The Love of a Friend

by Prillylove25

Best friends since she was ten and he was twelve. She had a hard home life, his family accepted and loved her as their own. She accepted him and his family for who they were, Mafia royalty. As they grow up she becomes a dancer, and gets groomed to take over for his father. Follow Edward and Bella as they fall in love and take on the world together. Violence and Some lemony fun.

39. Chapter 39

Hey everyone...happy Monday! I hope everyone's weekend was good.

Up tonight is the first part of the show. I hope you all like it. I searched long and hard on these song choices.

I am going without a beta again, just not enough time to send things out, so I own all mistakes.

Stephanie Meyer owns all of Twilight.

BPOV

It has been a long week. My poor feet have never hurt so badly. So here I sit, two hours before the show begins, backstage, with my feet sitting in ice water. Between dancing on pointe, and in heels, and squeezing into these costumes that Zafrina, and Alice have found and created, my body is mad at me.

I am actually killing two birds here, I am getting my make-up done too. It is actually just the usual stage make-up and fake eye lashes, but we are adding some white and shadow effects to make it look a bit more Halloween like for the first number. With the exception of Maggie, Charlotte and Ben, who will have masks on because they will be performing in the second number of the night, we are all in Halloween make-up for the opening number. I love getting this fun, creative make up, but it also means that I don't get to see Edward before the show. I can't risk being seen.

"Delivery for Bella Swan." I hear Siobhan call out. I turn to see her smiling at me, while she holds onto two dozen long stem deep dark, almost black, red roses in a crystal vase. She brings them over to me and I dip my nose in to smell them, completely ignoring the make-up girl. I see the card sticking out and I pluck it and open the tiny envelop. I smile as I see it is written in Edwards handwriting.

Per la mia ballerina

Non vedo l'ora di vederti sul palco

il mio fidanzato bello.

In bocca al lupo.

il tuo

Edward

[To my ballerina. I can't wait to see you up on stage my beautiful fiance. Break a leg. Your

Edward]

I smile and tell Siobhan thank you. I finish getting my make-up done and take my feet from the ice bath and dry them off. I still have forty-five minutes before I the show begins. I begin my series of ritual stretches I do before each show. Once I am stretched, I put on my fishnets and costume. I still have ten minutes before I need to be in place for the opening number. I take out my phone and call Edward. It rings twice before he picks up.

"Ciao il mio amore" [Hello my love.]

"The flowers are beautiful. Thank you"

"You're welcome. I am sure they pale compared to you."

"What are you doing?"

"Walking with Jasper and Emmett up to VIP to watch the show"

"Break a leg Belly!" I hear Emmett yell.

"Thank you Emmett. I am just about to get in to position for the opening number."

"I can't wait to see you. Break a leg baby."

"Ti amo fidanzato." [I love you fiance.]

"Anch'io ti amo fidanzato." [I love you too fiance.]

I join the others for our usual group pep talk before we take our places. I get a special hug from Erik, while Peter and I make our way to the second level stair well, leading to the rafters, where we get harnessed in to make our decent during the number.

My heart is beating a mile a minute as I get my harness locked and checked, and double checked, then triple checked by Peter.

I wrap myself in the white silk fabric that I will be unraveling from while Peter stands by, watching everything around us.

As Zafrina takes the stage and introduces our show, Peter and I share a quick hug as the first beats of the music hit. We put our eye masks in place and take position. I push my feet off the walkway to hang in my silk web. Peter does the same.

Boys and girls of every age
Wouldn't you like to see something strange?
Come with us and you will see
This, our town of Halloween

Ben, Maggie and Charlotte begin to circle and dance around Zafrina as she puts on her mask that they have brought out to her.

This is Halloween, this is Halloween
Pumpkins scream in the dead of night

Peter begins his decent first, landing on the make shift stage that we had installed in front of the VIP section, just in front of the balcony.

