Jeanna's Dancer Life

I danced around the studio. I felt like I’m floating.  I was preparing for a huge dance competition in April. Suddenly, boom! The main studio’s door slammed hard.  Our teacher, Miss Shirena had come in to teach. Why she is here? Is she supposed to go away for holiday or something? I decided to ask her.  She said, “I cancelled my flight because I needed to help you all.” Good. I need that.  She made all of us go to the barre to exercise our feet, we did splits and stretches.  She told us that she had a surprise for us I was curious. I wondered what was maybe our costume or maybe our exam results. We had taken the exam the previous year. She had planned a concert for us and this will means more practices! Yes, I loved extra practices. It was called Black Swan. Nice name I thought. I wonder who she will pick up for the lead role. She called everyone’s names and their parts. I hadn’t heard my name being called. Until I heard her say, “And the lead role is for……….. Jeanna.” Everyone looked at me and congratulated me. Miss Shirena said that for the concert we could wear our Black Swan shoes, the ones that she gave to us for competing in the Hawaii Dance Festival.  She taught us the first section of the dance until class was over.  Oh well, I thought there is going to be three hours of practice tomorrow. Class is over.

                I arrived home with my mother. Told her all about dance practice. I took a shower and scrolled my I-pod . I found the song that we were going to do and practiced in my room. I danced until I felt tired and did revision on the subject Malaysian History. For dinner I had a healthy dancer meal of Salad, Grilled Potato and Watermelon juice. I had school the next day for it was Monday. I went to sleep. I dream't that we were at the Black Swan concert and everyone was cheering and clapping for me. People throwing roses, people wanting my autographs. Until I woke up that was very happy. I got dressed for school I wore a pair of Versace white jeans and a Tank halter top with a Michael Kors handbag. I had breakfast. I got in the car and went to pick up my gang for carpool. “First stop,” I told Isaac my driver, “Alicia’s.” When we arrived at her house she got into my car. Alicia was my best friend, my beta and my best dance friend. “Second stop, Kylie’s “.  Kylie was my beautiful gamma girl, my best friend and my dancer friend. She gracefully hopped into my car and told Isaac “Third stop, Natasha’s”. Natasha we usually call her Tasha. She is my dancer friend, my loyal prankster and my best friend. She got into the car. “Now,” we all shouted, “SCHOOL”. In school we are all popular we go to MGIS short for Malaysian Girls International School.

                Ugh, finally, I thought, school over now Black Swan Concert. I went with Kylie over to the school faculty parking lot. Over there we met up with Alicia and Natasha. While waiting for Isaac, we saw two super annoying LBRS short for ‘Loser Beyond Repair ‘, Livvy Collins and Carrie Randolph. Kylie leaned over Alicia and whispered “Is it just me or do I feel like my lip gloss Fudge Brownie is going to be eaten by lip gloss eater Livvy Collins.” All of us cracked up so hard we did not even here Isaac honking the car.

                Once we arrived at the place we kept our bags in the locker room. I wore a blue leotard and white ballet shoes.  We went into the studio and started stretching. Until Miss Shirena came in, all of the girls were discussing what kind of costumes we would get for the concert because we were getting the costumes for the Black Swan Concert today.  Miss Shirena burst through the door, with different costumes for different parts.  After we got our costumes, mine was a long black and silky dress with a white sparkled lace open back at the back. We practiced with our costumes on until it was time to leave.

Three weeks later….

                The show was over. It went really well. By the time we were half way through of the first segment of the dance, people were already throwing flowers, bouquets. People were also holding up ribbon laces to wave along with the music. It was an awesome show. Many people including my parents were already coming backstage to get pictures, autographs and see how we arranged trailers to cooperate. My sisters and parents came backstage too to congratulate me.  After mostly everyone from the audience left to get souvenirs before thy sold out, I went to meet up with Kylie, Natasha and Alicia to congratulate them too. I found them in Trailer A; they were sipping mock tails and reading magazines. I said “Hi, sorry I am late my parents were begging for pictures with me.” I gathered my stuff and we headed to the car for our Friday Night Sleepover.  The next was simple all of us spent the day in the J estate’s private hated swimming pool. Sunday, was the same as Saturday except we had to have time to fill in homework, revision and shopping for stuff mostly clothes and handbags to wear to school tomorrow.  

                Everyone went to school together, so there were no stops just headed straight to school. Once we arrived I linked arms with my BFFs and like a human charm bracelet we entered school and went to our lockers which were al lined up in a row.  We headed to the cafeteria for morning period because class hasn’t started yet. “Hey everyone, just here to congratulate Jeanna her Three Best Friends for their perfect dance show on Friday,” Lisa’s voice bleated over the intercom in the cafeteria. Everyone cheered for us. I smiled this month could not get any better. Once again we did our human charm bracelet formation and went of to class.  

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