Kent's bulge. "Doesn't really matter why, does it? The point is that it's there and needs to go away for us to keep practicing. Good thing we're such good partners huh" Billy was saying this all relaxed and normal while Kent was like struggling to think and breathe and the same time as Billy's hand kept doing that amazing thing.
Billy directed Kent towards the wall and pushed him down to the floor and Kent were just to chocked over the entire thing to protest. When they were both settled on the floor Billy took it upon himself to open Kent's pants and start stroking him over his underwear. "Oh God" Kent gasped, the entire feeling being totally different from anything he'd ever done to himself. "Naw Billy is fine, even though God does have a nice ring to it." Only Billy would make jokes at a time like this that Kent was pretty certain of but he was to preoccupied to reflect much on it. A wet spot of pre-cum had formed on his underwear but those were soon pulled down leaving Kent completely exposed to Billy. Despite the amount of pleasure he was in Kent couldn't help feeling a bit self-conscious about that whole thing. He supposed everyone does the first time someone sees your whole package in this context, the difference between him and most guys are that most guys have at least kissed the first person to see and touch their cock.
The entire thing should have been a lot more awkward than it was though. This was after all a friend/competitor getting his friend/competitor off during rehearsal. But Kent didn't care cause it felt so damn good having Billy's hands all over him. Sure he was still a bit self-conscious about it but there wasn't really that much time to think about things like that when he had one of the cutest guys on the planet hands on him. One stroking his cock the other just wandering all over his stomach and thighs and everywhere in between. This was by far the best Kent had ever felt in his life and regardless of the fact that it probably meant nothing more to Billy than a friend helping out it was amazing.
Kent had no idea how long the moment lasted but in his opinion it was way too short. That was a way he could just spend all the time feeling. Especially since when it was over it became easier to think about what was going on. Like Billy had just freaking helped him get off, he was totally crushing on him and he had jerked him off. That's just wow. And frankly Kent was afraid to even look at Billy to see what his reaction to the entire thing was. Until suddenly he could hear his voice over his own still rather heavy breathing "Can we practice again now, see if we can do it as good again?" Kent just looks at him, and there is nothing over the ordinary about him. Billy's expressions, looks and everything are just as they always been and as they continue to practice it really becomes obvious that he doesn't even care a little about what he just did and even more what Kent just did. Wow is all Kent can think, Billy really is the most willing to lend a hand to help out regardless of what that means.