This is my first story. I have a lot written but not typed if anyone wants more let me know and I will post more. I also don't have a beta so all mistakes are mine alone.

I don't own the characters or anything all I own is my laptop.

Sora is in her room wondering what to do for the rest of the day since she has finished practice for the day. Suddenly there is a knock on the door, startled she jumps up to answer the door.

"Yes?" Sora asks.

"It's Ken, Kalos wants you to come to his office." Ken's voice comes through the door.

"Oh, OK. I will be there in a few minutes." Sora tells him, "I wonder what he wants now, oh well better get going."

While walking to Kalos' office she tries to think of what she could have done wrong or of any other thing he could be calling her to his office for. She is so distracted by her thoughts she didn't even realize she had reached his office until Ken said her name. After apologizing to him she walked to the door of the office to find out what Kalos needed. She was so worried that at first she didn't notice that there was someone in the room with him already.

"Layla-san!" Sora yelled excitedly, "What are you doing here?"

Kalos cleared his throat to draw her attention back to him.

"Layla has asked to watch your practice would that be OK?" he asked in a way that said 'you better not say no'.

"Kalos you didn't have to say it that way," Layla spoke up for the first time.

"Of course she can watch," Sora interrupted quickly. She was very happy that Layla was there and didn't want to disappoint her. "But I am already finished with practice for today, and I don't want to interrupt other people's practice. Maybe you could watch tomorrow?"

"That is fine, I can come by then. What time will you be practicing?"

"If you come by about 8 am I will be there," Sora said wanting to practice early so she would have time to talk to Layla afterwards.

"Ok then I will be back about then," Layla says before bidding them good-bye and leaving.

The next morning at 7:30 am Sora was at the practice building and to her surprise Layla was already there.

"Layla-san why are you here already?" Sora asked a little upset, because she wanted to be there first and surprise her.

"Oh, um, I… ah …I needed to meet someone for breakfast and we got finished early so I just came over afterwards," Layla said making up a quick lie. "I can't tell her that I couldn't wait to see her, what would she think?" Layla worriedly thought.

"Well aren't you going to practice?" Layla asked to change the subject.

"Oh, yea let's go," says Sora as she enters the training room with the trapeze. "Well let me know if you see something that may need some work ok?" she asked hopefully.

"Ok I will," Layla replied as Sora warmed up then started her practice.

As Sora practiced she started out with simple flips and twirls and steadily got to the harder moves. While watching Layla's thoughts started to wander. Though she was looking at Sora she wasn't paying as close of attention as she could have been.

"Why is it, when I look at her working so hard, that it makes me feel like I am giving up?" thought Layla as she watched the practice, "I am working hard on Broadway, so why am I feeling like this?"

Sora looks over at Layla sees her frowning, loses her concentration and falls off of the trapeze and into the net.

"Why is she frowning? Did I do something wrong?" Sora wondered before shaking her head to clear it and walked to her bag. While taking a drink out of her water bottle she realizes that Layla hasn't moved from her position.

"Um, Layla what's wrong?"

"Huh?" Layla asks distractedly.

"You were frowning. Did I do something wrong?" asks Sora worriedly. "I don't want to disappoint her."

"What do you mean? I was thinking about something, sorry," Layla tells her. "I need to stop losing focus around Sora."

"Oh, about what?"

"Why do you practice so hard?"

"Because I want you to be proud of me and I want to be the best partner I can be," Sora tells her fighting a blush.

"I see so that is why you practice so hard," Layla says feeling a little dejected, "so it doesn't matter who the partner is." Out loud Layla tells Sora, "well I have to go, I have a meeting to get to. I will talk to you later."

Layla hurried out of the room trying to figure out why what Sora said made her chest hurt. As she left she didn't notice that Sora's face had fallen and that she looked really worried.

"Why did she leave like that? Why do I feel like crying? Did me saying that make her mad at me?" Many questions were running around in her head and many feelings were threatening to overwhelm her.

After staring at the door for a few minutes Sora decided that she wasn't going to be able to focus on her practice and so to not make a mistake and hurt herself she packed her things and went back to her room.

During that time Layla had left Kelido Stage and went home. She knew it was wrong to lie about a meeting but she also knew that she couldn't stay in the same room as Sora when she felt so close to crying. As she arrived home she was glad to notice that her father's car wasn't there, also she noticed that her personal maid's car was also gone.

"Well at least new I can be undisturbed in my thoughts." Layla whispered to herself. "But why are all of my thoughts about her? And why is it I was getting angry when she was talking about being a good partner?" As she sat on her bed contemplating she realized that she still wanted to be Sora's partner. No one else could ever be a better partner to Sora then her. As she thought more about her feelings her cheeks were starting to redden in a dark blush.

"I…I like her don't I," she whispered to herself. "But is it as a close friend or more?" She felt happy but scared at the same time.

"I need to find a way to get back onto the stage. I want to perform as her partner again." She said out loud as she came to a decision. With that decision made she went to the phone and called and set up a time to meet the one person that may be able to help her.

Meanwhile Sora had also been thinking about that morning's practice. "Why did she come so early? Why did she come at all if she had a meeting to get to?" Sora asked herself.

She was getting more upset, but also more hopeful each time she thought about Layla's actions. Angry because of the way she left, and hopeful because she had actually come to watch her practice. While also wondering why she was as happy as she was to see Layla.