Grace felt completely new the next day when she woke up, everything felt better and brighter.

She could feel birds, butterflies and bubbles all mixed up inside of her. A smile spread on her face.

"Thank you Moose" She whispered to herself. It seemed like he had started to fix her up one step at a time.

The little pirate jumped out of her bed and went to walk around the house after changing to more suitable clothes for the day and cleaning herself.

And then, she remembered. Today was the day of the first challenge of the tournament and they were going against Red Hook.

"I'm such a disgrace to the pirates" Grace mumbled. She had let Julian's word's control her, and she had stopped dancing, something she should be proud of showing as a fellow pirate.

So she filled herself with new and fresh determination.

"I'm going to join them at the next challenge"

"Oh God I'm late! I'm late, I'm late, I'm late!" Grace ran through the people looking for the club the challenge was taking place in, she had been practicing to see how she could adapt ballet to join hip hop, break-dance and freestyle dancing. It was so freaking hard.

So that was the reason why she arrived late at the club just to see the challenge ending.

"AND THE WINNER IS!... THE PIRATES!"

Grace screamed in joy. She ran to the center dodging people with vast agility until she jumped over her brothers back hugging his neck.

"You guys did it!" she screamed.

"SIS!" Luke smiled and laughed spinning around with her at his back.

The pirates cheered even more when they saw her, they were all bubbling in happiness and adrenaline.

When the yelling went down, Grace hopped to the ground and turned to look at her big family.

"Guys" She called out grabbing their attention.

"I wanted to apologize" She started.

"You guys call me a pirate and I also considered myself a pirate but I haven't been with you guys when you practice, I also started forgetting what it was to have fun with you guys, and I also abandoned what gave us all hope, something that we call dancing. I drowned myself in self-pity when I should have asked for help, and now that someone has opened my eyes, I'll do everything I can to deserve the title of being a pirate again"

As soon as Grace's mouth closed, she was pulled in a big and warm group hug.

"If you want to start over, to earn being a pirate, then so be it" Luke smiled at her along with all the clan.

"Well, seeing as you are going to be starting all over again, we'll have you practicing full time" Jacob added with a teasing smile, which Grace responded with a small shy one of hers.

"I saw that coming... so I started practicing this morning, which was the reason why I was late and couldn't catch the first challenge" her face turned disappointed.

"Nah, it's ok chiquita" One of the Santiago twins said.

"Yeah! You'll be dancing in the next one anyway" the other twin added.

"Good point" Grace giggled, but then she looked around looking for someone.

"So where is Moose?" she asked.

"Looking for your boyfriend?" Natalie asked, she had a glint in her eyes result of her teasing.

"N-n-no, his n-not my b-boy...friend..." Grace stammered with pink cheeks. Chuckles were heard around her.

Moose was at school walking around looking for Camille, and he found her with a group of friends.

Turns out that there was a Halloween costume ball coming up, and even though he always went to this type of events with Camille, she was actually going with Christine because he was nowhere to be found.

"W-wait, Christine?!" Moose exclaimed completely confused.

"What about Moose?" he asked as Camille walked away with her friends, but his question stopped her, she told them to continue and that she would catch up to them.

"You haven't exactly been around lately, I mean, I couldn't wait forever" she stated.

Camille had to be honest with herself, she really liked Moose since time ago, he always made her smile, and they practically could read each other's mind. But since coming to NYC, he met this girl, Grace, and he can only talk about her.

It's pretty obvious he liked someone else, and it crushed her, but there was nothing she could do about it.

"But I am here now!" Moose said.

"Moose... things have changed, I have things to do and you clearly have other things to do, and with other people. It's ok, I'm not mad at you because you found other friends to be with, not going to this dance with you won't kill me and it won't kill you" Camille sighed.

"D-did something change between us?" Moose asked, there was definitely something wrong in here.

"No! Nothing changed between us!" Camille exclaimed.

"It doesn't feel like it..." he murmured.

"Look... it's just that... I feel like we shouldn't try to do everything together like before" Camille looked at the ground.

