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“But I don’t know if I want to move across the country anymore”

“Because of Reed?” I guess

She sighs “I don’t want to be the girl that skips out on her top choice for a boy, but it’s not just Reed that I’din Southern Cali, and I don’t want to be that far away from you I knoe could visit, but it’s not the same Besides, it’s not like the LASPA is a crap school They have one of the highest post-graduation placeraduates into the Los Angeles Ballet”

“Why are you at Windsor anyway?” I quirk ht of this before “You’ve known you wanted to dance professionally since you were little It’s not like there aren’t several perforh schools in the area”

“I actually got into one of the best, but raduate from Windsor, and you are a Davenport, Ainsley’” Her voice drops a few octaves on the last sentence “That’s why I take sojob after winter break, which would look great on paper, so I think I’onna do it I don’t think many people realize how o pro”

“So, you can’t hone your skills during the day—even though that was an option—and you have to maintain a full academic course load? Then, not only keep up with homework but attend dance classes for hours after school, leaving very little tier” I shake my head “What a selfish ass”

“I’ as I can re to do stuff on the weekends I want to have a noring out with my friends As much as possible anyway”

“You really think you’ll stay in LA?”

“I guess it depends on where I’m accepted”

“Well, I’ to complain if you do because I can’t leave Belle” I point a stern finger at her “But only if you stay for the right reasons, not for a boy”

Ainsley so He’s been applying to schools in New York just in case”

I raise s between you two are that serious already, huh? Damn, when you commit, you commit”

She chuckles “A, Reed and I have known each other al for years And B, you’re one to talk, lady You do realize I see the way you and ht? How different he is since you’ve been around? I was really worried about Kingston for a while, but you make hienuinely happy in over ten years”

Since before their mom died

I can’t irowing up with their cold-hearted, absentee father after losing theirmy childhood, but I was loved Belle and I never wanted for affection, even with as often as ourto make a better life for us