Okay so here's a little taste from Chapter 16 of my story Leave it all on the Floor:
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“Tell me something?” Edward asked as he took a drink from his glass.
“What?” Bella asked taking her own bite of tortilla chip and salsa.
“What you were like as a kid?”
“What do you mean?”
“I mean…I know how passionate you are about dancing and that it started when you were young, but what else did you do? Where you into sports?”
Bella barked out a laugh, “No. Sports aren’t really my thing. I mean I grew up in a house with just my dad so I get the ideals, I can watch football and yell at the screen as well as anyone,” she pumped her fist in the air half heartedly and Edward couldn’t help but laugh with her. After their laughter died down she continued. but other than that…I didn’t do much other than dance really. It was my life, where I was able to find my center. Life made sense there, on the dance floor. I didn’t feel out of place or so alone when I was dancing.” Bella cleared her throat before continuing. “If I was dancing I was studding. I had to keep my grades up after all. That was a stipulation from my dad. We both knew that I wanted to dance but we didn’t want that to be my only option. I was actually on my way to being valedictorian when I was accepted into the ABA.”
“That doesn’t really surprise me much Swan,” Edward said with a small smirk before firing another question my way. “What’s one of your favorite memories from childhood that doesn‘t involve dance?”
“Okay I’ll tell one but you have to go next,” Bella smiled as she took another bite from her chip.
“That’s fair enough,” Edward conceded.
She absently twirled a chip in the salsa bowl as she began, “I was probably about eight or nine years old and my dad was off of work and he was going to go down to the lake and go fishing with one of his friends and his son and for some odd reason I got it my head that I wanted to join them. Seth and I were fine in the beginning, really were excited to see each other. It’d been a while with my Ballet lessons and the separations in our schools. It was getting to us.” Bella brought the now slightly soggy chip up to her mouth and ate it. She sighed and continued her story. “After a while though the excitement wore off and we quickly became quite useless, and more than a little whinny. Seth had said something that had upset me. I don’t even remember what it was now, but it really aggravated me.” Bella chuckled already knowing where the story was going. “I shoved him and well…needless to say sleepy children do not equal good balance and we ended up turning the boat over.” Bella and Edward were both laughing now. “I still remember my dad‘s when it happened. It was a strange mixture between anger and surprise.”
“How did you manage to overturn the boat?” Edward asked still laughing.
“Well I shoved Seth and he rocked a little too far and fell over the side. His dad reached to grab him and the mixture of the sudden shift on that side caused the little fishing boat we were in to flip. Luckly we weren’t that far away from the shore when it happened but it certainly ended our trip early and that was the last time our dads took us fishing, we always had to stay back with Seth‘s mom after that.”
“So fishing isn’t your sport either?”
“No. Not at all,” Bella answered with another chuckle. She swiped another chip from the basket. She smiled as she looked out onto the dance floor.
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