"W-wha, what do you mean?" Moose started to panic, what was she saying?

It was now or never, Camille taught.

"Moose, I like you, not just like a friend, but I really have feelings for you"

Curly haired guy opened his mouth in shock at her words, but the image of Grace appeared in his mind. He felt like he was betraying someone, but the question was who?

Camille was his best friend who he had a crush on years before, but it had disappeared now. And Grace was this sweet girl, she was slightly broken but it didn't stop Moose from getting interested in her, after starting to know her he was sure he had developed feelings for her.

"I-I... Camille I..." Moose didn't know what to say.

"It's ok, I know you like Grace, she seems like a great girl with all you've told me, and you should be with her" Camille smiled sadly.

"That's why I think it's better if we start giving each other some more space, of course were still best friends, that won't change ever" she managed to turn her smile a bit happier.

"I'm... I'm sorry" it was the only thing Moose could think of, and he was honestly apologizing.

"I'm sorry for making you go through this and not realizing it" he whispered and gave her a hug.

"I'm ok Moose, I'm a tough girl, now you better ask Grace out ok" Camille giggled as she hugged him back.

"Ay ay Captain!" Moose saluted her smirking.

But all his mind could think of was, What the heck just happened?

Some days later-

It was night already, Natalie and Luke were at his studio where he worked on his film. They had encountered a big problem that afternoon when Luke was checking some things at his computer.

Someone had secretly been tapping their dancing and had uploaded the video on internet, so now all their routine was at the eye of their rivals.

Luke was saying how they could win the tournament if he and Natalie did the spin they had been creating and Julian would never see it coming.

"What happened between you two? You and Julian" Natalie asked, she always heard insults towards Julian and she wanted to know why.

"He used to be a pirate and we used to be best friends, he even confessed to me that he liked Grace and even asked for my permission to ask her out" Luke started explaining.

Natalie's eyes widened when she heard this.

"But then he started to change" Luke added.

"What do you mean he changed?" she asked.

"We found out he had gambling problems, he run out in bad bets, so desperate that he bets against his own house and threw the battle to win the bet, the crew was devastated and we had to kick him out" he said.

Natalie was shocked.

"But it doesn't end there" Luke said catching her attention once again.

"With the gambling problems in mind, I had forgotten about the relationship between Julian and my little sister. I still can't believe I let her down!" Luke clutched his head with a frown adorning his face with despair.

Natalie was getting scared, what had happened between sweet shy Grace and Julian? was it something serious? Had he gone violent to her?

"Did something happen?" she asked hesitantly.

"Just a day before we kicked Julian out of the crew, she confessed that he was really controlling and possessive, she also mentioned that he sometimes seemed really angry and that she was scared that he would one day hit her" Luke bit his lip in anger.

"But he didn't hit her... right?" Natalie asked slowly, she knew she was walking on thin ice.

"When we kicked him out, it was in the morning of a Saturday, and we usually went out to the park the weekends, so that day wasn't an exception, but Grace had decided to stay at home, she was sad at the outcome of her first relationship so she didn't feel good, and I respected that so we left her to rest" Luke raised his head and leaned back to take a deep breath.

Natalie almost choked when she his eyes shining with unshed tears.

Oh God, she taught, something really bad happened between Julian and Grace.

"Julian went to the warehouse knowing that we weren't there and probably knowing that Grace was in there. He found her sleeping at her bed and just started beating her, he yelled at her and insulted her as he hit her. When I came arrived to the house, I heard her screaming and begging, her voice echoed around the whole place and I still can remember how my body frizzed, I ran to her room, and..." Luke was openly crying with his hands grasping his hair desperately as he remembered that day.

"I found him on top of Grace, trying to take her clothes off by force, she had bruises everywhere along with cuts and her face... she was so scared..."

The only thing crossing Natalie's mind was this.

What did you do Julian? What did you do to her brother?

Sorry for taking a lot of days to update! But here it is! Hope you like it, and I made the chapter long so it would make up to the lateness.