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Anne walked to school on Friday earlier than the rest as Mr. Phillips said he wanted to talk to her before class, the only other people who were there were Diana, who had walked with her to school and was now eavesdropping from the window, and Gilbert, who had had an early morning and was playing wall-ball by himself outside.

It was a cold day outside, everything was frozen and glazed over with either beautiful, glistening, ice or grainy, memorizing, snow, either way it was beautiful.

Everything was white and sparkling, it was a shame to step on the fresh snow and ruin it with the imprints of your boots but it had to be done.

Anne looked at a a tree next to the school, it was completely enveloped in ice and had snow beautifully sprinkled over the top, there was one droplet that looked like it if frozen mid-drop, Anne looked through it and thought the world looked especially memorizing through ice."

She quickly said goodbye to the beautiful tree and rushed into the classroom to meet Mr. Phillips.

Mr. Phillips began speaking as Anne walked up to his desk, "Anne, have a seat." He said pointing to a chair that he had put on the other side of his desk,

Anne quietly obeyed and looked up expectantly, "Why did you have me come in early?"

"I have decided that you have been disciplined enough and you may stop having dance classes now." He said simply, looking for a look of relief but instead was met by a face full of sorrow, "Unless you would like to continue, but if you would Mr. and Ms. Cuthbert must pay for it."

Anne nodded,

"Will you be continuing?"

"Remains to be seen."

"You don't know?" he said arrogantly

"I will tell Ms. Phillips whether I will be continuing on Monday." She said decisively

"Alright then, I thought someone like you might be a little more certain," he said mockingly

"What does that mean?" She said, slightly taken aback,

Mr. Phillips gave a slight evil grin, "Someone who claims to be smart."

Anne furrowed her brow, "At least I am as smart as a claim to be." She said rudely before walking out.

As Anne exited the building Gilbert winked at her provoking an eye roll from her, after that she ignored him and continued walking to Diana and met her with a confused expression.

"I don't know what to do." Anne admitted to Diana,

"Well, I'm afraid you may not like my opinion very much" Diana replied worriedly

Anne then perked up, "Oh please, Diana! Anything to help guide me through this most troubling dilemma will be much appreciated!" She said dramatically,

Diana sighed and looked up with guilt in her eyes and spoke "Alright, fine, I missed you and I would love it if you stopped dancing, you're busy on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, I only get to talk to you at school, Fridays, and the weekend and I miss you dearly, you're my bosom friend and I love spending time with you!"

Anne nodded, "I will take that into consideration, dearest Di, thank you very much for your input!"

Diana tilted her head confusedly, "You sound robotic, is something wrong?"

Anne shook her head, "No, I'm just very confused."

Diana nodded and gave a slight mischievous smile, "I forgot my good scarf at home, let me go get it."

"Oh, I'll come with you!"

"No, no, stay here, maybe talk to Gilbert? I'll be back soon."

"But Di!" Anne called out, it was too late and Diana had already ran far away so Anne obliged and walked up to Gilbert,

"Hello, Gilbert." She said from behind him

Gilbert quickly spun around, "Hello, Anne."

"Can I ask for your input on something?" she asked nervously,

Gilbert nodded, "Anytime."

Anne smiled in return before she explained the entire situation, Gilbert was silently nodding along the entire time,

"What do you think I should do?" She asked, looking at the floor,

"I think you should dance, it makes you happy and that's what really matters." He replied as if it were the most simple thing on earth yet still very sincerely,

Anne looked up, "Does that make me a bad bosom friend?"

"I think that if Diana is a good friend then she'll support you no matter what you decide to." he said sympathetically

"if? Diana is a marvelous friend and there is no doubt in my mind about it, I was asking whether I was a bad friend!"

"Then Diana wont mind if you continue." He said with a smirk, "Do what you love, go where your passions lead you, By what you've told me you have a love-no, a passion- for dance and you need to follow it, follow it where it leads you and once you reach where it wants you to be, never go back." He said, staring into the very eyes of his passion.

"I wouldn't call it a passion, I do like it very much but I still want to be a teacher."

"Whatever it is, it made you happy and Diana will have to understand that."

Anne sighed, "But Ms. Phillips is so mean and I don't know if I could forgive her, on the other hand I promised Sarah and a promise is a promise, it's quite wicked to break a promise, and I do like dancing very much but I am desperately clumsy but it's such a beautiful variation of storytelling!"

"Do it, you forgave me for calling you Carrots, you forgave Mrs. Lynde for calling you ugly, you can forgive Ms. Phillips if she is sorry."

"I don't know if Ms. Phillips would even let back in."

"Try."

"Ms. Phillips probably is isn't sorry."

"You'll never know if you don't try."

Anne nodded and hugged him again, causing Gilbert to slightly freeze before hugging back,

"You said anytime." She mumbled against him,

Gilbert chuckled, "And I meant it."

A few minutes later everyone came to class,

"We should go inside." Gil said

Anne only nodded, they walked in together just to see Diana casually sitting at her regular seat, fiddling with her thumb,

Anne sat next to Diana and raised an eyebrow at her, questioning how she had gotten inside without Gilbert or her noticing in a telepathic secret code that only they knew.

"Back door." She replied simply.