Going Home:
Chase Collins rolled over in bed, blindly reaching for his fiancée. When all he felt were cold sheets, he lifted his head from his pillow. It was then that he smelled the aroma of bacon cooking. Chase grinned and got up from the bed, slipping on a pair of boxers and headed out to the kitchen.
Her voice stopped him in the doorway.
"Are you going to call every five minutes now?" She asked with a smile. She listened to the voice on the other end. "He's still asleep so how could I have told him? I'll tell him when he gets up."
Chase watched her place bacon and eggs on two plates. She poured a cup of coffee for him then a cup of tea for her.
"Yeah, I'll see you later today Blake." Andie said hanging up the phone. When she turned she let out a little scream and dropped the phone. "Jesus Chase, are you trying to give me a heart attack?"
"Sorry babe." Chase said, "What did Blake want?" Chase grabbed the two plates while Andie grabbed the two mugs.
"He's been having some problems with his class. Something about they aren't partnering good enough and he wants us to come up and see what we can do to help."
"Why didn't you tell him to stick it? This is our only time off." Chase said
"I know baby, but he sounded kind of desperate. Plus I want to see Moose and Sophie. Remember they moved back to Baltimore." Andie said with a grin, "And Tyler and Nora are there too. And we were heading down there in a couple weeks anyway."
"Babe, do you know how long it take to get to Baltimore from Brooklyn? It takes three hours."
"I know but it could be like a mini-reunion." Andie pouted, "Please baby?"
She tried to hold in her smirk when she saw Chase slowly breaking down. He never could deny her anything.
Chase sighed. "How long are we staying?"
Andie grinned throwing her arms around his neck. "Blake didn't exactly tell me a time limit but Tyler already agreed to let us crash at his and Nora's house."
"When are we leaving?" Chase asked.
"As soon as we're done eating." Andie said and Chase nodded.
After they were done with breakfast, together the couple did the dishes.
"Are we bringing them with us?" Chase asked as he packed clothes into a duffle bag. He glanced over to see if they were still asleep.
"Do you think we should?"
"It's up to you."
"She might get lonely and upset but he's normally okay with being left alone." Andie said.
"You know if we bring one, we have to bring the other." Chase said.
"I know."
"You don't want to leave them alone."
"I can't help it if I don't want to leave them."
"So I take it, we're taking them with us?"
"I love you." Andie said. She reached over and grabbed a black leash and a blue one. "Duchess, Duke."
Chase watched with an amused smile as the two Siberian Huskies jumped up, skidding across the hardwood floor to get to Andie. "Why the leashes?" Chase asked
"We have to take them out in Baltimore, I don't remember if we need to have leashes on dogs." Andie said.
Duke and Duchess were two of the most well behaved dogs. Chase and Andie had them since they were puppies and trained them really well.
Chase nodded and said, "What car are we taking? Your Jeep or my Mustang?"
"I don…" Andie started but was interrupted by the phone ringing. "Hello?"
"Miss West. This is Simon Fuller."
Andie smiled and said, "Mr. Fuller, what can I do for you?" She took a seat on the bed.
"The new season of So You Think You Can Dance is coming up in a couple of months. I wanted to ask if you and your fiancé would like to become the hip hop choreographers." Simon said
"Can you hold for just a second?"
"Certainly."
Andie held the phone to her thigh. "Chase."
"Hmm."
"Simon Fuller is on the phone."
"The 'So You Think You Can Dance' guy?" Chase asked
"The one and only. He wants to know if we want to be choreographers on the new season. Are we free? Do we even want to do it?" Andie asked
"We are free and I'd do it, but it's up to you." Chase said
Andie picked up the phone. "Mr. Fuller, are you still there?"
"Yes."
"Chase and I would love to be on your show." Andie said
"Wonderful. I'll have my assistant send all the information to your email." Simon said
"Okay." Andie said. They exchanged pleasantries and hung up. "Hmmm, well that was cool. I was wondering what we were going to do all summer."
"Which car babe?" Chase asked
"Umm…the Jeep. Duke and Duchess like the wind." Andie said snapping her fingers. In an instant, the two dogs were at her side. Chase grabbed the keys and bags, while Andie held the door. 10 minutes later they were in the parking garage.
"Do you have everything?"
"Yeah, you?" Andie asked
"Yeah. You got all the dog stuff right?"
"Yeah." Andie said nodding. Chase hopped in the driver's seat and Andie in the passenger's seat. "Let's get this show on the road."
Three hours, two coffee breaks, three bathroom breaks, and one food break later, Chase pulled up in front of Tyler and Nora's house.
"Finally." Chase muttered
"What?" Andie said
"We're here." Chase said more loudly.
