The next day my dance lessons are starting, I'm in the staff house with Kalecgos. We're alone and he's teaching me the basic steps of the mambo now. I only ever danced the waltz in my life and even that was only with my dad and a few times with Arthas at a ball that was organized at the city of Lordaeron. I stand on his foot again, feeling really bad and embarrassed for doing that the whole time now and I could see his frustrations. "No!" He says as I did it again. "Oh, sorry." I say and he walks to the music box. "Sorry." I say again and he looks at me while starting the music again. "You don't step on the one." He says and then he walks back to me. "You gotta start on the two. Find the two. Understand?" He asks and I nod, trying to focus on the counting. He stands in front of me again, I look at him. "I never did any of these dances before." I say, he didn't react to that. "It's one, two, three, four." He says as he let his hand count with him. I'm watching him and he smiles a little. "When the music starts, you don't dance until the two. Got it?" He asks, I count in my head and give a nod again. He takes my hands, feeling the tensions. "Relax, relax." His voice got a little deeper now, I feel my heart skipping a beat. "Breathe." He says and I took a deep breathe. "Frame." I take my frame and he did too, he starts to count. At first I wanted to start on the one. "Nope." He says and I stopped my foot, then he starts and the first steps went really well. "Again." He smiles at me, I got distracted by his smile and stand on his foot on accident again. "Ow." He says. "I'm sorry." I say again. I think I have said sorry so many times to him now, that I've lost count. But he isn't giving up on me, that gives me some confidence somehow and also hope.
In the days that followed, he keeps learning me the basic steps. I'm doing the steps alone now while he stands next to me, watching me. "Two, three, four. Two, three, four." He counts as I'm doing the steps. "Don't lean back." His hand went to my back. "Lifting up." He lays his other hand on my belly. "Two, three, four." He counts again. "Shoulders down." He says as his hands are still on my back and my belly. I lost concentration because of his hands and I stop. He takes his hands away. "Again. Concentrate." He says, I take my frame again and start over. He counts again. After the lesson, he needs to go to the dance studio for a lesson with a few guests. I walk, no, I actually dance my way down the stairs. Practicing the steps and trying to hold my frame. I start a few times over when I was at a little wooden bridge but always make a mistake halfway, so I cheated on myself and went to the other side of the bridge and start practicing again. The last days were also life changing for me, I start to realize what is good for me and what isn't and when I thought back at my time in Lordaeron and Arthas, how often he made me feel miserable because I was seeking his love. I came to realize that this is not how love works. I should not walk after a man to get love, it's something that should go automatically from both sides. I arrive at my lodge and enter my room. I change clothes and went outside again, I look at the view. Our lodges have the view on the sea and the lake. I love the view, it's so relaxing and comforting somehow. I hear a roar and look around, it's not the first time I heard that and I wonder. I walk to the shore and look around. Then I see something flying up in the air, I gasp as I see a dragon flying away. I can't see it very well, because it's already far away but I'm sure it was a dragon. It makes me wonder again, everyone knows about the Dragon Aspects, they just normally don't really mingle with the younger races in the world. I know they keep to themselves unless there's a threat that threatens the world with destruction. I've read somewhere that they do take a Human form if they're going to mingle with the younger races. It's for me the very first time I'd seen a dragon in real, all I know about them I got from books and seeing draws from them in the books. I'm thinking, if a dragon's here on the island, then it must be mingling with the guests. How to find out who's a dragon? That question came to my mind but I shake my head now, I definitely shouldn't try to figure this out. Dragons can be dangerous as well, especially when getting mad.
