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[Rowan Booker]

What was it? What kept him here? Was it all of the people he cared for? Beatrice? Was it lack of giving a shit about his future? Resentment towards his mother? Or fear of the future? Whatever it was, Rowan had successfully dug himself into a hole that would be next to impossible to get out of. He had it all planned out. With the dance team wrapping up with competitions, he could start slacking off without any penalty. It wasn't like they would kick him off the dance team if the season was over. Rowan had planned it out perfectly and he was about to put that plan in motion.

Who needed to graduate anyway?

Ending up in the auditorium, rather than his physics class, Rowan strode up the steps to the stage and scrolled through his iPod. He needed something to occupy his time. Something that had nothing to do with learning or any bull shit like that. He wanted to have fun. He was eighteen years old for Christ's sake! Who needed all the stress of school and knowing what the acceleration of some bull shit whatever the hell was? Not him. Besides, he was gonna be a dancer, a bad ass dancer in New York or something. A back up dancer for Justin Timberlake or one of the next big pop stars. He didn't care, as long as he was dancing.

After picking a song to stretch to, he set out on warming up. There was so much on his mind, he couldn't quite figure out what he was going to do about anything. There was Alex. There was Lucy. Beatrice. His mother. It was all just building up and the pressure had started getting to him. It wasn't like he really had anyone looking out for him because he hardly let anyone look out for him. Lucy was one of the few that did even the slightest bit, but even she didn't know the kind of stress he put on himself. And she had her own things she'd been busy with. Things he'd been trying not to get salty about. 

It didn't matter anyway. He pulled his arm over his head and closed his eyes as the song continued playing out.

[Madison Davis]

"Alright daddy tell mum I said bye and I love you both. Okay bye dad". Madison hung up the phone with her dad sighing. Her parents, who she missed terribly, couldn't get up to see her for another few weeks. Though she called them all the time it wasn't the same as having them with her. She wasn't use to be away from them for so long and it made her very sad that their visit was delayed.



Feeling the need to throw herself into something besides math Madison decide to take a little detour from going to class and walk to the auditorium today so she could practices some new dance moves. She had never skipped her classes before but she knew if she didn't distract herself with something she would stay very sad. She quickly changed into her half-shirt and jogging pants and made her way in the auditorium with her earbuds blasting in her ears. She stopped herself on the way to the stage when she saw a boy. When she took out her earphones she noticed that there was music playing and he was stretching. Must be a dancer. she thought to herself. What other reason he would be stretching.



"Ooo is the part where i'm stepping on your practice turf and we have a epic dance battle?" she joked with a smile letting her presence be known. "Or isn't a you dancing out your inner emotions and feelings in a dark empty auditorium kind of situations like highschool musical?". She smiled warmly looking up at the stage wondering if he would get the joke. "I'm sorry" she laughed. "I watch too many movies but I have to say it would be cool to see both in real life". She grabbed on her bag she had with her. "I was going to practices in here but I can wait. You won't even notices I'm here I swear". She sat down in the front row.