EPOV

I was pacing the length of my living room in my lavish New York Condo, waiting for my girlfriend Tanya to make her appearance. We had been dating for a little over a year, we met at a fundraiser for The School of American Ballet that my parents had dragged me to. Turns out that Tanya was a dancer in the New York City Ballet Company and had been for the last three years, sadly she was still a member of the corps de ballet, which is the body of the ballet, a group of dancers who are not soloists, she was hoping to advance to a principal dancer soon. Ever since then, whenever we had free time, we were inseparable. I was infatuated with her, with her long strawberry blond hair and wide green eyes, she had perfectly smooth skin and she was just breathtaking, how could I not fall for her and fall for her I did.

Recently Tanya had told me that there has been talk around the SAB (School of American Ballet) and the Company that there was talk of adding a new principle dancer to the company. Naturally We all thought they would be adding Tanya to the list, she had been with the company for four years now and she had lasted with the Corps, the longest, all the other dancers, either got tired of working hard and not making principle and moved on to different companies or just stopped dancing, add that to injury and age and Tanya was left with the most experience. This was her big chance, and after receiving a frantic phone call informing me that she had to see me as soon as possible, I just assumed it was a good frantic, boy was a wrong.

The door flew open with a loud bang reviling a tear streaked Tanya. I rushed to gather her in a hug.

"Baby, shh, tell me what's wrong" I cooed.

"That…That…….that bitch!!!" She shrieked

"Who's a bitch" I asked completely confused, but she couldn't respond she was in hysterics again, so I did the only thing that I could do, I sat down right there in the entrance of my condo and the hallway and wrapped her in my arms and let her cry.

After what felt like hours and a few strange stairs from passer biers I was finally able to get Tanya to calm down and into the house.

"Can you please tell me what is wrong….. does this have to do with the company, did they make a choice on the principle dancer yet?"

"Yes" she paused before adding "They decided that they are bringing in some stupid bitch from Australia" she hiccupped "That foreign bitch is only 16 and she is going to take over everything that I ever wanted! Why because I am too old? Shit she is only 16 and she's only been dancing for 6 years!" She screamed

"Babe calm down you are not too old, you are only 23, you still have plenty of time to make principle" I tried to reason with her "And there are always other companies that you can dance for.."

She cut me off with her scream "NNNNNOOOOO! I have only ever wanted to make principle for the company I am with right now, If I can't do that then my whole life has been wasted. "

We both stayed quiet for a while before she softly added "She is the youngest girl to ever make principle for any company, imagine how good she must be, she arrives in the morning and then tomorrow night the company is hosting a 'get to know the new awesome dancer' party, she will be performing an acrobatic ballet piece before the party. WHAT THE HELL IS ACROBATIC BALLET? "

"Hey just stay calm, do you want me to go with you, I'm sure the label can handle one night without me."

I worked as a producer and when need be a talent scout, for a major record label here in New York. I am only 24 and have already produced many up and coming artists. I launch their carriers, and then pass them off to the next producer, simply because I do not want to have to deal with the constant traveling, so once they start going on tours I pass them along.

I was pulled from my thoughts of how my carrier choice could be that much more successful if I would stick with my artist longer by Tanya pulling me into a hug.

"That would be great, thank you. I'm sorry but I have to go now, I have class early in the morning, they moved it up two hours earlier and then canceled all the afternoon classes so I have to get back to the dorms."

Even with Tanya being in the Company and not the school she was still required to attend classes every morning at 7 o'clock sharp and then when they were in the middle of a show, they would have rehearsals all afternoon and sometimes well into the night. However since right now they were about three weeks away from additions for the new fall show, they kept the dancers busy by making them attend class in the afternoons and sometimes as helpers for the SAB.

Only the advanced students were required to live in the dorms and have a curfew, but they provided dorms and apartments available for the company members as well. Tanya has lived in a dorm for the last 7 years her last 2 years with the school, and her 4 years with the company. She has tried getting into an apartment but those are only for the principles.

After saying goodbye I decided to take a long hot shower and then turn in for the night.

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BPOV

Wow, I still can't believe that I am going back home, to the states, forget everything else, right now I didn't care that I was the youngest person ever to make principle the any ballet company let alone the New York City Ballet Company. I forgot to worry about everything that was expected of me once I stepped foot off of this plain. The only thing I was thinking about was being home, well sort of.

You see most people seem to forget that I am an American Citizen, true I do have dual citizenship but I was born in Forks Washington, where I spent the first eleven years of my life. Since the young age of three I had been in full on training to be a rhythmic gymnast, true my harebrained mother had been working on my flexibility and stretching me out since literally the day I was born, but I didn't start taking classes till I was three.

You see my mother had been a very competitive rhythmic gymnast she would always pull out old tapes for me to watch and study. Her dream was for me to fallow in her footsteps, so I suffered thru the pain with a smile on my face just to make her happy.

It wasn't till once of my coaches suggested taking a few ballet classes in order to help with my balance issues that I started; I still remember that first day.

I had just turned eleven and my flexibility was beyond everyone's in the class, ballet came easy to me, even on that first day, while everyone was in their point shoes, and I was still barefoot learning all the core moves.

I was being homeschooled, doing rhythmic gymnasts all morning and in the afternoons I was taking ballet classes leaving my studying for the night time. My first week of ballet hadn't even finished when I was given my first pair of point shoes. At first my Gymnastics coach flipped out because Ballerinas feet are always ugly and doing rhythmic gymnastics you are always barefoot. However my mom reassured her that I was not going to happen because rhythmic was my life line I would always put that above everything else.

Well soon everything changed. I don't even know when, but before the year was even over I found myself living in the dorms in Australia taking Ballet class' all by myself. Turns out that my first ballet teacher saw that I had true talent, she called me a ballet prodigy and she had friends with the Australian school of ballet and before you knew it my parents shipped me off. I would still wake up early every morning and stretch out like I would for rhythmic gymnastics; this helped me be more flexible than any other student in the school or company. It wasn't till a few years later that I found a partner that I trusted and I combined my love for Rhythmic gymnastics and Ballet together and started doing acrobatic ballet. All my teachers would constantly yell and say I was going to end up killing myself and then I would be wasting all of my talent, but I didn't care I loved the thrill it would bring me.

Another passion of mine was composing and singing music. I would seem like the art gods decided to bless me, because it was like playing instruments came easy to me as well, and I have been told that I have a nice voice. Her in Australia I had a band, it's not like we ever got to go out and play our music because of curfews but it was still fun, I am truly going to miss those guys, but I can't bring myself to regret taking the position in New York. Being back in the states, sure still very far away from home, but maybe I will be able to see my parents again. I haven't seen them since I was eleven right before I got on the plain. Sure we talked all the time, but not once could they fly out to see me, or make it to my shows.

I was pulled from my sad thoughts when the pilot came on over the intercom and informed us that we were preparing to land.

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A/N: There is the first chapter, just trying to introduce the characters life's, I hope you like it, more coming soon. And as for Sassy and Sweet, I will continue that story, I just sort of lost where I was going with it, so I need to find that place and then I will update, sorry for the long wait.

-luv Opie13