Hi again! So I have a bit of a cold meaning that I have more time to write but my head really hurts. Anyways, the title might confuse you so let me explain. In dance an arrastre is a drag, so the title means What A Drag, you'll see why soon…

Also, I am aware that the Phonograph was only invented in 1877 but I had to bend the rules of time just a bit to make this story work, let's just say she got an early copy.

That's all for now,

-Yzarra

Anne and Diana walked inside the classroom and sat at their seats, Mr. Phillips declared that there would be another spell off today. Anne, Ruby, and Josie were up on the girls side and Gilbert, Moody, and Charlie were up on the boys side. Mr. Phillips saw that Anne, a girl, was winning very much and decided to worry her a bit.

"Josie, spell entrance" He said. Josie looked at the ceiling and slowly spelt it out "E-N-T-R-A-N-C-E" "That is correct, Josie. Charlie, spell Annoying", The entire classroom apart from Charlie giggled at this, he angrily replied "A-N-N-O-Y-I-N-G" "Correct, Charles. Anne, spell arrastre" He said with a smirk, Anne froze in shock but still managed to choke out a reply, "A-R-R-A-S-T-R-E" "Correct, Anne. Gilbert, spell frivolous", Gilbert easily replied "F-R-I-V-O-L-O-U-S" "Once again correct, Mr. Blythe. Ruby, spell extravagant", Ruby was wide-eyed and replied shakily, "E-K-" "Wrong! Ruby, sit down. Moody, Extravagant", Ruby sat down and started crying. "E-C?" "Wrong! Moody, take a seat. Josie, Extravagant" Moody sat down and Josie proudly started to spell out extravagant "E-X-T-R-A-V-E" "Wrong! Josie, down." Josie scowled as she sat down, "Charlie, spell extravagant" "E-X-T-R-A-V-A-G-E" "Wrong! Can nobody here spell? Charlie, sit!"

Now it was just Anne and Gilbert, the two who always won.

"Anne, extravagant" "E-X-T-R-A-V-A-G-A-N-T" she replied quickly,

"Correct, Anne".

The spelling contest went on and on until it was lunch, it ended in a tie leaving Anne very upset.

At the end of the school day Annee walked with her lunch bag to dance, she had put her dress and shoes inside her lunch bag so that people wouldn't suspect that she danced.

As Anne got in, she saw no one at the front desk but instead saw a sign that said 'sign yourself in', Anne looked down at the paper and saw names with checks, Anne found her name and added a check then walked into the change rooms.

Anne quickly changed into her dress and shoes and walked into studio A.

Inside, there were five other girls, all wearing the same dress that Anne had.

One was very tall and had shoulder-length raven black hair and ocean blue eyes, Anne noticed how she had cold eyes, much colder than Ms. Phillips. She also had an overbite that looked very pronounced on her sleek face.

That girl was speaking to a girl with long platinum blonde curls tied up with a pink bow, she was shorter than Anne and had perfectly turquoise eyes that looked cruel.

In that circle of girls there was also a short girl with long and wavy chocolate-brown hair and chocolate-brown eyes with a few chocolate-brown freckles on her nose, she looked sweet and wasn't really talking to anyone, she was really just standing and listening in the circle.

There was also a girl with hair the colour of caramel and pathetic amber eyes, she looked dazed and confused and seemed to be responding to questions quite idiotically.

And then in a corner, far away from the rest, was a small girl with long, dirty blonde, curls tied up with a red bow and kind, emerald, Doe eyes. She was sitting down in the corner eating an apple.

Right as she threw away her apple, Ms. Phillips called the class to sit in a circle around her and Sarah.

"Hello class, there is a new student today, Please everyone introduce yourselves with your names and ages." She said motioning for Anne to start.

"Hello, my name is Anne-with an E, please do always spell it with E! And i'm 11 years old."

The girl with raven hair pointed her nose up and spoke, "My name is Cassandra and i'm 14." She said primly, her nose never falling an inch.

Then the girl with platinum blonde hair spoke, "My name is Isabella and I am 12 year old" she said with an unfriendly smile

Now it was the chocolate-headed girls turn to speak, "I am Delilah and I am 11 years old, it's a pleasure to meet you Anne." She said with a warm smile, she reminded Anne of Diana slightly.

