Inside information: UPS AND DOWNZ was written in the beginning of '00...never revised. Copyrighted in '00. My granny was one of the first ppl to read this story. She thought it was really sweet. She's a Christian and she would never guess what type of stories I write. Lol. She gets on my nerves sometimes, though. But I'm sure someone out there gets on someone's nerves. It took me a day to finish this story.

UPS N DOWNZ: 2000 novel
Rated R for language and violence

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Chapters: 10
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THE AUDITION

Chapter 5

Christine drove up in the parking lot and parked in an empty space. “We’re here…” I looked up at the ‘Mike and Shelley’s Dance Rehearsal Palace’, where the awful incident happened a week ago. Her smile faded. “…again” she slowly got out of the car to join her friend who was already walking to the building. This time the parking lot was full of cars. Christine knew it was going to be a long day.

They stepped in the building to see people stretching. A man walked up to us. “Are you here to audition?”

“Well…she is” Beverly pointed to me. “I’m just here to watch”

“OK. Well you could have a seat over there, while you go join the other dancers warm-up” he left our sight.

“So do you see them anywhere?” Beverly asked looking around.

“Well…” I looked to spot Chris gulping down water. “…there’s Chris”

“Oh really?” she jumped up in excitement. “Where?”

“Well he’s right by…” my eyes just focused on Justin, who was doing some kind of dancing move. Oh he looked so sexy, but I couldn’t forget about what he did to me last week. “…Justin”

“JUSTIN. OH MY GOODNESS”

“5 MORE MINUTES GUYS AND WE’RE GOING TO GO THROUGH THE BASICS!” A man yelled over the series of voices.

“Oh my gosh. I have to warm-up. I’ll talk to you later” I walked through the spaced out people, when a man stopped me.

“Why aren’t you in your position?”

“Well…I just came” I stammered.

“Well…” he looked around for a partner for me. “…stand over there” he pointed. “By Justin”

“What?” I hope he wasn’t telling me Justin was my partner.

“Well I’m afraid everybody has a partner except for you and Justin” yeah he’s telling me he’s my partner. “So you’re going to have to dance with him” he said backing away.

“Okay. Fine” I slowly walked up to the dancing Justin, and tapped him on the shoulder. He turned around. “Hi…I’m Christine” I shook his hand. “The thick guy over there put me with you, since you didn’t have a partner” I forced a smile on my face. He looked at me stunned. “Um…is there something wrong?” I knew why he was looking the way he did. I just didn’t want to believe it.

He was about to speak up when we heard a loud voice. I turned around to see.

“OKAY EVERYBODY” I sat my bag down. “GET IN YOUR POSITIONS SO WE CAN START OFF WITH THE BASICS” Justin slowly stood closely behind me, where I could feel his manhood. I just knew from that moment it was huge. I looked over my shoulder to see a smirk on his face.

“What are you doing?” I whispered

“Well…if you were on time, you would’ve heard when the choreographer said for one partner to stand closely behind the other. But you weren’t…again to know that he said that” he got smart. Now I knew he remembered me.

“Look” I turned completely around. “I don’t have to take this crap from you. I’m leaving” he held my hand.

“I don’t think you would wanna do that if you really want your dream to come true”

“Huh? How did you know this was my dream?”

“Why don’t you figure that out for yourself”

“ALRIGHT. FIRST WE’RE GOING TO START OFF…” I knew this was going to be a long day.

2 HOURS LATER

We were all sitting on the hard floor, just waiting for the results. “Okay for the moment you’ve been waiting for. The 10 dancers for the tour, starting off with our first dancer is…” I breathed heavily in and out. “…Carlay Anderson” the girl jumped up excitedly.

I turned to see Justin smiling, while pointing at the girl. He was talking to Joey. Joey licked his lips at whatever Justin was saying. I just rolled my eyes at the two.

“2^nd…Edna Davis. 3^rd…Monique Lewis. 4^th…Ashley Johnson. 5^th…Stephanie Griffith. 6^th…Barbara Taylor. 7^th…Brittany Jackson. 8^th…Jonathan Mann. 9^th…Christine Jackson. And our last dancer is…Mary Lee” oh my God. He called my name.

I walked up to the other dancers and we congratulated each other. “I will now ask the rest of you to leave out that front door and thanks for your cooperation”.

Beverly ran up to me and hugged me. “You did it. You MADE IT!”

“Yeah I did. My dream is going to finally come true” Beverly turned to the side and smirked.

“Yes it is. Look who’s coming to see you” I looked to see…the jerk I hated walking my way.

“What does he want now?” I crossed my arms over my chest.

“I don’t know. I’ll leave you two to yourselves” she started jogging away.

“No. don’t” she kept jogging, ignoring what I said. Just then the dewbhead walked up to me.

“Congratulations” he said comforting.

Chapter 6