Maybe it was the setting I was in, or maybe it was just the fact of seeing Rose when I never thought I would see her again. Either way I felt like a teenager again, emotions swirling around inside of me, it was confusing and frustrating. I shouldn't care about the emotions I hold for Rose anymore; what I did to her was inexcusable and wrong. I also had to focus on my duty; I was now Christian's guardian; which is something that I'm starting to think I'm going to loathe.
The bell rang signaling the end of this period and I gathered my things and stood up waiting for Christian and did a quick scan of the classroom as bodies hurried about trying to get out of the room. Turning my attention back to Christian, he had grabbed Rose by the arm and was leaning in and talking to her in a harsh whisper, but I didn't really care too much to eavesdrop on what was being said; so I patiently waited for him.
Rose had been glaring at Christian while he was talking to her, but when she turned her gaze to me, time itself seemed to slow down around us. Her eyes were deep, beautiful orbs that I could easily get lost into, and when she looked at me I always felt as if my very soul itself was open for her to see. Besides my family, Roza was the only person to ever be able to see past everything and right into the core of me; it always has confused me how much she could tell what I was feeling or thinking without me having to express anything to her.
She jerked her arm out of Christians' grasp and never taking her eyes off me, gathered her things and stormed out of the class room. Christian turned around and running a hand through his hair looked at me and smirked.
"Well this isn't going to be fun…or easy, but I managed to convince Rose to talk to us, she agreed that after dance practice we can follow her somewhere to talk privately." He stated flatly, I could see why Lissa had a liking for the boy; already I could see the wheels turning in his head and knew he was thinking about all the possibilities of how this could go wrong or go his way; he would make a good strategist.
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Ever since this morning, my emotions have been all over the place and as the day progressed towards dance practice my nerves have gotten worse. I let out a huge sigh of exasperation and slammed my locker door closed.
"You seem very tense, Ms. Hathaway." I voice that was becoming all to familiar to me said from behind me.
I turned around and found a smirking Ryan. "Yeah, I guess so…" I said and stated walking off towards dance practice. Ryan easily matched my pace and I could see him staring at me out of the corner of my eye.
"Rose, is everything okay?" Ryan asked, I could hear the concern in his voice and it made me relax a bit.
"Yeah." I rushed out, a little too fast I realized. I readjusted the hold on my books and tried to pick up my pace.
Ryan grabbed my arm and turned me to face him. "Rose if something is bothering you, you know you can talk to me right?" I stared into his eyes, concern filling them. I took a deep breathe and tried to relax, nodding at him in response.
The corner of his mouth twitched up, "Well, I was thinking about trying to throw my idea at the rest of the dance team, and maybe we could practice some. Are you up for it?"
I smiled at him, grateful that I could dance with him, "Yeah, I'm up for it. Are you?" I said trying to calm myself more by bantering with him. I liked the way he made me feel, I realized.
We walked into the room and put our stuff down together, he grabbed my hand and lead me over to his sister. I already knew what he was going to be talking to her about so I really didn't pay too much attention to their conversation. Instead I looked around the room and found Christian and Dimitri standing in the corner of the room. Dimitri was staring out the window and Christian was staring straight at me.
"Alright, come one Rose." I turned my attention back to Ryan as he started pulling me to the center of the room. I lifted my eyebrow quizzically at him and he smiled reassuringly at me. Once we got to the center of the room he explained to the group what we were going to be trying today, and wanted all of them to pair up and then try and copy what him and me did.
He grabbed my other hand and turned me so we were facing each other. He leaned close to me and whispered in my ear, "Just feel the music Rose, I'll follow your lead." He pulled back smirking. I took a deep breathe and pushed all my thoughts out of my head and just stared at Ryan, when I felt calm enough I nodded at him, he smiled and turned and nodded at someone else in the room and the music came on. I let go of Ryan hands and turned to face the room, he followed me my movements at the same time doing what I did. I let the music take control of me, and I danced to feeling of the song. I could feel Ryan close beside me and I was aware of him, where he was at and out of the corner of my eye I could see him following me perfectly.
Then he grabbed my hand and pulled it around the back of his neck making my body turn towards him. My hand landed on his chest and he let go of my other hand to grab the one on his chest and spin me around so my back was flush against him, never letting go of my hand; he pulled my hand down and without him having to say anything I knew what he was wanting, so we both dropped to the floor. He pulled back, sliding away from me a couple of steps and beckoned me to come to him. So I crawled to him, moving my hands up his outstretched leg and using one hand under his chin standing up with him following me, our eyes were locked and I could feel this amazing spark between us.
I started to turn away to spin, but he grabbed my hand and efficiently stopped me with a jerk, out of the corner of my eye I could see him jerking his body with a stop also. So I started to walk towards him, but as I started walking he walked behind me, never letting go of my hand. And pulled my hand enough for him to let me know to spin, which I saw him follow. I watched him closely waiting for him to do something next, I saw him coming to an end of his spin and start to crouch down and my body was only a second behind all his movements. We both slowly stood up moving our bodies in waves as we went. I walked toward him as he took a couple steps back shaking my hand and smiling at him. We both turned abruptly to face the group again, I glanced over at him and followed his body as he did some kind of locking move and I put my hands in his when he reached his out to me. Our gazes locked and he put a hand on the side of my face, the electric feeling between us growing. I could see in his eyes that he could feel it too; his eyes were normally bright and mesmerizing, now they were mesmerizing in a completely different way; they were darker with a look of hunger in them. We broke our gazes and jumped to the side at the same time, turning our upper bodies and kicking out a leg. I looked at him and started to really smile at him, brushing off my shoulders and watching him do the same. I stopped and he moved behind me putting a hand on the side of my face and lightly pushing to I somewhat spun til I was facing him with his hand still on the side of my face. I saw him moving towards me and did the same putting my hands on either side of his sides. He had both his hands on either side of my face and I arched my body into him, his face was close enough that I could feel his warm breathe on my face and it sent an involuntary shiver down my back; which he noticed. His lips parted and his eyes grew hungrier looking and darker, sending butterflies into my stomach and making my breathe hitch. He pulled away grabbing my hand and I was just a few seconds slower behind his movements, he started moving towards me again and I pulled my hand up that was still locked in his so that he had to move in closer to me; he put a hand around my waist and spun me away from him. We were back to facing the group and I just started smiling and dancing somewhat silly, seeing him out of the corner of my eye following my movements with a breathtaking smile on his face. We ended the dance by walking out of the center of the room, him letting out a laugh that made you want to laugh because it was such a great sound.
We walked over to where we had sat our stuff down at, he reached into his duffle bag and pulled out two water bottles, tossing one to me which I caught with a grateful smile. The group of dancers started clapping and I could hear some of them whistling and throwing out comments about the dance, but the only thing I was truly focused on was the look in Ryan's eyes has he took a long drink out of water bottle, his gaze never leaving mine. And the look in his eyes sent another wave of involuntary shivers down my back. I turned around finally breaking his gaze, and my eyes locked right into Dimitri's blazing eyes. 'Oh, shit!' Was all I could manage to think.
AN: the idea for this dance came from a YouTube video that I saw and just loved! If you want to check it out, go to YouTube and just type in D-trix and Lauren Froderman love song choreography.