Hey what's up? Here's the twelfth chapter of the story. I think I'm getting a little better at writing dancing scenes. I apologize for the late update, no internet and school.

Mayumi: What about the disclaimer? You keep forgetting those.

Amaya: What's the disclaimer mean Mercedes-chan?

Kazuya: *snickers* Mercedes-chan.

Me: It means I don't own Dance Central or the characters. I own only you guys and JJ.

Amaya: Oooh.

Me: Let's just get on with the story.

Songs: Locked in La La Land by Demi Lovato.

Wannabe by Spice Girls.

Run the Night by Havana Brown and Pitbull

JJ's POV

I rocked my moves to the rhythm of the song. I was alone and a small crowd gathered around me. Taye and Tia were there too, clapping to the song.

I leaped with my legs wide and did my own freestyle of ballet and some moves the Flash4wrd crew taught me.

The backup dancers were dancing too but they couldn't do any ballet so I just allowed them to imitate the moves Taye taught them, which were similar to mine.

The song finished and the crowd applauded.

I have been training with the Flash4wrd crew for two weeks now and the crew had an upcoming dance battle with some other crew named Dynamic Dimensions. Tia was eager to battle them and show them what she's made of so Taye allowed her, along with me, to battle them for Flash4wrd.

I have to admit, I'm a bit nervous. The last time I had a dance battle, which was with Coco, I lost. And people in school still taunted me about it. My humiliation with Glitch had died down but unfortunately, people had a new thing to tease me about.

I normally would have just ignored them, however, these days, I was pretty much ready to snap at or punch them.

Another issue I had to deal with was the Vicky and Aaron thing. Vicky still bailed me off for Aaron. Whenever I asked to have a sleepover as we normally did, she would just happen to have a date with Aaron that day.

"Why don't we just talk to Vicky tomorrow?" I asked Tia. I was getting impatient and lonelier.

"Alright JJ, we'll take to her tomorrow," Tia assured me and I was pleased.

The next day after school, I decided to put my foot down. I walked to Vicky before Aaron reached her.

"Vicky we really need to talk," I said, firmly.

"But JJ-"

"No! You're coming with me!"

I grabbed her wrist and dragged her away with me. I heard Aaron yell, "What about our date Vicky?"

"She's postponing that date!" I called back, still dragging her about.

I ignored Vicky's protests and cries and dragged her all the way to my apartment, where Tia was waiting.

I shoved Vicky in front of Tia who said, "Not so rough JJ."

"I'm really mad at her!" I yelled.

"Yeah we can see that."

"Hey Tia," Vicky cracked a smile on her sweaty face.

"Don't act as if you don't know her!" I snapped.

"I'm not acting in anyway. It's just…been a while."

"A while since we've had any of our weekly sleepovers!"

Tia snickered. "What's wrong with you JJ? On your period?"

I stuck my tongue out at her. She really didn't have to say that.

"One question: why did JJ drag me here?" Vicky asked.

"We all needed to talk," Tia explained. "Come let's go in the living room."

We all walked to the living room where oddly, Sandy wasn't present.

"Where's Sandy?" Tia asked.

"Still at work I guess," I answered.

We all sat at the couch.

"Look Vicky," I said calmly. "I'm happy for you and Aaron but I'm, I mean we're starting to feel left out."

"Yes Vic," Tia agreed. "Remember back in second grade when we all promised to never let a guy come between our friendships?"

"I wasn't trying to do anything like that!" Vicky defended.

"We know that sweetie," I smiled. "But just try to pay attention to us more often. Balance your life out."

"Taye once told me that best friends stay way longer than boyfriends," Tia emphasised.

We heard the front door open and heard Sandy yell, "Honey I'm home!" She carried grocery bags and walked to the kitchen to set them down.

Vicky sighed. "You're right. I-I'll try to balance my life." I put a hand on her shoulder.

