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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="625d02019c3c7bf84fd9e339299fe006""Ah, but remember. If it weren't for her, you'd have the pleasure of enjoying my company more." Calex smirked, pulling his sister in for a hug. "You know you miss me, bro." The two had this werid hobby, of calling the other by the wrong gender. Ask Calex if he was a sibling, he'll reply 'yes an older brother.' Sayri groans and complains about her little 'sis' from time to time. I've come to learn these aren't insults, but terms of endearments./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="9c74e5e0a81e9d44add7b0e4f0a86292"Avery's over seeing my lessons instead of Liam, who doesn't trust me to not skip out nor quiet mid-lesson. Thanks alot Royal and Knight. The two of them would sometimes snuck out of or out right skip lessons, back when Noble first debuted. Partially because they couldn't stand each other and aruged more than they do now. The other part is their personal buiness. Problem is, it's occured often enough that Liam would attend lessons and pratices. Scary./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="e9b8e5971ab29edb1c2e3f71e4f5a43c"Our converstaion ended as the dancer instuctor strolled in. Avery moved to sit by the wall, allowing the instuctor room to work. Until now, we focused on Noble's signature dance moves. These are the specific dance moves Noble uses during their live performances. Ace not knowing these dance moves would be werid. Just like for Knight and Royal to forget the lyrics to one of their songs./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="8c37e66fbec3b61c85270a8550c5120b"Avery ingored my comment and continued. "Now that your returning to the spot light, your concept with Knight will be 'loyal duo'. When it's just you and Royal, 'unrequited love' or '_'. As for when all three of you are together, we're still working on that."/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="6157651c6bd40983d9801a489cea55b2"I couldn't contain my laugher. "By the books Avery is going rouge? Liam's gonna faint if he learns about this." Liam's learned to be very specific when giving instructions to me and Illya, otherwise we'll find a loophole. "Does your plan include a disuge for my disuge?" I gestured to myself. /p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="9c74e5e0a81e9d44add7b0e4f0a86292"Avery's over seeing my lessons instead of Liam, who doesn't trust me to not skip out nor quiet mid-lesson. Thanks alot Royal and Knight. The two of them would sometimes snuck out of or out right skip lessons, back when Noble first debuted. Partially because they couldn't stand each other and aruged more than they do now. The other part is their personal buiness. Problem is, it's occured often enough that Liam would attend lessons and pratices. Scary./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="27229001253ff6f0919ce7b98463b537""Your not the only one under alot of pressure Ace." Avery stared at my reflection in the mirror. "You guys don't know a fraction of what Liam does. Be grateful he's been able to keep you out of the spotlight for as long as he has."/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="e9b8e5971ab29edb1c2e3f71e4f5a43c"Our converstaion ended as the dancer instuctor strolled in. Avery moved to sit by the wall, allowing the instuctor room to work. Until now, we focused on Noble's signature dance moves. These are the specific dance moves Noble uses during their live performances. Ace not knowing these dance moves would be werid. Just like for Knight and Royal to forget the lyrics to one of their songs./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="fdc25e9dfebadd3184eaaba6504e9eb8""This just proves even more that I'm not needed on stage." I said after the video ended. "They've got a synergy that works. Why mess with that?"/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="eea76cdc8b64c61010d41c01d8763aa9""Noble's image was designed around a duo." Avery commented. "For you and Knight, it was 'charming knight and loyal companion' in other words '_'. 'A lady and her knight' was the oringal concept for Knight and Royal. After seeing their personal interactions, it's been rebranded as 'a rebellious lady and her reluctant guard/knight'."/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="8c37e66fbec3b61c85270a8550c5120b"Avery ingored my comment and continued. "Now that your returning to the spot light, your concept with Knight will be 'loyal duo'. When it's just you and Royal, 'unrequited love' or '_'. As for when all three of you are together, we're still working on that."/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="f8c39c4938c7dc16562d7b05e5167d37""Until concept can be finalized, we'll wait to incorporate a specific dance style for you. For now, we'll foucs on getting you familiar and comfortable with Noble's signature dance moves. We'll also review old performances so you can get a feel for their movements." The instructor announced, than ended class./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="79133c076288932782cc6e184fdce2b9"Avery didn't waste a moment. He ordered me to quickly shower and change so we could grab lunch than move onto our next location. No wonder Avery was chosen to company me, he's on top of everything, down to the mintue. I kid you not, he placed a timer outside of the shower. Once it goes off, any extra time I take will be taken out of my lunch time. Does he know how differcult it is to get these contacts out and back in? Not to mention keeping my head and face dry. Lilie isn't around to reapply my disguse. The fact that I have to completely dress as Ace to attend practice. Why'd the usual instructor have to be on vaction?/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="6157651c6bd40983d9801a489cea55b2"I couldn't contain my laugher. "By the books Avery is going rouge? Liam's gonna faint if he learns about this." Liam's learned to be very specific when giving instructions to me and Illya, otherwise we'll find a loophole. "Does your plan include a disuge for my disuge?" I gestured to myself. /p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="c8288f46fc9b5cf0d9b3330f57418665"Keeping our appearences and idenities hidden can be time consuming and demanding. The company may value Noble more now that we've grown our fanbase and in poplaurity, but that doesn't mean they'll give us speical treatment. Understandable, considering we're still new and nowhere near Jagged Stone famous. So how does Noble keep themsevles hidden? Simple, it's thanks to Liam. He's scouted everyone on our small personal team. Each of these people have graciously offered to not only work for Noble, but to do the extra work that's nessarcy to keep our idenities a serect. Because of this, most of the staff while quailified, don't have alot of expereince working with idols and celebrities in this compasstea. We've been able to keep a float thanks to everyone working together and helping each other out. Lilie's been a big help as well, since she has the most experience besides Liam and one other person./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="443488e1d149ceacaa6fa12f22e4185b"Avery snorted, "I doubt you'll be going around announcing yourself as 'Ace, the mysterious third member of Noble." He placed his shoulder around my arm, leading the way towards the elevator. "No one knows what Ace looks like, you'll be fine. Just don't draw attention to yourself."/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="bac69748b4f9f7ca43ed174707f2f5cc"The elevator let us out on the first floor. Since it's the weekend, there weren't many people around. As we passed through the glass doors, I caught sight of my reflection. Dark blue streaks decorated my dark blond hair, matching the neon blue contacts I wore. These helped to draw attention away from my face. As an extra precaution, a fake star birthmark had been placed under my left eye. To complete the look, a single navy earring hung on my left ear."Somehow that sounds easier said than done." My reflection gave a slight nod, as if to agree./p