Thursday, October 11, 2007 @ 10:08 AM
xiaoxi's note: this is my first time writing a story. i hope it's not too boring!:) i'm in the middle of typing chapter 2 and it will be posted real soon!^^
Dance 1Katherine swayed her body to the blasting music. Its midnight and Crazy Monkey, Katherine’s favourite pub was just starting to get alive. “Kat, will you just stop dancing and tell me what’s wrong?” for the nth time that night, Chris shouted over the loud music. Music continued to blast and Kat continued to dance to the music. Finally, the music changed to a slow one. It is the couple’s hour. Katherine stopped dancing and swung herself into the nearest seat.
“Will you tell me what the matter is already?” Chris snapped. “ I’ve been rejected. Again.” Katherine answered simply. “You’ve been rejected again?” Chris said in disbelief. Katherine was the best dancer he knows and he cannot imagine her being turned down so many times. “Yeah. Guess.. I should just give up.” Katherine said as she downed a glass of juice.
Katherine has been spotted by a dance instructor, David a few months ago. David was mesmerized by Katherine’s dance moves. Her facial expressions, every movement she made was astonishingly beautiful. Katherine was born to be a dancer. She lost her parents since she was an infant and has always been staying with her grandmother until she passed away when Katherine was 16. Katherine has been hanging out at pubs ever since her beloved grandmother’s death. There, she met Chris, her only true friend. It was Chris that encouraged Katherine to take up the offer and learn dancing at David’s studio. Besides, David was willing to teach Katherine for free.
“ You can’t just give up. David had such high hopes on you! He was even willing to teach you for free!” Chris exclaimed. “It’s no use. No one is willing to use me in their MVs. It’s useless. I tried so many times. It’s useless..” Katherine muttered. She’s tired. Tired of life and its cruelty. Her attempts to stand up after losing her only kin has proved to be a failure. She might be talented in dancing, but it’s useless if no one is willing to use her. Dance steps that took others months to learn, she mastered them within a few weeks. She was the enemy of other students under David. What right does she have to learn dancing with all of them when she can’t even pay for the lessons? Why can she learn the steps so easily when it took them months to learn? It is unfair! Despite all these hurtful comments, Katherine has been strong. She’s determined to outshine the rest of them. However, she has been rejected by countless music producers when they know about her past.
“ With all those people that hate me in the team. With all those rejections. I don’t think I will ever get accepted.” David has been very kind to her by teaching her how to dance and trying to let her take part in some MVs. Once she takes part in dancing in MVs, she will be able to earn money. Katherine has been taking up part time jobs but the salary simply was not enough to make ends meet. She has to take up multiple jobs and she had only 5 hours of sleep each day. On her day offs, she would party the night away at pubs. This was her life before she met David. She can only afford shirts that are selling at three for ten dollars. Or old second hand stuff. But she has always made all the roadside clothing look splendid on her. It gives her some “character” as well. That was what attracted David to take a second glance at her.
“ You’re giving up so easily? Where’s your never say die..” before Chris could finish his sentence however, someone spilled his drink over Katherine. “Woo~! The hot girl’s dripping wet!” the person that poured his drink over Katherine said. Chris jumped up from his seat and punched the guy. “Apologise!” Chris shouted. “I said apologise!” the guy climbed up from the floor and returned Chris a punch. “Don’t pretend to be a hero la!” Chris was getting agitated and so was the guy. Both of them were wrestling with each other on the floor. Katherine rushed forward to pull Chris away from the guy. A friend of the guy went forward and pulled the guy back too. Katherine’s eyes met the friend’s eyes for a minute. This was their first meeting…
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“ Why did you beat the guy?” Katherine exclaimed as she helped Chris paste a plaster on his forehead. “ He poured water on you! On purposed!” Chris fumed. “You shouldn’t have pulled me away! Let me teach that guy a lesson!” “And see you injure yourself and do nothing about it?” Katherine retorted. “I just don’t want to see you getting bullied. You have been leading a life too difficult all these years. I can’t bear to see you getting bullied…”
Meanwhile at the pub, Daren was scolding his friend. “Why did you pick a fight on purpose?” Daren exploded. “ I happy ma.. Cannot ah..” his near unconscious friend replied nonchalantly. “ Peter Lim!” Daren bellowed. His friend has already gone to dreamland…‘The lady sure has a bad tempered friend. I wonder if her temper is just as bad.’ Daren thought as he paid for the bill. ‘Why am I even thinking about her?’ Daren asked himself as he walked back towards his unconscious friend.
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“Dear diary, today was a horrible day for me. I was turned down. Again. I went to Crazy Monkey hoping to drown all my frustrations. Then some idiot has to pour water on me. As if I was not unlucky enough, Chris actually fought with the guy... Obviously, the guy’s friend can’t be any better if he allowed his friend to pour water on a lady.” Katherine wrote as she thought about the person that pulled Chris’s opponent away. ‘Hmm… However bad the guy’s character might be, he does look kind of adorable…’ Katherine thought as she put her diary away. ‘What am I talking about?’ Katherine shook her head.
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