Hey guys! Thanks for all the kind reviews and the prompts, I'll see what I can do.
Unfortunately this will be my last post for a while, I'm off to Prague on Tuesday and to Monte Carlo on Friday, but I promise to work on the various request you sent me :)
This one-shot revolves around Tyler and Nora and is set after their Senior year, not really sure about this... mostly because it's very short.
Any way I hope you like it.
Also DISCLAIMER (since I forgot last chapter) I DO NOT OWN THE STEP UP FRANCHISE... unfortunately *sigh*

QUOTE OF THE DAY:

"Tu mi hai tirato su da fondo della cima,
non è che salvi il mondo però è meglio di prima.
Chi mi conosce da sempre ora si sorprende,
mi metti a posto ma non sposti niente."

"You pulled me up from the bottom of the top,
it's not like it saves the world but is better than ever before.
Who always knew me now is surprised,
you fix me without moving anything."

-from an Italian song called
"(Non posso più) Fare a meno di te" - "(Now I can't) Do with out you"

Tyler Gage was not good with relationships.
Aside from Mac, his foster sibilings, his brother/sister bond with Andie and as of late his friendship with Miles he had no attachement.
So it really was no surprise that he was kind of scared of being in a relationship. And not any relationship but a Relationship with a capital R.
And with Nora Clark. One of the greatest, if not the best, ballerina at MSA.
He was going to mess things up. He just knew.

She just had to walk into his life and turn his world around. It was strange, like nothing he ever felt before. She made him dream, wish and hope for the first time. She made him want to actually try.
He had never put so much work and effort into something.
After their performance Tyler had to get used to a new style of life. It was for the better. Definetely.
During his first month he spent more hours at school at MSA than during a whole year at the normal school. He got up early and came home rather late, he and Mac would catch up every afternoon and playbasketball. Sometimes he still went to parties on the weekends, but most of the times he was at a club downtown dancing or with Nora as Lucy and Miles gave their bast on the stage.
If he thought too much about it Tyler would get overwhelmed by the sudden turn of events, sometimes he still felt like it was better to give everything up.
Girls like her didn't date boys like him. t was better to break things off before they got too serious. Then again everytime he saw her smile he thought that they were already too serious.
And deep down he didn't really mind.

Things got all the more real as the day went by. One day he started going to her school and before they knew it she was having dinner with his family. He was afraid of what might have happened and even if she didn't want to show it Nora was nervous too. Even his foster parents didn't really know how to react since she was tecnically the first real girlfirend of his life. The only one who didn't seem affected was his little sister.

("Well, it's a good thing you guys are talking again. He seemed happier when things were fine and when you had that fight he couldn't stop moping around." She said like it was no big deal. Nora liked her instantly.)

A week into their relationship he was invited to dinner at her house and she spent a Sunday afternoon at Tyler's naighbourhood monthly barbeque.
It all seemed just a few days ago. Yet it had been months already.
He was little less scared and a lot more in love. Graduation day was getting closer and so their last school performance. Tyler himself had to work on something which was kind of intimidating seeing it was his first year at MSA, but Nora was always on his side. Supporting him.
They worked day and night, they made plans for the future (because with her it didn't sound as scary).

Working on the coreography kind of reflected his life. Full of twist and turns and sometimes small and sometimes huge steps.
At first it was messy, but Nora helped him and like he always caught her when they danced she was always ready to catch him if he fell. At the end his Senior piece was harmonious and beautiful to see ("just like her" he thought) but still very much him and maybe it was because she was now a constant in his world.

Now it was fall again and Tyler Gage was ready to start a new chapter of his life.
He was standing in front of Nora's house. It was still early and Baltimore's air was chilly. Aside from the distant sound of cars things were calm. He could hear Lucy and Nora inside talking and planning when, where and how they were going to see each other in the future. It was gonna be difficult.
He and Nora were off to New York while Lucy and Miles were going all the way to the west coast. Lucy with a great big company to dance and sing, while Miles had been contacted by a record company in L.A.
The girl came out with a box in hand each. The part of the goodbyes made Nora teary eyed and as unbelievable as it sounds it was her mother that managed to make the two best friends stop.
("You'll be seeing eachother next week, when you and Tyler will come back to grab the stuff you left behind")

And with that they left.

Tyler Gage was thrilles. And just enough hopeful.
New York was waiting for him. He had a contract and he had dreams and goals.
And no matter how much it scared him he knew he was going to be all right.
The reason?
Nora Clark was on his side.

well, I hope you liked it :)
Review and tell me what you think ;)

love from Italy,
personalescape