Hey guys! Here's the first official chapter or, 'episode'. The only people who are in this episode that were in any episodes on The Next Step are Noah and Richelle. But don't worry, Michelle, Eldon, Riley, James, West and Emily will all be in probably episode eleven or something. I just need to get the storylines of these characters started first and then we'll reveal the big bombshell that we're both really excited about. Enjoy!
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As Miss Kate walked into The Next Step studios, she smiled sadly. According to the landlord, if the studio didn't win Regionals this year, they would have to give the studio space to someone else. She wanted, more than anything, to have the team she had oh so many years ago. If Elite didn't scheme that plan, they could have won Nationals.
Kate sighed, she couldn't focus on the past, she had to focus on the future. She had some amazing dancers that were in A Troupe last year. She just hoped that they would come back to audition this year.
What this team really needed was a dancer with wow factor, like what Michelle had, but she doubted that someone like that would want to try out for a team that hadn't won Regionals in years.
She smiled at the dancers who walked in, some of them saying hi.
This wasn't the only auditions she would be holding today. A couple of years ago, the people who were in charge of Regionals, Nationals and Internationals decided that they would have a junior version of all three competitions, so every studio was told to have a Junior A Troupe, which meant that she would be holding auditions for that as well.
She sighed again, thinking about how she really needed to hire a head choreographer to help her out around the studio, since Pheobe left after they lost Regionals for the third time.
"Miss Kate!" Kate turned around to see April, the dance captain for the last two years walking up to her, a blinding smile on her face.
"Hi, April, I'm glad you came to auditions." April looked offended, but quickly recomposed herself.
"Of course I'd come Miss Kate, The Next Step is my home, I wouldn't audition for another studio when I could easily get The Next Step to win Regionals this year." Miss Kate raised an eyebrow at April's statement, slightly surprised.
"Oh, really?" April nodded, so Kate continued talking, "Would you be able to get both A Troupe and Junior A Troupe to win Regionals?"
"Um, well, I'm not in Junior A Troupe, obviously, but maybe this year I could help you find the perfect dance captain for it." Kate nodded, considering it.
"I'll think about it. Now, how about you go and warm up for auditions?" April nodded and walked off.
Kate didn't know why, but she had a feeling that this year, their luck would change.
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"Alright everyone, welcome to auditions for A Troupe!" As everyone clapped, Kate looked around, glad to see some new faces auditioning, but also glad to see some of her A Troupe members from last year still here.
Ever since The Next Step lost Regionals after Riley, Emily, Michelle, James, West and Eldon left the studio, Kate let dancers from other studios audition, hoping she would find someone that would make this team stand out.
While she had some great dancers here, such as April and Jordan, who joined just after The Next Step's six best dancers left, she wanted an amazing one. She wanted one that would wow the judges. But, whatever, she would take what she could get.
"Okay, so all of you know how this works, right? You will all be called into groups, and you will all be doing free style solos. So, first up, we have Melanie, Julian and Stacey."
After Melanie, Julian and Stacey finished their solos, Kate was about to call out the next group before she was interrupted.
"Um, is this where the auditions are?" Kate looked up from her clipboard to see a blonde girl walking into the studio. In fact, everyone's heads turned around to stare at the new girl, but Kate just walked over to her and introduced herself.
"Yes, it is, I'm Kate, and you are?" The girl smiled and shook Kate's hand.
"I'm Allison," she paused and looked around, seeing that lots of dancers were already here, and then turned her head back to Kate, "I'm sorry I'm late, I just moved from Madison, Wisconsin."
"It's okay, how about you go change and you'll be in the group after this one." Kate said, smiling, and Allison smiled back.
"Okay, thanks." Allison then walked out of the room with her bag and walked to the change rooms while Kate turned her head back to the dancers in the room.
"Okay! So the next group is….
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As Allison walked back into Studio A while the group before her was still dancing, she walked up to April and tapped her on the shoulder.
"April?" April turned around to see her old friend from Wisconsin.
"Allison, What are you doing here?" Allison took her best friend's surprise as a good thing, and smiled.
"My parents missed this place, so they both looked for jobs here, and well, here we are." April was sort of in shock. She couldn't believe that her best friend was actually here.
"Wait a minute, do your parents know where you are?" April asked her, to which Allison bit her lip and said, "No, I don't know if I'll ever be able to tell them. But, speaking of family, Izzy's somewhere in this building. She's going to be auditioning for Junior A Troupe today." Allison grinned, proud of her little sister.
"That's great! I can't wait to see her!" After April said that, a guy came up to the two girls, putting his arm around April's shoulder.
"Hey babe, who's this?" Asked the boy.
"Jordan this is my best friend Allison, Allison, this is Jordan, my boyfriend." Allison raised her eyebrows in surprise, April never said anything about a boyfriend over the last three years when she was here and Allison was in Wisconsin.
"I actually have to go talk to Miss Kate about something, but you two should get to know each other." Before either Jordan or Allison could protest, April walked away.
"So, you're April's best friend? Funny, she never mentioned you." Allison narrowed her eyes at Jordan, who did he think he was?
"Hm, weird, she never mentioned you either. But for the record, she probably didn't mention me to you because she didn't think you were special enough to her to know about her best friend." At that, Jordan scoffed.
"Please, you're nothing special. In fact, I can't wait to see you fail in front of all of these dancers." Jordan told her condescendingly.
"If you think that's going to shake me into getting nervous and messing up in front of anyone, you're delusional." Jordan had no time to respond, since music stopped and the dancers finished dancing, and Kate started calling out the next group.
"Okay! So our last group will be Noah, Richelle, Jordan, April and Allison." Everyone except the dancers about to audition clapped, and the five dancers spread out in a line across the floor as Kate started the music again and Stand Up started playing.
Richelle and Noah were great, Allison observed. They were definitely making the troupe. Even though Jordan had made a horrible first impression on her, she had to admit, he was a pretty amazing dancer. April was as great as she remembered. But now, it was her turn.
"And last but not least, Allison!"
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April watched her best friend step back and do an aerial and then watched her dance amazingly. She smiled knowing that Allison was still the great dancer she has always been.
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Miss Kate watched Allison dance in amazement. She's been looking for someone with that wow factor that Michelle had, and she just found it.
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Allison took a deep breath after her audition while the rest of the room burst in applause. She smiled sheepishly as she walked back to April who grinned at her.
"You were amazing, as always." Allison smiled back.
"Thanks, so were you." As she finished speaking, she felt a tap on her shoulder and turned around to see Noah and Richelle standing there.
"Hi, I'm Richelle, this is Noah, we just wanted to say that your audition was amazing and we think you would be a great asset to A Troupe." Allison smiled in thanks.
"That's if I get in."
"Oh, you will." April said. At that moment, Miss Kate came back out with her clipboard.
"Okay everyone," Kate started as she walked to the wall near her office and put the list up on the wall, "this is the list of the ten dancers who made it into A Troupe. Remember, if you didn't make it this year, there's always next year." Kate then walked away as all of the dancers in the room ran up the list to find out if they got in.
to be continued...