"So you're gay?"
BB's question had opposite effects on the two boys. Jez chuckled and sent a smirk over to Danny, who was sputtering and shaking his head. The darker boy let out a laugh as Danny opened his mouth to explain,
"I'm not – I like Jez and Jez is a boy so I guess that makes me – no! I like girls too but – ugh!" His hands flew in the air as his frustration peaked. A pale hand softly rubbed his thigh as a sign of reassurance. Jez's blue eyes faced him as Danny looked up from the floor, they were shining with amusement.
"You think this is funny?" Danny's face scrunched up adorably as Jez tried to keep in his giggles. "I'm having a crisis here, Jez!"
"Please Danny! There's a very simple answer to your so called crisis." To emphasize how ridiculous Danny was being he used curled his fingers into quotations as he said "crisis". The brunette looked pointedly at Jez as BB slouched back into the couch and watched the show.
"Your crisis isn't that confusing. You like girls," He twisted his right hand out with the palm up to weigh in that option. "And you like boys." He flung his left hand out the same way only to the other side. The blonde smirked as his boyfriend (oh how he loved saying that) still looked confused. Placing both hands in Danny's, his blue eyes twinkled with laughter. Jez was going to continue explaining to Danny the joys of liking bot girls and boys when...
"You're bisexual dammit!" A female voice said behind them. All three boys turned to the front door of the flat to see Ellie standing there with her hand on her hip. She dropped her bags by the kitchen entryway and stood in front of them all.
She placed a long, pale finger toward her chest and spoke slowly, "You were attracted to me...a girl." She then extended her arm to point over to her brother who was on the verge of a heart attack. "And you're also attracted to Jez...a boy. So you're most likely a bisexual. Get it?"
All three boys stared in a shocked silence. BB was the first to break it of course, "I thought you said no one knew that you were together?"
Danny and Jez didn't reply because their gaze stood on Ellie. They looked scared, absolutely terrified at the girl's reaction to the "news". The petite Tyler twin let out a laugh of pure amusement.
"Did you think I was going to bite your head off?" She laughed again as the two boys nodded their heads. "Well, I won't. I'm happy for you guys...really." She emphasized the last word to express that she was telling the truth. Though from the skeptical looks on Danny, Jez, and even BB's faces...they did not believe her.
Ellie tried to get her point across, "No offence Danny but we weren't a pair of star-crossed lovers – I got over it and so did you obviously. " She waved her hand over to her shocked brother as a smile still graced her pink lips. At that, Ellie picked up her bags and started to her room.
"Wait!" Her brother called out and she turned around and looked at him expectantly. "How did you know about Danny and I anyway?" Ellie shrugged, asking him if it mattered and Jez replied by saying it didn't but he still wanted to know.
"You guys weren't doing a good job at hiding it. I mean, you don't make out in Stefan's dance studio if you want to keep it a secret." And with a smirk at the boys' blushing faces, Ellie turned and walked to her room, shouting over her shoulder, "Lauren saw you guys too!"
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The week of preparation and grueling practices were almost over. Tomorrow was the mid-year show and the dancers of Stefan's first year class were shaking with fear.
All except Ellie and Danny, of course.
Despite everything that had happened since the day the boy and girl met, they still had their passion for dancing in common. Only now, it didn't inspire a make-out session between the two friends. They grinned as they faced each other, poised and ready as the music started.
"Do you see their faces?" Ellie exclaimed joyfully. "They're absolutely terrified!" The boy in front of her laughed at her excitement as they moved along to the music. Danny's face turned more serious as they stayed silent. Whatever he was thinking about made his brow deepen and a frown exchange his beautiful grin.
"Are you really okay with this?" He asked softly. Ellie knew what he meant straight away from the worried look in his eye. Her plump lips itched upwards softly as she said,
"Of course I am Danny." She sighed when his face showed that he didn't believe her. Still. "I'll tell you what I told Lauren, everything happens for a reason. So, you and Jez getting together must have happened because something absolutely wonderful is coming my way." Danny held Ellie in his arms firmly during the final stance as the music came to a close.
