Two days later, everyone was at rehearsal for a song Nat had just written. He handed out the music to everyone.
"Hey where's Alex?" Nat asked, looking at the empty drummer seat. Everyone shrugged except Rosalina.
"He said he'd be late today. Wouldn't say why though." Rosalina replied, just getting her voice back. They all had to just sit around, Rosalina and Qaasim worked out the guitar parts together, Kristina joining in soon after. About ten minutes later, Alex came running in, out of breath. He stopped and caught his breath.
"Sorry…had an errand…to do…" he barely got out. He put something in his pocket and went to the drums. "ready?"
"Yeah, lets get started. 1..2..3..4," Nat said, and the song started. After a little while, they started catching on to the song. David stopped playing in the middle of the song and stopped everyone as well. "Dang! It's my turn to watch the baby and I forgot it! I'll be back when I get it!" He ran out of the room and everyone just laughed. It was something david would do, of course. He didn't like that baby one bit.
"Well, might as well give you the reason I was late," Alex said, getting up and heading over to Rosalina. She looked at him curiously. He pulled a small black box out of his pocket and gave it to Rosalina. She opened it and saw a ring in it. It was a simple silver ring with a little diamond in the middle. Rosalina knew the diamond was fake but still…he got her a ring! "You're my wife. I knew you should have a ring." He smiled, hoping she would like it. Everyone around her looked at him, shocked, including Rosalina. She looked at Alex and hugged him then put on the ring on her left ring finger.
"Thank you so much Alex. It's beautiful," she said, tearing up just a little. She kissed him on the lips quickly and looked down at the ring.
"Let me see that thing!" Kristina ran over and checked out the ring. "Wow it's beautiful! Good job Alex!" She high fived him. Everyone laughed and even Juanita checked out the ring. Rosalina glanced at Alex and mouthed "thank you" to him. He smiled back at her and went to his drum set to practice a little.
It was performance night for the dancing numbers for each couple. Jesse instructed them behind stage what exactly to do. The judges were Mr. Wolff, Muhammad, and Jesse. Each couple was to dance to the song they had chosen together. The song had to mean something to the both of them and the dance had to be perfectly in line with the song. David and Patty went first. They danced to their song but with a few slip ups, and David almost dropped her a couple times. At the end of the song, Patty ran off the stage embarrassed and David following her to make sure she was ok.
Next up was Kristina and Thomas, who had chosen to dance the song "When the stars go blue". Since they were the only couple not married, they had more time apart and less time to practice. According to Kristina, Thomas had slacked off a little too. With their dance, it went relatively good. In a few parts of the song, Thomas forgot what exactly to do but soon got back on track with a little help from his fiancée.
Nat and Juanita were next. Everyone,
including them, wondered exactly how they would pull this off. Nat
had complained so much about his hurting feet. They chose the song
"Save the best for last". Surprisingly, the two of them danced
perfectly together. Every move followed the music with no flaws.
Everyone stared at them, amazed. At the last note, Nat twirled
Juanita into his arms. They looked each other in the eyes and smiled.
Juanita kissed him quickly on the lips and applause came from
everyone. Nat whispered to her "thank you". She smiled and
replied "your not a bad dancer after all".
"Sometimes
the very thing you're looking for, is the one thing you cant
see…just when I thought our chance had past. You go and save the
best for last"
Alex and Rosalina stepped on stage and got in position to dance.
Jesse started the song "So close" and they began the dance gently
at first, knowing it would be hard to top the previous couple. But
they did their moves perfectly just like the practice. It just came
easy for them. The two never stopped smiling at each other, a small
spark of something between them was obvious to everyone in the room.
The song ended and they also kissed, but not as deep of a kiss as
before. Jesse smirked, hoping for that kiss like last time.
"Ok now that everyone's done, we're gonna choose the winner in a different room," Jesse said, moving the rest of the judges out of the room. Everyone else just sat around, waiting for the results. Nat kept thinking to himself about Juanita. He never looked at her as anything more than a friend. But now he wasn't entirely sure what to think. He had kissed other girls, well sometimes they kissed him too, but Juanita's kiss made his head spin. And it was just a small kiss too. Nat looked over and Rosalina and Alex holding hands and he suddenly didn't feel jealous anymore.
