Maddie's POV

I walked into the studio surveying my surroundings. Very spacious. Lots of room. The floor seems in good shape too.

Mackenzie starts doing a few tricks across the room trying out the new studio. Abby walks in with a huge smile. "What do you think girls?!"

"I love it!" Jojo replies. Abby laughs.

She seems happy enough. I start spinning checking out the floor. I wish there was a mirror so I could see if my booty shorts looked weird on me or not.

"There will be mirrors up here" Abby explained pointing at a couple walls. "And our logos will be over here, and all over this wall. And we'll have Abby Lees Dance company sign over here…"

I zoned her out as I continued trying out turns and tricks warming up my body. Abby could be annoying. I'm kinda getting really fed up with her these days.

Our moms had gone to our rented house, leaving us here with Abby to prep for our first audition, which happens to be tomorrow. Abby is not wasting anytime. She's starting us off from day 1. No breaks in the real world.

"Alright girls. Stretch, let's go. Stop wasting time." Abby snapped at us.

I finished the spin annoyed that my knee didn't turn out all the way correctly. Thank god Abby didn't see that. She has been on my case for months since apparently my technique is slacking.

Kendall is sitting on the floor beside me stretching her long legs out in front of her resting her chin on her knees.

I slipped down beside Kendall stretching my side. "Do you think we're going to share a room?" I ask her. I wouldn't mind sharing a room with Kendall. It would be pretty fun and useful. Mackenzie would be a completely different story. No way.

"Hm, I don't know. Wonder how big it is." Kendall replied pushing down on her turned out feet.

"Alright girls!" Abby called. "Come here." I stood up reluctantly fixing the back on my shorts.

"So, tomorrow you have an audition for an acting opportunity on the show "shake it off". This show is losing viewers since there main actors are no longer on the show, so they want more competitive dancers for the new actors. You might be there for a one-time thing, or for 2 episodes, or a season. Depends on your performance and dancing tomorrow. And there not looking for one girl. They want a group from 2-4 people. There's other teams invited too though. You're competing with other dancers too. So let's warm up and start working on some jazz and hip hop moves they might require from you girls. You need to be sassy!" Abby told us with a laugh.

I want to be on shake it off. I have been on several shows now but I want to become even more familiar and well known. And this time I can go onstage with my friends. I can be 100% sass.

We spread out.

"Oh and girls, one more thing. I'm bringing in new dancers next week. You may be replaced. Any of you. No one is safe." Abby threatened.

I rolled my eyes thinking of the millions of times I have heard this over the past 5 years. Abby's so full of it. Obviously no one is going to be replaced. Kendall, Mackenzie and Nia have been here so long were basically family. Jojo is 100% sass and well needed for LA. And Kalani is the best dancer we have here. And I'm her favorite. No one is going anywhere, other than LA.

I tried out the move Gianna portrayed, using my expressions, imagining how it looked like.

"Yes Maddie. Use that sass girl." Abby giggled. I forced myself not to laugh at her. Abby thinks were all obsessed with her. I don't know why. And she thinks she's really funny. But she really isn't.

I'm so done with Abby. ALDC LA better be a huge success. Or I might leave ALDC. I can make it on my own. I know I can.