Kamalani, my old ballet coach, bursts through the door, screaming something about Alana and coaching. I don't really hear her, too busy staring at the Alana Kapena, sleeping on my floor, right next to me, in a pair of pajamas from the springs.

In case you don't remember, I'm Yaoi Chen, a professional fire dancer! At the last competition I went to I got really nervous and screwed everything up! So now I'm back home, and my childhood friend Kamaka's three little devils posted a video of me doing my hero Alana's dance routine online! Somehow it all worked out though and now she's here and has offered to be my coach! I still can't believe it.

Kamalani runs over to me, "Do you know what's happened? It's all over the internet, Alana saw your video and got inspired to come and coach you! I can't believe it!" I'm only half listening to her a mile per minute rambles as Alana awakes, and sits up. She turns to me, and smiles. "Yaoi! Can I get some food?"

"Of course! What do you want?"

"Well, what do you like? I must learn these things if I am to be your coach"

At this moment my mother deems it a good time to come into the room with a large serving of my favorite food, gu lao rou, a sweet and sour pork dish. While Alana is eating my mom chats, telling Alana that I gain weight easily and I only eat when I win.

"So Yaoi, have you eaten this recently?" Alana asks, suddenly shifting her attention to me

"Oh, yes! I haven't eaten it in so long, being away from home and all…"

"Why?" she cuts me off with a cold smile "If you haven't won anything? You obviously do gain weight easily, and you need to get back to your competition weight if you want me to even think about coaching you"

Before I can respond with anything resembling a comeback, my dad comes in to ask me to help move all of Alana's stuff to her room, because being coached by my idol wasn't enough, no she has to live with us too!

By the time we've moved all of her stuff into the only room we have left, a banquet room that she calls "classic and small" she's already done talking to Kamalani and Mom, and sitting on the floor in the middle of all the boxes. She gestures to me, inviting me to sit too. "So, Yaoi, tell me" she gently takes my chin in her hand. I'm pretty sure I'm dreaming at this point, except my muscles are protesting too much for a dream

"Where do you practice? Where do you like to go when you aren't? What do you like to do around here? Is there anyone special? We must get closer, as coach and student"

It is at this point that I realize she's taken my hand and getting almost too close to me, and I rocket away from her, terrified.

"What? Did I scare you?" she says, tilting her head so her hair falls just over her eyes. 'Oh no she's hot'' says a voice in my head. 'Shut up!' I tell it.

Around midnight I hear knocking at my door, as I get up I hear Alana "Yaoi! We should sleep together! No way to get closer than that!" She's got to be kidding me, right? I shuffle over to the door, to tell her no, and notice all my homemade posters of her are still up. Oh no. I rush around, taking all of my memorabilia down. "No, we can't sleep together Alana!" She protest a little while longer, before leaving to her own room in defeat. Is this what the rest of the season will be like before she realizes that I'm not worth her time? I collapse on my bed, suddenly very tired.

The next few weeks are filled with too much exercise and embarrassment. Alana says that I'm not even allowed to look at a set of poi until I'm back at my competition weight, and while she made me run around Kapoho while she toured on a bike and told everyone she was my new coach. Literally everyone, even random tourists. She did keep trying to be more friendly, asking me about past relationships and wanting to tour everywhere, but it was really just pretty weird. Eventually the media found out, and even though my parents were ecstatic that the springs was getting so much business, it was way too much excitement for me.

Assuming the scale didn't lie I'm back at my goal weight! I run to the Fire Palace, our practice field, and nearly break the doors in my excitement to get in."I'm good! I finally got back to my weight! Can I train now Alana?" I wave at the triplets who are frantically waving behind me. "What" I say, still smiling. As I turn around a foot connects with my face, knocking me down.

"IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT YOU PIG-FACED, WHINY, UPPITY" a teenager who looks vaguely familiar screams, while trying to stomp on me.

"YAYOI" Alana yells, barrelling into the room. Yayoi? Why does that name seem familiar, other than sounding like the common mispronunciation of my name?

The teenager jumps off me, and immediately starts arguing with Alana about promising to choreography her routine, and running off to help this pig, ect. Yayoi, could it be Yayoi Palakiko? She's an up and coming junior dancer who has the same coach as Alana, so it's probably her.

"I came here of my own free will Yayoi, not because anyone forced me too! Stop, oh. I have an idea" Alana start, with that creepy smile from her first night here. I don't like where this is going.

"I've been looking at songs for you" she says, pointing to me "and I found one that's two drastically different movements. I couldn't decide which one was best, so how about I choreograph both and next week I can decide who gets what?"

I shrug my approval, I'm surprised she didn't just go back to O'hua, and Yayoi also agrees, though obviously not very happy.

Author's note
Oops, I'm back! I didn't actually plan to write this but I'm on summer vacation and I'm trying to avoid my English project. This hasn't really been proofread, so if you have any questions or concerns leave me a comment or send me a message! As always, thanks to drawingchallenger and rikzpt on Tumblr for giving me the ideas! Also, the triplets are named Poi, Nunchaku, and Chiball because fire dancing doesn't actually have a lot of terms for stuff. Poor children