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Chapter 4

Mai in New York.

Mai was at a loss for words as she walked through the gate and into JFK. She had never been in an airport do large. She probably would have gotten herself lost if it hadn't been for the representative they had sent for her. She could speak English, but it was one thing when you're in class and another when your in a country where majority of the population is clueless about Japanese and will probably ask if you are Chinese even though they are two different countries with different cultures. (But similar in some ways)

Mai looked around and saw a sign with her name. A woman was standing dressed in business attire waiting for her. Mai grabbed her bag and made her way towards the woman.

"Umm hi, I'm Mai Taniyama." She bowed to her.

"Oh hello, I'm Dr. Amelia Lee. I'm will be your guide for your stay." She bowed in return. "Do you have other bags with you?" she asked.

"Ah yes, but I have no clue where to go." Mai looked around at the swarms of people.

"Oh just follow me and we can go get them." They walked to the baggage claim and Mai retrieved the rest of her luggage. They made their way to the town car and chauffer that was waiting for them. As they rode Mai found herself staring up at the skyscrapers.

"I would like to go over a few things with you. You will be staying in a hotel close to the theatre where you will have rehearsals. There are actually twi shows you will be doing. The first will be the musical Cinderella. That will be at the end of this month. Next will be the Showcase's revival of the Red Shoes. The final show is a new ballet by Cooper Nielson. You will be the lead in both"

"Wait what?" Mai caught that part. "I thought it was only the Red Shoes?"

"Oh no. You are the star of the whole Summer Showcase. The proceeds all go to charity. Cinderella goes to the Make A Wish Foundation, The Red Shoes to the victims of physical and sexual abuse"

"Well I guess I can do it. Only a month for each. That's not bad." Mai tried to reassure herself. They reached the hotel and Mai looked up at the luxurious building. "wow." Was all Mai could utter.

They walked inside and she looked around and again could only utter the word "wow." Next, to her room where she was again stunned. She ran and to the balcony and threw open the windows and screamed. "Hello NEW YORK!" the pigeons fluttered away. Next, she ran to the set of doors the led to bedroom and flopped down on to the king size bed. She got up and ran to the bathroom and sat in the huge tube that could fit a sumo wrestler.

"I'll leave you to settle in." Amelia, as she had told Mai to call her, left the room. The thrill of the room soon wore off and Mai realized she was all alone. She hated it. She was bored, scared, sick, and yet excited. She began to feel homesick and wanted her SPR family. Mai picked up the phone and called Ayako.

"Hello?' Ayako answered. Mai burst into tears.

"Come here please!" Mai sobbed.

"Mai? Honey what's wrong?' Ayako tried to soothe her.

"It's so nice and beautiful here." Mai cried some more.

"And that's a problem?" Ayako asked sounding confused.

"Yes because I miss everyone and I want to share this with you guys. I want you guys to see me perform. I can't do this without you guys!" she sobbed some more.

"Mai I can get on that plane this second and be there before you know it, but is that really what you want? I know you can do this. You don't need us. You have talent and the spirit to achieve this. If I get on that plane, what will that prove?"

Mai had begun to calm down. "I guess you have a point. If you come now, I'll never be able to prove that I can be on my own again."

"We'll all come out to see you in the Red Shoes and stay till the end of the showcase how about that?" Ayako told her.

"That sounds good, but what do I do till then? The rest of the cast will be in the dorms and they don't move in for a few days? They gave me this hotel suite." Mai went on to describe the place and she and Ayako reached a decision. Mai said goodbye and then picked up the phone and called Amelia.

"Hi Amelia? I have something I would like to ask?"

A few days later.

Mai was now moving into the dorms. She didn't want to be all alone. She needed to be with her peers. Everyone was moving in that day. The dorms were like little apartments. Very nice. Mai got to know everyone fast. A few people were snarky towards her, but for the most part everyone was very accepting. There were performers from all over the world. The Summer Showcase was using performing arts students from different countries. They bonded pretty fast.

Mai was walking down the hall with large stack of papers that she had volunteers to pass out. She couldn't really see where she was going, but she saw by the passing rooms that she seemed to be going in the right direction. That's when it happened. She almost missed running into someone and ran smack right into a pole. (I have done that and didn't have the excuse of not being able to see, I was trying to text….)

