Exploring
Disclaimer: I don't own the movie Dirty Dancing or any of the characters except Katie, Jack, Andy, Claire, Keiran and any other character you don't recognise.
After our somewhat interesting tennis match Andy, Jack and I took the kids back to the cabin and decided to go and have a look around. We walked up to the main house and into the ballroom. We had heard about this place our whole lives this was the place where my parents danced. As I looked at the stage, which was done up for the tribute, I almost felt myself going back to 1963 and watching my parents dance in front of all those people. As budding dancers Andy and I had been taught to do this dance when we were little but we had never actually seen Johnny and Baby do it for real. "Hey you guys should do some dancin' here if this is where it all started" That was the last thing I needed to hear from Jack "Get stuffed we haven't done that dance in years we would so stuff it up" We left the ballroom and walked through the grounds we found a place that said "Disused Dance Studio" on the sign, the door was open so we let ourselves in. We walked upstairs to find a large room that looked as though it had been used recently or at least cleaned up. An old record player sat in the corner I walked over to it and turned it on the opening music of "I've had the time of my life" started to play. "See you're destined to dance today" I quickly turned off the music "We better go I mean if this is disused and we're caught in here it won't be pretty" trying to quickly change the subject. "I agree let's go" Andy clearly wanted to dance as much as I did.
We walked around the grounds for over an hour and the only interesting thing we had found was the dance studio. As we walked back to our cabins we found a path which led to some smaller cabins at the top of hill. As we walked to it I spotted a sign which read "Staff quarters No Guests Permitted" This confused me as the staff quarters were now in the main house. It was too late to turn back though as the guys were almost at the top of the hill. When we reached the top of the hill I told the others about the sign but from the looks of it this place hadn't been used in years. All the cabins were identical apart from one, which was much larger than the others were. "Come on lets go and see what's in it" Before Andy or I could answer Jack had opened the door to the large cabin and went inside. We joined him inside but nothing could have prepared up for what we saw. It was like a ballroom or bar which had been left to waste away for years. It was like the Dance studio-disused but this one hadn't been cleaned up. There were photos everywhere of people doing some kind of dancing I had never seen before, it looked kind of dirty. "What is this place" Andy was the first to get over the shock of the look of the place. Jack came second "I dunno for the first time ever I find myself lost for words"
As Andy and Jack continued to argue about the use of the place, Andy thought it was some kind of training area for new staff, Jack thought it was some area for torture, I looked at some of the scattered photos. Some were of people I didn't recognise and some were of some people my parents were friends with when I was a kid and then I saw someone I definitely recognised, Penny. She was young maybe only in her twenties she was dressed in a long flowing dress and was dancing on some guy's shoulder. As I continued to look at the picture I began to realise who the guy was. He was tall and had long hair; he was dressed in a suit and had a familiar, comforting but sexy look on his face. It was my dad Johnny Castle. He was so young in this picture it must've been taken over twenty years before. I continued to stare at the picture wondering if my dad and Penny had been item back then and what it was like to be in this hug hall at that time when in noticed two familiar faces in the background My Uncle Billy and my Mom. She was young maybe only 17 and looked very out of place among the others in the hall. Jack and Andy stopped arguing and came over to join me "Hey wotcha lookin at?" I showed them the picture and, like me, it took them a while to realise who they were looking at "oh my god is that Dad" I went to answer and someone came in to the hall through the back door. "What are you doing here?!" It was the hotel manager Neil Kellerman. I grabbed the photo and we ran and ran until we found a disused cabin to hide in but the one we found would unearth secrets our parents clearly never wanted us to know.
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