SING:
Love ain´t no Crime!
Chapter 7: Light up my Spanish soul!
Rosita´s Pov:
When the morning, after waking up, is full of stress and hard work, it is especially nice to go somewhere where you feel yourself fulfilled.
Such a Place was my workplace, sure you might say that Work was full of stress..., maybe that even matches well, but some kinds of jobs just make you happy and bring you joy, being member of the Moon-theater-crew was definitely such a job.
"Well there we are Rosita, are you ready to go all out and lit that fire in your feet?!" Gunther asked me, as we entered our rehearsal room, where we trained our songs and choreography.
"Well i´m all pumped up, the new songs are going to rock!" I stated as I held the sheet with the list of the new songs and their lyrics, which we got from Buster, in my hands.
It was incredible what he came up and I was sure that some of them would be good for a major show, especially that one he suggested the most, it was a song I loved and the way he wanted to produce it on stage, was just as insane as awesome.
With the Hydraulic pedestal and that foldable dress, which opens once you release it and rise higher, it was bound to get the performance of the year, for sure.
"Got all the Piggy Power on high level?!" Gunther asked further.
"Piggy Power´s on high max captain, ready to engage!" I stated with a determinate look.
"That's what I want to hear, now listen to the music and let me hear your voice!" He stated and I nodded.
He played of the Music and I began to tap my foot to the beat before singing, just as I had trained all the time, the next Show was supposed to be in about 5 days, until then I had to get this part of the show.
"Let me hear it Rosita!" Gunther stated as he turned the music a bit louder.
(Original:- Roar by Katy Perry)
"I used to bite my tongue and hold my breath
Scared to rock the boat and make a mess
So I sat quietly
Agreed politely
I guess that I forgot I had a choice
I let you push me past the breaking point
I stood for nothing
So I fell for everything
You held me down, but I got up
Already brushing off the dust
You hear my voice, You hear that sound
Like thunder gonna shake the ground
You held me down, but I got up
Get ready 'cause I've had enough
I see it all, I see it now
I got the eye of the tiger, a fighter,
dancing through the fire
Cause I am a champion and
You're gonna hear me ROAR
Louder, louder than a lion
Cause I am a champion and
You're gonna hear me ROAR
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
You're gonna hear me roar
Now I'm floating like a butterfly
Stinging like a bee I earned my stripes
I went from zero, to my own hero...!" I sang while dance to the sound but even if the song was nice and my singing also not that bad, did something was missing.
"Rosita..., darling what´s wrong?!" Gunther asked as I suddenly stopped halfway through, he shut of the music and looked at me confused.
"I don´t know it just does not really feels like a good song to dance to, it´s nice to hear and sing along but..., it just had not really the thing which makes me want to dance freely!" I explained to him.
"I see, you need something to lit that fire inside..., well how about we try the other song we talked about?!" Gunther stated, having learned that not everything was possible for a 45 years old, stressed-out mother, who does this while keeping the house clean and educate the kids.
It was my passion, but also my way of supporting the family, with the money I earned here, I could help the Family a little and Norman and I could spent some more time with each other.
Gunther often Babysitted after I had to firmly reprimand him for his past blunter with my kids and the late night Candy-terror they pulled off.
But not only him but even Meena, Johnny and Ash offered to help sometimes.
It was truly as if Norman and I experienced our second spring and this truly made my Spanish soul want to dance.
Well better said my half Spanish soul..., my mother was American, Maria Hamish, from Manhattan, and my father, Carlos Montana, was a passionate Latino coming from Spain, good at dancing and a master at the guitar.
I lived for most of the years of my childhood in Spain, after mom and Dad moved there, due to some family issues my father had to take care off.
Mom was pregnant back then and so I was born and raised in Spain and about 20 years ago I moved to Manhattan, to my maternal grandparents in East Harlem, to go there to College for my Study, it was there were I met Norman and fell in love.
Norman Ford was back then the son of a Business man, Morrison Ford, and a business woman, Clarissa Ford, and so he was mostly alone at home.
Along with his shy character and the assumption that he was rich and so looked down on others, the mates in our class seemed to somehow ostracize him from their society, leaving him lonely even at the College.
Well that was before I came to their Class after half of the First year was nearly over, he and I pulled off a friendship right from the start, I was the new one, also quite lonely and so completely lost without much guidance.
Norman was kind and helpful, a treat which most people took for granted, but I always tried to give him something in return, mostly self-made food and cake..., since he was so kind and passionate in his study, I just came to like him more and more over the course of the years.
We got into a relationship in our second year, after a trip to Spain, where I had the opportunity to meet my parents again, they instantly liked Norman, especially since he at least tried to hold a conversation on Spanish with them, which I thaught him as he asked me, before my mother helped him out with translating to our paternal grandparents.
