I looked up at him out of the corner of my eye, but he wasn't looking at me; he was staring across the room at Ryan; who was looking at me.
"Hey what took you so long, come on, we're all meeting downstairs before we put on our little display!" She rushed excitedly, and took my hand and pulled me through the house without even so much as glancing at Dimitri. I looked back over my shoulder at him as Anna was pulling me through the crowd of people, he was standing there staring at me and looking very uncomfortable.
She led me through to the basement and when were down at the bottom of the steps she let go of my hand. It was quiet down here, well quieter than the upstairs was. You could still here all the people partying upstairs and could feel the bass from the DJ through the house.
"I love parties, but seriously hate the crowds." Anna said smiling at me.
I smiled back and nodded at her, I looked up to the top of the stairs as I heard the door open and close. Ryan was standing there looking down at me, but there was something about the look in his eyes that sent shivers down my spine; I just couldn't figure out if he was looking at me in a good way or bad. He was wearing dark washed-out jeans; with a black sleevless shirt with red and white abtract prints on it, the shirt made his toned arms look amazing and I noticed for the first time that he had tatoos. What they said I had no idea,
both his arms had some kind of japanese lettering going horizontal across his forarms under-
neith the creases of his elbows. He had a white and black hat on tilted off to the side and solid black hightop skate shoes on. He looked incredible, he had this whole bad boy look going for him, and standing there staring up at him, he took my breathe away.
He started walking down the steps towards us and stopped in front of me, smirking.
"Look who finally showed up." He said, his eyes had a light in them making me think he was being playful; but there was something else in them too, I just couldn't figure out what.
I smirked back at him, "Well, a girls gotta look good."
Anna let out a light laugh, "Well, you look amazing Rose, really. Nice touch with the shoes too, they're gorgeous. Alright, now lets get down to business." She said walking more into the room, and thats when I noticed the other girls were there. I felt a little bad that I hadn't noticed them sooner, and nodded my greeting to them, they all smiled back at me with a couple nodding back. I followed behind Anna and Ryan followed behind me. I looked back over at Ryan to see his eyes roaming over me, and gave him a playful eyeroll; which earned me an embarassed smile like he just got caught with his hand in the cookie jar.
I turned back around and gave Anna my full attention. "Okay, now that we're all here; I was thinking about having us girls go first and then Ryan would walk into the dance as as it was ending, where then it would transition into Ryan and Roses' dance. Does that sound okay to everyone?" We were all nodding our agreement to Anna when I heard Ryan clear his throat from behind me.
"Well, actually, I was thinking about trying out a new dance with Rose tonight." He said,
shoving his hands into his pockets and took on a defensive look.
"How are you going to spring this on us last minute, especially on Rose; if this doesn't look good enough people won't join; and we need to get more people to join the club Ryan!" His sister said, her voice strained from worry.
"Chill, it's okay, Rose is a natural dancer; we can do this." He said the last part looking at me.
I turned back around to Anna, having no idea what was going through Ryan head, but I told her I could do it. She paused, thinking for a minute before she silently nodded at us.
"Well, what are we all still doing standing around here. Lets go get this party started!" Jackie stepped forward.
We all walked up stairs and when I was about to follow the girls up, Ryan grabbed my hand and stopped me until we were the only two in the room. I looked up into his eyes and my mind seemed to go blank.
"Hey, when we go up there and it's time for our dance, just follow my lead. Its a great routine and I know we can pull it off, you just have to trust me." He paused for a minute, "Do you?"
I nodded my head at him without really thinking, it was so hard to think straight when he was this close to me. He smirked, and it made his eyes light up; but that look sooned passed and his eyes became smoldering, he started slowly leaning into me his eyes never leaving mine; i could feel my heart racing and my breathing picked up. His lips were hovering over mine so close that I could feel the warmth of his breathe against my own lips.
"Hey, come on!" We heard Anna yell, and we bothed seemed to snap out of our trance we were in and without a word I turned and bound up the steps, feeling a little bit light headed.