Edited 2019
AN: I am sorry I did not get this chapter up earlier. I was recovering from my very late night of seeing the midnight showing of the final Harry Potter movie. As usual, I own none of these lovely characters. Thanks again for reading.
Chapter 6
Mrs. Hyde and helped me clean up the dishes while the guys had their second helpings of the cobbler. "So, Sookie what piece are you going to play for chair selections? Godric still has not decided maybe you two could help each other come up with what you are going to play. I know that if you play as lovely as you did this afternoon then you are sure to give him some good completion for first chair." Mrs. Hyde asked handing me a plate to dry.
"I don't know what I want to play for chair selection, but I have figured out what I want to play for quartet tryouts. I know that Mrs. Fortenberry is only going to have two this year. I was also thinking about going out for full orchestra, but I don't know if I will have the time. I am already trying out for the dance team. I don't know where I will find the time for practicing in general, homework and drawing. I will have a busy schedule without adding more to it." I put the dry plate on the stack I had going on the counter.
"I did decide mother you just don't like Bacri. I think you should play what you did today but not just the prelude, the whole thing. It will show Mrs. Fortenberry that you care about technique. I want to play Autumn from Vivaldi's The Four Seasons for quartet. Also, since I must go out for a team to cover P.E., I wanted to know what you thought of me going out for the dance team. Do you think that they would let me on even if I am not that coordinated? I don't want to go out for any of the contact sports." Godric carried the plates over to the cupboard to put away with a blush.
"I think Lafayette would love to have another guy on the team. He was telling Tara over the summer if they could get another guy to join then they could start planning some couples partnering routines. He wants to have a variety of things to take to state for his senior year. I would love to have someone else who understands music to dance with. Tara wants me to do a point routine for my tryout, but I was thinking that I might do a lyrical or contemporary one. If you want, I could choreograph a piece for you to do, it would not have to be anything to difficult. They will be happy that you tried and probably let you on anyway. Lala is more bark than bite and Tara would love to have someone else who can keep with tempo on the team. You have to Godric it would be great." I said with a smile.
"That is two days away do think that I could really learn an entire routine in such a short amount of time?" He asked shyly.
"I can come up with one by tomorrow night if you can come over to learn and practice it? I just need to know what you want to dance to. Mrs. Hyde how long can you two stay I know that it is a school night but if we can get a song picked out then I can start choreographing?" I put down the last plate and moved on to the flatware.
"How about I leave Godric here could one of the boys drop him off on their way home?" She countered.
"Let me go ask if they would be willing to drop him off." I ran to the dining room. I found the guys reclining in the chairs looking very satisfied. I walked over to John and Alcide. I leaned down on their shoulders hugging them. John grabbed me and put me on his lap. Jason and Eric's expressions changed. Jason looked like he was going to threaten John if his hand moved any lower on my back. Eric's face became blank and stoic.
"Could one of you drop Godric off on your way home later? I want him to stay so we can work on music stuff. Please!" I gave them my irresistible puppy dog eyes and bit my lower lip.
"Babe, I can give him a ride if it'll get you to stop pouting like that," John said.
"Thank you, John. This means a lot to me. Godric and I will be up in my room working if you need anything. Oh, and cause you all waited till the dishes were done to finish eating you can wash then cause I an off duty now." I hugged him before I got up to go back to the kitchen. "John will give you a ride home so you can," I said.
"All right then Sweetheart I will see you when you get home. Sookie I have had a lovely time with you this evening. I am sure I will see you again soon. Take care." Mrs. Hyde said as she hugged both of us goodbye.
I walked over and took Godric's hand in my pulling him up to my room. "Come on let's go find something for you to dance to." I had him sit on my bed and went to get my cd collection. I had well over four hundred crammed into two amazingly heavy cd holders. I plopped them down on the bed and moved my stereo over with me. "I think that we will be able to find something here. Now what genre of music do you want to dance to, do you want to do something fast or something slow?" I asked.
"If it is too fast, I think that I will look foolish. I think something without words would be nice but after that, I have no idea. What would you suggest?" He sat there fiddling with the quilt.