This is Halloween, everybody make a scene
Trick or treat till the neighbors gonna die of fright

I begin my decent, letting myself fall down, unraveling from the silk web around me.

It's our town, everybody scream
In this town of Halloween

I reach the makeshift stage, leaving the silk wrap around me me, as I meet Peter head on. Both of our hand resting near each other eye masks as we do a circle dance, our foreheads resting together.

I am the one hiding under your bed
Teeth ground sharp and eyes glowing red

We pull each other masks off and reveal the red glowing led lights that the make-up artist fastened around our eyes. With the make-up, you can't see the wires leading up our foreheads and tucking into our hair.

I am the one hiding under yours stairs
Fingers like snakes and spiders in my hair

As Vicki and Bree crawl out from under the stage, then hopping on stage to join in with Ben, Maggie, Charlotte and Zafrina on stage to dance. I begin climbing back up my silk web as Peter begins to hold it tight, then twirling it as I hold a pose.

This is Halloween, this is Halloween

Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween!
In this town we call home
Everyone hail to the pumpkin song
In this town, don't we love it now?
Everybody's waiting for the next surprise

By this time, the other dancers have made their way through the crowd and have made it to the stage.

Round that corner, man hiding in the trash can
Something's waiting now to pounce, and how you'll...

Scream! This is Halloween
Red 'n' black, slimy green

Aren't you scared?

Well, that's just fine
Say it once, say it twice
Take a chance and roll the dice
Ride with the moon in the dead of night

Peter has stopped his twirling and I make my way down the silk web. I take change and look down at Edward and my family in the VIP section. They are all wide eyed and shocked to see me hanging from the rafters, dangling from a piece of silk. I see terror in Edward and Dad's eyes. As my feet touch the ground, I feel Peter snake his arm around me and unlatch the harness from me. Then we begin our climb down the makeshift stage, up to the main stage, Peter never once taking his hand off my lower back.

Everybody scream, everbody scream

In our town of Halloween!

I am the clown with the tear-away face
Here in a flash and gone without a trace

I am the "who" when you call, "Who's there?"
I am the wind blowing through your hair

I am the shadow on the moon at night
Filling your dreams to the brim with fright

This is Halloween, this is Halloween
Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween!
Halloween! Halloween!

[This is Halloween from A Nightmare Before Christmas]

We continue dancing to the rest of the song. All on stage, dancing in a trance like state, with loose limbs as the men in the company carry and take most of our weight as we dance.

As the song comes to and end, the hypnotic beat is replaced with thunderous applause. I would say that we got a standing ovation, but everyone who was on the floor was already standing anyway.

As we all ran back stage to strip and take off the led lights and make-up, only to quickly reapply normal stage make up, Maggie, Charlotte, and Ben dance to Long John Blues, followed by Bree doing a semi strip tease to Leave Your Hat On.

The next number is a group number to Willkommen from the show Cabaret. Erik was the lead male in this number, to Vicki's lead as female as we all do a cheeky semi strip tease. Zafrina came back out and got the crowd riled up a bit as we changed costumes for It's Oh so Quiet. While I was still in my pointe shoes, I changed costumes to a more revealing, very flowy, pale gray dress to match Peter's naked chest and blue jeans as we went on stage to slow it down with our next number.

Peter and I begin center stage, my arms wrapped around him as we sway back and forth in a innocent slow dance.

If you ever leave me baby,
Leave some morphine at my door
'Cause it would take a whole lot of medication
To realize what we used to have,
We don't have it anymore.

I step away from him and rise to my toes. I begin a series of strength maneuvers, stretching and pointing my legs and toes, arms and fingers, as Peter drops to the background.

There's no religion that could save me
No matter how long my knees are on the floor
So keep in mind all the sacrifices I'm makin'
Will keep you by my side
Will keep you from walkin' out the door.

As the chorus hits, Peter swoops me up into his arms, holding me horizontally in the air before dropping me down, latching our arms together at our elbows and spinning in a circle, keeping me just off the floor.

