(Alicia's POV)
Soon everyone's looking great and we head off to school. We're all in the same classes together, thankfully. But during the morning announcements they called 'No Batteries and Sent' down to Josh's office. We headed down there questioning the reason's why they'd call us out of class, because we already had scheduled practice times. About halfway there we met up with the guys, and they didn't seem nearly as confused as us.
"Isn't it obvious?" Mateo asks, "They're pulling us out of class for extra practice."
Turns out Matt was right, well kind of. They pulled us out of class for 'Dancing lessons'. We got to Josh's and he took us to the gym were Linda my dance teacher and Dondante the teacher of a rivaling dance company were. They led us through stretches and then told us to pick a partner of the opposite sex. Of Course Mateo and Lucia were of course together, Maria tentatively approached Conchito and was accepted as a partner. Brie went straight to Timoteo and they became partners. And I turned around to find Carlos behind me. So we were all paired up.
Linda turned on the music and told us to dance like we knew how to in pairs. The music was fast so I settled for the usual street dancing, what some may call dirty dancing, with Carlos moving skillfully behind me.
"You're good," Carlos whispers in my ear.
"Gracias, you are too," I say to him slightly blushing. He starts to move in slightly different manner, guiding me gently with his hands on my hips. And I let him lead me. He switches to a couple different dances throughout the song, which happens to be, 'Come Dance'. Too soon the song stopped. The teachers congratulated us on what we already knew, and Linda took the girls to one side of the gym and Dondante took the guys to the other side of the gym. They worked with us on the dance moves that we'd probably use in our upcoming performance.
Soon the put us back together with the guys and took couples individually to a separate practice room to work with them individually, while the rest of the group worked together. Carlos and I were last.
We walk into the practice room, which was a pale yellow color with dark blue carpet and mats piled up in a corner.
"We are going to work you two on Acro" Linda tells us.
"Ok" I answer as does Carlos.
"First we'll start with a simple front limber." She says, and points at me. "Carlos help me spot."
I don't need spotting because I've done this a million times at home, but I know that If I protest she'll only insist so I let them take there spots. I perform an almost flawless front limber. Linda tells me to try again only this time point my toes. I then perform it perfectly, she then helps me with backhand springs, which I had the just of. Linda and her sharp comments, and the combined strength of her and Carlos then helped me perfect them. I think it also had to do with the fact that I hated having Carlos support me. And on our separate practice went until I had mastered not only front limbers, but also back walkovers, back handsprings, back flips, front flips, front handsprings, and aerials. Ok maybe not mastered but I could do them.
When we got out of the practice room everyone is gone and the clock on the wall says that it is quarter after 4 and school got out at 3:30. Carlos offers to drive me home and I tell him ok, and explain where Maria lives (we all pretty much live at Maria's house).
He drives me in the direction of her house and I start humming a tune. I don't realize that I'd started singing until we reach nearly the street on which Maria lives, and Carlos has started to hum along with me. I abruptly shut up.
"Don't stop" Carlos says, "You sing muy bien".
I rolled my eyes at him.
Unknowing to me he is thinking you dance muy bien too.
I glace again at him, and think he's so cute when he's deep in thought like that… not that I like him or anything, Ewww, O.M.G. that was the strangest thing I ever thought.
We reach Maria's house, I start to get out of the car and he lays a hand on my arm.
"Hmm?" I ask turning around
"Do you think…maybe…we could… you know…hang out sometime."
I surprise even myself on how fast I agree.
"Sí,"
He drives off with a smile on his face. His gorgeous face a small part in the back of my mind corrects me. I shake it off with a fierceness. "There must be something in the air" I mutter to my self.
I walk in the house and grab myself a bite to eat, it sounds like the girls are charlan in the basement. I head down. I'm greeted with sly smiles.
"So how was it with Carlos?" Maria asked, unnoticing to their intent I reply.
"Gosh he work me hard, I'm tired" then I cover my mouth at their looks of shock. "OMG, you sick… that came out sooo wrong, I was talking about the acro lessons."
Their faces relaxed.
"So you guys were learning acro?" Brie asked
"Yeah." And to prove it I did a round-off back-handspring.
"Wow" she said. "All Tim and I did back there was a heck of a lot of muy sufren stretching and dance drills."
"Ditto" Maria and Lucia chorused.
"Weird" I breathed.