Kendall's POV

I turned my body on the ball of my foot with my other leg flexed firmly as I slowly turned. I stepped down and went onto the floor smoothly. I turned on the ground till I was lying on my stomach. I pushed my arms up straight and my feet on my toes. Then I dropped down and pushed my body backwards my legs bending as I dragged my body backwards across the studio.

"Nia I'm not seeing any emotion! You have to look upset. How are you supposed to get a job if you can't even dance to this easy song with and emotion whatsoever!?" Abby yelled at Nia.

Sometimes Abby just didn't realize that yelling stuff like that at us, is not going to help us perform the dance better. Corrections are good. Insults are harmful and useless.

"Mackenzie! No smiling! That's not emotion! Why is your face frozen? Keep going! Don't stop, Mackenzie you're falling behind! What are you doing?" Abby continued.

"Jojo fix that! You know that was wrong! This is about the EIGHTH time I've corrected you on that. Eight! That is absolutely pathetic, if you can't apply corrections, you shouldn't be a dancer!" I watched Jojo's face turn pink. She repeated the poke and cleanly finished the move. "Don't you dare make me correct that again young lady!" Abby threatened her.

Jojo continued her dancing her eyebrows tight together. I got the impression she doesn't get yelled at a lot. She seems as if she is taking it alright though.

I felt bad for her. She was really nice and an amazing dancer. I glanced at Maddie and was surprised to see a slight smirk. Why is she smiling? Because Jojo got yelled at? Why would that make Maddie happy? It made no sense.

"Kendall, pay attention! Eyes on the mirror" Abby screamed at me.

I quickly brought my attention back to the dance embarrassed. I know better than that, I scolded myself. When you're dancing, focus on the dancing. We finished off the dance.

"Alright. I want the solo and duet in here. Gianna will take the trio to studio C. You will show it to me later."

The other girls left the room except Jojo and me. I smiled at Jojo reassuringly and she smiled gratefully back.

"Kendall off the floor, Jojo let's start." I climbed up on the stack of mats. I watched Abby explain each move out and Jojo slowly beginning the dance.

As I watched, I realized Abby gave you such a beautiful solo. It looked like a Maddie solo but with more technical moves, and Jojo performed it awesomely.

I watched sadly. Abby will never give me a nice challenging solo like this one. Clearly she is favoring Jojo.

"Alright" Abby said half an hour later "Kendall get over here. Let's start the duet."

I hopped down and walked over smiling. The camera followed me to the front of the room.

"So we are having a Jazz solo called animal I've become. It's a quick song. Lots of moves gonna be in there. The expression is desperate and angry. It's about someone trying to escape the darkness within themselves. It's by three days grace. Do you know the song?" Abby asked us. We both nodded. I really like this song! "Good. Then it will be easier to stay in beat." Abby smiled at us.

We started the dance. The song was a little tough to dance to, but we did it. However, I don't think most of the dance is jazz. Like it's quick but the ending is slow and kinda sad. You don't see that in jazz most of the time. But the dance is gorgeous with lots of emotions.

Abby watched us perform it together almost perfectly proudly. When we completed the dance with flourish, she clapped for us happily and then she hugged us. Abby is being unpredictably nice. Maybe it's because Jojo, or is she finally starting to like me?

"Go tell the other girls I want the trio in here and you guys can go get a drink. Good work!" abby told us.

We nodded and walked out. I walked to the change room while Jojo quickly goes to tell the Ziegler's and Nia to go perform there trio in front of Abby.

I opened the door. Kalani is there on her phone. I sit down on the bench.

I take a drink from my water bottle and sigh. I hope Jojo and I do really well at the comp! I can't let Miss Abby down! I want Miss Abby to keep being this kind to me, and not push me off again like she use to do.

I flexed my feet and breathed out. Im gonna do good, I told myself as Jojo walked in. were both gonna do good.

Hey guys! Thanks for continuing reading my story. I have almost 800 reads now. I really appreciate it. I hope you guys are still enjoying it. I might not be able to update that often for the next couple weeks with exams and all. Sorry. After there over I promise I will update the story.