"ANDIE!" Came a squeal. Andie turned to see a very pregnant Nora come out of the house.
"NORA!" Andie yelled. The two women met in the middle and hugged each other.
"Women." Chase muttered. He opened the door for the dogs. They waited till they were given the command to leave the car.
"Now remember, Teacup lives here, watch where you're going." Chase said to the dogs. Teacup was Nora's little Yorkie. Tyler couldn't be more ashamed because he had wanted a German Shepherd but one little pout from his wife and they were walking out with a Yorkie. "Go." Chase said and the dogs jumped down and left.
"Damn, I wish that little rat Nora got would listen to me like that." Tyler said from behind him.
Chase turned around and shared a manly hug with Tyler. "Hey man, thanks for letting us stay here."
"No problem. The guest bedroom is all set up. Maybe you could teach Duke to eat Teacup."
"I would but see Nora would be after me and so would Andie. I like my body parts attached to my body." Chase said. The two men laughed and got the bags out. They headed up to the guest room and after placing the bags in the room they went to find the girls.
"Where the hell could they have gone?" Tyler asked. They heard laughter coming from the back yard and went outside.
"There you are." Andie said when the boys stepped outside.
"What are you ladies doing out here?" Tyler asked
"We are enjoying the nice weather." Nora said
"Oh." Tyler said
Andie looked at her watch and got up. "We're going to bug Blake. Be ready around 5:30, Chase and I are taking you two out to dinner."
"We are?" Chase asked earning an elbow in his ribs from Andie, "I mean, we are."
Andie took the keys and walked out the front door. Chase went to turn around and leave but Tyler stopped him. "Hey Chase."
"What?" Chase asked
"How long was it before she had you trained?" Tyler asked with a laugh
Nora threw her fist into Tyler's stomach. "Don't mind him Chase, Tyler just doesn't want to admit that he's just as whipped."
Chase laughed before walking out front to Andie. "What took so long Boy Band?"
"Just talking to Tyler." Chase said getting into the front seat of Andie's Jeep. "You ready?"
"Yup." Andie said. Chase nodded and they were off, heading in the direction of the Maryland School of the Arts.
Andie was the first to get out when they pulled into the parking lot. "God, it hasn't changed."
"Andie, we haven't really been gone that long." Chase whispered into her ear while grabbing her hand in his.
"I know but I expected it to look different." Andie said following him inside. They walked into the office and up to the front desk. "Excuse me." Andie said to the young receptionist.
She looked up at the couple and her jaw almost dropped. "Oh my god! You're…you're Chase Collins and Andie West." She said
"Hi, and you are?"
"Jade." She said, "Mr. Collins isn't in his office right now. He's teaching a class."
"Could you tell us which one?" Chase asked. Jade stuttered out the room number and the dancing duo was off. When they reached the room Chase held the door open for Andie. The whole class just stopped what they were doing.
Blake laughed to himself. "Class, please welcome the two people who helped create this class, my brother Chase Collins, and my sister-in-law Andie West-Collins."
"Not yet Blake." Andie said laughing
"Might as well be." Blake muttered
Chase shook his head. "What's up guys?" He asked the class.
"You're hotter in person." One of the girls yelled.
Andie laughed as did Blake. Chase kind of blushed.
"Are you blushing Boy Band?" Andie asked
"No." Chase said.
"Everyone take five." Blake yelled. The three adults walked over to talk in private.
"So what seems to be the problem?" Andie asked
"They just don't get it. Which is why I was wondering…if maybe you would teach this class? It would only be for this semester and it is the last semester of the school year. Andie said you guys aren't busy. They might listen to you better then to me. With Tyler out, you two are all I got." Blake said
Andie looked up at Chase. "What do you think?" Andie asked
"I say we do it. We just got to tell Tyler that we might be staying longer then expected." Chase said
Blake nodded and walked in front of the class. "Everyone, I want to introduce to you, your new teachers…Miss West and Mr. Collins." Blake said before leaving the couple with the class.
"Does anyone have any questions?" Andie asked
"Is all you do hip hop?" A girl asked
"No, we've can do other stuff. We've done Latin ballroom, contemporary…" Andie said
One of the guys snorted in response. "Problem?" Chase asked
"Name's Matthew but you can call me Matt and hip hoppers can't do contemporary." Matt said
Chase nodded and turned to Andie. "You have your iPod right?"
"Yeah." Andie said. Chase leaned over and whispered into her ear. "Okay." Andie walked over to the CD player while Chase took off his shoes and shirt. Leaving him in his jeans and wife beater. Andie got rid of her own shoes and shimmed out of her pants to leave her in her tank top and shorts.
