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2.14 sing

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Kara, Michelle and Chloe walked into the studio to talk to miss Kate. She was stood at the bar with her feet up on it, obviously stretching.

"Sorry to interrupt miss Kate." Michelle smiled.

"It's okay." Kate smiled.

"We just wanted to ask you something." Kara told her.

"Sure." Kate nodded.

"Yeah, I've been thinking a lot lately about everything that I've had to go through to be able to dance and I know there's a lot of kids who can't dance because of their financial situations." Chloe told her. "So.."

"We were thinking that we were gonna run a fundraiser. You know, for the kids who need a scholarship to come to the next step." Kara said.

"That is a fantastic idea." Kate smiled.

"Yeah?" Michelle asked.

"Yeah, of course, you guys. That's amazing." Kate beamed.

"Great, um, so we're gonna get it at culture shock." Chloe told her. "We already asked the owner and she's fine with it."

"I am so impressed with your initiative." Kate told them. "That is amazing. Let's do it, get to it."

———

Chloe, Michelle and Kara had sorted the fundraiser out and they were finally going through with it.

Culture shock was filled to the brim with people, ready to pay money for young kids dancing. The three girls got up onto the stage.

"All right. Hi, everyone. Welcome to The Next Step fundraiser." Michelle spoke into the microphone.

"So, we have our first act and we're really excited.." Kara started to say but she got interrupted when Eldon ran onto the stage.

"Eldon, whoo!" James called out.

"Everyone, this is Eldon." Kara told the audience.

For every pirouette Eldon did, the audience had to put in a dollar. He ended up doing eleven pirouettes.

"There's eleven dollars from everyone, thank you!" Eldon shouted.

———

Kara ran up to Charlie and hugged him quickly once she saw him. "Hey!"

"Hey." Charlie smiled.

"I like the shirt." Kara smiled.

"Thanks."

"Charlie had asked me to come and see him perform, and I didn't really want to, but at least it gives me a chance to see James."

"All right, next up is Charlie. He's going to be performing an acoustic version of addicted to you, one of our favourite songs." Michelle spoke into the microphone.

Charlie got up on stage and sat down on the stool before starting to strum his guitar.

Kara couldn't help but look over at James during Charlie's performance. All of her feelings were constantly surfacing.

A few more performances had passed by and it was now time for noah and James to go on and Kara didn't miss the cheering that was coming from Beth.

"Beth cheering James on is extremely annoying. I mean, it's Beth so, of course it's gonna be annoying."

Instead of speaking to Charlie, Kara couldn't help but stare at James as he performed on the drums.

"I can't help but watch James perform. I mean, I may have come for Charlie but.. James is all I really want to see right now."

Everyone burst into applause as the music stopped and the two boys stood up and bowed for the audience.

Authors notes
sorry for such a short chapter
there wasn't much that I could incorporate into this episode

written: 2nd may 2021
published: 2nd may 2021

5 votes for next chapter since it's a short one