During a Spanish festival, which happened at the same evening, it happened, we fell in love with each other for real, during dancing to a song, which my father always sung, a song he had composed himself, the love was real and after we started our third year of college, we were already engaged.
After College we moved over to the nearby Calatonia, to attend the University here, after our time there, we worked for some time in his father´s Company a junior assistants, before I got pregnant and had to stay at home to raise the children.
Back then I thought my life was fulfilled, but I had to see that 8 years could easily let my body collect some rust, which only recently had been mostly erased again, by another song I loved.
"Hello, earth to Rosita.., where are you at the moment, you shouldn´t be daydreaming, when you about to make this floor lit up on fire!" Gunther asked me with a frown.
"I´m sorry, I was just reminiscing all the things which have happened in my live up to 2 months ago, my Marriage runs better than ever, thanks to you and the others, Norman and I can finally enjoy ourselves again!" I stated.
"Aww chucks, stop flatten me, you making me blush sweetheart, and anyways I just know this next song is going to lighten up your mood even more, if you sing this before your favorite song you will litterally light up the stage, as preparation for that Song, making the joint sizzling so to say!" He replied, as he started the music and I had to admit, this song had far more fire in it than the previous one.
To this I could easily dance.
(Original:- Lets get loud by Jennifer Lopez)
"Rosita (Gunther):
hey! hey! hey! hey! hey! hey! hey! hey! hey! hey! hey! hey! hey
Let's get loud, let's get loud
Turn the music up, let's do it
C'mon people let's get loud
Let's get loud
Turn the music up to hear that sound
Let's get loud, let's get loud
Ain't nobody gotta tell ya
What you gotta do
If you wanna live your life
Live it all the way and don't you waste it
Every feelin' every beat
Can be so very sweet you gotta taste it
You gotta do it (you gotta do it)
you gotta do it your way
You gotta prove it (you gotta prove it)
You gotta mean what you say
You gotta do it (do it)
you gotta do it your way
You gotta prove it (prove it)
You gotta mean what you say
Life's a party, make it hot
Dance don't ever stop, whatever rhythm
Every minute, every day
Take them all the way you gotta live 'em ('cause I'm going to live my life)
You gotta do it (you gotta do it)
you gotta do it your way
You gotta prove it (you gotta prove it)
You gotta mean what you say
You gotta do it (do it)
you gotta do it your way
You gotta prove it (prove it)
You gotta mean what you say!"
From here on out Gunther and I danced freely together.
"Rosita, (Gunther):
Let's get loud, let's get loud
Turn the music up to hear that sound
Let's get loud, let's get loud
Ain't nobody gotta tell you
What you gotta do, oh no
(Make it hot)
Let's get loud, let's get loud
Let's get loud, lets'get loud
It's just a party, baby
Let's get loud, let's get loud
Let's get loud, pop it up
(hey! hey! hey! hey! hey! hey! hey! hey! hey! hey! hey! hey!)
Life is meant to be big fun
You're not hurtin' anyone
Nobody loses
let the music make you free
be what you wanna be make no excuses
You gotta do it, (do)
you gotta do it your way (what you wanna do)
To gotta prove it (say)
You gotta mean what you say (what you wanna say)
You gotta do it, (go)
you gotta do it your way (where you wanna go)
You gotta prove it
You gotta mean what you say (just do it, ohh)
Let's get loud, let's get loud
Turn the music up to hear that sound
Let's get loud, let's get loud
Ain't nobody gotta tell you
What you gotta do
Let's get loud, let's get loud
Let's get loud, let's get loud
Let's get loud, let's get loud
Turn the music up to hear that sound
Let's get loud, let's get loud
Ain't nobody gotta tell you
What you gotta do
You didn't know I could do that did ya!" I sang and the beat went right through me.
"See I told you, this song is totally filling you to the brim with major Piggy Power!" Gunther explained and I nodded while breathing hard, my heart pumping fast.
"Well it does take my mood several levels higher!" I stated with a smile, still panting hard.
"How about a little break?!" Gunther asked.
"Won´t say no to that!" I replied as I sat down on the ground.
"So..., what have you been up to lately?!" Gunther asked after a while, as he drank some water out of a bottle he brought with him, offering me a second one.
"Not much but thanks to my working, it took some strain of from Norman and finally after something which felt like ages, he has gotten a vacation for July, right in the summer, and we thought about traveling somewhere with the kids, yet we still haven´t made some concrete plans!" I explained.
"Well I think I heard Buster talking about a summer-camp which we should attend...,he said something about getting inspiration while chilling out for a while, during the Summer Season the town is nearly empty anyways.