"Ready?" Chase asked
"Ready." Andie said pressing play on her iPod. The couple met in the middle of the room, waiting for the music to start.
A soft piano sounded and Chase and Andie, with their arms wrapped around each other, swayed to the music. Once Elisa's familiar voice sounded throughout the studio, Andie pushed her arms out from her side as Chase cradled her head against his chest. As quickly as Andie had gone into motion, she let her body fall limp, her legs sliding out from underneath her, trusting Chase to catch her. With all his strength, he pulled her back up to a standing position and guided her into a twirl. The twirl ended up with them wrapping their bodies around and falling onto the others back with a jerk. Andie came up, rolling her body with her arm, gripping Chase's hand as he walked her through another twirl, this time ending with him supporting her back in an almost backbend before quickly changing position so that she was leaning forward on the floor, one leg stretch behind her. Even that didn't last long because with ease, Andie was back on her feet twirling again, away from Chase this time.
She gripped his left arm and slowly slid down it, as if to coax him to dance with her while he stood solemnly. He unexpectedly threw her arm away with a quick swoop of his and guided Andie as she slid, almost like a baseball player at home plate before suddenly shooting her back up on her feet. With his front to her back, she wrapped her left leg and arms around him and together the melted towards the floor.
Chase broke free of Andie's grip and using one arm, he flipped in a semi-cartwheel while Andie stood in the background. Behind Chase, Andie threw herself to the floor and almost immediately afterwards, Chase did the same. The duo was back on their feet again and Andie hurried to wrap her arms around Chase from behind but he was seemingly fighting her grip with complicated arm isolations. Light-footedly, the duo twirled, kicked and jumped across the room, finally meeting each other in the back corner where Chase finally wrapped his arms around Andie from behind lovingly.
With a smile on her face and still wrapped in each others' arms, Chase and Andie twirled back towards the center of the room. While doing so, Andie threw out her legs, knowing Chase was supporting her from behind. After another twirl they released each other to face each other. Andie placed her hands on his sides and the two again swayed to the music, Chase with his eyes closed, soaking in the emotion of the dance. Chase shot his left hand out from his side and Andie was quick to catch it with right one pulling it back in towards the body. And just like Newton's 3rd law of motion that every action has an equal and opposite reaction, Chase's right hand shot out, again being caught by Andie's left one pulling that one in as well. Then both his arms came up at his sides, Andie still attached and they shared a kiss, all the while swaying to the music. As they kissed, their hands found their way to Chase's face and Andie pushed off, leaving Chase's hands alone on his face as she ran around the room, gaining speed. Chase, waiting for Andie to run back to him, moved his arms and body sharply and finally turned to the back of the room just in time to catch Andie as she threw herself at him. He caught her, her right leg thrown limply over his shoulder. Jumping down from his shoulder, she then let her body go limp again only to fall into Chase's arms.
Pulling her back from the ground, Chase pushed Andie towards the back of the room causing her to push him back towards the front before falling limp again. Chase turned her to the side which seemed to put more life into her because once again she twirled away from him. She ended up so close to the watching students, waiting for Chase to wrap his strong arms around her. It was her turn to fight his grip and with twisted arms he whipped her around in his arms so that she ended up facing him and for the last time she fell limp. Slowly he let her melt towards the floor as the music faded away. (For the video check out my profile)
After the music stopped it was dead silent in the room. "Hip hoppers can do contemporary." Chase said putting back on his shoes. Andie slipped on her pants and shoes.
"Pair up and we'll do some improvising." Andie said
Chase and Andie stood side by side next to the radio. The first couple came up.
"Names?" Chase asked
"I'm Anthony and this is Dana." Chris said.
Andie nodded and quickly flipped through her iPod. She put Low by Flo-Rida on and watched the couple for a minute.
"Wait a second." Chase said. Andie paused the song. "You guys look like you don't trust each other. The first part of a partnership is trust. If you don't trust the other person, nothing you do is going to work."
He pointed at Andie. "Come here." He said waving a finger at her. Andie ran up to him and when she got within arms length, he threw her up in the air, letting her come back to him. She wrapped her legs around his waist and they held hands. Chase let the rest of her body fall to the floor, stopping her head an inch off the ground. Leaving her dangling Chase looked up at the class.
"How many of you are willing to do this right now?" No one raised their hands. "That's what I thought." Chase said standing Andie on her feet. 45 minutes later Chase and Andie were heading towards Blake's office.
"So how did it go?" Blake asked
"They're going to need work." Chase said
"A lot of work." Andie added.
Thank you all for reading this. I want to thank my beta Brittney, she's the one who wrote that phenomenal dance scene, thanks so much Brittney. I'll need at least 5 reviews till continue. Reviews make me write, reviews bring new chapters.
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