Chapter 6- The next night. They were at the hotel and Melissa wanted to practice. She was supposed to rest but she didn’t want to. She scooped out the gym they had. Then she went upstairs and put on a sports bra, spandex shorts under her short shorts, and then pants and a tight top on. She put her hair up into a messy ponytail and grabbed a bottle of water and headed downstairs. She used her card and found the empty space that was needed. No one was in the gym so that was a good sign. Mel: damn it Johnny, I swear all I ask for is my skates and my toe shoes but no damn it, oh well I’ll just have to use these shoes. She was talking about the ballet toe shoes that she needed to go on her toes with out it hurting really bad even though it did. She needed to stretch out. She was extremely flexible for her age, which made it easy for her to do dance and skate. She did her split and rose herself off the ground and other various stretches. She soon after that did her whole dance routine, it was very complicated. Justin was headed to the gym to let out stress. He opened the door with his card and heard music from the other room; he went to check it out. It was Melissa. All she had on was a white sports bra, both shorts, and the shoes. She was hot. Justin didn’t want to interrupt her, he just kept watching. She was an outstanding dancer and never thought she danced like that. She was near the end. She had to be on her toes bending over and do high aerobes that were the hardest part getting that. She got it and then when she was done she fell. She took off her shoe and sock on one foot. Her toes were all bloody. He cringed at that sight of blood. She just tapped up each toe on each foot and continued. He was amazed at how well she outstanded the pain. He was also surprised to see her out of bed, considering the fact that she just had a seizure that the day before. He couldn’t help but watch all the hard stunts. Then out of nowhere she did a round off backhand spring double twist Mel: you know you shouldn’t stare Justin: I’m sorry Mel: that’s ok Justin: what are you doing anyway Mel: I’m practicing what’s it look like Justin: for what Mel: stuff, you probably don’t want to hear Justin: I wouldn’t mind Mel: it’s for a dance competition 3 weeks from now, I’ve been working on this everyday Justin: oh, well your really good Mel: thank you and just don’t stare next time, come in a watch me but now you came here for a reason so you can do your little thing over there, I’ll be over there in a about an hour and don’t tell anyone that I wear next to nothing to practice Justin: don’t worry Mel: thanks The next day at the venue. Johnny: ok you’ll perform 3 shows here and you’ll be here for 5 days. Now you need to be back her at 4 to rehearse and you are free to go, Melissa come here, the rest of you can leave Melissa: yeah Johnny: just to let you know you can get good use out of your skates here and your stuff is over there. Carol is here, just go straight down that hallway and make a right, its right there, and see you later sweety Melissa: thanks Johnny, I needed to know that Johnny: sure thing Melissa picked up her back and followed Johnny’s directions and she opened the door to find a large ice skating rink that was with clean ice. She stretched out before putting on her 150-dollar outfit along with a pair of 600-dollar skates. She put her hair up and stepped onto the ice. She started to just warm up, 20 laps around the rink was normal. Then she did spins and jumps. She was ready. Carol: ok Melissa great job now when was the last time you practiced Mel: 2 days ago Carol: ok you have 5 hours let’s hit it and I want your triple Mel: no, no Carol: yes you can do it, don’t be afraid. You did your triple when you were 8 Mel: well sorry a quad is a lot harder Carol: well you have 5 days to do it. Your trials are in a month Melissa, you want it or not Mel: yeah let’s hit it, put the music on Carol: ok warm up to your dance routine Mel: ok Melissa did her dance routine flawlessly and her coach was impressed. She was working really hard for the past 4-½ hours. Justin had come back from playing basketball and visiting a friend. He was early so he decided to check out the venue. It was huge. He came upon a place where he heard someone yelling Carol: (talking really loud) ok skates you need this, you can do it, the camel sit spin, perfect you worked on it, you know you can aerobes now…perfect…ok your double loop, now into your flying sit spin, ok great… now your quad let’s do it Justin was impressed at how great this girl was. She was doing everything fine. Then he heard her coach yell quad, must of meant something because she began skating backwards and then into a jump, she spun 3 ½ times and then fell. Melissa just sat there before getting up. Justin thought that she was hurt so he started walking closer to see if she was all right Carol: ok skates that’s it and I want you to work on your quad you got me Mel: yeah bye Melissa exited the other side of the rink to the locker room. That night they did a show and then Melissa did the same thing the next 2 days. On the end of the third she got her quad. Joey: ok guys since we have off let’s all go ice-skating JC: ok Mel: fine I’ll go At the rink Mel: what I have skates big deal and it’s not really cold Joey: ok whatever On the rink Mel: what’s the matter you guys never skated before Lance: not a lot Chris: why don’t you show us something since you think you’re all big and bad Mel: fine I will. It’s called a triple loop into a flying camel into a back flip Justin: right… Melissa went around the rink twice then did her triple flawlessly then into her flying camel perfectly and then did a back flip. The guys were impressed Chris: WH… no… Joey: how did you do that Justin: you can’t do that Mel: you guys so not into doing anything other then singing and dancing I see, its something I do on my extra time, well why don’t you look at the time I got to fly…

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