The girl with stunning amber eyes then spoke, "My name is Autumn, like the season, and I'm…" She then looked at Delilah confusedly, "How old am I?" She asked

Delilah giggled, "11 years old"

Autumn thanked Delilah leaving the smallest girl to speak, "Hello, My name is Charlotte and I'm Isabella's younger sister, I am seven and a half years old."

After they all were acquainted the dance class begun.

"Everyone start with the wall practice splits." Ms. Phillips commanded

Everyone groaned except for Cassandra who kept a poker face on.

The girls lied down on the ground and used the ballet bars to push their bottoms to the wall and spread their legs wide open for five minutes.

There was screaming and moaning from everyone but Cassandra who was doing a perfect over split.

"This is like giving birth but not getting the baby!" Isabella groaned in pain

After five minutes the girls got up and were told to pick partners.

Cassandra went with Isabella,

Autumn went with Delilah,

Leaving Anne to dance with little Charlotte.

"Practice your triple arrastres' as I get the phonograph working" Ms. Phillips said as she went to the machine with Sarah.

Anne looked at Charlotte, obviously very confused. "Don't worry, Anne, It's really simple. Just do an arrastre..." Charlotte said dragging her voice and foot, "Now put your foot over here on the bowl and do another arrastre" Anne followed Charlotte's commands and they were soon triple arrastre-ing all around the room. "That's it! See that wasn't so bad." Charlotte said laughingly, "No, it is quite simple as you said." Anne replied.

Ms. Phillips looked over her shoulder and saw that everyone was having an easy time so she made them all switch to the standing splits.

Isabella went into the perfectly straight standing splits and so did Charlotte, Autumn and Delilah.

Cassandra went into the over splits making a perfect right angle

And Anne did the under splits, she had gotten very close to the almost splits though.

Isabella looked at Anne judgmentally, "Can you not do the splits? That's awfully hilarious!" She giggled evilly, she had somehow managed to out-Josie Pye Josie Pye.

"Ah, Yes!" Sarah said happily as a song started playing, It was a song Anne had never heard before but was quite enchanting.

Right then the music was turned off as Ms. Phillips started forming the group.

"Can we form a pyramid please? Cassandra and Isabella, split the center, and Delilah and Charlotte, next in line. Anne and Autumn are last in line. No, no, I want Anne on the left! There, that's good!"

They were instructed to do many things such as lifts and jumps, Ms. Phillips was fascinated by the intense emotion on Anne's face during the dance number she had just started to choreograph, she did not realize just what a great actress Anne was and was pleasantly surprised.

She thought next time Anne might split center with Cassandra in order to balance out the two most important things in lyrical, Cassandra would be technique and Anne would be acting. Just maybe Anne had started to grow on her, but she would never admit it to anyone.

Anne walked out of the studio utterly humiliated, she completely forgot her inability to do the splits and completely forgot to ponder that scenario as well!

Charlotte tapped on her shoulder, "Don't worry about it, Isabella is very mean and today in class I thought that you danced better than her." She said with a smile

Anne smiled in return, she looked back to see all the girls being picked up by buggies, she could see Isabella scolding Charlotte but Charlotte still smiling, Charlotte was one fun seven year old.

Anne walked to Diana's house and knocked on the door to the tune of a song, Diana opened up the door with a picnic basket and they walked to Haunted Woods.

Once they sat down Anne told Diana everything that occured that dance class.

"What a drag!" Diana said simply

Anne nodded in agreement, "It was still fun nonetheless, although I do wish we could do it together, you always stand up for me, Di"

"What a lovely idea!" Diana said brightly

"Diana! You mustn't! They are ever so mean and they would just hurt you as well!"

"Nonsense! I will ask Mother as soon as I get home!"

Anne then hugged Diana tightly, "You are truly the best bosom friend a girl could ask for!"

They skipped home happy just before sun fall, concluding the day.

P.S. The song imagined playing was Clean by Taylor Swift, I know it obviously didn't exist at the time but I was just listening to that song while writing this so obviously I was inspired.