Chapter 8 – Let's Dance
The scene now shifts to VICKY driving TOOTIE to the dance. She is late, and pleading with VICKY to hurry so she can have her dance with TIMMY. From the back seat we hear her say:
TOOTIE: (To VICKY) "Please hurry, TIMMY is waiting for me."
VICKY: (To TOOTIE) "Shut it princess, I'll be there in a minute."
Now back at the dance, the host of Dancing with Dimmsdale, CHRISTIE GLAMORPUSS makes the announcement to begin dancing.
CHRISTIE GLAMORPUSS: (To the students of Dimmsdale) "Ok students of Dimmsdale, once the music starts, we will begin the dance! Remember, the music changes periodically, so be ready to change your dance styles as the music changes. Are you ready! (Students of Dimmsdale all yell ready) Then lets DANCE!"
(It is implied that the last dance of the evening, the "Spotlight Dance" will be the slow ballroom dance with the partner of choice.)
The DJ starts the music! All the kids begin to dance to the beat. The DJ starts off with some modern club music. We see all the students of Dimmsdale elementary dancing with the exception of TOOTIE, as she has not arrived yet. It is at this time, the music has played for a short while and the judges are focusing on TIMMY TURNER, TAD & CHAD, because the trio are dancing up a storm and looking good doing it. However, all of the camera's start to focus on TIMMY, and so does TRIXIE.
COSMO: (To TIMMY) "TIMMY, don't look now, but TRIXIE has her eye on you!"
WANDA: (To TIMMY) "Yeah sport, so do all these camera's! Look! You're on the monitor up there!"
TIMMY: (To COSMO & WANDA) "Wow, I'm on TV!" (TIMMY gives the camera a sly look, and tips his hat as he is dancing to show how cool and dapper he is. No sooner after TIMMY did that, TRIXIE decides to come over to him and say).
TRIXIE: (To TIMMY) "Hi TIMMY, Mind if I dance with you?"
TIMMY: (Shocked and in disbelief that TRIXIE wants to dance with him) "Sure, let's dance." (Just as TRIXIE asks him to dance, the era changes to a 70's theme. TIMMY & TRIXIE are now dancing to disco.)
We now go to the front of the school where VICKY finally drops TOOTIE off. Before she leaves to go torture one of her kids she babysits, she tells TOOTIE the following:
VICKY: (To TOOTIE) "Alright princess listen up and listen good! I'll be back here at 9:00 to pick you up! Don't make me wait! Because if I have to come in there and get you, you'll be one sorry twerpette."
TOOTIE: (To VICKY in a scared timid voice) "OK…" (We still don't see her until she walk into the school.
Back inside, PRINCIPAL WAXELPLAX comes into the picture. She looks stunning in a black sequence off the shoulder dress. It is at this time that she notices DENZEL CROCKER and walks over to him.
PRINCIPAL WAXELPLAX: (To DENZEL CROCKER) "My MR. CROCKER, you look nice this evening!"
DENZEL CROCKER: (To PRINCIPAL WAXELPLAX as he is for a moment hit with a thunderbolt of shock at the way she looks tonight) "Why…PRINCIPAL WAXELPLAX, you look absolutely stunning!"
PRINCIPAL WAXELPLAX: (To DENZEL CROCKER) "Why thank you MR CROCKER!" (She goes over to the other corner of the room where the red button mentioned earlier in the story was.)
It is at this time we FINALLY get to see TOOTIE at the dance. As she walks into the dance hall, we see her. She is wearing white shoes, with a powder blue dress and with lace around the bottom of the dress. The dress is taken in around her midsection to show her tiny waist line. From the waist up, the dress transitions into the color white where it is supported by a chocker neck lace which holds up the dress, exposing her shoulders and partial mid-drift of her back. It is then that we see her makeup. Ruby red lipstick accents her lips, with just a small hint of eye shadow and blush. She is wearing her glasses, but a pair that is not so thick, so that you can see more of her face. Finally, her hair is down. Still in pigtails, but down will a little bit of body to show off her beautiful smile? She looks absolutely radiant, and the reason why she was late, was so that she looked good for her one and only dance with TIMMY.
As TOOTIE stands there, no one even takes notice of how different she looks from her original attire. Just then, she suddenly notices TIMMY on the dance floor. She gets excited at first, but then she sees him dancing with TRIXIE. It is at that point she realizes that maybe she got there too late and he had asked someone else to dance with him.
TOOTIE: (Talking to herself) "On no, I must have gotten here too late." (Her smiling face turns to a frown. She feels her heart starting to break until she realizes what TIMMY said to her back at the window at his house earlier in the week.)
TOOTIE: (Still talking to herself) "Wait, he did promise me one dance! (Her spirits start to rise again) I'll just cheer him on and be patient. He might just be waiting for the right song to ask me to dance with him."