Disclaimer: The Clique and everything about it belongs to Lisi Harrison.

Welcome to the Westchester Dance Studio, also known as WDS, known for it's high-profile, competitive nature and elitist, advanced dancers. It's one of the best studios in the state of New York, ranked one of the top ten studios in America, producing great dancers who move on to the biggest dance companies worldwide decade after decade.

There are three age groups and five elite teams: Junior (Silversteppers and Blue Dancers - gender divided), Intermediate (Pretty Committee and Can't Stop the Beat - gender divded) and Senior (A-List Team, or Advanced List Team - co-ed).

WDS is split between two types of people: the ones who dance for fun and the ones who dance for their life. In the world of fine arts, it's clear to see who really matters.

The A-List: Westchester Dance Studio's senior co-ed and most hardcore elite dance group. Their dancers are made of old-money, honed muscle and flawless technique. Meet the best dancers on the team.

Massie Block: The best ballerina in the entire studio and appointed Dance Co-Captain of A-List, Massie's prim, precise and perfect as well as cutthroat and merciless. Her father's a huge businessman and her mother a socialite with connections and business investments herself. She's spent a year in England the year before last, back in Intermediate, training in an elite studio overseas. Massie's got fantastic style, wealth, skill and friends on her side. She's got power and persuasion, retorts that will burn someone to the ground and a gold glare that'll make lesser humans cry. She's not happy about being co-captain and she's willing to prove herself as the real leader of the team.

Alicia Rivera: Absolutely stunning in both looks and skill, this contemporary dancer earned her place both on A-List and as Massie's best friend. She dabbles in salsa, jazz and tap and adores hair flips. She's sweet as the devil and looks like perfection sent from heaven, she's the instigator with the latest iPhone in hand and known as one of the best dancers from years of high-level training. After signing up for a duet-workshop and being paired with fellow A-Lister Josh Hotz, her life can't seem to get better… Until she finds out her ex-friend Olivia Ryan went off to their rival studio BADS and might have stolen her and Josh's routine for Regionals.

Kristen Gregory: Kristen's lean physique isn't due only to years of dance, but also years of soccer. Her acro-dancing is smooth, easy grace - like on the soccer field but with more style. She's the overall genius with a silver tongue; the mastermind working overdrive behind the scenes to work on choreography with the others. The one who's dad owns WDS and who's mom was a prima ballerina in the New York Ballet Company and is a current talent scout for her former company. Kristen's got the brains, brawn and blonde beauty, the skill and passion. But after an intense year of having to juggle advanced soccer, dance and school - can she do it again?

Dylan Marvil: One may recognize her first because of her surname (her mom being the TV host of The Daily Grind) and second because of her status as one of the best dancers at WDS. Dylan's a hip hop girl, time-of-your-life fun and side-splitting, laughs-for-days hilarious. Her signature fiery curls represent her temper, her dancing is passionate and she knows she's got talent - but does she look the part of an A-List dancer? Constantly comparing her body to her that of her friends, Dylan's extremely insecure about herself and her size-or-two larger body type. Can Chris Plovert help her love herself or will her insecurities affect her concentration?

Claire Lyons: Claire, the sweet jazz dancer, might have moved into Westchester, NY from Orlando, Florida knowing only jazz and just a bit of contemporary four years ago, but she learned quick. Quick enough to work her way steadily into the cream of the crop, the ranks of the most elite, and earn herself a spot. She can hardly believe the life she's living: great friends, great studio, great training. In Orlando, she knew she was lucky to have a roof over her head and food on her plate. In Westchester, she's grateful for that and for the so much more she has now. However, she doesn't have Cam Fisher, her ex-boyfriend of two years and doesn't know if she can continue to dance on the same team as him when he's beginning to send her mixed signals.

Derrick Harrington: Shaggy blond hair and puppy-dog chocolate brown eyes, Derrick, also known as "Derrington" by most of the girls, is a breakdancer, hip hop dancer and soccer player. He's got lightning feet and tricks for days. He's also been named Dance Co-Captain of the A-List and, like the confident king he is, knows he deserves it and that he'll lead the team to victory. Derrick loves a good joke, a chill time and winning but his wicked tongue gets sharper when Massie Block begins getting on his nerves. He needs to keep a cool, level head to be Co-Captain - but he had a temper as fierce as Dylan Marvil's and a competitive spirit that refuses to back down.

