Three

Izzie sat to the side as the twelve internationals dancers started freestyling as a group. Even though you could tell it was totally on the spot it was amazing to watch. The way they gelled as a group and knew what the others wanted or needed. She winced as Noah slid under West's dive, worried he was going to have his head kicked in or something. As they were coming to the end of their dance Amanda danced towards her and grabbed her hands, spinning her of the bench and into the group dance. Izzie grimaced as she messed up but quickly caught onto the moves A-troupe were doing and started to enjoy it.

The music ended and everyone laughed and let out a sigh of relief. "I feel like saying just do that tomorrow," Izzie said smiling at them. "You're so in sync. All the time," she added.

"Well we could. But I'm not going to be here," Max said. All eyes spun onto him. "It's been great to finally get to internationals and win. I've enjoyed my time with the next step so much more than with Elite and I'm sure Cierra agrees," he said. "But I'm heading to university."

"I guess now is the time to say I want to leave to make music with the band. I mean dancing has been great but I need to spend more time on the other part of my life," James said holding Riley tighter who seemed to know this was coming.

Thalia raised her hand. "And I've been invited to train in Poland. They feel my abilities would really help," she said. Eldon looked at her.

"Who invited you?" he asked suspiciously.

"Bartek," she said. Eldon's hands clenched together tightly. He'd known there was something wrong with him and now he was trying to take his girl. James placed a hand on his chest to restrain him from storming forwards and having a go at Thalia.

Stephanie stepped forwards to distract everyone. "Urm… I'm moving to LA to pursue my acting career."

"And I want to move on to different and better things," Giselle adds. The room just goes quiet as everyone looked at each other.

Izzie stands up and quietly slips out the room while the group say goodbye to each other. She stood just in the corridor and pulled her phone out of her pocket. She saw she had a voicemail and frowned. She dialled her voicemail and listened.

"Hey Iz, it's Felix. Look I'm sorry and all about what's happened in your life but you're not here. It's over, I'm sorry. I'm with Ella now," Izzie listened stoically. She hung up and slumped against the wall. Her dance partner, the person she had performed a blind duet with at internationals had dumped her. Her boyfriend. Her whole life was getting turned upside down. As she sat there wrapping her head around the news the departing members of A-troupe walked out.

Stephanie walked over to her. "Look after them Izzie. And good luck," she said. Izzie smiled and nodded as Noah came into the corridor.

"Izzie we were looking for you, do you want to come help?" Noah asked. Izzie nodded and stood up and followed the boy back into the studio. James was still there, the only departing member of A-troupe sticking around. He was stood next to Riley who was looking at the remaining members of A-troupe – Cierra, Amanda, Michelle, Noah, West and Eldon.

"We're definitely going to need a new a-troupe this year," Riley says as Kate walks in.

"Exactly why we are going to have an open day tomorrow. Dancers can come, meet us all and then sign up for auditions the following day," Kate explains. "How's the dance coming on?"

"Badly. We did a dance but then the others decided they didn't even want to be a part of A-troupe so now we have to start again," Riley said.

"You'll get there. You're all dedicated," Kate added. "I'm sure Izzie will help as well. Although I do want to borrow her a minute." She indicated the office and Izzie followed tentatively. She glanced out the window at A-troupe, and saw Eldon storm out closely followed by West and James.

"I've been speaking to your aunt. She said that you getting involved in the Canadian community helps your VISA application. I can't guarantee you a place on A-troupe because of the open day although if you don't get in B-troupe will always be open to you but I was thinking, Riley is head choreographer for A-troupe alongside whoever gets dance captain but I need a choreographer for J-troupe, B-troupe and a teacher for baby ballet. I was wondering if, alongside Riley, you'd be willing to help out. It's a paid job so when applying for your VISA you can use it as a current employment reference," Kate explained. Izzie went to argue. "I looked. You're here on a temporary custodial VISA. You can have a short-term job contract. You can resign one each month, that way you get around your VISA and I still get my teacher." Izzie was silent as she thought this through. "Izzie, your aunt agrees it's a good idea. Please help me out," Kate asked.

Izzie shrugged. "I don't know. It's too much. I've only just got here, I can't… deal with it," she sprinted out the office leaving Kate staring after her through the window. She re-joined Riley and the others.

"Then we need a count of 8 here before we go into 'tah tah ta,'" Riley said. "Let's put what we have to music and then we will fill that 8 count." She pressed play and Izzie watched as the remaining 4 A-troupers did the routine Riley had choreographed. She sighed and mumbled to herself.

"What about this?" I suggested, demonstrating a series of steps for 8 counts. She looked at me and then at A-troupe.

"Well go on then, you saw her," Riley said. Michelle, Amanda, Cierra and Noah all grinned and repeated my move back to me before going into Riley's choreo afterwards.

"That feels really natural," Cierra said, smiling brightly. "I like it."

A/N: All plot synopsis that I am using come from the next step wikia pages