The papers went flying and Mai fell backwards. "Ow!" Mai rubbed her head as she was helped up by the person she had just avoided a collision with.

"Are you ok? We should probably get you to a doctor." The male voice said.

"No its fine. I've hit my head way worse than this before…" She said rubbing the bruise that was now forming on her forehead. She looked up into beautiful violet eyes and golden hair. Perfect golden hair that shone like the sun. Mai must have been staring and slightly drooling. To make it worse she said "Tamaki?"

"No… Are you sure you don't need a doctor?" Mai began to focus and realized what an idiot she looked like just then.

"Oh I'm sorry…" she then focused her attention to the papers scattered everywhere. "OH NO! The schedules!" Mai scurried and tried to gather them up.

"Here let me help you!" he helped her pick up the papers. There was one paper left and they both reached for it. His hand over hers. "Oh sorry. I guess I should introduce myself. I'm Luke Wilks. You must be the famous Mai Taniyama."

"Oh I wouldn't call myself famous. I'm really nobody…" Mai began to blush and stammer. She realized Luke was blushing too.

"I think a few could argue that. You are the star of the showcase. Your face is plastered all over the city." He smiled at her.

"WHAT?" Mai panicked. "When…. How?"

"Well was it from your portfolio? Or a photo shoot?" He asked her.

"I don't recall a photo shoot…."

"Here let me help."

And that was the beginning of Luke and Mai.

First Rehearsal

Mai thought about yesterday. She thought about the guy she had called Tamaki. "How embarrassing!" she thought to herself. He was really nice. He helped her hand out the schedule and then offered to walk her to her room.

Mai walked into one of the rehearsal rooms and was greeted by her friends. They were all early. Everyone soon started to fill in. They stretched out and waited for the director. There were so many people, Mai didn't know them all.

The director came in and began to talk. He then called for his leads to step forward. "Miss Mai Taniyama and Mr. Luke Wilks." They both stood up and walk to the director. "You two have to task of getting to know each other and for this show to be a success there must be chemistry."

"Well I have an idea…" Luke walked to Mai and dipped her back and kissed her. Mai who hadn't been paying attention, squawked. She was soon swept away with touch of Luke's lips and arms. "My Cinderella."

"Mai, would you like to say a few words?" the director asked her, forcing Mai to come back to reality.

"Oh… I'm very honored to be given this chance. I promise to work very hard and not let you down." She bowed.

Their first rehearsal went well they stretched and warmed up and then went through different exercises to get to know everyone. Mai and a few girls on her floor walked towards the doors. Luke ran to catch up with them.

"Hey, would you guys like to go sight seeing sometime?" he asked them.

"Sure." they all said at the same time. The rest of the girls left Mai to be alone with Luke.

"So do you like Cinderella?" he asked her blushing and looking at his feet slightly.

"Yeah. I love all fairy tales. Even the scary ones." Maybe I shouldn't have said that… Mai thought to herself.

"That's cool. So do you want to get some coffee?" He asked her.

Ok Mai be cool. Just answer in that cool manner. You're an actress you can do this. "Ok!" Mai giggled excitedly.

"Really? Then lets go." He smiled and took her arms as they went off to the coffee shop.

Mai felt comfortable with Luke that she ended up telling him all about her. With the exception of her difficult past, but she told him about her job at SPR and about her cats and dog and her friends and she slightly brought up Naru.

Time went by fast before Mai knew it was close to opening night. She and Luke were dating. Something felt off though. Mai couldn't figure it out. She remembered feeling like this before when something big was about to happen. She tried to shake it. She didn't want to feel this way and so she pushed those thoughts far from her and went on with her business.

She walked down the street. She had learned that everyone left New York on the weekends and what was left were tourist. Which is what she considered herself to be.

As Mai walked something caught her eye. She turned quickly to see a slight glimpse of Gene. Almost as if had just been a hallucination. Mai turned and saw him again up ahead, but then he was gone again.

"Gene…" Mai started to walk faster and then run to the spot. She knew she had seen him. She couldn't have been imagining it, but why had he come to there and not in her dreams?

So i'm making things speed up because i want to get back to Mai and Naru time. I know this whole Mai and Luke thing seems a little corny, but i thought it would be cute and a change to see. Please Review. Hoped you liked it.