Edited 2019

AN: Hello everyone. Can you all believe that I am up to then chapters now? Thanks to everyone that is reading and reviewing. Also, big hugs for those of you who have favorited my story or put it on alert. Thank you to the two of you out there that voted in the poll. You will see what song I picked, there was a three-way tie, so I picked one of them. Happy Birthday to my dad who is 61 today (even though I know that he is not reading this). Anyway, onto the chapter. Sorry in advance for those of you who don't know or speak ballet terms. Now that it has become epically late again, I am going to go to sleep hopefully. Happy Reading!

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Chapter 10

I took my stuff up to my room. I closed the door so that I could change into something more comfortable to dance in. I put on a pair of dark red shorts and one of Jason's old football t-shirts, it was too small for him but a bit big on me. I took my hair down and shook it out. I put it back up in a ponytail at the back of my head. I walked out of my room across to the bathroom. I used the toilet and washed my hands. I wanted to be as comfortable as possible and not having to run and pee would help with that. I came back downstairs. Gran was sitting in her chair reading a book. Godric was sitting on the sofa waiting patiently for me to come back. "Gran I am sorry I did not introduce you earlier, but this is Godric Hyde. Godric this is my grandmother Adele Stackhouse."

He stood up and walked over to where Gran was sitting. He offered her his hand. "It is nice to meet you, Mrs. Stackhouse, Sookie has spoken highly of you."

"Well aren't you sweet dear. You may call me Gran. It is nice to meet a young gentleman with manors. I am used to Jason and his friends. Those boys seem to have forgotten what manors are." She said shaking his hand. "I hear that you are going out for the dance team with Sookie. She also told me that you are in the orchestra with her. I would like you to thank your mother for me. It was extremely kind of her to get Sookie's cello fixed. That cello was my late daughter in-law's and it means everything to Sookie. I would like it if you would ask her what I can do to repay her kindness."

"Mother was happy to do it and she told me that no thanks necessary. She felt horrible that her own nice would do such a thing. She also wants to pay for it since it was a member of our family that broke it." Godric replied.

"That is very generous of her and I would still like to thank her. What is her favorite dessert, I will bake whatever she likes?" Gran interjected. Gran once told me that thank you cards are polite, but a good pie will go further.

"Mother is rather partial to chocolate and nuts. I think she would love a chocolate pecan pie." He answered sitting back down next to me on the sofa.

"I think I can make up one of those. You two go have fun." Gran said getting up to going to the kitchen.

"Do you want to practice down here, outside or up in my room?" I asked turning to look at him.

"Ah it is cooler in the house, but I think that we will have more room down here." He answered.

"Ok, I am going to run and get my stereo so we can do it with the music." I smiled and run upstairs. I unplugged my stereo and brought it back downstairs. I plugged it into the wall and moved the furniture back so we would have more room. "I will do the entire routine to the music so you can see what it looks like. Then we can break it down into 8 counts." I pushed the button on the player and got into position. I moved with the music, gliding from one move to the next. When I finished there was clapping coming from the other side of the room. I whipped my head in the direction of the sound. My brother and Eric were standing there. Eric had a smirk on his face.

"If I had known I would get to watch you dance then I would have asked you to choreograph a dance for me. Granted I am not going out for the team, but I may have to change my mind." Eric stood there grinning like a fool.

"To bad dance is a "girl sport" and you aren't brave enough to try. Now if you will excuse us, we have work to do." I said turning my back on him.

"You don't mind if we watch do you?" He asked his smile faltering.

"Yes, I do. We do not have the time for comments from the peanut gallery so just go away. Please." I added not looking at him. My brother moved him down the hall to his room. I was never more grateful for Jason then in that moment. "So, let's break this down." Godric and I worked on his routine until Gran interrupted us to tell us dinner would be ready soon and to go wash up. I led him to the bathroom down the hall next to Gran's room. When we passed Jason's room, I tried my hardest to not look in. They were on the floor surprisingly working on homework. "Did Gran tell you two dinner would be ready soon?"

"No, she hasn't been back here. Are you guys done working on his dance?" Jason asked.

"I think so he has got it down he just needs to try it without my help," I said beaming at Godric. "I was gonna practice mine after dinner. I need Gran to tell me if I am turning out too much. I also want her to watch my développé to see if it is high and long enough, I feel like I am dropping my foot too soon. I have this sort of tricky combination that I am not landing quite right; it is an arabesque hop, glissade, kick, tours en l'air. I want to know why it feels wrong so I guess you both can watch if you keep your comments to yourselves. I am doin' a point routine by the way." I said walking over to the bathroom to wash my hands.

