POV: Gabe
We walk in with the sisters and are amazed at what the sight is. Everything is either glitzed or glittered up. Looks like Michael Jackson took over. This dance is going to be a real Thriller.
The sisters grab their bros and start dancing. Neither Joey or I have a sister, so the girls grab us too and pull us into the group. I don't know if we are crazy or what, but we are laughing more than dancing. Joey does this weird move. He says he can't dance, so he pumps his fists up in the air. We make fun of him. Ok mostly Chad makes fun of him, but it looks like it was working for Joey. It could be his signature move.
We all are making our own dance circle, and it's Big Al's turn. He sticks his arms out as if to move people out of the way. His moves are down right dog gone awesome! He can really bust a move as a Michael Jackson song comes on. "Shocker" I know. It wouldn't surprise any of us if he always danced or danced for a living. Who knows?
Caleb gets in. That was a funny to think about. He isn't the "best" but he has fun while doing it. Whoever he will marry one day better have the same sense of humor he does. He is completely outta his mind! It must be that super spiky hair.
Caleb says he doesn't dance, he plays football. He says he can't wait till high school to play football and hopes he gets his growth spurt then. Chad and Alan look super tall compared to us three. They had started their growth spurt this year. Even in our group pictures those two are the gentle giants. Chad "acts so called tough," but yes he is a gentle giant. Don't let that tough man look fool you.
Chad's turn, and he grabs his sister. He starts swinging her around. There is this girl standing behind Charis. I'm not sure what her name is, but she looks at Chad. Chad doesn't seem to notice. I guess it comes from being the quiet one I see the things most don't. Chad can't dance either, but his sister makes up for it.
Hey there are not any bad dance moves if you are having fun!
Then it's my turn. Everyone tells me to go, but I shake my head. I'm the one who has two left feet and will trip just looking at the circle. Everyone stops and crosses their arms. (Okay Chad does the chicken dance but realizes he makes a fool of himself as everyone laughs.) I figured what the heck, so I jumped in and did my own little crazy hip hop dance moves as the most awesome song comes on. I hope they are good. They could be since everyone is cheering me on.
"Hey you're not NSync with the rhythm so watch it buddy!" Chaddy was snickering on the side. Alan gave him a shove as to knock it off. I put up a hand and puckered my lips as if to say "nah I got this".
I just went up to sing to him and backed up as I sang "Baby Bye Bye Bye!!" and then did a back flip to conclude my final performance nailing the landing. Everyone clapped and a little pair of eyes out of the corner caught nine.
Caleb and Joey gave me a high five as Caleb said, "Nice job bro!"
"Nice one man! Way to stick up to the Chadster!" Joey smiled. Chad came up from behind him and gave Joey a noogie.
"WOAH WOAH WOAH! Not cool man! It took me all day to get this look!"
"Woah woah woah! Not cool man!" Chad mimicked in a Joey tone.
"Hey who wants some punch?" Alan asks the ladies.
"Hey thanks man that would be nice," Joey says, "Oh wait you meant them."
The girls nodded as us guys went to get glasses for everyone. With five of us it was pretty easy. Until a couple of others showed up.
"Hey there Mick Jagger," Alan turned around and saw a dark blonde haired girl standing there. "Some moves you got there. I'm Brycie."
"Well thank you that was nothing," Alan 'tried' to act cool. It was working for him. It looked natural for him, but the four of us could tell that even the most cool out of all of us was a little bit nervous.
Chad on the other hand was a different story. That girl I saw earlier who has blonder blonde (yes I thought it don't judge me) came up and Chad was bright pink. He should have escaped while he could. It was funny and Joey knows he can use this against him later. "Hi I'm Chad and you must be an Angel God sent me."
"Dork cough dork" Joey scoffs. Chad gives him a light shove and she laughs.
"Hi, I'm Fallon," she giggles.
Chad is still pink as they talk for a minute. I turn around as I meet those pretty eyes I saw earlier that watched me dance.
"Excuse me are you famous? You danced so well I thought you were a Backstreet Boy," she said with total confidence. Okay I thought it was guys who made the move, but I guess it took the ease of doing an awkward conversation.
"Nah, I'm pretty sure I'm not that good right now. I've been hanging out with Alan too long. I just watch him and then put my own spin on it," I wink at her as she laughs. She lightly shoves me as I almost spill some of my punch. It almost hurt as I rub my arm. Not sure what it was about but oh well. I'm pretty sure all girls do it.
"Yo guys get out here!! EHHHHH MACARONI!!!" Joey shouts as the songs comes on.
"Umm, Joe, Bro, it's Macarena. It's not Macaroni," Caleb corrected him.
"Of course I can't have Macaroni, silly. I can't have dairy remember?"
"Let it go Caleb, it's not worth it," Alan whispered to him, but I could hear him. It was a loud whisper for Caleb to at least hear it over the music.
Joey motions for all of us to join in with him. It's still a new dance, but again Alan makes it looks easy. I mimic him and catch on quickly. Abby hops next to me and follows my lead. A minute later all of us are doing it, and it makes it that much more fun.
I notice someone sitting on the bench in the corner. She looks a little upset. I walk over, but nobody notices I leave. Joey is too much into his "not so cheesy" dance. The rest of the guys don't notice either, so I could slip away. "Are you okay Kelsey?" I ask sitting down.
"No, Cody left me, and he said that he didn't have a reason why. He just left me here," she is tearing up a little bit. I open my arms in a brotherly way and let her have an open hug.
"You know there is always going to be that one person that lets us down, but God will always be there. I... Err..." I stammer wondering if I said the right thing. She leaned up and she smiled.
"Thanks. I needed to hear that. Yes, my mom has told me along with the stories she makes up the TRUE stories that everyone needs to hear including this one," she says, "Those words you just told me she told me today, and I believe them. She is a wonderful story teller, but I could never be as good as her...." I cut her off.
"You can be anything you want to be Kels," I look at her, "There will be down moments, but then we lean on our friends because then you will find the true ones. They won't judge you and will help no matter what. Kelsey Kingsbury, do you believe me?"
"Yes, Gabe, I believe you. Thanks!" She let me lead her to our fun friends group. I felt a hit on the shoulder.
"Woah!" I said, "No need to be a Chad she was a little upset that's all."
"Okay okay gees. I'm sorry," she replied. Abby looked a little relieved. Almost too relieved. I gave Abby a hug to encourage her. She smiled after, "Thanks Bubby!"
"Hey that's my thang girl!!" Joey called her out from behind. She raised an eyebrow at Joey as he did the same. It was a brow off.
"Don't make me get Alan guys," I break them up.
The clock on the wall read 9:32, so the lights went up as the dance was over. "Awwwwww" you could hear everyone in the school gym whine.
Everyone stretched and yawned for dancing can make you exhausted. Fallon waved to Chad, Brycie waved to her "Mick Jagger", Abby waved to me, and Joey and Caleb rolled their eyes. Their just 'jealous', but it's not like it was actual dating. It was just having fun. They just needed a way of making fun of their bros.
We all got into Caleb's dad's car as the girls got back in theirs. We all took off for home.
This was a wonderful night, Thanks God
Author's Note
If you didn't know how Alan used to dance so awesome, check out the video on this chapter. It's a little bit blurry, but he is most of the time the center one. He is an AWESOME dancer!! Sorry I haven't put up a chapter in a while. Had writer's block. I think we can all relate to that. Thanks and hope you stay with this.