" 5, 6, 7, 8. Let's go girls!" the teacher yelled to her dance students. For the past two and a half hours, the girls have been doing the same routine and were about to fall over and go right to sleep. "Stop!"

All of the girls stopped, including the student teachers.

"That's all for today, ladies. Get a lot of rest and come back tomorrow."

The girls walked to their bags and gathered their things. She was changing into some flip flops when she heard her one student teacher talking to her brother. She looked up.

"Linzy, what's wrong?" Bradin asked her.

"It's nothing."

"It matters to me. You're my best friend here. Talk to me, please."

She turned towards him. "There is just a lot going on with my family right now. I need time to myself."

"Can we hang out soon?" he asked. "I miss hanging out with you."

"We'll see."

Nikki walked up to the two teenagers. "Can we go?" Nikki asked.

Bradin looked at his sister and back to his best friend. "Call me if you need to talk," he told Linzy, "I don't know if I'm being a good friend by not making you talk about it and letting you suffer."

Linzy nodded and walked away. Nikki watched after her and felt terrible for her and Bradin. Bradin was falling in love with her each time they talked, even if they argued about the stupidest thing. And, Linzy was too blind to see it.

The two siblings began walking home in silence. Nikki couldn't take it.

"So, are you going to ask her out?" she asked her brother.

He looked down at her and then back to see where he was walking. He sighed. "I want to. But, she's going through so much right now. I don't want her thinking that I'm just talking to her and being there for her becaue I want her." He knew he wasn't making any sense and stopped talking.

"She means a lot to me, too. She's been there for me through everything."

"I don't want to see her go through this alone. She told me that she has never had anyone care for her the way I do."

"I know."

A/N: the first couple chapters will be about bradin and how he and linzy became a couple. then nikki and what happened will come in soon. i promise