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I was in a record shop looking for the new Ultimate Hip-Hop Sounds CD, I had heard this had some pretty cool songs on it. I found it and went to the till to pay. Lauren Malory and Jessica Stanley were behind the counter, Lauren serving me.
"Why are you buying something like this, Swan? You're not cool enough to like songs like this." Lauren sneered as she scanned the CD.
"What's she buying?" Jessica asked, walking over to us, just leaving the customer she was supposed to be serving. "What the heck? Why would you want this?" She asked, looking at me as if I was insane.
I smiled. "I do a little bit of hip-hop dancing." I shrugged. "No big deal."
They laughed. "You? Hip-hop dancing? Whatever." Lauren said as she laughed.
I felt someone lean on me. "Girl, don't go chirping on something you have no clue about, my girl Isa is the best dancer I've ever seen, even if she does lie about what else she does." I turned to look at the girl leaning on me, recognising the voice.
"Alyssa!" I hugged her. "I'm so sorry I never told you, it was wrong of me. Ok what are you doing here and how's your wound?"
"Yes you should have, we wouldn't have minded, you know that, you're our girl, I came here to talk, and my wound is fine, I'm finally allowed to dance again." She said smiling.
"Swan wouldn't be able to dance even if she tried." Jessica sneered.
Alyssa laughed. "Ok, this girl right here can hip-hop dance, can ballet dance, can kick butt with a skateboard, and can bend and flip like no other."
"Prove it, Swan." Lauren said.
I chuckled. "Can I pay for the CD first?" I handed her the money, took the CD and receipt and walked outside. She coughed. I turned. "I can't do it in here, you're going to have to watch me do my thing outside." They glared but followed me outside.
Alyssa had a CD player ready. I raised an eyebrow. "Oh, come on, Isa. You thought I'd come without getting you to show off your talents?"
"It's Bella, no more personality names ok?" She smiled and nudged me. We laughed and started the song. I recognised it as soon as it started and remembered the dance straight away as well.
Wild Wild West, Jim West, desperado, rough rider
No you don't want nada
We started the choreographed part first, doing simple hip-hop poses and hand gestures.
None of this, six gunin this, brotha runnin this,
Buffalo soldier, look it's like I told ya
Any damsel that's in distress
Be out of that dress when she meet Jim West
Rough neck so go check the law and abide
Watch your step with flex and get a hole in your side
We swayed as we ran our hands down our sides, me going to the floor as Alyssa leapfrogged over me.
Swallow your pride, don't let your lip react,
You don't wanna see my hand where my hip be at,
With Artemus, from the start of this,
Runnin the game, James West tamin the west so
remember the name
We had kept it simple at the start, but it was more than a lot of people in Port Angeles had seen, still Lauren and Jessica didn't find it good enough by the looks on their faces. I nodded at Alyssa telling her that we were stepping it up a notch.
Now who ya gonna call?
Alyssa put her hand as a phone and put it up to her ear.
Not the G.B.'s
I shook my hips gently.
Now who you gonna call?
She did it with her other hand, pushing her hip to the other side.
G double E G
I did a back-flip going to a crouching position. I smiled smugly as Alyssa pulled at my arm as if it wasn't scripted and then I leaned on her shoulder.
If you have a riff with people wanna bust,
Break out before you get bumrushed at the (Wild Wild
West)
We went back to a classic but complicated dance hand shake.
When I roll into the (Wild Wild West)
When I stroll into the (Wild Wild West)
When I bounce into the (Wild Wild West) Sisqo, Sisqo
We did different things each time one including a break-dancing type of move where we kept our hands on the floor and did the same type of hand shake but this time with our feet.
We going straight to the Wild Wild West
We going straight to the Wild Wild West
The music faded out as Alyssa struck a hip-hop pose while I ended up in a break dance handstand.
Everyone cheered except Jessica and Lauren. Then I saw the manager come outside with a very annoyed look on his face.
"What is going on here? Why is no one on the till?" He asked dangerously calmly as he glared at me and Alyssa then at Lauren and Jessica.
I smiled innocently. "Sorry sir, it's just that Lauren and Jessica said they wanted to see us dance there and then and we couldn't really refuse."
His eyes burned in fury. "You two have been nothing but trouble since I hired you, well you won't be any more, you're both fired!" He screamed.
"I think it's time for us to go now, Bella." Alyssa said and we both sped away, laughing.
When we were far enough away, we laughed and sat on the sidewalk.
"Girl, you still got it." She said hugging me. "Damn, I've missed you!"
I chuckled. "You know, you've got me in a lot more trouble with those two now." I said seriously.
She laughed. "Sorry, so what's been up with your life now, don't tell me that you've completely given up dancing."
I sighed. "Not completely, I still dance in my spare time, but I'm no longer Isa the hip-hop diva."
"Speaking of hip-hop divas, you know that Leah went missing?" She asked, not very concerned.
"What?" I asked, very surprised.
"Yeah, one day she came over to me, telling me that because you weren't around, our group wasn't top anymore and she challenged Ely to a dance battle the next day." Alyssa said.
"And?" I said completely into this story.
"She didn't show."
I felt my jaw drop. "Leah wouldn't just not show."
"Well we went to her house…"
I cut her off. "Wait, you're telling me you guys knew where she lived and never told me?"
She smiled sheepishly. "Well, we knew that you'd go and rip out her hair while she was sleeping so we decided not to tell you." I sighed, knowing she was right. "Can I continue?" I nodded. "Ok well we went to her house and her mom said that Leah hadn't come home yesterday. We looked everywhere but she wasn't anywhere."
"You don't seem too bothered." I commented.
She shrugged. "Why should I care? She hates me, I hate her. No point in worrying about it unless they go after people I like."
I frowned. "Yeah, but even if we didn't like her doesn't mean we didn't have a bond with her."
"Ok, I prefer the only hip-hop you. Bella, she got one of her cronies to try and kill me, I think that's enough of a reason not to care."
I sighed. "Sorry, but after trying to be five different people and keeping it a secret, you get to become a little boring."
Alyssa laughed. "Yo, I don't care if you were hiding that you were an alien from another world, you're still my girl and you're still the divalicious dancer that I know and love." I smiled and hugged her. "But now you gotta tell me what's going on in your life." She said.
I sighed. "Well, really all I do now is school, and hang out with Edward."
She stopped me. "Whoa, whoa, whoa! Who is Edward and why haven't I heard of him?"
I smiled. "You have heard of him." She frowned. "Pimp daddy?" I prompted.
Her jaw dropped this time. "You're hooking up with that guy now?" I nodded, smiling. "Gurl why do you get all the luck?"
I laughed. My cell began to ring. I looked at the ID. "Hey dad, what's up?" I answered.
"Where are you, you've been out for a while." My dad asked witrh worry in his voice.
"Sorry, I just ran into a friend, and we've been catching up with stuff."
"Alright, well come home soon ok?" He asked.
"I'll come home now." I hung up. "Sorry Alyssa, it's been great but you know how parents are, especially when your dad's the police chief."
She smiled. "It's cool, talk later ok?" I nodded, we hugged then I headed for my truck.
While I was driving home, I couldn't help but think about Leah. Where had she disappeared to? And who had made her disappear?
A.N.- You're going to get sick of these types of chapters. I promise you. Gymnastics is next. Review
Song Playlist
Will Smith- Wild Wild West
Thanks to emoTWiLiGHT for betaing this.