" I said and reality started to set inside me as he asked me to follow him. Yes, the moment was becoming more real as Professor Dubin directed me to t...e room where I was to get ready. I looked around the room before stepping inside. It was simple with a mirror and other essentials and had a lone white robe hanging from a rack. I knew what I was supposed to do with that robe. "I'll just be across the hall in the studio advising my students. When you are ready, Miss Duncan, you may stand in the. They were still laughing and snickering and making comments in their language. Sangita started to say something else, but Nicki leaned forward and put her hand over the other woman’s mouth and they all burst into another storm of laughter! Nicki climbed out of the car and indicated with her hands that I should sit down as she tried to look at anything and everything other than me. I stepped past her and let my left hand graze the front of her thigh. She yelped and whipped around to look up. He took his little box to the register and there were a few people there, a pair of women, one young like me, except she had boobs and too much makeup, and an older one. She looked like she was bored and in a bit of a rush, tapping her credit card on the counter. Behind it, ignoring all of us, stood another woman, a girl really, who looked like she'd just dropped out of high school because she heard you could steal a lot of cool stuff if you worked in a drug store."Hi Lonnie," I smiled at. ." Abbey-Gayle sighs. "Really thought this was gonna be yourone, you know?" Maybe next time," I shrug. "Gotta call my mum, get her to pick me up..." Sure," Abbey-Gayle says as I head out of the studio and dial home."Hello?" Mum's voice answers after one ring."Hi mum, it's me," I say. "I- I did a few steps for Miss Fullerton andnearly fell flat on my bum... I don't think I'm gonna be able to dancetonight, or Friday." I brace myself- despite mum's 'thawing' earliertoday, crushing her dreams of me.