"There you are, I've been looking for you." Derek says and smiles at me. "What are you looking at?" As he look at where I am looking. "Oh, nothing important really. Why are you looking for me, brother?" I ask and look at him now, smiling. He looks at my face and smiles as well. "What are you doing, Jai? We don't see you around much the last days." He says and lays his arm around my neck. "Like you and Tandred are often around." I say, he chuckles a bit. "You're still sixteen, Jai. And a girl." He says. "That's obvious." I say and he chuckles again. "You're making mom and dad a bit worried about you." He says and my smile drops now, I look down and take a deep breath. "Please, do keep this to yourself." I say and he gives me a nod as I look up at him again. "I'm getting dance lessons." I say after several moments of silence. He let his arm go, I see his face and him trying not to laugh about it. "No, Derek." I say as I point at him, he burst out laughing now. "You? Dancing?" He asks, I lay my hands on my waist and look at him with a stern look on my face. "Yes, dancing. Not that I wanted it at first." I say and turn to look at the view with the lake now. "What do you mean, Jai?" He asks as he stops laughing now. "I'm helping Anveena out, I fill in for her so that she and Kalecgos won't lose their show at the Red Dragonhawk." I explain and now his face went totally serious. "You're getting lessons from Kalecgos?" He asks now and I nod. "It's only for the show, after that it's over." I say and turn away from him, he looks at my back and gives a deep sigh. "Just be careful with him, please, Jai?" He asks, I turn back to look at his face. "I am, brother, don't worry about me." I say, he looks at my face, thinking about this and then grabs me into a hug. I smile a little bit as I hug him back.
I got shoes from Anveena with heels, they are for dancing and for the show so I need to get use to them. "Don't put your heels down." Kalecgos says as we're practicing. "Don't put your heels down." He says again, being somewhat bossy now. "I didn't.." He interrupts me. "Stay on your toes. Just listen to me." I look at his face, he gives me a little smile. "The steps aren't enough." He says while we're doing the steps again. "Feel the music." He says and I try to do so, but then I made a mistake again and he growls a little bit. I'm starting to get fond of his growls somehow, I start to smile at him now and he looks at my face. He walks to the music box, trying not to let himself get caught by staring at me.
In the last days that he's teaching me, and I'm getting better each day, he starts to catch himself on staring at me. He feels that something has changed inside of me and it makes him not only wonder about it, it makes him being really interested in me. Somehow he can see that I tolerate his hard to handle side and I even seems to enjoy his growls. He never had met someone before who would show this to him. He sees me for who I really am, besides that he finds me truly beautiful, last night he had a little hard time with not kissing me. He want to kiss me so bad, he'd always had a weakness for female Humans instead of his own kind. All his previous girlfriends were all Human and he knew that the next one and his true love will be Human too. He doesn't mind, unlike his grandfather, because he also prefers his own Human form over his real form. Balacgos has seen the change in his cousin, and it makes him smile. Like Kalecgos, Balacgos prefers to mingle with Humans as well, he's always learning something new from them and it truly fascinates him. Besides that, he really likes me, he sees a true friend in me and with that he also thinks I'm a great match for Kalecgos. They just don't talk about this, but he and Kalecgos don't need to.
"It's not on the one. It's not the mambo." He puts the music back on and walks back to me. He stands in front of me again and I look at him. "It's a feeling, a heartbeat." He lays his own hand on the place where his heart is, I did too. I focus on my own heartbeat and let my hand drum the rhythm as I see him doing that as well. "Don't try so hard." He takes my hand now. "Close your eyes." I did and I feel how he lays my hand on the place where his heart is, his hand keeps covering mine. He watches my face and let his heart beat a bit louder so I could feel the rhythm clearer. My fingers drum the rhythm of his heartbeat. "Two, three, four. Two, three, four." He counts and starts doing the steps. I follow his lead, still having my eyes closed. It's like it's meant to go like this. "Breathe." He whispers, I exhale and open my eyes. I look at him and he gives me a nod and a smile. We're still doing the steps but I'm not paying attention to that, I look in his eyes and see his eyes glowing softly. My heart is beating in my throat now, because I could feel his attraction to me now. The moment became a little too intense and he stops, he walks to the music box again and turns it off. "I need to go now. I have a lesson soon." He says as he turns to me. I look at him and give him a nod. "Do I see you tomorrow?" He asks. "Of course, name the place and time and I'll be there." I say with a smile, he smiles at me again. "Around two in the afternoon, in the dance studio. I have no lesson, Anveena neither, she'll be helping us tomorrow." He says, I give him a nod and smile as I walk to the door. I really like Anveena, she's very sweet but has a hard shell around her. She must have gone through so much in her life already, I tried to talk with her about her past but she always avoids it so I stopped trying. "Jai?" Kalecgos asks, making me turn to look at him. "Yes?" I ask. "Take extra clothes with you tomorrow. We'll be practicing hard." He says, I nod and smile at him again. I see that it makes him smile as well. "see ya." I say and walk away. He gives a deep sigh and walks to the dance studio for the lesson.