Cause there'll be no sunlight
If I lose you, baby
There'll be no clear skies
If I lose you, baby
Just like the clouds
My eyes will do the same, if you walk away
Everyday it will rain, rain, rain...

I feel the floor, pushing off of Peter, forcing me to slide into the shadows as Peter takes the spotlight for his solo portion of the dance. He does flips and spins, using up the entire stage. It is breathtaking.

I'll never be your mother's favorite
Your daddy can't even look me in the eye
Oooh if I was in their shoes, I'd be doing the same thing
Sayin there goes my little girl
Walkin' with that troublesome guy

But they're just afraid of something they can't understand
Oooh well little darlin' watch me change their minds
Yeah for you I'll try I'll try I'll try I'll try
I'll pick up these broken pieces 'til I'm bleeding
If that'll make you mine

We meet again for the chorus, this time, in perfect unison we spin, and dip. Reaching for each other, pulling ourselves into each other, clinging to one another.

Cause there'll be no sunlight
If I lose you, baby
There'll be no clear skies
If I lose you, baby
Just like the clouds
My eyes will do the same if you walk away
Everyday it will rain, rain, rain...

We break apart, each dancing in a corner of the stage, somewhat mirroring each other movements, but clearly making them our own. A balance of feminine and masculine.

Don't just say, goodbye
Don't just say, goodbye
I'll pick up these broken pieces 'til I'm bleeding
If that'll make it right

As the tempo of the music changes, we turn to look at each other, slowly, we stalk each other, circling each other, crossing to the opposite side of the stage where we once were.

Cause there'll be no sunlight
If I lose you, baby
There'll be no clear skies
If I lose you, baby
Just like the clouds
My eyes will do the same if you walk away

As the last line of the song hits, I take a running leap of faith and launch myself into Peters arms, where he catches me.

Everyday it will rain, rain, rain...

[It Will Rain by Bruno Mars]

We sink down to our knees, holding each other. Pulling away to look in each other eyes, cupping our faces with each other hands.

When the lights go off, Peter and I make our way back stage. "Fucking amazing number you two!" Zafrina says to us as we pass her, making her way to the stage to interact with the crowd while we change costumes.

"You know I am going to get shit from Emmett about those spins right?" Peter laughs.

I laugh. "Nah, he will just insist you show him how to do it!" We laugh as we make our way to the quick change, where Maggie is waiting to help me out of my costume, while Erik helps me out of my pointe shoes. I quickly dress and the slip on my heels, as Erik helps fasten them. I join Vicki, Charlotte, and Bree at the side stage. Bree gives Zafrina the heads up the I am done and we are ready.

"Alright ladies and gentlemen, we have a little something special in store for you all tonight. During the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, our hometown suffered immensely. With the help of so many wonderful people we came back slowly but surely. With the help of so many people, I was able to get our show back up and running. From that time on, I have found that giving back is so important. So, we are going to auction off a 'special' little dance, from four of our dancers. All proceeds will go towards building houses for those who are still without a home after loosing theirs during the hurricane. Introducing Vicki, Bree, Charlotte, and Bella!"

As we make our way to the stage the audience goes crazy.

"So, ladies...gentlemen...get those wallets out!" Zafrina says into the mic is a very sultry voice.

First up is Charlotte who goes to a hot guy on the floor who bid $1000. Followed by Vicki who goes to a very excited looking woman, yes woman, for $1400. Bree goes to a older looking gentleman for $1200.

Then it is my turn. "Next up is Bella!" I step forward and look up into the VIP section. I see Edward stand and walk towards the balcony with a 'bring it on fuckers' look in eye. This could get scary!

So...what did you all think? I hope you liked it. I loved being creative with this one. Up on Wednesday is Edwards POV for the second half of the show. I am excited! Leave me some love if you like what I have given you.