It would not really make sense to put on some shows, when barely anyone is coming to watch..., it would cost us more than it would bring in!" Gunther stated and I got to admit he was right, it was due to that, that I loved this job, it took not much strain, like working in a market for example.
But let me remind you it was not easy either and yet it made me happy and fulfilled and it had a major advantage, as Gunther rightly said was it not truly optimal to put on shows, when the town was nearly empty, since everybody traveled away for the vacation time.
So we had basically closed over the holidays.
And if it´s a summer camp Buster wanted to set up, then I was sure that it at least would get way cheaper than going on a vacation, all on our own.
25 children all at one, little rascals to top it off, was quite too much for most hotels to handle.
Usually we made a few small trips to the beach and back to enjoy summer, since Norman had to work and I had to watch the children from causing mischief and running havoc.
"Well it surely would help, such a summer camp, I mean thanks to the children we are nearly at every no-entry-list, in nearly every hotel at the beach-promenade!" I stated sighing, the last time I thought I died out of shame.
"Well they are a real wild bunch, that's for sure, but they are kids, what do we expect of them..., that they stay still all the time?
Hahaha, that will most likely not going to happen, never ever!" Gunther replied with a chuckle.
"I guess you are right!" I replied, although a little defeated.
"Hey guys, how´s it going?!" A voice asked as suddenly the door was opened.
"Ash, how are you, I was worried, Buster said you would come later this day, I thought something must have happened!" I stated concerned.
"Nothing much, but we are alright now, no need to worry, well then, we got to get back the time we missed through hard training!" Ash explained as she smiled, but different as always did I really felt her joy this time..., but who did she meant with `we´?
"Seems like she has managed to calm down a little, the poor thing was so miserable the whole time, guess the heartbreak does not goes away so easily!" I thought as I compared her current self with the one from last week, even the one from yesterday..., and I got to admit, she looked way better now.
"Hey Guys, nice to see you in high spirits!" Johnny stated as he came up behind ash and Gunther nodded.
"Hey Johnny nice to see you..., and jsut so you know it´s obvious to be in high spirits, why should we not, the weather is good and the songs seem to match..., well mostly!" I stated and Gunther nodded.
"Good to hear, well then, we got to go, see you later, c´mon Johnny!" Ash said with a wide smile, and the same blushed, he looked at Ash with a glance..., something I hadn´t seen before.
I too began to look more closely at Ash, all in all Ash didn´t looked how she usually does, no black clothes this time, not even black boots, and it seemed as if her complexion was more natural than usually.
It was hard to admit, but she looked even more beautiful that way..., a little that made me jealous, but after all she was most likely 20 years younger than me.
Even with makeup I could not make these years undone.
However there was something else which I recognized, as both of them went away, quite close together, to their own training-rooms..., or better said they both walked into one room.
"Strange..., did Buster paired them up?!" I wondered but then again I was glad, Ash seemed so depressed lately, even though she always smiled when I asked her, saying that it´s nothing.
It was hard for me as a mother to see a young girl like her having a hard time, the more I was glad that she apparently seemed to enjoy herself today, she truly smiled from heart.
"Do you think there is something going on between them?!" Gunther asked a thought I had also in my mind.
"Maybe, but we should not jump to any unfounded conclusion, that's not polite!" I stated as I looked at the next song on the list.
"Anyways, we still got to try the last one, I want to make sure I can at least do two of them by heart, in case the first does not work out and I need a Plan B!" I explained and Gunther nodded.
"You are totally right about that, a Plan B is never wrong!" Gunther stated.
"Hmm, although I think this is more a song for you to sing, I mean it matches you kinda perfectly, don´t you think!" I stated as I took the lyrics out of the list which Buster gave us before.
"Hmm..., now that you are saying, it is kinda enticing!" Gunther stated.
"Why don´t you give it a try?!" I asked and he nodded.
"I might as well do so!" He stated before he started the music, getting ready as always, nearly ripping his clothes off, until he was once again only dressed in his sparkly, red dance-unitard, I always had to blush by this.
"Will he ever learn not to do that in front of me?!" I asked myself, doing a silent prayer, for him to someday notice the awkwardness of that situation he constantly puts me into.
One thing was for sure, I would not let him wear this embarrassing piece of cloth during that performance.
He got to learn to wear normal clothes while dancing.
