Now That I Can Dance
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Chapter Three:
No Guests Allowed
Baby
I need air.
I shouldn't press my luck-I'm finally out of Neil's clutches, which makes him sound like a fairy tale dragon, but that's what it feels like. I'm sure someone else would love him, after all, as he said to me without as much modesty as one would hope, he does have two hotels. But not me.
"STAFF QUARTERS; NO GUESTS PLEASE". Now why would Max put that sign up? Doesn't he know that people will automatically do what they're told not to do? But then, maybe it's not like that in the Kellerman's bubble.
Ah. Suitcase boy.with three watermelons? What are they for?
"Hi" I say, happy to see someone who isn't Neil.
"How'd you get here?" He sounds anxious.
"I was taking a walk, here let me help you." I take a watermelon.
"No." Geez, what a grump.
"What's up there?" I can hear the music coming from the larger cabin on top of the hill.
"No guest allowed, house rules. I saw you dancing with the little boss man." He hums something and dances a little, and I give the watermelon back to him.
"Can you keep a secret", he says, obviously not happy to be carrying all three watermelons, "You're parents would kill you, Max would kill me."
I nod, and take the watermelon back, then follow him up the stairs. He opens the door with a flourish and I see all the people... dancing.
"Where did they learn to do that?" I ask awestruck, this isn't dancing like the Mambo or merengue, it's more like the groping you see high school kids doing against walls late at night in the bad parts of town.
"I don't know, kids are doing it in basements back home. Wanna try it?" Oh god, I could never do that, the moves and the...everything. This is not something my parents pictured me doing when they decided on a vacation here. The Kellerman's bubble doesn't seem to extend to this room. I shake my head a definite no, and Billy laughs and says, "come-on Baby." And we walk to the back of the room to set the watermelons down on the table.
"Can you imagine doing this on the main floor, home of the family Fox- trot? Max would close the place down first." God, am I still having a conversation with him? Well, at least he's better than Neil, all wanna-try- its excluded. Actually, "the little boss man" isn't that inaccurate a description.
And here comes the man in black, complete with princess girl, who appears to be hanging off him (I bet it isn't even part of the dance. She's probably just malnourished or something). Is he omnitient? He seems to be everywhere.
Now they are in their element, the king and queen, Isis and Osiris of the dance floor. It isn't a show anymore, now they dance for no one but themselves.
"That's my cousin, Johnny Castle" Billy says proudly, "he got me the job here."
"They look great together," I say, in awe. All illusions of slumming are now banished...It's obvious that there is no poverty in this place, only dancing.
"You'd think they were a couple, wouldn't you?" Billy seems happy to be telling me something I don't know, I hate people like that.
"Aren't they?" They'd have to be right? They look so perfect.
" Not since we were kids." I wonder how young he means by that, I wonder how old they are.
" Yo cuz," Johnny Castle (the man in black) comes over from the dance floor, " what's she doing here?" It takes a second, and I realize he's talking about me, I try to think of something, but Billy comes to my so called rescue.
" She's with me", he says, god I hope he doesn't mean it like that, "she came here with me."
" I carried a watermelon." I say, and then realize what I said, god how dumb am I?
Johnny shrugs and heads back to the dance floor, back to dancing with the princess.
" I carried a watermelon?" I say to no one. Arg!
After the song changes, he comes back and pulls me on to the floor.
Oh, no.
I probably look like a duck mistakenly taken onto the dance floor, everyone is looking at me, and no matter how much he tries to tell me how to move I'll never... OH MY GOD, HE'S TOUCHING ME!!!!!!!
Well, this is a new experience. I try to move with him, and maybe I get a little better, but probably not. Still, it's nice, just try to move with the music and don't worry about anything.
In short, the song ends far too soon.
*~*~*
Chapter Three:
No Guests Allowed
Baby
I need air.
I shouldn't press my luck-I'm finally out of Neil's clutches, which makes him sound like a fairy tale dragon, but that's what it feels like. I'm sure someone else would love him, after all, as he said to me without as much modesty as one would hope, he does have two hotels. But not me.
"STAFF QUARTERS; NO GUESTS PLEASE". Now why would Max put that sign up? Doesn't he know that people will automatically do what they're told not to do? But then, maybe it's not like that in the Kellerman's bubble.
Ah. Suitcase boy.with three watermelons? What are they for?
"Hi" I say, happy to see someone who isn't Neil.
"How'd you get here?" He sounds anxious.
"I was taking a walk, here let me help you." I take a watermelon.
"No." Geez, what a grump.
"What's up there?" I can hear the music coming from the larger cabin on top of the hill.
"No guest allowed, house rules. I saw you dancing with the little boss man." He hums something and dances a little, and I give the watermelon back to him.
"Can you keep a secret", he says, obviously not happy to be carrying all three watermelons, "You're parents would kill you, Max would kill me."
I nod, and take the watermelon back, then follow him up the stairs. He opens the door with a flourish and I see all the people... dancing.
"Where did they learn to do that?" I ask awestruck, this isn't dancing like the Mambo or merengue, it's more like the groping you see high school kids doing against walls late at night in the bad parts of town.
"I don't know, kids are doing it in basements back home. Wanna try it?" Oh god, I could never do that, the moves and the...everything. This is not something my parents pictured me doing when they decided on a vacation here. The Kellerman's bubble doesn't seem to extend to this room. I shake my head a definite no, and Billy laughs and says, "come-on Baby." And we walk to the back of the room to set the watermelons down on the table.
"Can you imagine doing this on the main floor, home of the family Fox- trot? Max would close the place down first." God, am I still having a conversation with him? Well, at least he's better than Neil, all wanna-try- its excluded. Actually, "the little boss man" isn't that inaccurate a description.
And here comes the man in black, complete with princess girl, who appears to be hanging off him (I bet it isn't even part of the dance. She's probably just malnourished or something). Is he omnitient? He seems to be everywhere.
Now they are in their element, the king and queen, Isis and Osiris of the dance floor. It isn't a show anymore, now they dance for no one but themselves.
"That's my cousin, Johnny Castle" Billy says proudly, "he got me the job here."
"They look great together," I say, in awe. All illusions of slumming are now banished...It's obvious that there is no poverty in this place, only dancing.
"You'd think they were a couple, wouldn't you?" Billy seems happy to be telling me something I don't know, I hate people like that.
"Aren't they?" They'd have to be right? They look so perfect.
" Not since we were kids." I wonder how young he means by that, I wonder how old they are.
" Yo cuz," Johnny Castle (the man in black) comes over from the dance floor, " what's she doing here?" It takes a second, and I realize he's talking about me, I try to think of something, but Billy comes to my so called rescue.
" She's with me", he says, god I hope he doesn't mean it like that, "she came here with me."
" I carried a watermelon." I say, and then realize what I said, god how dumb am I?
Johnny shrugs and heads back to the dance floor, back to dancing with the princess.
" I carried a watermelon?" I say to no one. Arg!
After the song changes, he comes back and pulls me on to the floor.
Oh, no.
I probably look like a duck mistakenly taken onto the dance floor, everyone is looking at me, and no matter how much he tries to tell me how to move I'll never... OH MY GOD, HE'S TOUCHING ME!!!!!!!
Well, this is a new experience. I try to move with him, and maybe I get a little better, but probably not. Still, it's nice, just try to move with the music and don't worry about anything.
In short, the song ends far too soon.