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I don't own anything to do with "Center Stage".

Four

Jody knocked on the large brown wooden door to her parent's 3- story house. Her father opened the door and hugged Jody.

"Hi Jody! Welcome home. How have you been? How's New York?"

Jody stepped inside and shut the door. "Hi Dad. I'm fine… New York's great. Um, where is everyone?"

Living in the large stone house was Mr. and Mrs. Sawyer, Nick and Michelle- twin 13 year old they had adopted, and two dogs- Captain Carpool (C.C. for short- Nick and Michelle's dog) and Jody's black palmeranian, Rascal.

As on cure, Nick, Michelle, C.C., and Rascal all came running to the front door. Jody hugged the twins and greeted the dogs.

Michelle took Jody's bag up to Jody's old room and Nick managed to get the hyper dogs into the backyard.

"Where's mom?" Jody asked.

Mr. Sawyer stepped slowly forward. "She's resting upstairs honey. She's been pretty sick lately, we're not quite sure what's wrong yet. But next week we have yet another doctor's appointment, and hopefully they'll be able to tell us something then."

"Oh…" Jody in shock. "Can I see her?"

"Oh, sure! Come on." He led Jody up the stairs and opened the door to his room

Jody stepped in and walked over to the bed. "Hey mom."

Mrs. Sawyer smiled and sat up slightly. She hugged Jody and said, "Hi Jody! When did you get here?"

"Only about 5 minutes ago. So, how are you?"

"Right now I'm feeling pretty good actually. But what about you, what's New York like?"

Mr. Sawyer left at this point.

Jody walked around the double bed and sat on the other side. "New York is wonderful. It's so fun!"

"How's… um… that company director of yours?"

"Cooper Nielson? He's, uh, fine. A little insane, but fine."

Jody's mom nodded. "I'm glad you're enjoying yourself sweetie. Do you have a lot of new friends?"

Jody smiled. "Oh, plenty. There's Eva, and Erik, and Charlie. And then there's Sergei and Galina, but they live in California now."

"Oh, wow. And do they all dance?"

"Yeah. Eva, Erik, and Charlie are all in ABC."

"Great, they all sound wonderful. But, uh, no boyfriend then, huh?"

Jody smiled. "Oh, well, actually I do. It's Charlie, the one at ABC, and he's so great. You'd love him mom."

"How long have you been together?"

"Almost 4 months now." Jody reported happily. "But I met him my first day in New York, at ABA."

"Oh, wow. Would I have seen him dance in any of the workshops?"

"Yeah, mine actually. Cooper played the blond rebel and Charlie was the other guy."

"Oh, he's very talented."

"Yeah… I know."

"JODY!!!" Someone called from the 3rd floor.

Jody smiled. "Great to be back." She joked, getting up. "I'll see you later mom."9