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"Yes," she said, her voice norinning for learning lifts is e rather inelegantly call the fish dive, though if you’ve ever watched a school of fish dive, there’s nothing inelegant about it They swoop fearlessly toward the ocean floor, with unconscious grace"

Max sat at the back of the class The community center’s room for the dance lessons had a wall ofbar for warm-ups The wooden floor orn shiny and smooth by the many feet that had pounded, tapped, scuffed or tripped across it Janet had said it was used for everything froa to Zumba

As she’d predicted, he’d been treated to a lot of shy looks and giggles He expected she was fully aware that such behavior was pretty inti a pack of teenage girls Eventually she took pity on hi tap of a cane The girls responded with the saenerally inspired at K&A

They’d done warroups of three show her how they were doing on co where necessary with a tap of the cane or demonstration She was sparse with praise, but as such, a silow When she showed them a step or ht of the picture of the soaring ballet dancer over her couch Had she once been able to do that? If so, not any ressed, the cane she used to tap ti as well He’d definitely be sure to give her that footabout it, he realized even her sheerest stockings had a gli that would hide scars When he’d put on her tights, he hadn’t done a thorough exploration of her skin, much as he’d desired to do so The problem could be joint pain or those foot problems she’dto have a desire to find out everything about her

Bringing his attention back to the class, he found Janet had ether for a Christmas recital By the time the dancers were in the last thirty , but not a one of them slacked off He didn’t think they would dare At one point, a student had forgotten to turn off her cell phone When it chirped fro student had practically flown over there to silence it beneath Janet’s withering look "So sorry, Madame, so sorry"

He found that curious, how they all called her that He didn’t know enough about ballet to know if it was a typical address for a teacher or not, but it suited her quite well

"You’ve worked hard tonight" Janet stood at the front of the class now, continuing her discussion of the lift "Once we coether our recital routine, several of you will be chosen to perfor to spend the last thirtyyou to it"

There were excitedhands to squeeze and express their pleasure with the idea Janet gave them precisely ten seconds to settle down, then quelled any further reaction with her look "You’ve all noticed I’ve brought a friend tonight He’s here to help teach the lift, given that he is far better equipped to lift you than I airls giggled Max did his best not to humiliate himself with a damn blush The woman was a sadist

"The first hurdle youYou must have utter confidence in your partner If you cannot have that, youfearlessly, concentrating on the execution of the ht I want the confidence portion to be an irrelevant issue, so you can focus on the for is always my primary concern"

Despite her strict deirls’ faces, so adoration It told Max they trusted their teacher, believed in her regard for them She had that effect on people

"Max will keep you safe He has aze touched him briefly, thento demonstrate the lift with me first Since I a each of you will be for hi faces, and Janet allowed theht s to the front of the roo that he is male and therefore entirely stubborn, we shall have to deal with hi look at the jeans and T-shirt he’d donned fro of spare clothes he kept in his trunk

"The only attire you had available were tights," he irls tittered and Janet’s lips twitched

"Even so" She set aside her stick and came to stand before him "To start, you will be in arabesque en pointe No toe shoes tonight though The ball of the foot will be sufficient There’s enough to think about withoutit that complex" She assu at Max He bent his knee to give added support to thetheir war his aroes over and around the right thigh, just above the knee Noill dip round, ar out with graceful arertips, Max lifted her and dipped her to the floor The girls oohed softly, and he could see thethe and touch your toes to your right knee," Janet continued from her suspended pose "This is the parallel passé Be sure and use your core ers over her upper and lower abdo their eyes to that It seemed like second nature to her to be held nearly upside down, feet nowhere near the ground "As always, I expect to see clean lines The arch of your back curves you in toward your partner Thewith another, there should be a roether It’s what your audience wants to see, and it will draw them into theto show the h he knew their sexual inti, her body fitted into the angles of his, conveying her trust in his hold As he glanced at the mirror, their position reminded him of the ave hiraphy, as well as the strength it required He felt a brief quiver beneath his hold now, telling him she couldn’t hold this pose indefinitely But her ease and skill in deested that, at one ti the left leg when he begins to dip you down again Finish in arabesque en pointe as you started And there we are Yes, Tasha, we in with you"

For the next thirty h the lift, with Janet circling the of the body here, a straightening of the leg there Froe sister, he knehen it o fro, to this Though aze, once they started working on the lift, all of the of the repetitive activities his instructors had inflicted on him in BUD/S to teach focus and attention to detail, he realized Janet’s pre-class clothing exercise ht have been to determine if he had the attention span to do this He had to follow the same form, over and over, and adjust as needed He felt almost as proud as her students when Janet only had to correct his form twice

By the end of class, he also had a th and balance of a h, but he kneould take someone with his level of fitness to lift and hold twelve different girls in the prescribed position ht have what it took to get through BUD/S Despite the tights

Over the last fifteenThe way they tiptoed in, lining up against the back wall to watch, i their cell phones to ensure they were off, it was obvious Janet didn’t li on proper behavior to her students alone

The last student had hung back until the end During the class, he’d noted she worked as hard, perhaps harder, than everyone else, though she didn’t have the saer, ht, she was suffering froirls in their early teens She was hesitant when they got started, but by the tih the lift several tih-fived her Amanda smiled like that, when she was unexpectedly pleased by so

"Madame, I felt like a feather"

"You looked like one Good for on your lines, and it shows" Janet put a brief hand on her red hair "All right, class, that’s it for tonight Practice your recital ht you, with the exception of this one Until we’ve perfor a male friend to help you work on this elsewhere Mr Acker a lift must have similar instruction or they could injure you They could also injure themselves if they haven’t warreat deal of initiative--it’s why you are in this advanced class--but I want to hear each of you promise me not to practice this le" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true">