Gran had made fried chicken, mac and cheese, and greens. I could smell some kind of pie in the oven I was guessing it was the one she was making as a thank you to Godric's mother. I was really surprised when he said that she wanted to pay for it, but I was super thankful. I had no idea how I was gonna come up with enough money to pay for the repairs. I was kind of miffed that she made such a heavy dinner after all the dancing I was doing and wanted to do after dinner. I just loved Gran's fried chicken, so much so that it was responsible for me gaining weight. Gran took one end of the table and Jason the other leaving me to sit beside either of the boys. My choice was to sit by Eric and across from Godric or the reverse. I really did not want to sit next to Eric, but I did not want to look at him either. I ended up by Godric just on the other side of him so that Eric was not right across from me. Dinner was relatively quite like the night before. Gran had just gotten up to go take her pie out so it could cool.

"Gran when we are done with dinner and the dishes, I would like you to watch my routine for tomorrow, please. I want you to watch for any mistakes. I decided to dance to "Iris" by the Goo Goo Dolls. I wanted to make sure that everything flows." I said shyly.

"I would be happy to and I think your brother and Eric can do the dishes tonight. You would just love to wouldn't you boys." Gran stared them down.

"Um sure Gran we can do that," Jason answered.

"Speak for yourself Jason, I want to see her dance," Eric interjected.

"You will have plenty of time to see her. When Sookie practices she goes for a couple of hours." Jason mumbled across the table. We finished dinner and the boys took everything into the kitchen to wash. Gran and Godric went to sit in the living room to wait for me while I changed and put my shoes on. I wanted to dance in what I would be wearing the next day to tryouts. I put on my tights, leotard and wrap skirt. I picked up my shoes and grabbed the cd out of the holder. I went back downstairs and sat on the floor to tie my shoes. The long ribbons took a little bit to get set right. My left shoe had become unwound and knotted up. Once I had them straightened out and secured to my feet I stretched. I got up and put the cd in and turned it to my song. As Johnny started to sing, I glided across the floor. I danced fluidly for most of the song till I got to the combination. When I landed, I missed the point of my shoe and feel to my knee. I sat there on the floor for a minute in disbelief. I don't know how many times I had done that part and landed correctly for the most part just with a bit of a wobble. I should have been able to do it. I knew why it felt wrong I was on the floor.

"Sookie dear are you alright?" Gran asked bringing me out of my stupor.

"I am fine Gran my knee does not hurt. Could you see why the landing was wrong other than the fact that I ended up on the floor?" I countered getting up off the floor.

"It looked like your leg was not far enough forward when you landed so your foot was not under you." She replied. The reason I wanted Gran's opinion was that she had been a ballerina before she married Papa. You would not know it from looking at her today, but she was one of the most graceful and nimble dancers you ever saw. Gran was the one that taught me how to dance when I was young. She only put me into classes when her hip started to give out on her.

"I am going to do it again, this time if I get through it could you watch my fouetté rond de jambe. I want to do several, but I don't want it to look like I am showing off to much." I said getting ready to start over. "Godric I am sorry if this is boring to you or you are not understanding what the terms mean I know most of them are in French."

"I like watching you dance it is lovely and I am keeping up with the terms ok. I am still taking French so, I know for the most part what the translations mean, I just am not sure what that dance move is supposed to look like." He said quietly. I went through the routine several more times finally landing it correctly ending with the fouettés.

"I think that you should do only five fouettés it looks cleaner that way. I know that you can do more, but it looks like you are rubbing it in their faces if you do more." Gran interrupted.

"That is really neat looking Sookie what is the thing called when you do the jump thing that is real wide?" Eric asked from the doorway stretching his arms out.

"You mean this?" I asked and did a grand jeté.

"Yeah what is that?" He inquired.

"A Grand jeté." I answered walking over to him.

"It's cool. You dance nicely and I am sorry for what I said earlier and yesterday. I was being mean. I just kind of jealous that you were spending so much time with Godric; I mean that he has something else that he can connect with you um that you have in common. I am sorry." He almost whispered to me.

"Thank you for the apology, but Eric it is not like we are dating or anything, so I don't really get why you are jealous. To me, you are another one of my big brother's friends. Godric is my new friend and has been very kind to me since I meet him." I said sitting down to take off my shoes.

"Would you feel different about it if we were dating Sookie?" He asked not quite looking me in the eye.

"I think I would. I would understand your feeling like I was not paying you adequate attention." I replied smiling.

"Well, then Sookie, would you go out with me?" He asked returning my smile. I was just about to answer when there was a knock at the door.