"I tend to find it harder to dance to an instrumental piece. I remember the different steps better when I can associate it with a specific part of the music. I also find it easier to back up when I know the phrase that I need to go to. If you want to do something slow, I think a country song would work well or maybe an older pop-rock song. Now let me find that section and we can start listening." I flipped to the middle of the holder and started scanning. For the nearly two hours we sifted through song after song. Godric always found something wrong with the song, wither it be the beat, the tone, or the lyrics. Finally, I put in "Help!" by The Beatles. When "Yesterday" came on we both listened for a while.
"Could you replay that one I like it?" He asked shyly.
"Sure, now we are getting somewhere. If you like music from this time period, then I have more or is it just this song?" I hit repeat on the stereo.
"This song, could you do something with it?"
"Yeah, that won't be too hard. Let me listen to it a few more times. I will defiantly have something for you to learn by lunch tomorrow. If you want you could ride home with Jason and me tomorrow after school, he doesn't have practice so we could come here right after school and you could stay for supper again." I babbled on.
"I would like that. I think that if Quinn is ready to go then I should get going. I will see you tomorrow." He leaned in and gave me a hug, before walking downstairs. I followed him down. The guys were in the living room in various stages of consciousness around the room. Jason was snoring away in the club chair. Alcide was stretched out on the floor watching the TV fighting back a yawn. Hoyt was on one end of the sofa staring off into space. Eric and John were talking about the coming game on Friday sitting on the other side. I walked over to them sitting down on the arm of the sofa.
"John, we are done for tonight if you are ready to go so is Godric. Thank you again for taking him home it is really nice of you." I cooed.
"Babe you know I would do anything for you, all you have to do is ask. I don't think that I'm the only one that would do anything you asked." He looked pointedly at Eric. "But yeah, I think now, is as good a time as any, to get going. I'll see you tomorrow." He got off the sofa and walked to the door to get his shoes on. Godric followed him to the door and waved goodbye.
"I should probably get going to Sookie. See you at school." Hoyt said getting up as well. I walked him to the door.
"Hey Hoyt, Mr. Merlotte said that I could have the first pick of lab partners because I actually put some effort into the pretest, he gave us. Anyway, I was wondering if you would want to be my partner."
"Sure Sookie, I wouldn't pass up having you as a partner for anything. I know that you won't let me get a bad grade. That is the only class I am worried about. I'll see you tomorrow." He said walking down the porch stairs.
"Bye Hoyt." I waved him off and went back to the living room. Alcide had fallen asleep and sounded like he was competing with Jason for who could snore louder. Eric had turned off the TV and moved over on the sofa. He looked up at me and patted the seat beside him indicating he wanted me to sit. I plopped down next to him putting my head on his shoulder. "You think that they could be any louder?" I asked with a smile.
"Maybe, but then they could hear them the next parish over. Did you have a good night with Godric? It sounded like you were going through every cd you have up there." He asked putting his arm around me.
"It was alright. We were trying to find something for him to dance to for dance team tryouts on Wednesday. He needs to get on a team so he can get out of having PE this year."
"Why is he not going out for one of the sports teams? Is he afraid he'll get hurt or something?" Looking at me with a smirk trying to keep from laughing.
"He said he didn't want to go out for any of the contact sport and you know that I think that dance is just as much of a spot as football. It just takes a different kind of strength." I said moving out from under his arm to punch him in his shoulder.
"You know what I mean Sookie, one of the guy sports. Dance is more of a girl thing. I know you are strong and so does my shoulder." He said rubbing it.
"I know that I am strong I don't need you to tell me I am. Also, I will be glad to tell Lafayette that you think he is the co-captain of a girl sport. He will love to change your mind on just how masculine dance can be. I think that it is great that Godric is going out for the dance team. I know that Lafayette wanted to choreograph some partner dances for state. That means Godric will get be in very close proximity with the pretty and rather flexible girls. I know most of your football team would die to get that close to some of those girls." I was almost shouting when I finished. I stood up and walking to the kitchen to get away from Eric and his misogynistic views. I came to a stop when I saw Gran sitting at the table with a smile on her face.
"I see that boy still doesn't know how to talk to you. How was your first day of school?" Gran asked.
"Oh, Gran I don't understand how he can be like that and I had a pretty good day till Debbie Pelt and Arlene Fowler made it known how they feel about me. They ruined mama's cello. Mrs. Hyde took me to the music store in Shreveport. Gran, I don't even know how much it is going to cost to get it fixed." I started to cry. I had been ignoring thinking about my cello and now that it was back in the forefront of my mind. I felt a hand come to rest on my shoulder.