"We're not mad anymore Vicky. Well, I'm not mad anymore. Please don't take this too hard." I wrapped my arms around her and hugged her. Tia joined.

"That's such a touching moment," we heard Sandy say. We all broke our hug.

"Tia and JJ gots to go, Taye's callin'" she explained. "JJ has training."

"But we thought we were spending time together," Vicky complained.

"You are welcome to come."

I raised my eyebrow. "Taye, how did you get in here?" She shrugged.

"Your door was unlocked."

I glared at Sandy. "Sandy."

And Sandy just sat on the couch, watching Jersey Shore.

"Alright JJ let's get down!" Taye said and Vicky and Tia cheered and clicked on the boom box.

The song Locked in La La Land by Demi Lovato.

I breathed hard and slowed down my jumbled thoughts.

My thoughts went on how to dance to this kind of beat.

I started doing some ballet movements. I didn't know what else to do.

I'm thinking too much. I'll just lose myself to the music. The guitar instrumental motivated me.

My moves were more to the beat this time. I did moves consisting of the hips and the legs.

I continued to do moves that matched the beat of the song. I finished the song one hand on my hip, my other arm raised and my right foot behind my left.

Taye, Tia and Vicky applauded.

"Wow JJ! You're getting so much better!" Vicky cheered.

"Thanks," I grinned. I was getting better but not that good.

Tia nudged as I was starting to fell asleep. I snapped up with a snort.
"What?" I complained.

"Let's sneak out," she grinned, mischievously at me.

"No," I answered before pulling the covers back over me.

Tia pulled it back down, saying, "Come on, live a little."
"Tia, it's almost midnight, it's too late for two young virgin girls like us to be out there."

"Why don't you call Angel? He can come."

"No. I'm going to sleep. You can go alone."

Tia pouted. "You know I can't."

"That's the point. Good night."

I fell asleep soon after, ignoring her protests. I didn't get why she wanted to sneak out, but if we did Taye would kill us or something worse.

The next day after school, Vicky and the Flash4wrd watched as I practiced my dancing. After a few verses of the song, Taye and Tia joined, once again drawing in a crowd. When the song finished, they applauded and dispersed faster than Sandy could get her butt off the couch. (Don't tell her I said that.)

Tia and I began walking home with Vicky, chatting loudly as we trotted. Vicky's blonde head snapped at the left direction, "Do you guys hear that?"
I listened. "Yeah it's music."

Tia walked off to the direction off the music and we followed. The sound led us to steps leading downwards and we reached the end, there was door with glowing lights underneath.

"Looks like a club," Tia commented.

"Club? I'm outta here," I turned to walk off but Vicky pulled me back.

Tia tip toed in while Vicky dragged me. I think it was the cosmic universe getting back at me for doing that to her.

Like all the clubs I've been to, there was glowing lots and people drinking soda but not alcohol, I guess alcohol is reserved for the night. The lights were not so bright due to it still being daytime.

We saw a group of dancers moving to the beat of a song playing. I think it was Run the Night by Havana Brown and Pitbull – yeah it is. There were two boys and two girls.

One girl and one boy who seemed to be leading the group danced first. Their style seemed to be a combination of Jazz and Hip Hop. I never thought those types of dances could go together but I was wrong.

The back-up dancers joined, imitating the leaders.

The backup dancers moved to the beat. The girl's moves were a combination of Samba and Contemporary. By her stiff back flip, I could tell she couldn't flip.

For the rest of the song the group danced together but they weren't entirely unified. They weren't really working together.

Tia's phone buzzed from a text from Taye.

"We got to go," she whispered.

"Now? I want to meet them," I complained. I recognized one of the girls.

"Hey you're the one who didn't want to come in the first place!"

"Whoa, it's because….never mind let's go."

We ran out of the club and bolted into the street.

AN: Sorry, I had to end it there. I didn't have anymore to write really. Part 2 of this is going to center mostly on JJ and Sandy's relationship and the dance battle.