"I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back." -Maya Angelou
School went by really quick and next thing I knew it was already lunch. I remembered my promise to Stella and I hurried out the door and found her already waiting for me.
"Come on." She said while grabbing my hand and pulling me toward the third year classrooms. It looks like she has done some research since she knew exactly which classroom he was in. Clearly, she was out to get her Prince Charming. We stood outside the classroom for a bit doing nothing so I asked Stella what we were doing.
"Well," she said nervously, "I was sort of hoping to talk to him today but I am just too nervous. Would you please start a conversation with him and I could just like casually jump in or maybe you could introduce me or something."
"First of all, I don't know him at all either. I know even less than you do. And second, you are perfectly capable of talking to him yourself. I would just be in the way. I know you can do it. Just don't be so nervous."
"Oh, come on Lottie. I am horrible at coming up with excuses to talk to someone. Please. Please. Please." She said with a puppy dog face.
"Oh all right!" I gave in.
I looked into the classroom and saw Prince Charming sitting in the front with a few of his friends and Hunny and Mori sitting towards the back.
"Follow me. I have an idea." I said.
I started walking over to Hunny and Mori. Once they saw me Hunny waved and Mori nodded at me.
"Hi Hunny! Sorry if this is random but I have a quick favor to ask of you. Um…I was wondering if you could introduce us to Pri…I mean Francis…" I asked and tried to cover up the fact that I forgot his last name.
"DeVoy." Stella chipped in.
"Of course!" Honey said enthusiastically. "Do you like him?" He teased me a little.
"Oh!" Stella said with a surprised but nervous expression. "If you like him too Lottie I will totally back off."
I glared at Stella and whispered to her, "No you idiot! You were the one who pretty much forced me to come over here and ask about him in the first place!"
I apparently wasn't whispering softly enough because a few heads around us turned in our direction. I blushed a little and lowered my voice to ask, "So can you? And it's Stella who wants to get to know him better, not me."
"Yea! Let me go get him." Hunny said as he skipped off.
I looked at Stella and she gave me a "mission accomplished" smile while we waited.
I looked to Mori and tried to start a conversation. Key word: tried.
"So….nice weather we are having today." I said lamely.
"Ah." He said in his normal monotone voice. Stella gave me a "wtf" look.
"Today seems to be going by pretty fast." I remarked.
"Ah." He said again.
After that I pretty much let the silence hang there for a few seconds before Mori said the most words I have ever heard him say in one sentence.
"Here comes Hunny." He simply said.
"Ah." I said mimicking his catch phrase.
I swear I saw a small smile or smirk on Mori's face but I didn't have time to feel proud for making the giant show emotion since Hunny pretty much flew into the conversation.
"Francis, this is Stella and Lottie. Lottie, Stella, this is Francis." He said in one quick breath.
"I was just talking about how cool it was that you two are from America and Francis has visited America, right?" Hunny said innocently.
"I have been New York but only once." He admitted.
"Oh New York!" Stella said enthusiastically, "I love New York!"
"I do too." He said smiling.
Clearly Stella did not need me to keep a conversation going after all because it was like I wasn't even there. Hunny and Mori had "conveniently" disappeared too.
"I love the hustle and bustle of the city. There are so many different kinds of people to meet there. Oh, and they have the best places to shop and eat." Stella was going on and on.
"I hate New York." I said to myself because I knew no one was listening to me.
I chose that time to slip away so I waved goodbye to Hunny and Mori as I made my exit. Stella would probably yell at me for ditching her later but I am obviously not needed here. So I headed back to the classroom.
Once I made it back in the classroom I was walking back to my seat when I heard someone yell, "Hey new girl!"
I looked around and saw two girls looking right at me.
I was a bit confused so I pointed a finger at myself to make sure they were talking to me.
The one on the left nodded and waved me over.
I walked over to them, slightly afraid of what they had to say. They didn't look too happy so I was wondering if I did anything wrong or if they were going to warn me not to touch their man or something.
The one on the right was a petite girl with brown eyes and long straight blonde hair in a ponytail. The one on the left also had brown eyes but curly brown hair.
"Hi sorry to bother you but we need an outside opinion." The brunette started. I was relieved since I know now that it's probably not going to be anything bad.
"I'm Alice," the brunette said, "And this is Laura." She pointed to the blonde.
"Anyways, we are both dancers and we were arguing over which type of dance requires more practice, jazz or ballet? You see we are in a dance club and I do ballet while Laura does jazz. So which one do you think is more work?" Alice asks.
"Umm…I couldn't say because I have never done both types of dances so I have no right to say." I said.
"Good answer." Alice laughs.
"You see Alice thinks that jazz is all about shaking your butt and looking sexy but that's not jazz at all." Laura says.
"Yea that's just how you dance jazz dances." Alice teases. Laura sends her a quick glare.
"So you guys are in a dance club? What kind of dances do you do?" I asked curiously.
"Well we are just a small club of only 4 people. You see we started it our freshman year together so all of us are 2nd years now. We haven't had anyone else join because we are sort of a selective group. We didn't like the way the other dance clubs were set up so we made our own that had one person from each type of dance." Laura explained.
"Like I said, I do ballet and Laura does jazz. Our other two members are Katee, who does contemporary, and Jordan, a tap dancer. We are trying to get other types of dance into the club also so that we can start competing but it's hard. We can't have ballroom dancing in the club because that requires a male partner and letting boys into our club would just be a distraction. Especially for Laura." Alice said.
Hey." Laura said defiantly.
I laughed and Alice continued talking. "We also want to include hip hop but there are just no female hip hop dancers at our school. Or at least no one remotely good."
I paused for a second before stating, "I do hip hop."
"You do!" Laura looked at me excitingly.
"Are you any good?" Alice asks. I can see her eyes sizing me up.
"Well, I like to think so." I say.
Alice smiles and says. "Good, come to the 1st music room today after school and we shall see what you can do."
Just then the bell rang and I said goodbye and went back to my seat. I was actually getting really excited at the opportunity to dance again. Hopefully I was good enough to be in their little club because it seemed fun. More fun than the two clubs I have been to at this school already.
Speaking of clubs, I forgot that I am supposed to go to the Host Club after school today. Oh well, I will just talk to them tomorrow or something. It's not like they can force me to see them today.
The day that was going really fast earlier suddenly got slower now that I had something I was really looking forward to after school.