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PREVIOUSLY ON CALEB'S MIND:
From the sound it made as it cut through air, I could tell....the force........ and.....impact.
I tilted my body side ways and watched Merilyn's bag pass beside me, ......"Lizard reflexes!"
"Caleb's my ticket to get back at Blake!"
"Mrs Vixus.........you never told me you had a brother"
I found a way to harmonize all similar sounds........but that only works when the sounds are similar, not in a situation....where the sounds are different.
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"Caleb!", Merylin called, bringing me back to the present, I looked at her, "come on", she added and began to walk fast, I followed in a similar pace still looking around, as some ladies did their warm ups, touching their toes and and stretching their legs, all action revealing an exciting body part.
Sadly the majority of the were flat chested or almost so, but the ones that had, had it nice and revealing.
There were no familiar faces among them, apart from the girl I saw in the morning hugging Merylin's boyfriend.
"Merylin Vixus!", a flat chested short elderly woman spoke as she wrote down something on the file in her hand, from the motion of her hand, she wrote a 5, I looked at eyes and could see the book reflected on it.
On the file was several rows and columns, on the first column were the names of the ballerinas and on the rest columns were information about them, such as performance, punctuality, and some other things I couldn't see properly due to the poor writing.
"who's the young man next to you", she asked, "Caleb's my.....", she said and paused obviously contemplating what I was to her, "your boyfriend?", the woman asked raising her head up, and looking at her with a blank expression on her face, "no!....what....nah!...he's not", she declined, "ok.....so who's he and why is he here?, there's no time so please answer quickly", she said, "he's a friend", Merylin replied quickly, "why is he here?", she asked, "umm...", Merylin said looking at me and back at the woman, the lady seemingly ran out of patience and walked up to me, "go get changed", she said to Merilyn and then turned to me, "young man can you play the piano?", the lady asked and without waiting for a reply she pulled me to where the piano was, I said nothing following willingly, knowing fully well that this was an opportunity to stay and watch these girls dance, she continued pulling till we got to where it was, "sit!", she commanded, "these are the scripts", she added and walked to where the ladies were, with so much confidence that I could play, like she had seen me play before.
The ladies soon began to stare and gossip as usual, "who's that?", they asked one to another, "who?", one asked, "on the piano!", the other replied pointing at me, "oh my God, what's wrong with his skin", "yeah, he looks like a vampire", they continued gossiping, "ladies!!", the old woman said aloud and they all assembled, "am coming Mrs Barbara!", Merilyn said hopping and putting on the other pair of shoes, she joined them and stood erect like the rest of them.
"Start!", Mrs Barbara said as I stared secretly at one of the girl's b__bs, "Start!!", she repeated, "Dracula!, start!", she added, bringing my attention to the crowd staring at me, and the girls began to laugh, I could hear Merylin's heart beat fast as though she was the one on the piano stool.
I had gone through the scripts severally, and in my mind, memory wise and went through all the musicals I had watched, the keys played per notes.
I quickly ran my finger through the keyboard from the first to the last key, memorizing how each key sounded, I played the first note on the script, and followed it up with the second, just as I remembered what I saw on an opera show I watched on TV, where the script was displayed on the side of the TV screen as it was played, I had also read a book on keys and notes though, but wasn't really interested in it at the time of reading, but am now forced to recall it all.
They began to dance as I played, making several mistakes because I wasn't use to the hand movement, "stop!!", Mrs Barbara yelled, and the girls stopped dancing, "you have a minute to get use to the play!", she said to me and turned to the girls, "you!!, what are you doing, I can't believe that at this stage you still squat instead of doing a plie!", she said furiously to a girl, as I practiced the hand motion for playing, still trying to recall what I saw.
"go!", she commanded and I began to play once again, this time hitting each note better and faster than I did before, after some minutes of playing I soon got use to it and began to focus on the main reason I came here, b__bies!
They danced and danced, tormented by Mrs Barbara and her harsh tutoring.
They bent, turned and squated performing most of their movement on their toes, I watched admiring each bend and squat as it revealed exactly what I wanted to see, I soon started getting uncomfortable down there, so I found a way to distract myself by solving complex equations, and doing some activities to send blood else where.
We heard the bell ring once again, "that's enough", Mrs Barbara commanded the obviously tired dancers, "you guys have till the end of the week to perfect your forms, the screening begins
from next week, "Molly wait behind, the rest of you dismiss", she said and the rest girls left, walking to the changing room.
If only I could go with them, I looked as far as I could, to the girls changing room, through a hole where I could barely see a thing, but I still strained my eyes to peep, they finally began to take off their clothes and then one moron decided to hang her bra on the door covering the hole I was peeping through.
"F_ck!", I muttered quietly, and turned to Mrs Barbara and Molly, who had been talking, but their words had eluded me because wasn't paying attention to them at all, and when it comes to b__b related issues, I hardly get distracted especially since I had to put in extra concentration, into it "give this to your father", Mrs Barbara said as she handed her a key to Molly, "ok mom!", Molly said and was about leaving, "you are really getting better at those splits though", she said smiling, "I learnt from the best", she replied and winked at her mom as she walked to the girls changing room, I followed her and her b__bs steadily with my eyes waiting for her to open the door, even for a few seconds so I could have a quick glance at the naked girls, "Dracula!", Mrs Barbara said standing in front of me, "f_ck!!", I muttered once again quietly in disappointment, "what's your name?", she asked looking at me, "....Caleb", I replied in deep grumble like manner, after a brief moment of silence and a stern gaze at her, that showed my annoyance , "Caleb, you boys always hiding your talents, that's why I don't bother asking you if you guys can play, cause they always lie", the flat b_tch standing in front of my b__b heaven said, and then put down my name on her file.