(Original:- Can´t stop the feeling by Justin Timberlake)
"Gunther, (Rosita):
I got this feeling inside my bones
It goes electric, wavey when I turn it on
All through my city, all through my home
We're flying up, no ceiling, when we in our zone
I got that sunshine in my pocket
Got that good song in my feet
I feel that hot blood in my body when it drops (Uuh)
I can't take my eyes up off it, moving so phenomenally
You gone like the way we rock it, so don't stop
Under the lights when everything goes
Nowhere to hide when I'm getting you close
When we move, well, you already know
So just imagine, just imagine, (just imagine), just imagine
Nothing I can see but you when you dance, dance, dance
Feeling good, good, creeping up on you
So just dance, dance, dance, come on
All those things I should do to you
But you dance, dance, dance
And ain't nobody leaving soon, so keep dancing
(I can't stop the feeling)
So just dance, dance, dance
(I can't stop the feeling)
So just dance, dance, dance, come on
Ooh, it's something magical
It's in the air, it's in my blood, it's rushing on
I don't need no reason, don't need control
I fly so high, no ceiling, when I'm in my zone
Cause I got that sunshine in my pocket
Got that good song in my feet
I feel that hot blood in my body when it drops (Uuh)
I can't take my eyes up off it, moving so phenomenally
You gon' like the way we rock it, so don't stop
Under the lights when everything goes
Nowhere to hide when I'm getting you close
When we move, well, you already know
So just imagine, just imagine,( just imagine), just imagine
Nothing I can see but you when you dance, dance, dance
Feeling good, good, creeping up on you
So just dance, dance, dance, come on
All those things I should do to you
But you dance, dance, dance
And ain't nobody leaving soon, so keep dancing
(I can't stop the feeling)
So just dance, dance, dance
(I can't stop the feeling)
So just dance, dance, dance
(I can't stop the feeling)
So just dance, dance, dance
(I can't stop the feeling)
So keep dancing, come on
I can't stop the, I can't stop the
I can't stop the, I can't stop the
(I can't stop the feeling)
Nothing I can see but you when you dance, dance, dance
(I can't stop the feeling)
Feeling good, good, creeping up on you
So just dance, dance, dance, come on
(I can't stop the feeling)
All those things I should do to you
But you dance, dance, dance
(I can't stop the feeling)
And ain't nobody leaving soon, so keep dancing
Everybody sing
(I can't stop the feeling)
Got this feeling in my body
(I can't stop the feeling)
Got this feeling in my body
(I can't stop the feeling)
Wanna see you move your body
(I can't stop the feeling)
Got this feeling in my body
Break it down
Got this feeling in my body
Can't stop the feeling
Got this feeling in my body, come on!" Gunther and I sang as we danced just freely as always, doing pirouettes, some typical dance moves which iconic performers have done before during their shows, like the moonwalk, e.t.c.
I got to admit, he sure had a lot of power, and it was hard to keep track of his every moves.
When I compare him to Norman, then I got to admit that Gunther fulfilled my desires to sing and dance, but I would always choose Norman over everybody else.
"You definitely got to bring that in the show!" I stated and he nodded.
"It definitely lifts up the mood and atmosphere, that's for sure!" He stated with a laugh.
"And I like that you begin to dance with so much more passion than 2 months ago!" Gunther explained and I nodded.
To be honest it still was hard for me to follow the beat, prior to 2 months I would not even have been able, to bear the terror and nervousness, of having to dance and sing in front of a crowd, but now, ever since that day, I could do so with ease, but dancing and choreography meant a lot of hard work.
Still I got to admit, with one thing Gunther was absolutely right, dancing made slim, I think ever since dancing became a part of my life, I lost more pounds than ever before, even with all the usual low-carb and veggie diets I had been through, at least this here was fun to do and to keep up with it.
And I think it also lit a fire in Normans soul, whenever he got the time and felt unseen, I saw him training to dance, perhaps he was a little jealous and afraid that Gunther could someday steal me away from him, but that would never happen.
Sure Gunther is a really good guy..., but I just never looked at him that way, he was a friend and a dance-partner I could trust and count on, like an older brother perhaps.
He was just not my type, he was a little too hyperactive for my taste, but I think a little competition was just what Norman needed to get him moving.
Of course I knew that his job was totally tiring him out, most of the time, his father was a harsh and serious man and he wanted his son to someday take over the Company, so Norman was bound to get most of the work.
And since I had to look over our Children I could not even truly help him, he worked hard to uphold our life and this here was as much as I could do to help him.
But I did it with Passion just as I raised my children and loved my Husband.
"Well then, break´s over, we still got a Choreography for that specific performance to train!" I stated and Gunther nodded.
"Well then, let´s hit it!" I said as I stood up, helped by Gunther and so our noon to afternoon was spent with dancing our feet off.
To be continued...
A/N, Hello welcome to the newest Chapter, I hope you all liked the story so far, I see that the Favs and Follows keep on rising and that the new Chapters are well received.
I though what I should do next and so I decided to write some few chapter about the other Members of the Moon Crew, about what they were doing during Ash and Johnny´s get-together, next will Meena´s Point of View.
Hope you tune in, until then, sincerely, yours truly, The Storyteller and his Books.
