do my dance, OPEN

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❊ DO MY DANCE ❊

Esme walked into the dance room placing her duffle bag on the far wall. Stretching in the middle of the wood paneled floor, Esme looked around and let out a soft sigh. She still couldn't believe that she was here. It was only months ago that she came home to an empty house. Her parents and her little brother deported back to Mexico and she was left alone. Her parents contacted her through a phone at a restaurant. They told her to stay in the States even though she so desperately wanted to be reunited with her family. This university was her only hope at being with them again. She was working hard to become a successful dancer. When she wasn't at school practicing, she was at the tattoo parlor, making as much money as she could so she could send what she could spare to her family. This often meant she didn't go out very much. While she loved to go to clubs to dance and shop with friends, New York wasn't the place to do it. With prices jacked up so high, Esme spent most of her time on campus keeping to herself and dancing. She had only been at the university for a couple of months, but she still had not made any real friends.

Finishing up her stretches, Esme stood up and walked over to the stereo system. She put on a song by Tyga to warm up to. She was good. Really good. Esme was a hip-hop dancer, but that didn't mean she could turn around and dance to a contemporary routine. Music and dance were her life and she dedicated all that she was to it. She was going to be the best at the university. The best in the state. She would compete and become famous. She'd make money and give her family a good life. She would bring awareness to immigration and use her voice to help people. That was her goal, and no one would get in the way.

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Tyson had grown up in the world of show business, shows and stages. He never had a choice in the matter that was just what his mother had instructed him to do. For as long as he could remember he had been dancing. A huge part of him hated the path that his mother had laid out for him, but another part loved it but wanted to spin it in a different direction. A direction that might have him disowned by the pushy mom who wanted her kids to be on Broadway and to have their name in bright lights for all the world to see. Tyson was not centre stage material but that didn't matter to her. She still pushed Tyson to be more than who he was. Tyson was happiest when he could dance on his own terms and pass that love onto others. That was one of the many reasons why he worked with the children as part of his college programme. He taught one class a week on a Thursday evening and reported back to his own dance coach on how they went when she couldn't sit in to watch Tyson in his element. Teaching his passion was what Tyson was best at, but his mom would demand more from him and tell him that teaching was something he could do after he retired from dancing across the world's stages.

It was the dance class that had him heading to the dance studios this afternoon. He wanted to work on a few new routines since most of the kids were at the point of perfecting what they already knew. Tyson had a few things worked out already, but there was a long way to go before he would be happy enough to actually perform it as a full routine, let alone teach it to anyone else. He had inherited his mother's need for perfection and it was something that ultimately left him feeling proud, but also rendered him in a semi-permanent state of frustration the rest of the time when things didn't go quite right for him. Tyson pushed opened the door to the studio he usually preferred and dropped his bag without thinking, only to look up and see someone else already in there, ready to dance. “Oh, sorry, thought this place would be empty right now.” He didn't move immediately, as Tyson's curiosity was getting the better of him.

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TAGGED! Esme! <3
WORDS! 407!
OUTFIT! COMING SOON!
LYRICS! Pretty Little Girl - - - Blink 182
NOTES! If I'd spotted this sooner, this would have been done xD <3 <3 <3