Cameron Fisher: Cam has one blue eye, one green eye, a dimpled smile and the heart of half the girls in the studio. He's a hip hop dancer and soccer player like his best friend, Derrick, but he prefers to go with the flow and use less acro tricks. He's sweet, funny and loves candy and music. Cam prefers not to get tangled up in too much drama, he's in A-List for the dancing and genuine fun, not to have a front row seat to an IRL Gossip Girl marathon. Regardless, he's basically Derrick's partner in crime and best bro, and that makes him the second-in-command and eye of the spotlight. But there's only so long you can hide your dark secrets from the light and his slow interest gain in Claire Lyons might become a bit obvious. Does little Cammie have a crush?

Joshua Hotz: Josh Hotz is even hotter than his last name implies. He's basically the male version of Alicia Rivera - dark curls, olive complexion, flawless features, toned body. He's a contemporary dancer and soccer player as well, graceless and lean and cutting an impressive figure on the dance floor. He loves to joke around, pulling pranks and laughing and is forever with an easy smile on his face. He moved to Westchester a mere three years ago and was accepted into the elite circle immediately, earning himself a rank in the top five athletes within a matter of a few weeks. After signing up for a duet-workshop, he finds himself falling fast for a girl on the dance floor who's salsa hips are almost as almost as entrancing as her personality.

Kemp Hurley: Kemp is a skilled athlete: hip hop dancer (he leans towards animation, popping and locking and turned the "robot" dance move from "hell no" to "hotter than hell") and soccer player. He's also skilled in the dating area as he's the biggest player in the studio. He's a cockier, cruder version of Derrick. Kemp knows he's attractive, with brunet curls, hazel eyes and a toned body, and he owns it, using his attractiveness to its fullest potential. However, his melt-worthy, husky-voiced eloquent persuasion doesn't transfer into grades and when his marks get dangerously low, he's forced to get a tutor. Clashing headfirst with Kristen Gregory every other night instead of partying isn't exactly how he thought his year would go.

Christopher Plovert: Chris is the best male ballet danced in WDS and no one forgets it. Instead of being stereotypically mocked for his tights and pointed feet, he's praised and looked up to. Even Kemp Hurley, the proudest and most arrogant of them all, is impressed with his focus, dedication and hard work. Chris is also a defensive soccer player, has denim eyes and dirty blond hair and wears prescription contacts. He's intelligent and strategic, calculating and with a drier humor than his female equivalent Kristen Gregory. He's an overachiever and it's never enough to place second. However, his studious seriousness makes him seriously lack social skills outside of his guy group and he struggles to express himself to the girl he likes.

So this is my first story on here! I've been apart of the Clique fandom for a while and I love the characters. I think it's a really cool twist to see how the wealthy elitists, usually the antagonists, get turned into protagonists and the true friendship behind popularity - how the Clique girls rose to "the top" because of their friendship and were admired for more than their appearances, but because of their tight bond.

Now, for some background information: this is an AU and because of this, some things may not be canon but some will be. The PC and the Briarwood Boys are all sixteen and characters around them fall in the timeline accordingly. They all attend the Academy of Westchester County and Skye Hamilton (dancer at the Body Alive Dance Studio/BADS) is the senior alpha there. The junior and intermediate elite teams at WDS are divided by gender (Silversteppers for girls, Blue Dancers for boys and Pretty Committee - see what I did there? Haha - for the girls and Can't Stop the Beat for the boys.) Kristen and Claire are both old-money and upper-class instead of middle-class. Westchester is an incredibly old-money, wealthy town because that sort of lifestyle is interesting to write and manipulate.

I've already got the first official chapter written so leave your thoughts in the comments! Hope you enjoyed! (P.S. Does anyone recognize the title? It's a Halsey lyric with a Troye Sivan twist).