I stared at her flat chest as I wondered how she gave birth to such an endowed daughter, "so how long have you been playing the piano?", she asked, "this is my first time", I replied, "your first time playing in school?", she asked confused, "yeah", I replied not wanting to arouse further questions, on hearing my reply she hissed, "anyways, you should perfect your playing before the weekend, you missed some notes, but I'll pardon you with the notion that this is your first time in school", she said sarcastically, rolling her eyes, "you can leave now", she said as she walked towards the ladies changing room, I stood up slowly as I calculated how long it would take for her to get the ladies bathroom at the pace she was walking, if she continued walking at that pace, 20seconds was the answer, I began to count as I my self walked towards the exit door with a paces that would get me there in 25seconds.
18, 19 , 20 , I turned around at that instant to see, she opened the door and the girls began to come out already fully clothed in their original outfit."sh_t!!!", I exclaimed dissapointed yet again, "what's taking you guys forever", she said as they continued strolling out one by one, "we are done ma", I heard faintly as I shut the door entering into the hallway where the students who had just finished their special classes, go their various direction.
Merylin's P.O.V:
Caleb's on the piano, I wonder if he knows how to play, what if he doesn't, that would lower his chances of being popular.
He soon began to play and to my greatest surprise things were going well, I had no idea he was this good, "stop!", Mrs Barbara yelled, and told Caleb whom I thought was playing perfectly to correct himself, and then she began to shout at Josy telling her that she did a squat instead of a plie.
Mrs Barbara,
she once danced in well known places, and performed in various competition, until she got old and decided to pass down her knowledge, harshly to students in the ballet's special class. She also happens to be Molly's mom, that's another edge Molly has, and sadly Molly happens to be one of the best dancers in our class; her mom obviously gives her more training than the rest of us, I have heard her saying that she wants her daughter to be as good as she was or better, and so the rest of us are kinda like back ups to make Molly look good, while she's the main act, with her perfect splits and her flawless pirouette, she found away to steal my boyfriend as well.
We began to dance once again as Caleb played way better than he did before, this boy continues to amaze me, we danced for more than an hour still practicing the same thing, I am exhausted, really hungry, sweaty and anticipating the sound of the bell, just as I thought the bell was rong as joy overwhelmed our faces, Molly included and Mrs Barbara asked us to leave.
We got into the changing room, and the conversation which I had expected to happen began, "who's that?", Rosy asked as she hanged her bra on the door knob, "my.....friend", I said omitting the 'boy' in 'boyfriend' because I hadn't officially broken up with Blake yet, "are you guys talking about the cute Vampire, who played the piano", Veronica interrupted, topless, with her funny looking b__bs which faced the opposite direction, " can you get me his number", Nelly interrupted as well, "he doesn't have a phone", I replied, "why?", two other girls aside the ones I was talking to chorused aloud, "yeah Merylin, who in this century doesn't have a phone", Bella said as she walked to where we were also topless, "Dracula", Gina said from the other end of the room, and they all began to laugh, "she probably doesn't want to give us", Nelly said as she tied her shoe lace, "yeah, there's no need to lie about that!", Bella said as she wore her clothes, "why would I do that!", I replied, "cause you want him all to your self, doh", Gina said still at the other end of the room, "you know what, you girls should go and get it yourself!", I said angered.
It was obvious that I just made a huge mistake as I saw the smile on some of their faces broaden, it became clear to me that what they really wanted to know was if he was taken, and they just got their answers.
"I got to go now, Ladies hurry, its only a matter of time before Molly's mom walks through that door!", Gina said as they all laughed looking at Molly, "yeah, yeah really funny", Moly said as Gina opened the door, and just as she had predicted Mrs Barbara was behind the door.
"what's taking you guys forever", Mrs Barbara said as the girls began to leave one after the other, "we are done ma!", Nelly said as she picked her bag and walked out, "Merylin!", Mrs Barbara said aloud as I took off my ballet outfit as fast as I could, "yes Mrs Barbara", I replied in fear, "you haven't even taking off your clothes", she said as I completely took it off, "sorry ma", I apologized, "save it!!", she shunned, "I want to see Caleb in our next rehearsal, understood!", she commanded, "yes ma'am", I replied, "good, let's go Molly", she said as she walked away with Molly.
Caleb's P.O.V:
I stood there for awhile p_ssed and trying to find a pattern to the annoying noise the students made as they walked outside the school, "Caleb right?", a girl who I saw in class asked as she approached, her heart beated steadily but occasionally skipped beats, as she tried to appear confident.
"..yes?", I replied in a manner that told her to go straight to her motive, "I was wondering if you could join us at the science club", she requested, "am not interested", I said as I walked towards the door escaping from the noise, "it's going to be fun", she added, "I said am not interested", I replied aggressively, she quickly backed off, I didn't intend to do that but the noise was slowly getting to my head, "Caleb!! ", I heard Merilyn call as soon as I stepped out of the school, followed by the sound of something tiny cutting through the air, at 80 degrees to left and 60 degree from the top, heading to where I stood, the speed was far greater than that of the bag thrown in the morning and from how it tore through the air smoothly it had to be an irregularly shaped object, I presume a stone, at this angle and speed, it would get to my head in about a second, there's no way I can completely dodge this no matter what I do, there's only one option that will reduce the damage.
I bent my head and it landed at the back of my neck and fell off, I touched the place it landed on and turned to the top where it came from, and standing on the roof top with his crew was Merylin's boyfriend.
To be continued......
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