"I believe you." He whispered making Ellie's smile grow. "But you know you can still come to me right?" His eyes were sincere and Ellie just had to ruin the moment.
Pushing away to start the routine again, she said, "Oh Danny boy, I won't be coming around you anytime soon." The raven haired girl winked and the music blared throughout the studio as the class moved once again. Danny gave her a smirk and they began to dance, talking and laughing the whole way through.
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They all gathered in the living room of Jez and Ellie's flat, contemplating what to do the night before the show. Most of the group was nervous as hell so getting them to even consider doing something that wasn't preparation was a pain in the arse.
"Video games?" BB suggested but all he received was rejection.
"Night club?" Claudine said joyfully, standing up in her heels. When the group frowned and shook their heads, she plopped back down on the couch.
"Rainbows!" Came Lola's reply. All six of them stared at her in either amusement or annoyance at her random answer. Seeing that they were all staring at her oddly, Lola asked what was wrong. Jez placed a hand on her leg and said, "Nothing, babe."
"I say we pop in a movie and just chill." Danny's suggestion was the most appealing since they were all too sore to even get off the couch. They spent the next half hour debating which movie to watch and the whole night falling asleep on each other, the couches, or even (in BB's case) the floor.
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The lights shone all around the stage as the audience got themselves fixated in their seats. Dancers, actors, and singers alike were all frantically running about trying to fix their make-up, hair, or costumes. You could even see some of them quietly rehearsing their steps or lines or lyrics in a corner backstage.
Ellie, Lauren, Claudine, and Lola were all calmly in their seats putting on their make-up for the show. A loud hiss from the dressing room door, made all four turn around. With only their heads poked in, Jez, Danny, and BB smiled at them.
"Hey ladies." Danny said with a big smile. The girls walked to the door and slipped outside.
"What do you prats want?" Ellie giggled. Instead of answering, they grabbed each of the girls and pulled them all together in a giant group hug. Pulling away they just said that they wanted to wish the girls good luck.
The Tyler twins stood in front of each other with matching smiles and matching blue eyes with the same excited glint in them. Jez wrapped and arm around Ellie's small shoulders as Stefan yelled, "five minutes!" throughout the hallway.
"It's been an eventful few months." Jez stared down at his sister happily.
Ellie nodded her head and replies, "I think I've stirred things up a bit, don't you?" Her blonde twin laughed and agreed with her. They started toward the hallway that takes them backstage when they ran into an unexpected visitor.
"Dad?" The twins screeched in disbelief. But it was true; their father, in his familiar crisp grey suit, was standing not five feet in front of them.
"Ellie? What are you doing here?" The girl blushed red and looked down. Jez turned to her and lifted her head to look at him.
"You didn't tell him?"
Ellie couldn't speak so she just shook her head and shrugged her shoulders. Looking back and forth between her father and her brother she spoke quickly.
"Britannia High is Jez's thing, you know? I didn't want to take that away from him." The Tyler boys still looked confused, so she explained further. "No offense Dad, but you do approve more of me than you do of Jez when it comes to dancing, yeah? I'm sure these past few months of complete silence are an indication of that."
Jack Tyler hung his head slightly as his daughter reminded him of his poor choices. Ellie didn't stop talking though...she never does.
"I just hoped that you would come tonight to see Jez...and you did." She smiled and walked back into the girls' dressing rooms, when she turned around she saw her father and brother embraced in a tight hug.
"Everything happens for a reason." Ellie whispered.
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Their fingers were interlocked as they all stood in a row and Britannia High's first year dancers bowed to the clapping crowd as the spotlight flickered over their grinning faces. They practically skipped off stage, they were that happy.
Ellie looked around the circle where she and her new mates stood, smiling. Her brother had his arm around Danny's waist and pulling him into a soft kiss, Lauren and Claudine were throwing insults at each other for good fun, and BB was trying to understand Lola's current random thought.
It was perfect.