Thank God school was out! I'm really excited to get over to the youth center so I could start my dance class. Just as I stuffed my books in my locker, one of the teachers, Mrs. Gavins stopped me for a moment.
"There you are Ivy! I was looking all over for you." Mrs. Gavins said as she approached me. "I wanted to know if you would like to help out with the sweethearts dance next friday?" I had to think about it, this would be my first high school dance because back in Arizona, I used to skip most of the dances because I'd rather be in the studio improving on my techniques. Oh what the hell.
"Sure, Mrs. Gavins." I said nicely to her. See Mrs. Gavins is a little bit dramatic, considering she is the drama teacher.
"Fantastic! I'll give you extra credit for this and the committe will be meeting today after school at the Youth Center." Mrs. Gavins said, a boy was running down the hall. "Hey you hooligan!" I just laughed and looked at my watch, I seriously needed to get to the youth center or I'll be late.
(At the Youth Center)
I had a nice turn out today, there was at least twenty people there and I started this class off with cha cha.
"Thank you so much for coming today, I'll see you all next week." I bid farewell to my students and went up to the counter. Ernie handed me a strawberry smoothie.
"You did good today cousin. I haven't seen people that excited about a dance class in my life." Ernie said as I started on my smoothie. I felt a hand on my back, which caused me to turn around and I saw it was Tommy and Kim. Even though I get a very bad feeling about Kim, I'll still tolerate her in order to keep my friendship with Tommy.
"You did great a job with your class Ivy." Kim said as she sat down next to me and Tommy did as well.
"Thanks, I didn't think I would have alot of people but I was glad to be wrong." I replied.
"Yeah, I guess people wanted to learn how to dance to get ready for the sweethearts dance next week." Tommy said.
"Are you going to the dance Ivy?" Kim said.
"Yeah even though I don't have a date I'm sure I'll still have some fun." I said with a small smile.
"That's the spirit." Tommy said trying to console me.
"Yeah plus there's alot of single cute guys at the school that you could meet." Kim said. 'I don't want any other guy I want Tommy!' Wait, why did I think that? Maybe I'm just exhausted.
"Um, isn't the decorating committe supposed to meet here right now?" I said trying to change the subject.
"Yeah, we're here but there's like maybe five other people that's supposed to show up too." Tommy said as he checked his watched. We turned our attention to the door and as if on cue, five other people came in. Three were girls and two were guys.
"There they are." Kim said then waved her hand to get the groups attention. They waved back and sat a table near the counter where we were at, we got up to join them.
"Hey everyone, meet our new member of the team Ivy." Tommy started the introductions, I just smiled and waved. Everyone started introducing themselves.
"I'm Gina." The girl with long blonde hair said. Then was the girl with brown hair cut in a pixie.
"I'm Jessica."
"Elliot, nice to meet." Elliot had blonde hair like Gina but his was shaggy.
"Jake." Jake had a military like buzz cut, the vibe I got from him was he was probably one of those quiet artsy guys. Then lastly was a guy who reminded me of Bulk but was probably a few pounds less.
"And I'm Dennis. Nice to meet you evil." Dennis said as he came over to me and gave me a bear hug.
"Nice to meet you but I can't breathe." I struggled to say until Dennis finally let me go.
"Now that everyone's met, let's go over details for the dance." Kim said. I sat next to Tommy and Alex. Every now and then I caught Elliot looking at me. I thought maybe someone was on my face or in my hair or maybe I was a little funky considering I didn't get a chance to change out of my dance clothes. We spent a good thirty minutes going over how we could decorate the youth center.
(Next Week-Friday Morning)
It was the day of the sweethearts dance and luckily for everyone who's helping decorate, we get an excused absence for the day. Can you say sweet? Me, Tommy, Kim and the rest of the decorating committe came to the youth center and started unloading boxes with the decorations in them. I was unloading one of the boxes until Kim came over to me.
"So are you excited about the dance?" She asked.
"Yeah, it should be fun." I told her as I pulled out some tableclothes. I went over to one of the tables and started putting it on. Just as I was about to straighten one of the corners, Tommy came over to help me.
"Thanks Tommy." I said nicely. Tommy gave me a smile.
"It's no problem Ivy, so this is your first dance?"
"Ernie told you didn't he?" I said with a serious expression
"Yeah he did."
"Nosey person." I said, Ernie is only good at keeping certain secrets but I guess he was excited for me.
"Cut the guy some slack." Tommy said with a laugh. I laughed with him and went back to the box to get more tableclothes. It took three hours to decorate the youth center because every hour we had a short break and goofed off but once we were done, the center looked gorgeous. The colors were pink and white, we decided not to do red and white because that was more toward Valentines Day. Kim, Tanya and I went to Tanya's house to get ready for the dance. Now, if there's one thing I hate more than spiders is makeup. I usually only put on lipgloss but Tanya and Kim thought that since this was my first dance, I should be the 'belle of the ball'. Tanya did my hair while Kim did my makeup, I was playing nice so I told them don't make me look like I was trying very hard.
"Don't worry, we got your back." Tanya said. I felt like a barbie doll and it wasn't as bad as I thought. The dance started at seven so we still had time to get ready.
(Seven p.m.)
Everyone from school was at the youth center. As you look around, some people were on the dance floor while others were sitting down talking. Tommy, Rocky, and Adam were standing around.
"So where are the girls?" Rocky asked as he looked around on the dance floor. Rocky was wearing a blue dress shirt with black pants, Adam was wearing a green shirt with brown dress pants.
"I know, everyone's here except them." Adam said. Tommy ran a hand threw his hair. Usually it was in a low pony tail or half pulled back but this time, Tommy let it hang down.
"I hope nothing happened to them." Tommy said sounding concerned, suddenly Tommy felt a hand on his shoulder. He turned around and saw the hand belonged to Kimberly. Kimberly wore her hair up in a bun and wore a short pink halter dress.
"Hey, hope we didn't you guys waiting." Tanya said joining the group as well. Tanya wore a spaghetti strap dress that stopped to her ankles.
"You guys had us worrying, but where's Ivy?" Adam said. Tanya and Kimberly pointed over to the door and suddenly everyone just stood there stunned.
TBC...
