Chapter 8

AN:1 Hi everyone, wow two posts in one night this is my way of trying to make up for being away for so long so I hope you enjoy it. Just a little warning at this point in the story Shane doesn't know any of the camper's names. So when the story is told form Shane's POV it might be slightly confusing but not overly so. I will put a list of who's who at the bottom just in case.

When the girls arrived a Hip Hop class everyone else was already there, everyone but the teacher that is. They were all looking for some space in the crowded room so they could all stand together.

It was Miley that finally spotted a space in the corner that was big enough for all of them. The only problem was that to get to the corner they would have to walk past where Tess, Ella and Peggy were sitting.

They all walked passed with their heads held high waiting for what ever comment or insult Tess chose to throw their way but she didn't say a thing what she did was much worse.

She let the first three girls pass with out incident but when the last of the girls tried to pass her she spun around quickly with her leg held out a knee height.

"Tess, no" cried an outraged Peggy but it was too late.

Tess's plan was to take the girls legs from under her and send her tumbling to the ground. Her plan would have worked if the girl had not been Lily.

Lily reacted on instinct throwing her arms out and curling her body in just the right way to turn a messy fall into a graceful front flip.

The room burst into applause as Lily landed safely on her feet seemingly unaffected by what had just happened. Tess stared in shock at the other blond who was stood before her with a smug smile plastered across her lips. Miley, Caitlyn and Mitchie were not as calm about the whole situation as Lily was.

"Are you OK?" asked Mitchie obviously worried

Miley didn't say anything she just pulled Lily into a hug to prove to her self that her best friend really was alright

"I'm fine" Lily smiled "It takes more than a spoilt diva to take me down" she said throwing a glare at Tess over Miley's shoulder.

"What did you call me?" yelled Tess jumping to her feet

"She called you a spoilt diva" said Caitlyn angrily "But I can think of a few other things to call you" she snapped.

Caitlyn and Tess were now nose to nose. Miley had to release Lily to intervene.

"Caitlyn come on she's not worth it" she said in her most soothing tone pulling Caitlyn away form Tess.

Caitlyn heaved a sigh and followed Miley, Mitchie tossed a final glare at Tess before she too tuned away. Lily was the last to walk away from Tess and as she did she discreetly swiped at the other girl's ankle.

Lily succeeded where Tess had failed and her target (Tess) stumbled and fell to the floor in a very ungraceful and embarrassing manner. A ripple of laughter spread thought the room as Lily gave Tess an extremely fake smile

"Oppps sorry Tess" she said in a sickly sweet voice before joining her friends in the far corner.

Tess jumped to her feet again with every intention of marching over to Lily and doing something horrible, she didn't know what yet but it would be something that would teach her not to mess with Tess Tyler.

Before Tess could put this new plan into action Peggy court hold of her arm and pulled her back down into a sitting position.

"You shouldn't have done that Tess" she whispered harshly

"Whatever" Tess sighed and rolled her eye at her goody two shoes friend.

The dance studio had just returned to normal after Lily's bit of gymnastics and the almost fight between Caitlyn and Tess when the door burst open and in marched Shane Gray.

"Grab a hat and a mike" he ordered "Follow me if you can"

The whole class raced to fetch the props that Shane had told them to. Most of them (Mitchie and Miley included) spent an extra few seconds making sure their hat matched their outfit.

Lily and Caitlyn were the first back on the floor because they had just taken the first hat that came to hand.

Caitlyn's was orange and green; Lily's was dark blue with yellow stars. Mitchie had chosen a purple one and Miley's was dusty pink.

"Hurry" Shane demanded as he hit the play button on the music.

As the up beat hip hop music filled the room, Shane watched the last few campers find a space on the floor.

All right Kiddies he thought to himself sink or swim time.

Shane launched into a set of complicated dance moves and mike tricks. He noticed that only a few of the campers actually tried to follow him at first and the only ones that got the moves any were near right were dancer and the girl next to her in a green and orange hat.

