Marin's POV

I walked through the night, I searched and searched for the club Alain told me about. Thankfully, I wore a watch so I able to keep track of time. It was 11:30pm, I was searching for an hour. "I give up. I can't find it! Ugh, where is it?" Just then I began to hear music in the distance, and I followed it. That's when I found it.

The club that Alain told me about, it was huge. All I could see were people dancing and having fun. Just then I heard avoice from behind. "Hi." I jumped at the voice. "Sorry, did I scare you?" "Yeah, you did. Who are you?" "My name is Tikki, and I'm both the DJ and co-owner of this fine establishment."

I answered calmly stretching my hand out. "Pleasure." Tikki gladly shook my hand in response. "Well, care to go inside?" She asked gesturing her hands to the club. "Um, sure." I was surprised when she didn't ask for my name. But I thought it best not to bring it up since I wasn't even supposed to be here in the first place.

As we entered the club I saw more people dancing to the beat of the music. They looked like they were having fun. They looked so free. Tikki opened a door and I assumed it was her office. We both went in and when Tikki closed the door behind us, I realized that her office was soundproof. It was so quiet, you could hear a pin drop.

"So, tell me. You're just checking the place out, huh?" "Yeah, how'd you know." "I can tell by your clothes. Everyone at this club is dressed like a breakdancer. More specifically, they're dressed like their inner self. The part of them that wants to be free. The part of them they want to let it, to show the whole world."

When Tikki told me this I was able to understand why Alain wanted me to come. "Wow, it sounds amazing." "Isn't it? You wanna join?" "I-I-I'm not sure. I'm not even sure if I'll ever come back here." "Oh, I see what's going on. You're a student at that dance academy aren't you?"

I was surprised that she knew. "H-how did you--" "Most of the people who come here are from the Agreste Dance Academy." "But I don't get it. Why would they still come here knowing the risk of them getting expelled?" "Simple, they don't care. Like I said before they want to let out their inner selves. Be free. If you want prove check out Chatton Noir." "Who?" "Chatton Noir, she's the current champion. And to be honest she's the very definition of word 'free'."

At first I didn't believe her. I thought she was over exaggerating. But she proved me wrong. She took the window in her office that showed the dancefloor of the club. She pointed out one dancer in particular.

It was a girl with medium blond hair and green eyes. She wore a black shirt and a black sweater with green highlights, she also wore black sweatpants, and black neon green sneakers. She was amazing, her moves were incredible. Wait am I thinking? I love Adrienne.

"Uh, kid." Tikki brought me back to reality. "Huh?" "Tell ya what why don't you come back tomorrow night. Tomorrow is when we do our dance battles. Take a day and think about it. If you don't show up I'll know that you don't want come back." I just nodded my head and Tikki showed me the way out.

When I got home my parents were still alseep, so thankfully they didn't notice me. I went to room got changed into my pajamas and went to bed. Not sure if I wanted to go back.

I woke up the next morning, it was noon, I didn't know that I had slept for so long. I got up and went downstairs to see my parents. "Honey are you okay?" My mom sounded so worried. "Yeah, mom I'm fine." "Oh, thank goodness you were knocked out. You slept for so long." "I'm fine mom, I was just tired. I think I'll relax today." "Okay, honey. I'll bring you something to eat." "Thanks mom."

I went back upstairs to my room, where I saw a text message from Alain.

'Hey Marin, I just wanted to check on you make sure you were okay. Adrienne called me cause she was worried about you. I told her you were fine and that I would message you. Anyway, you should get as much rest as you can, afterall school's out for 2 months!'

I chuckled a bit at Alain's message, but I also kinda blushed when I read the part about Adrienne being worried about me. It was then that I started to think about the club. Should I go back? I gave it a lot of thought, and decided...