"Across the floor" he ordered as he weaved in and out of the campers.

It seemed that they had all realised that he was not going to show them the moves twice. They all reacted quickly and now most of them were following him pretty well but dancer was most defiantly the best followed closely by the girl in the green and orange hat.

"Circle front" he called out all of the campers quickly did as he ordered still trying to follow his moves.

If it was obvious to Shane that Dancer was the best in the class it was just as obvious that the boy with dread locks and drum sticks was the worst.

Shane has to smile at how much enthusiasm drummer boy had it more than made up for his lack of dance ability. The cool blond beside him was good not as good as Dancer but still good, she smiled at him and batted her eye lashes in an attempt to catch his eye.

She was pretty and she knew it, Shane knew it too but there was just something about her he didn't like. She was so busy trying to get Shane's attention that she forgot to watch her footing; she bounced into drummer boy and sent him tumbling to the ground.

"Talk about dancing to the beat of a different drum" she said quickly both mocking him and deflecting the blame on to him.

Shane looked at her for a moment, now he knew what he didn't like about her she was extremely fake.

Shane noticed that Dancer was holding onto the girl in the green and orange hat. It took him a moment to realise she was actually holding hat girl back so she couldn't get her hands on the cool blond but from the glare that Dancer was giving the cool blond he guessed she would like to help hat girl do whatever she had in mind.

There were two other girls also glaring at the cool blond, they both had brown hair and were crouching beside drummer boy. One had striate hair and was wearing a purple hat the other had curly hair and a pink hat.

Shane suddenly realised that he was going to have to actually learn some of the campers names or he going to be in for a very confusing summer.

"Hey you any good with those?" Shane asked Drummer boy.

Instead of answering him drummer boy pulled out his drum sticks and did a drum solo on the wooden floor of the dance studio.

"Wow" said Shane genuinely impressed

"You're a drummer dude the rhythm's in your hands" he told him

"Now we just have to work on getting that beat from those sticks to those feet" he said with a warm smile.

Shane slowed the pace down for the rest of the class. By the end everyone had the moves down including drummer boy who Shane now knew was called Andy.

The campers all left in a hurry as soon as class ended but Shane noticed that Dancer and the other three girls that had been glaring at the cool blond (that he now knew to be Tess Tyler) had hung around to talk to Andy.

Lily had to admit she was really impressed with Shane as a teacher, sure he had a bit of a rocky start but the way he dealt with the whole Tess and Andy thing was great and from then on the class had only gotten better.

"Hey Andy" she called as she and her friends left the studio, at the sound of his name the boy turned and smiled at her.

"Hey, you're the girl that did the flip" he stated.

"That's me" Lily said with a blush before continuing "You were really good in there don't let Tess get to you" she said with a reassuring smile.

"Thanks" Andy said seeming surprised

"Tess is probably the meanest person I have ever met" Miley told him.

"I don't think she knows how to be nice" said Mitchie this made Andy and the others laugh.

"Hey if you ever want some one to dance with I could always use some practice" Caitlyn said with a smile.

"Yeah me too" Lily added

Andy realised that this was their way of offering to help him out with out making him feel like a hopeless dancer.

"Thanks" he said "I might just take you up on that"

The five friends had just turned to leave when the studio door banged open and Shane came rushing out.

"Hey Dancer" he yelled

Lily turned back to him with a smile "Yes

"Good job in there you really can move" he told her

Lily wanted to answer him with some sarcastic form of I told you so but seen as he was being nice she would do the same.

She flashed him a bright smile before saying "Thanks Prancer"

She gave him a little wave before turning to catch up with Andy and the girls.

AN: 2 AKA list

Dancer= Lily

hat girl= Caitlyn

drummer boy= Andy

cool blond= Tess

pink hat curly hair= Miley

purple hat Striate hair= Mitchie

Prancer= Shane

I think that's everyone

Let me know what you think

Thanks for reading

Millie